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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust watched Elizabeth Warren on Matthews
I got the feeling he was goading her into being tougher. I feel as though he was trying to help her and put some fire in her belly. When he really pushed her hard she had her best argument. Am I alone in thinking Tweety is really hating the GOP right now and going out of the way to put some populism in Dems bellies?
whathehell
(29,115 posts)I really enjoy Tweety now...He grew up very close to the
area in Philadelphia in which I grew up, and you can still
hear his Philly accent.
I live in Chicago now, but I still get "homesick" for it,
now and again.
calimary
(81,612 posts)There's nothing there to like. NOTHING!
jpbollma
(552 posts)I love Obama too. I think though, that they have that (I know it's something the right has said) tutorial way of speaking. They have all the right ideas, but god damn they need some fire!
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)...you can tell...the guy is almost sneering at them
jpbollma
(552 posts)everyday. even if the media doesn't cover them. Never let down. jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs.
IamK
(956 posts)She still needs some work IMO....... It should not be a close race for Teddy's seat....
Her 3 responses... little substance...
1. People are going to vote with their heart
2. The election is still 5 months away
3. I represent the working class
She struggled when he kept asking if Brown only represents the 1%, why is he getting 40%+ of the vote & are
Mass voters tired of "intellectual wine drinking liberals".... She should not struggle with responses to these questions...
ObaMania
(2,054 posts)ALL Dems do.
I agree with the fire in the belly comment from a previous poster. While watching her for the first time last night I was thinking "what does everyone at DU seein her?"
You did forget one of her responses, IamK.. something like, we're going to win the election by speaking to people one person at a time.
This isn't the time for this one person at a time horseshit. She needs forums, townhalls, commercials, and yes, she has to get mad and hammer that asshole Brown.
.. in watching all Dems anymore it seems like they're not even trying to win (Obama included) or do right by the country. This whole be nice, take the high road and play by the rules shit has got to go.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,203 posts)She's running the same way Hillary Clinton did in 2000. Small town, by small town.
My fear is that the Wall Street community is going to do a money dump so big that she could be crushed to death.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)how that shitheel stripper Brown won his race.
And she's been running a lot of ads in MA--all of them positive. Also, she's a 61-year-old grandmother, not Ed Schultz. She's not going to scream at you.
Mister Ed
(5,951 posts)She'll win or lose in November depending on how many Massachusetts voters develop the same perception of her.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)She didn't struggle, she pointed out that Brown put out ads claiming (falsely) that he's tough on Wall Street. And she said that the election is five months away and she's working to get the truth out.
Here's the segment:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/#47804486
dkf
(37,305 posts)I'm starting to feel depressed with the solutions that are being offered. I don't think anyone has offered a plan that I feel confident in.
flamingdem
(39,342 posts)We know this is knuckledraggers vs. sane people with the manipulation of the populace through FOX and Citizens United as a core issue
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I believe a lot of things will occur to change the tune of what has been said more of less by everyone in this thread so far... "you have to fight fire with fire", or "you have to get pissed off at this asshole Brown"...
Getting pissed off hasn't worked very well, IMO, if you think about it. I wouldn't place Elizabeth Warren in the same category as Barack Obama. He's controlled by Wall Street and SHE isn't.
So, it really IS about us waking up, but not by listening to the talking heads or polling. That the talking heads and polling are being controlled by their overseers IS the problem the hustings don't get out as much as they did to the real polls.
This is a fight to wake the fuck up and we may just have to go through some hard lessons. If Barack Obama doesn't join in WITH Elizabeth Warren, he's not going to have a good ground game and all the organizing on the ground so far has turned a lot of people OFF who are being called and knocked and called and knocked... These would be the same people who need to be turned ON to someone WHO STANDS UP FOR THEM.
You can't advertise like a insurance commercial and win this election, or swift boat this election cycle, Koch this election's books, or pit us against our own best interests. I am waiting and talking to local people... same ones who you are...
I think this is why she has three answers to about 15 questions. Right now, they are the only answers people want.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Why isn't that the answer everyone wants to hear? We will always need to buy stuff, but we don't need to buy it from China.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)We need to incentivize them to move back here. It's already starting to happen as China's labor costs rise.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Devil in details to come, I predict.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)I just read if she wins she'll likely be on the Senate finance committee and from there she'll have a lot to say and do.
I could care less about Chris Matthews and his TV grandstanding and all his dumbass questions.
flamingdem
(39,342 posts)Tell me where it doesn't especially for a female - women already come across as softer so she could up it a bit and be just fine
rox63
(9,464 posts)Brown has started running ads targeting women voters, featuring his wife, a well-known former tv news reporter in the Boston area. She talks about how he used to get the kids ready for school while she had to be at work to cover the early news, how he understands women's issues, etc. I think he's worried that he's losing the women's vote to Warren.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Or the way she delivers it. We need many more people like her. I also like that President Obama doesn't allow people to control him either. He may get angry, but he sure doesn't do it in public. His critics will never get that satisfaction, and you can tell it makes them crazy.