I know she says she's not running, but she NEEDS to run. I worked hard to nominate and elect Barack Obama. I spent an entire month in Iowa at my own expense to volunteer for him in deeply hostile territory (a rural county where there were no colleges, no manufacturing, almost no minorities, a Democratic establishment that was almost unanimously pro-Hillary, and the residuals of a very effective Edwards campaign from 4 years earlier). I also traveled to Ohio and Pennsylvania to campaign for him there, as well as in my home state of Maryland, and spent more than a week campaigning for him in Virginia, again at my own expense.
I have defended Barack Obama on this site against attacks from the left, and on other sites against attacks from the right. I have thought his political instincts were excellent, and would have done what he has done in the previous instances for which he has been attacked -- until this week. But this week, I think his instincts (and his advisors) have utterly failed him. And Elizabeth Warren's political instincts have shined like a bright beacon.
Over the last two nights, democracy in America has been sold to the highest bidder. And since the super-wealthy can ALWAYS be the highest bidders in an effort to maintain their wealth, it has been sold to the super-wealthy. Most attention has been focused on the evisceration of the Dodd-Frank act, to again permit big money center banks to gamble taxpayer money in the derivative markets -- and I think the naked power-grab of that provision is the best political issue. But I think an even more pernicious provision in the bill is the ten-fold increase in the money that any individual can donate to a political party. If we weren't already totally owned my monied interests, we soon will be.
Tonight, Elizabeth Warren delivered the most effective speech I've ever seen in the Senate against what's happening to this country. I urge her to run for President, and I'll do whatever I can to support her.