Hundreds of Obama campaign staffers call for Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016

This is a few weeks old, but I think it’s worth sharing.

On Friday morning, the group “Ready for Warren” released a letter calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president — with the signatures of over 330 former Obama campaign staffers.

“We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance,” the letter begins. “We organized like no campaign had organized before — and won the Democratic primary. We built a movement.”

The letter calls “rising income inequality” the “challenge of our times”, and concludes: “We want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy … We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.”

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6 thoughts on “Hundreds of Obama campaign staffers call for Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016

      1. She and Senator Franken need to stay where they are for the present, where they can represent all of us in a way a president can’t. One of the reasons Obama is finally coming out of the gate is because he no longer has to spend his time maintaining his party by having to tiptoe around people like Mary Landrieu and all the other Southern Dems who needed his political capital to prop up their unsuccessful runs. Anyone in the White House has to play that strategic game even when it doesn’t work.
        Stick Hillary in the White House if there are no other candidates, but in my opinion Senator Warren should fight the good fight where she is.

        1. Sue, you wrote:

          “She and Senator Franken need to stay where they are for the present, where they can represent all of us in a way a president can’t.”

          They’re in the minority. The only strategy for the next two years is to find common ground with conservatives. That’s prosecuting Wall Street CEO’s, ending the job killing gov’t regs on marijuana, and pulling back from foreign occupations.

          You wrote: One of the reasons Obama is finally coming out of the gate is because he no longer has to spend his time maintaining his party by having to tiptoe around people like Mary Landrieu and all the other Southern Dems who needed his political capital to prop up their unsuccessful runs.

          You couldn’t be more wrong.

          He just signed the budget bill to let Wall Street socialize all their oil risks onto the taxpayers.

          http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/did-wall-street-need-to-win-the-derivatives-budget-fight-to-hedge-against-oil-plunge.html

          Obama’s finale will be the corporate trade deals, NAFTA on steroids. The beauty of this is that when the hollowing out of the middle class intensifies, Republicans will blame Democrats, just like they do with NAFTA.

          You wrote: “Anyone in the White House has to play that strategic game even when it doesn’t work.”

          No. He used the Ebola stuff and plenty of ISIS to knock “income inequality” off the front-page of the news media leading up to mid terms. I’m sorry you thought Dems had a chance to hold onto the Senate. If Dems had wanted the Senate, they would have made DC a state in 2008 when they controlled both houses. DC has more people than a bunch of lightly populated states, Wyoming, Montana….

  1. “Vanity of Vanities; All is Vanity: Obama’s Vain Search for a TPP ‘Legacy'”

    “…The third strike is that Obama has decided to ally with the Chamber of Commerce, the perennial ally of the Koch Brothers – the people that have demonized Obama and Democrats for seven years – to get “fast track” authority approved so he can pass one of the plutocrats’ great dreams – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Obama has also allied himself with the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the 100 largest U.S. corporations. The Business Roundtable is also a bitter opponent of Democrats and Obama’s health policies. Obama has shaken off his torpor to energetically lobby the business lobbyists to pressure Democratic members of Congress to support TPP. …”

    http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/01/vanity-vanities-vanity-obamas-vain-search-tpp-legacy.html

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