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May 14, 2012
Native Pride

Elizabeth Warren is still proud of whatever her heritage is. http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/14/el...ican-heritage/ Even the New Yorker, in the person of Amy Davidson, is troubled: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...-question.html

She put herself down as Native American for the lunch invitations, and stopped when none were forthcoming? Hearing that from a woman who knows how to be straightforward—and who would now surely be able to issue some invitations on her own—one can’t help but wince. She has since augmented that with talk of old family photographs and high cheekbones. One can be a strong, unequivocal supporter of affirmative action, and still be impatient with her on this one. The problem is that even if you accept Warren’s explanation entirely at face value—that this was all about a Native American woman looking for other Native Americans to talk to—it doesn’t sound good. She doesn’t appear to have looked very hard, for one thing. No one has an obligation to be a spokesman or advocate for any ethnic group, or to turn one’s life into a readable catalog. And yet what Warren is saying is that when she was a junior faculty member, and relatively powerless, she opened herself up, waiting to be asked; as a senior professor, and in a position to be the asker, or at least a resource, she took her name off the list.

That's her story and she is sticking to it. Proudly.

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/mai...ive-pride.html

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Rereading that Mea Culpa by the Amateur Genealogist and the Cherokee Grandma business, it really is puzzling how that "evidence" popped up. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...Admits-Mistake

There was no documentation at all, no evidence at all, no solid memory of a reliable conversation about it at all, and no such marriage application form even existed; Nothing textual, nothing electronic, nothing "an electronic copy of a textual", etc. Absolutely nothing.

Appears now that the most solid evidence upon which to make her claim is Lizzy's cousin's editing of a book on Injun's eating Velveetaa and Twinkies.:


"Such stuff as dreams are made on".

Even better now tho' is the complete silence from the "Professionals" at The New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Profiles in Courage, they ain't.

Seems to me The New England Historic Genealogical Society could use a man like Sandy Berger.


The Fauxcohantas follies, continued
By Michelle Malkin • May 14, 2012 06:48 AM

Earlier this month, I told you about progressive heroine Elizabeth Warren’s shady claim to Native American heritage. The saga of Sacaja-whiner doesn’t end. Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com — who first reported Friday that Warren’s Cherokee claim is based on a family newsletter and not on a purported marriage license — follows up again: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...on-to-be-found

On May 1, according to a Boston Herald article, the Warren Campaign offered two pieces of evidence they said supported Ms. Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry. The first, a statement by genealogist Chris Child of the New England Historic Genealogical Society has now been thoroughly debunked in an article that ran Friday here at Breitbart, and another article that same day at Legal Insurrection.

The second piece of evidence was equally suspect. The Warren Campaign offered reporters an undated article from the Muskogee Phoenix about the contributions of Elizabeth Warren’s first cousin, Mrs. James P. Rowsey, to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma as proof of Ms. Warren’s Native American ancestry:

The campaign also hastily produced an undated newspaper clip last night from the Muskogee Sunday Phoenix detailing a “Mrs. James P. Rowsey” — who they said is Warren’s cousin — and her involvement with the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, which is dedicated to preserving Native American art.

“Mrs. James P. Rowsey was Elizabeth’s first cousin — shared the grandparents in question,” a campaign official said in the statement.

A little research confirmed that Mrs. James P. Rowsey – Janyne “Candy” Carnes Rowsey (1932-2002)—was indeed Ms. Warren’s first cousin. Both are grandchildren of Harry Gunn Reed and Bethanie Elvina Crawford. Further research showed that Mrs. Rowsey’s most well known contribution to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum involved editing and publishing a cookbook in 1984 — Pow Wow Chow: A Collection of Recipes from Families of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek & Seminole.

Add half-baked oppression claims to the Warren family recipe book.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/05/14...ies-continued/


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Twitchy compiled all the best Elizabeth Warren Indian names a few weeks ago:

http://twitchy.com/2012/05/01/elizab...unity-mocking/

Sacajawarren;
Hoaxahontas;
Princess Spreading Bull;
being “Swift Canoed”; etc ...

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Sure she isn’t a member of the Hekawi Tribe? To quote Chief Wild Eagle: [when asked how the Hekawi got their name] Many moons ago tribe move west because Pilgrims ruin neighborhood. Tribe travel west, over country and mountains and wild streams, then come big day… tribe fall over cliff, that when Hekawi get name. Medicine man say to my ancestor, “I think we lost. Where the heck are we?” PS. Thank you Mel Brooks.

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I’m just waiting for the Dem’s to start claiming this as evidence of a war on Native American women….

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It should be relatively easy for her to get a truly accredited genealogist to research her ancestor’s status as a Cherokee or member of any of the other civilized tribes. The fact that nothing has been forthcoming should clinch the deal. A first cousin’s donations to a library…how progressive.

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There “great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it” is:

Warren gaming the minority preference system with phony credentials ought be a red flag as to why Obama’s handlers have gone to extraordinary and costly measures to seal ALL his college records, transcripts, financial info, writings…

‘Transparency’ of Obama’s academic records, would be VERY revealing.

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In fact, this was a great story 4 years ago; it just was not followed up on. B. Hussein Obama and his phantom “Inquiry Forbidden” background have never passed the smell test, nor the laugh test…as I have said more than once over the past four years.

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1997 Fordham Law Review article: Elizabeth Warren was Harvard’s ‘first woman of color’


Elizabeth Warren has pushed back hard on questions about a Harvard Crimson piece in 1996 that described her as Native American, saying she had no idea the school where she taught law was billing her that way and saying it never came up during her hiring a year earlier, which others have backed up. But a 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color," based, according to the notes at the bottom of the story, on a "telephone interview with Michael Chmura, News Director, Harvard Law (Aug. 6, 1996)."

The mention was in the middle of a lengthy and heavily-annotated Fordham piece on diversity and affirmative action and women. The title of the piece, by Laura Padilla, was "Intersectionality and positionality: Situating women of color in the affirmative action dialogue."

"There are few women of color who hold important positions in the academy, Fortune 500 companies, or other prominent fields or industries," the piece says. "This is not inconsequential. Diversifying these arenas, in part by adding qualified women of color to their ranks, remains important for many reaons. For one, there are scant women of color as role models. In my three years at Stanford Law School, there were no professors who were women of color. Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995."

Padilla, now at California Western School of Law, told POLITICO in an email that she doesn't remember the details of the conversation with Chmura, who is now at Babson College and didn't respond to a request for comment. It is unclear whether it was Padilla's language or Chmura's. The description of her as a minority is coming from the same person - Chmura - whose comments to the Crimson sparked the original story about her heritage, and Warren's camp argued it's old news.

She has said she had no idea Harvard was billing her that way or how the school found out that her family claims Native American heritage. She learned of it first from the Herald story, she said. And it's possible Warren didn't see the Fordham story. But the Fordham piece takes the description of Warren by Harvard Law beyond the boundaries of the Massachusetts school. Warren had described herself as a minority on a law professors' listing for several years, ending in 1995. She has said she wanted to meet people like herself, but stopped when she realized that's not what the listing was for.

She has pushed back hard on suggestions she got her job based on her heritage, and her backers have noted a 1995 Crimson piece, from the year she was hired, makes no mention of her background. Asked to comment, Warren spokesman Alethea Harney said, "There is nothing new in this report. Elizabeth has been clear that she is proud of her Native American heritage and everyone who hired Elizabeth has been clear that she was hired because she was a great teacher, not because of that heritage. It's time to return to issues - like rising student loan debt, job creation, and Wall Street regulation - that will have a real impact on middle class families. It’s also time for Scott Brown to answer serious questions about his votes to let interest rates on student loans double so our kids pay more while he votes to give oil companies – some of the most profitable companies in the world – tax breaks worth billions. There are plenty more, like his votes against jobs bills because they’d make billionaires pay their fair share, or his votes to water down rules to hold Wall Street accountable that have brought him millions in campaign contributions. Scott Brown’s explanation for these votes against Massachusetts families is long overdue."

Brown's camp has been calling on Harvard to release records related to Warren's hiring, and for her to do the same. Recently, the AP reported that she described herself as "white" when she applied for the University of Texas decades ago, and didn't apply for a minority program at Rutgers Law School - but those documents becoming public help to underscore the questions that Republicans are posing about the remaining ones.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-...an-123526.html


How Elizabeth Warren fumbled first controversy
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/75903.html
By MANU RAJU and DAVID CATANESE | 5/3/12 8:20 PM EDT

Political candidates facing controversy are often given this advice: Get all the bad news out immediately if you want to take control of the news cycle on a damaging story.

That has hardly been the case with Elizabeth Warren.

The Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts has delivered a series of uneven and confusing responses to revelations that she once listed herself as a minority law teacher, raising questions about whether this is just one blip in a long race or an image-defining moment that undercuts her profile as an authentic populist candidate. Democrats close to the Warren campaign argue that the more significant development this week has been the fact that she is pummeling the airwaves with $800,000 in ads, pitching herself as a champion of the middle class — and Sen. Scott Brown is not up on TV at the moment.

But privately even some Democrats agree with Republicans that her handling of the situation has damaged her credibility as the rookie candidate tries to introduce herself to voters in the nation’s marquee Senate race. “I don’t quite get it,” said one veteran Democratic strategist working on 2012 races, adding that the explanation has not quite made sense.

Warren has insisted that she did not cite her Native American ties in order to gain an edge in the legal teaching world, and her campaign released statements from officials at Harvard, and the universities of Pennsylvania, Texas and Houston that said her lineage played no role in their decisions to hire her. And she has tried to turn the questions into accusations that Brown was unfairly questioning her qualifications. But that failed to quell questions over why she even listed herself as a minority professor in the first place, whether she could produce adequate documentation proving she had tribal ties and why the law directories no longer listed her in that regard after she gained tenure at Harvard.

After the Boston press revealed she listed herself as a minority law teacher for nearly a decade from 1986 to 1995 — and Harvard Law School touted her as a diversity hire in the mid-1990s — even some fellow Ivy League law professors question how she could justifiably list herself as a person with minority roots in a profession that lacks diversity. “If she is 1/32nd Native American … is it really appropriate to list yourself that way and knowing you will therefore be listed as a minority law professor?” asked William Jacobson, associate clinical professor of Cornell Law School, the author of a blog read in the legal community. “Why in the world would you list yourself when it is such a tenuous and distant relationship?”

“Why would she have done it, and why would she have stopped when she was at Harvard?” Jacobson said. “The whole thing makes no sense.”

No smoking gun has emerged that disproves what she says — that she has never used Native American heritage for professional gain. Yet questions are still lingering nearly a week after the original Boston Herald story, as the drip, drip, drip of information continues on this controversy. If any new information emerges that firmly contradicts her, she will have a steep fight to re-establish her credibility.

For now, voters who are just tuning in are subjected to a debate within the media over whether Warren is claiming to be something she’s not.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz1v9PwDySt

Elizabeth Warren admits identifying herself as Native American to Harvard
By Rachel Rose Hartman | The Ticket – 2 hrs 35 mins ago.

Elizabeth Warren revealed for the first time late Wednesday night that she identified herself as Native American to Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania when she taught at both schools. "At some point after I was hired by them, I ... provided that information to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard," Warren said in a statement to the Boston Globe, the newspaper reported. "My Native American heritage is part of who I am, I'm proud of it and I have been open about it."

Warren, who is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, had previously admitted to listing herself as a minority in a legal directory in the '80s and '90s, due to a Cherokee heritage that her family claims. But Warren had not previously acknowledged ever identifying herself as a Native American to the two universities at which she was hired to teach. Warren's admission on Wednesday was prompted by the Globe, which had obtained federal statistics that indicated the university listed a Native American female professor for the "1992-93 school year, the first year Warren worked at Harvard, as a visiting professor," the newspaper reported.

Warren has been struggling for weeks to steer the narrative of her campaign away from questions about her heritage. But her Republican opponent, Sen. Scott Brown, his supporters and news outlets continue to focus on Warren's background and on how she has identified herself in her professional life. Brown has questioned whether Warren may have benefited from affirmative action and has asked for Warren to release all university personnel records, which would presumably show how she identified herself during the hiring process. Warren and at least one professor who was on the Harvard committee that recruited Warren say her Native American heritage was not discussed during hiring.

Warren and genealogical groups have not been able to provide documentation of her heritage. Warren says knowledge of her heritage was passed down to her through "family lore."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/e...150158503.html

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A lot of laws that are designed to help non-Whites end up being used by Whites for their own gain. This is why society needs to favor merit. Merit is much harder to fake.

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You know, Gary, I have worked with tribes for more than three decades. You'd be surprised, apparently, about how frank (mature?) native Americans are about how they have been raped. Recently, and figuratively, by a host of "wannabees" (perhaps as prominent as Elizabeth Warren). At the same time, I've often had some good laughs about the innocent and ridiculous things elites want to claim about Native Americans...anyway, your patronizing sympathy is cute. Of course, next you'll be telling me you're a native American, too.

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LOL.. this is actually common. I had a friend who was white and one his great great grandfather was from Spain. He did not speak spanish and did not identify as hispanic. Except when it came time to apply for college admission and student aid. All of a sudden he became very HISPANIC.


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Cherokees to Elizabeth Warren: ‘We don’t claim you!’
The Daily Caller – Wed, May 30, 2012.

More than 150 Cherokee Indians have joined a group online demanding more information from Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren about her claims of Native American heritage. “You claim to be Cherokee. …We don’t claim you!” the group “Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren” declares on its website.

Warren has been embroiled in a controversy for weeks after it was revealed that the Harvard law professor once touted herself as an American Indian minority. She has since struggled to prove those claims as critics argue she claimed that heritage to further her career.

According to a mission statement posted on its website, the group is made up of “authentic Cherokees and descendants devoted to sharing the truth about our history.” The group said they are made up of descendants from the Cherokee Nation, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. “Our mission is to help people understand what a real Cherokee is and to show why Elizabeth Warren claiming to be Cherokee without proof is harmful and offensive to us.”

Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson first reported the existence of the group Wednesday morning on his Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion blog. The group states on its website that the group is led by Twila Barnes and David Cornsilk. “I would like to meet with Ms. Warren, in person, and explain why her false claim of Cherokee ancestry is an issue,” Barnes told Breitbart.com. “She can ignore the questions of a reporter, but can she ignore the questions of a real Cherokee?”

http://news.yahoo.com/cherokees-eliz...154806591.html

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Half the people I knew growing up in Illinois claimed have a "Cherokee princess" in their family background. Never a Cherokee prince or plain old everyday tribal member.

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I happen to KNOW the names of my Choctaw ancestors!!!

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It's not PC to discuss Affirmative Action as being reverse discrimination. The 1%ers from both political parties and their off spring never were affected by this law, which is the second crime committed in the name of ' justice '. While America has always been told that society ' owes ' you nothing, some how we ended up with a class in society that's an acception. Joe Biden in his first Presidential bid was caught plagiarizing and had to end his campaign as a result. If Elizabeth Warren lied about her heritage for $$ gain, so should she.

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I'm a card carrying Potawatomi Native American. I always put "white" on any legal forms because I'll be damned if the government or university system is going to give me extra help because they think I'm not good enough to compete with everyone else. Affirmative Action = racism.

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Now that her 1/32 claim has been proven false, maybe one of her neighbors had native american background?

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Learn your genealogy and prove a connection to a dawes-roll ancestor, get your tribal identification card, THEN you can claim tribal affiliation. If you haven't done your homework, you don't get to use "family lore" as a way for financial gain from the government.

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It cracks me up. I have Indian blood but not enough to claim to be Native American, if that were the case, you could say i am German and Scottish as well, a Heinz 57 of sorts. I do have a deep regard for my Indian hertitage as my grandmother was full blood Cree as well as my German and Scottish ancestry in the sense that it is nice to know where you came from. I don't pretend to be more than I am and it makes me laugh when people with with one cell of indian blood claim that they are Native American.

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She benefitted career wise and financially by stating she was a minority with multiple colleges without proof. End of story

1997 Fordham Law Review article: Elizabeth Warren was Harvard’s ‘first woman of color’

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Elizabeth Warren admits identifying herself as Native American to Harvard

She benefitted career wise and financially by stating she was a minority with multiple colleges without proof. End of story

... Am I the only one who sees the irony in this headline and speech ??


Elizabeth Warren to DNC: The ‘system is rigged’ against you
.By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 9 hrs ago.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--In her speech to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said that the American system of government is "rigged" against the middle class.

"People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: they're right," Warren said in her first address to a party convention. "The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in subsidies. Billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Wall Street CEOs—the same ones who wrecked our economy and destroyed millions of jobs—still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Anyone here have a problem with that? Well I do."

Warren is running against Republican Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who won the seat in a 2010 special election following the death of former Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Her full remarks: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/e...-election.html

Thank you! I'm Elizabeth Warren, and this is my first Democratic Convention. Never thought I'd run for senate. And I sure never dreamed that I'd get to be the warm-up act for President Bill Clinton—an amazing man, who had the good sense to marry one of the coolest women on the planet. I want to give a special shout out to the Massachusetts delegation. I'm counting on you to help me win and to help President Obama win.

I'm here tonight to talk about hard-working people: people who get up early, stay up late, cook dinner and help out with homework; people who can be counted on to help their kids, their parents, their neighbors, and the lady down the street whose car broke down; people who work their hearts out but are up against a hard truth—the game is rigged against them.

It wasn't always this way. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edge of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. My three brothers all served in the military. One was career. The second worked a good union job in construction. The third started a small business.

Me, I was waiting tables at 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools and taught elementary school. I have a wonderful husband, two great children, and three beautiful grandchildren. And I'm grateful, down to my toes, for every opportunity that America gave me. This is a great country. I grew up in an America that invested in its kids and built a strong middle class; that allowed millions of children to rise from poverty and establish secure lives. An America that created Social Security and Medicare so that seniors could live with dignity; an America in which each generation built something solid so that the next generation could build something better.

But for many years now, our middle class has been chipped, squeezed, and hammered. Talk to the construction worker I met from Malden, Massachusetts, who went nine months without finding work. Talk to the head of a manufacturing company in Franklin trying to protect jobs but worried about rising costs. Talk to the student in Worcester who worked hard to finish his college degree, and now he's drowning in debt. Their fight is my fight, and it's Barack Obama's fight too.

People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: they're right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in subsidies. Billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Wall Street CEOs—the same ones who wrecked our economy and destroyed millions of jobs—still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them.

Anyone here have a problem with that? Well I do. I talk to small business owners all across Massachusetts.

Not one of them—not one—made big bucks from the risky Wall Street bets that brought down our economy. I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters—people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them—not one—stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

These folks don't resent that someone else makes more money. We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. We've fought to level the playing field before. About a century ago, when corrosive greed threatened our economy and our way of life, the American people came together under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt and other progressives, to bring our nation back from the brink.

We started to take children out of factories and put them in schools. We began to give meaning to the words "consumer protection" by making our food and medicine safe. And we gave the little guys a better chance to compete by preventing the big guys from rigging the markets. We turned adversity into progress because that's what we do.

Americans are fighters. We are tough, resourceful and creative. If we have the chance to fight on a level playing field—where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot—then no one can stop us. President Obama gets it because he's spent his life fighting for the middle class. And now he's fighting to level that playing field—because we know that the economy doesn't grow from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. That's how we create jobs and reduce the debt.

And Mitt Romney? He wants to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. But for middle-class families who are hanging on by their fingernails? His plans will hammer them with a new tax hike of up to 2,000 dollars. Mitt Romney wants to give billions in breaks to big corporations—but he and Paul Ryan would pulverize financial reform, voucher-ize Medicare, and vaporize Obamacare.

The Republican vision is clear: "I've got mine, the rest of you are on your own." Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends. After all, Mitt Romney's the guy who said corporations are people.

No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people. And that's why we need Barack Obama.

After the financial crisis, President Obama knew that we had to clean up Wall Street. For years, families had been tricked by credit cards, fooled by student loans and cheated on mortgages. I had an idea for a consumer financial protection agency to stop the rip-offs. The big banks sure didn't like it, and they marshaled one of the biggest lobbying forces on earth to destroy the agency before it ever saw the light of day. American families didn't have an army of lobbyists on our side, but what we had was a president—President Obama leading the way. And when the lobbyists were closing in for the kill, Barack Obama squared his shoulders, planted his feet, and stood firm. And that's how we won.

By the way, just a few weeks ago, that little agency caught one of the biggest credit card companies cheating its customers and made it give people back every penny it took, plus millions of dollars in fines. That's what happens when you have a president on the side of the middle class.

President Obama believes in a level playing field. He believes in a country where nobody gets a free ride or a golden parachute. A country where anyone who has a great idea and rolls up their sleeves has a chance to build a business, and anyone who works hard can build some security and raise a family. President Obama believes in a country where billionaires pay their taxes just like their secretaries do, and—I can't believe I have to say this in 2012—a country where women get equal pay for equal work.

He believes in a country where everyone is held accountable. Where no one can steal your purse on Main Street or your pension on Wall Street. President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future, so we can create new opportunities, so the next kid can make it big, and the kid after that, and the kid after that. That's what president Obama believes. And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt. We root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

I grew up in the Methodist Church and taught Sunday school. One of my favorite passages of scripture is: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40. The passage teaches about God in each of us, that we are bound to each other and called to act. Not to sit, not to wait, but to act—all of us together.

Senator Kennedy understood that call. Four years ago, he addressed our convention for the last time. He said, "We have never lost our belief that we are all called to a better country and a newer world." Generation after generation, Americans have answered that call. And now we are called again. We are called to restore opportunity for every American. We are called to give America's working families a fighting chance. We are called to build something solid so the next generation can build something better.

So let me ask you—let me ask you, America: are you ready to answer this call? Are you ready to fight for good jobs and a strong middle class? Are you ready to work for a level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world?

Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I'm ready. You're ready. America's ready. Thank you! And God bless America!

Mass. Senate debate video: Scott Brown challenges Elizabeth Warren about alleged Native American heritage
By Doug Powers • September 21, 2012 09:53 AM

At last night’s Massachusetts Senate debate, Scott Brown asked Elizabeth Warren (aka “Fauxcahontas” aka “Dances With Identity Theft”) how voters could trust her character after she’s lied about having Cherokee Indian heritage. Warren stuck to her previous “hey, that’s what my family told me” response.

From the Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012...qQP/story.html

Republican US Senator Scott Brown questioned Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American heritage in the opening moments of a lively high-stakes television debate tonight.

When moderator Jon Keller asked if character was an issue in the race, Brown answered, “I think character is important. … Professor Warren claimed she was a Native American, a person of color. And as you can see, she’s not.”

Warren responded that she had learned of her heritage from stories told by her family. “When I was growing up, these were the stories I knew about my heritage,” she said.

She also said that when her mother and father wanted to get married, her father’s family said no because “my mother was part Delaware and part Cherokee.”

“This is my family, this is who I am, and it’s not going to change,” said Warren.

The “because that’s what I was told as a child” thing isn’t a valid excuse. One time I tried to get out of a speeding ticket by claiming full federal protection under the Migratory Bird Protection Act because my parents used to tell me I was delivered to them by a stork, and I got laughed out of court.

Here’s a clip of the “You’re not a Cherokee” “Yes I am, sorta” exchange from the debate. Judging from the way Warren emphatically bobs her head to and fro and side to side as she talks, there might not be any Cherokee, but there’s definitely some parakeet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv25v...layer_embedded

(Video h/t Allahpundit at Hot Air http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/2...tive-american/ )

**Written by Doug Powers http://michellemalkin.com/2012/09/21...ican-heritage/

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Scott buried her.
Another great moment was when Warren complained about people with large student loans, and Brown suggested that one of the reasons was because she makes $300k for teaching 1 class. Classic.

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What I find most amusing about this whole thing is that it took the media and her campaign team to dig up the name of her supposed “relative.” She didn’t even know her name yet felt so compelled to tell the story over and over again how she was part native american.

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I do not care wht her ethnicity is. I do care if she uses it for selfish purposes, especially if it is 1/32nd of her DNA.

That speaks to her character.

A minor technical issue
Posted by Judson Phillips on September 25, 2012 at 7:57am

The media has an incredible double standard when it comes to scandals. Mitt Romney makes a joke and it is a scandal. Barack Obama hires tax cheats for his regime and it is ignored. There is another major scandal brewing with a rising star in the Democrat Party.

Where is the media on this one? Where do you think they would be?

Who is the rising star and what is the scandal?

The rising star is Elizabeth Warren. She is often referred to as the “Godmother” of the occupy movement. She is also a Harvard law professor. That fact alone should disqualify her from ever being involved in politics. She is running to knock Scott Brown out of the United States Senate. The race could affect who controls the Senate. So as you might guess, the Obama propaganda media is pulling out all of the stops for Warren.

Now a scandal has arisen that the media is doing its best to ignore or cover up.

The scandal? Is Elizabeth Warren actually a lawyer? Is she practicing without a license? On Breitbart.com, Michael Patrick Leahy reported that Elizabeth Warren had been using her Harvard faculty office as her mailing address when she served as “Of Counsel” on several briefs to the Supreme Court. He followed up with her admission that she is not licensed in Massachusetts.

William Jacobson, a Cornell law professor who runs the Legal Insurrection blog, wrote extensively about the issue of whether Warren was practicing law without a license in Massachusetts. Warren’s practice appears to be limited to cases before the United States Supreme Court. If that is the case, it might be a stretch to say she was practicing law in Massachusetts.

However, there is a bigger issue some folks seem to be missing.

In order for a lawyer to practice before the United States Supreme Court, they must be admitted to practice before the highest court of one state. Supreme Court rules specify that if a lawyer has their license suspended in the state they are admitted in, they be immediately disbarred from the Supreme Court.

Here is the real question. Did Elizabeth Warren practice before the Supreme Court of the United States without a license?

She was licensed in both Texas and New Jersey. According to published reports, she resigned from the New Jersey bar on September 11, 2012. That is extremely odd. Even lawyers who don’t practice keep their licenses. You never know when you are going to need it. Because she resigned, there is no other public information about the status of her law license in New Jersey. If she wanted to be licensed in New Jersey again, she would have to take the bar exam there all over.

Most lawyers would prefer a root canal to taking another bar exam.

The excuse that she gave was keeping up with the continuing legal education requirements were too much. What a joke. New Jersey requires 24 hours every two years. She claims that was too much? If that is too much, perhaps being a United States Senator is too much for her as well.

Several reporters have tried to find the status of her law license in Texas and have not been able to find anything to show she has an active license in Texas. All of this is interesting and the drive-by media in Massachusetts is silent about this. Scott Brown is a lawyer too. If he had these problems, you can bet this would be all over the media. Why is none of the drive-by media interested in the issue of whether or not Elizabeth Warren practiced in front of the Supreme Court without a license? The real story here is the depths to which the legacy media, or as I like to call it the Obama propaganda media, has fallen. Whatever passed for objective reporting in this nation is now dead.

Now we only have a partisan press. Perhaps that is not the worst thing in the world. If the free market can work, the liberal media will be a thing of the past. Look at talk radio. Conservatives dominate it. Leftist talkers are few and far between.

Meanwhile the Obama propaganda media has no interest in this story. They just want to tell us to move along, there’s nothing of interest here. Didn’t they tell us that about Obama’s reaction to the murder of our Ambassador to Libya too?

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Elizabeth Warren campaign seeks donations to cover $400k debt for ‘last minute pizza and coffee’
By Doug Powers • December 10, 2012 05:15 AM

The Warren campaign brought in $42 million in donations, the most of any House or Senate candidate in the country, but Fauxcahontas wouldn’t have proven herself fully qualified to join Congress the if she hadn’t spent more than she brought in. Mission accomplished… with extra cheese: http://bostonglobe.com/news/politics...X5H/story.html

In an e-mail to supporters, the senator-elect from Massachusetts revealed that her campaign is in debt and asked for donations to help her out of the hole. Though she did not disclose the sum in her e-mail, a campaign official said Warren owes $400,000.

So how did a record fund-raiser end up in red ink?

Warren’s academic research has demonstrated that personal bankruptcy often stems from job loss, divorce, and catastrophic illness. In the case of her campaign, she is blaming pepperoni and mushrooms.

“Thousands more volunteers showed up — and that meant even more last-minute coffee and pizza,” Warren wrote, listing only that food and that beverage as the cause of the shortfall.

An inability to properly budget for coffee and pizza will make Dances With Campaign Debt the perfect Senator-elect to take a seat on the Banking Committee. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-1...ttee-seat.html

In reality, printing, mail, legal and accounting were the bulk of Warren’s debt, but “pizza” is much easier to convince people to chip in for than ink cartridges and stamps. http://www.masslive.com/politics/ind...aign_debt.html

But if Warren wanted to retire that “pizza” debt effectively, why didn’t she just email supporters and claim she didn’t order that? http://michellemalkin.com/2012/07/19...ma-build-that/


(h/t Twitchy) http://twitchy.com/2012/12/09/aching...-coffee-pizza/

**Written by Doug Powers http://michellemalkin.com/2012/12/10...ren-400k-debt/

Actor Don Cheadle Finds Out His Ancestors Were Enslaved – But Not By Who You Think

By Brooke Bosca on January 27, 2015

Veteran Hollywood actor Don Cheadle, an Oscar-nominee for the film Hotel Rwanda, sat down with a PBS interviewer to review detailed research that was done on his ancestors.




Like most Black Americans not descended from immigrants, Cheadle was hardly surprised when told his ancestors were slaves in the pre-Civil War United States.

But when he was told exactly who their slave-owners were, he was in for an absolute shock, and all of us are in for a history lesson that shatters stereotypes.



Whoa.

So Cheadle’s slave ancestors were owned by the Chickasaw. Not only that, they remained slaves for years after America abolished slavery because the Chickasaw nation was Sovereign, and refused to give up their slaves. And even after the U.S. had to force the Indians to free their slaves (irony) they refused to grant them citizenship, as America did, leaving the ex-slaves no nationality. They weren’t American or Chickasaw.

And according to some other ex-slaves, the Chickasaw were cruel slavemasters, as much any any White owner. Former slave Kziah Love told an interviewer in 1937, when she was 93 years old, what life had been like for an enslaved person in Indian Territory.

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“That was a sorry time for some poor old black folks,” explained Love, who remembers living in fear of her Indian slave owner. “I believe he was the meanest man the sun ever shined [sic] on … He was sho’ bad to whup niggers … He’d beat ‘em most to death … One time he got mad at his baby’s nurse and he hit her on the head with some fire tongs and she died.”

Pretty mind blowing. Were you taught this in your history class?

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