Boston Globe Urges Elizabeth Warren To Run For President: Democrats Need Warren's Voice in 2016

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Globe Editorial
Her voice is needed


DEMOCRATS WOULD be making a big mistake if they let Hillary Clinton coast to the presidential nomination without real opposition, and, as a national leader, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren can make sure that doesn’t happen. While Warren has repeatedly vowed that she won’t run for president herself, she ought to reconsider. And if Warren sticks to her refusal, she should make it her responsibility to help recruit candidates to provide voters with a vigorous debate on her signature cause, reducing income inequality, over the next year.



The clock is ticking: Presidential candidates need to hire staff, raise money, and build a campaign operation. Although Clinton hasn’t officially declared her candidacy, she’s scooping up support from key party bigwigs and donors, who are working to impose a sense of inevitability about her nomination.
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"The Democratic Party finds itself with some serious divides that ought to be settled by the electorate. Some are clear-cut policy differences, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an enormous free-trade agreement with Pacific Rim nations that Warren opposes and Clinton backs," the editorial board wrote. "Even in areas where the candidates agree, there are bound to be different priorities: It’s hard to imagine a President Clinton defending and enforcing the Dodd-Frank legislation with as much vigor as a President Warren, for instance."

Indeed, the big-picture debate on financial regulation and income inequality is what’s most at peril if the Democratic primaries come and go without top-notch opponents for Clinton. While she has a great many strengths, Clinton seems far more likely to hew to a cautious approach on economics. Her financial backing from Wall Street, her vote in the Senate to reduce bankruptcy protections, and her past reluctance to raise capital-gains taxes are no secret. Nothing about her record suggests much gumption for financial reform or tackling the deeply entrenched economic problems that increasingly threaten the American dream.



more:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/03/21/democrats-need-elizabeth-warren-voice-presidential-race/TJkJtbu3UYaJYBmVHcrAcI/story.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/22/1372521/-BREAKING-Boston-Globe-Urges-Elizabeth-Warren-To-Run-For-President

[RiverLover]

1. The Democratic Party finds itself w/ some serious divides that ought to be settled by the electorate

Ain't that the truth.

RWrs have taken over the party. We need it back!

[djean111]

2. Oh, let me be the first to point out that the author is head of MoveOn, and MoveOn

wants Warren to run. Which, of course, is nothing to negate anything in the editorial. I agree with the editorial.

[brooklynite]

3. In fairness, it represents the opinion of Editorial Board

Doesn't change the fact that Warren won't run because she doesn't want to.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Sill, I am impressed that Globe editors are asking her to run.

Sad that we hear only a few sane voices in the Dem. party.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. I remember when she was running for Senator

Her husband was asked why she wanted to be Senator, and he responded with something like "because it's a great step towards becoming President."

Maybe just a cute line, but I think not. Particularly when Hillary bows out, which I expect, Warren will announce. She understands that if Democrats don't step up and end Wall Street and War Uber Alles, our country is kaput. And Warren is one of the very few people with the willingness, brains, and heart to make a good go at it.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. It's the Globe Editorial Board.

The MoveOn head also has an op-ed.

[still_one]

4. The only one preventing Warren from running is Warren

[MannyGoldstein]

8. This is amazing.

Warren's own constituents want her to run.

[vt_native]

9. Remember in 2008 when HRC was the presumptive nominee?

And she was such a poor candidate, that she got her clock cleaned by a virtual unknown Junior Senator from Illinois?

I'm sure it didn't help that she ran such a mean spirited campaign against B.O.

No one bought the crocodile tears.

Her support, generally, to the extent it exists is about one half inch deep, except for a few loyalists.

My two cents. We're in GD, right?

[Mass]

10. The BG' editorial board tends to be fairly DLC-like when it comes to economic issues

They endorsed Baker, which is hardly a sign of progressiveness in economy.

This endorsement is very surprising except in the sense that, professionally, it would be a very good think for the BG to boost its readership. Otherwise said, Warren running would boost the BG's bottom line.

Note: between Clinton and Warren, I take Warren any day, but I am very skeptical of the value of this endorsement.

[djean111]

11. I don't think the endorsement is any sort of game-changer, it is just really really great. IMO.

Evidently the BG did not get the memo that endorsing - or praising, or hoping, actually! - anyone but Hillary is rat-fucking.

[Mass]

12. LOL. Yep, I am an Hillary supporter. Sure!

Some people crack me up!