We hate (yes, that is the word) it when people expand on their resume, their family history, or their military experience. It paints them as liars at best and cheats and provocateurs at worst. The latest in this merry bunch of men in a woman named Elizabeth Warren who is running for the US Senate from Massachusetts.
For over a decade, she has been telling all those who would listen that she was a Native American and was named a "woman of color" as part of this ruse. It turns out that she is not any percentage Native American.
She should be brought up on charges for misrepresenting herself in an effort to obtain benefits and credentials for which she did not qualify. We are sure that she received money and that should be enough to get her sent to jail for to falsehood she perpetuated.
Her Senate campaign should be dead in the water. If she cannot be relied upon to accurately present her paternity, how can anyone depend on her to be an honest Senator. (That is, if we have any of those around!) We hope that Scott Brown roundly tromps her into the dust.
Conservative Tom
WARREN: THE LEGEND OF FAUXCAHONTAS' LITTLE BIG LIE
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What is more important in this election: (1) Should Congress enact the Volcker Rule? or (2) Was Warren's distant great grandmother a Cherokee? This is another one of those issues like OWS demographics designed to distract voters from the issue of Wall Street regulation, which these candidates differ tremendously. That is what we should be talking about.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, before you call anybody a liar, you must first prove that what they claim is false. As far as I can tell, until somebody actually finds the marriage certificate on granny, the claim is neither proven nor disproven. Secondly, before you call somebody a liar, it must be established that they knew the claim was false when they made it. She says her family has always said granny was Cherokee, and she accepted it and, again, for all we know, maybe it is true. In fairness, the most you should fault her for is not trying to do a genealogical study to verify it before she put it on her college application, but by the same token, you could fault Harvard for not requiring proof of tribal affiliation. In any event, that is a far cry from your claim that she is a "liar", since you have no proof that the claim is false or that she did not believe it when she claimed it. On a personal note, may family has always said we are direct descendants of the Harrison presidents. I have heard it from enough of them, including my parents, that I do believe it, but it might not be provable by marriage certificates from last century, and I don't care enough to investigate it.
--David