Friday, May 18, 2012

Liz Warren's Waterloo


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

 
Photo Credit:AP
Times247
by: Times247
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
It started when Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was said to have used tenuous claims of Native American heritage to further her career. The defense for listing herself as a minority in a directory of law professors  for almost a decade rested on the roots of Warren's great-great-great-grandmother. If true, that would make Warren 1/32 Cherokee. It was not. Now, Warren relies on tales of "high cheekbones" and media outlets like the Boston Globe, which buried the news that she was 0.00 percent Cherokee. It's hard to see how Harvard's first blond-haired, blue-eyed "woman of color" will get her campaign back on track.

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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousMay 19, 2012 at 2:10 PM

    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.

    Having 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

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