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I didnāt see it as clearly sexist. It was certainly an attempt to denigrate and discredit Senator Warren.
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You do realize that in September 2010, President Obama named Warren Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to set up the new agency? Really, just the kind of move that would have him denigrating and discrediting her now.
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Thereās a lot of that going around.
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Fox News is reporting Obama got caught on a live mic this morning calling Sen Warren a ābitchā.
What Obama said wasnāt sexist. He would have employed something similar if he wanted to discredit a male Democrat who disagreed with him.
This is a made up outrage.
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lolz liberals are so sad. Some is not agreeing with us, better call them sexist or racist.
WH War on Women! More at 5 on Fab Five.
Of course. Just like you, Fox News is loving this Dem civil war. Did they play the audio or just report that it happened?
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Kilgore has an article today rebutting a recent book by Draper which claims that we are in major disarray (surprised you with that, huh?), and points to various points from 2014 and even 2012 to try and build that case. Kilgore does an admirable job of shutting down that notion.
But it should be no surprise to anyone, that when ever there is a public disagreement in the party, the right leaning media will jump all over it and claim the hippies and Wall Streeters are at each other throats. Its projection, because they demand such a high level of political purity, that anyone publicly disagreeing would be immediately strung up from the nearest tree. They canāt imagine anything else.
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āThe President and Elizabeth Warren are friends. I think if he would have called her Sen. Warren, someone would have said, āOh heās giving her the cold shoulder,āā McCaskill said. āI would be freaked out if he didnāt call me by my first name. Weāve known each other for a long time. I mean, he went to bat for Elizabeth Warren in terms of the Consumer [Financial] Protection Bureau. They worked closely together on Dodd-Frank. He just thinks sheās wrong on this, and he has the right to say that as President of the United States.ā
Well said, Claire Sen. McCaskill
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Oh for fuck sake there is nothing for the white house to defend. Hopefully Elizabeth Warren is getting ready to run for president, President Obama knows, so they need a public spat to make her a viable candidateā¦ Hopefully.
The president calls everyone by their first name, senators, members of the house, foreign dignitaries, FLOTUS, so thereās no case that heās being sexist about Warren, but personally Iād like to see the people I cited being called by their title. It seems like president is the only person anyone calls by his title. But what McCaskill said about āsillinessā applies to this whole conversation.
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Senator Warren is not running, whether sheās hopeful or not.
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Lolz. Wait, youāre kidding right?
You think that is unique to āliberalzā? Because I can think of a few times that accusastion has been flung around by conservatives. Iām sure you thought they were āso sadā then too, right?
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Actually, it is a good point that is being made, but being made wrong. By and large, our societal dictates say that, when referring to a man, you use his last name, but when referring to a woman, you use her first name. Take a look at how often people refer to Secretary Hillary Clinton as just Hillary. People are changing on this, but I feel that Senator Brown is right to bring this up as it does a great deal to dismiss Senator Warrenās power and status on this issue, but at the same time, he is wrong in calling the President a sexist for doing this since it is an innate sexism built into our linguistic structures.
Now youāre linking me with Fox News! Thatās unfair Mr. Jessup! Iāmā¦ feeling ā¦ faint.
(Iāll get back to you on the audio thing)
Letās save this personal bickering for the reality TV crowd. This isnāt about finding out whoās the last one left on āSurvivor Washington DC.ā This is about the working middle class and poor, our environment, and our self-determination. The question is not whether Obama or Warren prevails, the question is whether the 600 business lobbyists writing the bill or people trying to scape together a living wage or trying to prevent their land and water from being despoiled for profit will prevail.
Obama is not sexist or racist, but Iām catching a whiff that you are, otherwise you wouldnāt have your panties so deeply jammed up your ass crack about the matter. Itās the bigots who presume to take on the mantle of victimhood when their bigotry is called out on them.
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Dang! that really sucks