Liz has the same credentials as Obama
Via The Telegraph
She has been described as “Hillary’s nightmare” — a banker-bashing, consumer-championing US senator who liberals believe could mount a serious challenge to Mrs Clinton for the Democrat nomination in the 2016 presidential election.
Officially, Elizabeth Warren, a 64-year-old former Harvard law professor and Massachusetts senator, has no ambitions for the White House.
“I’m not running for president,” she told ABC News yesterday.
But she was in the television studios to promote a new autobiography that, in the traditions of books such as Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, sounded to many pundits very much like a campaign manifesto; and in Washington circles her denials that she would run only succeeded in deepening speculation that she might.
The publication of A Fighting Chance, which tells the story of Mrs Warren’s hard-scrabble upbringing in Oklahoma, comes out six weeks before Mrs Clinton’s own campaign book, Hard Choices, hits the bookstores in June.
Asked in the same interview if she thought that the former first lady would make a good president, Mrs Warren stopped short of unequivocal endorsement, replying obliquely: “I think Hillary Clinton is terrific.”
Mrs Warren, a figurehead of the liberal Left and popular on late-night television chat shows for her attacks on Wall Street and income inequality, has been spoken of as a possible presidential contender ever since her barn-storming speech at the Democrat convention in 2012.
Then, as in her new book, Mrs Warren lashed out at an economy that she says is “rigged” in favour of big business, a message that polls show is popular among America’s disgruntled middle classes who have seen little evidence of recovery in their own wages since the end of the 2007 financial crisis. “Big corporations hire armies of lobbyists to get billion-dollar loopholes into the tax system and persuade their friends in Congress to support laws that keep the playing field tilted in their favour,” Mrs Warren writes.
“Meanwhile, hard-working families are told that they’ll just have to live with smaller dreams for their children.”
Although Mrs Warren was among the 16 Democrat female senators who signed a secret letter last year urging Mrs
Clinton to run for president, her deeply populist message contrasts somewhat with the Clintons’ establishment profile and Wall Street ties. She has made much of her own tough upbringing as a carpet salesman’s daughter who attended government schools, was waiting at tables aged 13, got married at 19 and lived on the “ragged edge” of the American middle classes.
Mrs Warren cuts a solo figure in public life, with her family making very few appearances on the campaign trail when she ran for the Senate in 2012.
HT Theo Spark