another thing that gets me about Elizabeth Warren - I can't figure out why the Republicans hate her. I could see having a strong disagreement with her policy positions...that's just par for the course. but I've heard Limbaugh and Beck go full on hate binges over this woman. They don't even say WHY they hate Warren, just that she's evil and has to be stopped.

from what i've read of her policy positions, she seems to be a moderate centrist, occasionally leaning leftwards and asking some powerful people uncomfortable questions. But that's no reason for a Limbaugh hatefest.

Considering Elizabeth Warren does little more than spout populist progressive rhetoric filled with economic fallacies, it's no wonder there's such an active circlejerk for her on Fark.

Cletus C.: Slate is so cute the way it tried to make it look like she's getting most of her money from the 99 percenters. The last analysis by AP showed her getting almost as much from lawyers as Brown got from "Wall Street."

Also, she was getting donations from the financial industry, just not nearly as much as Brown.

don't forget the lizard people and chem trails.

Hydra: Considering Elizabeth Warren does little more than spout populist progressive rhetoric filled with economic fallacies, it's no wonder there's such an active circlejerk for her on Fark.

so what don't you like about her policy positions?

MFL: ghare
And why is having a primarily academic background a bad thing for a politician?

Barack. Obama.

There was a time in this country where we actually applauded having educated Presidents.

Do you realize that Elizabeth Warren is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

Mentat: There was a time in this country where we actually applauded having educated Presidents.

And now we hate/fear anyone with any level of college education.

Mentat: MFL: ghare
And why is having a primarily academic background a bad thing for a politician?

Barack. Obama.

There was a time in this country where we actually applauded having educated Presidents.

These days "education" = "elitist liberal indoctrination".

MFL: lol no. Brown will win a squeaker.

i'm not so sure about that...but I guess we'll wait and see.

patrick767: Really? You can't figure out why a misogynistic blowhard hates her?

Limbaugh does nothing without cause....or money, for that matter. I wonder if he's paid to speak ill of Democrats in key districts?

Cletus C.: Weaver95: MFL: lol no. Brown will win a squeaker.

i'm not so sure about that...but I guess we'll wait and see.

Waiting and seeing seems the right thing to do. I'll also wait and see on the Walker recall in Wisconsin, the Obama v Romney election for president and the Oklahoma City v Miami NBA championship series.

Also, I will wait and see if The Walking Dead is worth watching for another season, whether a movie people might actually watch will some day again win Best Picture at the Academy Awards and if that mole on my co-workers neck will end up killing him. Wait and see.

this is going to be such a disappointing year for you....

Dahnkster: Duckwoth got hers after I read her opponent tried to minimize her military service.

Anyone who would truly do that deserves to be tarred and feathered outside of America.

Link?

Weaver95: so what don't you like about her policy positions?

They all eminate from the same central philosophy that so many Farkers here subscribe to: that more top-down solutions imposed by central planners in government bureaucracies can solve the economic malaise that has been plaguing us since the onset of the financial crisis. Exhibit A

It shows an alarming misunderstanding of what caused the crisis in the first place, and while her rhetoric makes for convenient 30 second sound bites for Farkers to quote in a picture like the one posted above, it doesn't get at the heart of the problem nor does it elevate the level of the debate. She never acknowledges the public choice-area problems (for lack of a better descriptor) that plague our political system - she thinks that whatever administrator is put in charge of regulating an industry (be it banking or something else) won't face any significant informational problems regarding their ability to adequately regulate the industry REGARDLESS of how immune to regulatory capture the administrator may be. Hence how she could support a monstrosity like the consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a monumentally bad piece of legislation like Dodd-Frank.

She's made other statements in the press about the "rich" and their "fair share" and all the same class-envy bullshiat that we've been hearing for god knows how long now - they do NOTHING to advance the debate beyond, "They have more than us; they must've gotten it by taking it from someone else, so we should take it all from them!"

She's nothing more than a typical Democratic politician who's subject to her own pressures and influences as a Democratic politician.

Fart_Machine: He's a Fair Tax acolyte.

You say that like it's a bad thing or that it's a religion of some type (hence your usage of "acolyte").

/this isn't a tax therad, though, so I won't try derailing it with a discussion of the FairTax

Weaver95: another thing that gets me about Elizabeth Warren - I can't figure out why the Republicans hate her. I could see having a strong disagreement with her policy positions...that's just par for the course. but I've heard Limbaugh and Beck go full on hate binges over this woman. They don't even say WHY they hate Warren, just that she's evil and has to be stopped.

from what i've read of her policy positions, she seems to be a moderate centrist, occasionally leaning leftwards and asking some powerful people uncomfortable questions. But that's no reason for a Limbaugh hatefest.

Allow me to paraphrase:

Dude we get it he's black she's a woman

MFL: ghareAnd why is having a primarily academic background a bad thing for a politician?

MFL: Barack. Obama.

Mentat There was a time in this country where we actually applauded having educated Presidents.

There was a time in this country where we applauded people who accomplished things more than the people who studied them.

The problem with Barry isn't that he's educated, it's just that he has nothing else to offer. Most conservatives thought he would be bad, but he's surpassed those expectations to the point of hilarity.

He may have a degree from harvard but it's become painfully obvious he doesn't have the skills to run an ice cream stand and can't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. And by his recent statements about the supreme court, he doesn't seem to even have a basic grasp of how the three branches of our government are supposed to work. That's like 5th grade shiat.

He's a terrible president and all of those folks who are emotionally invested in this guy have the undesirable task of turd polishing for the next few months.

If anyone tells you different, they don't know what they are talking about. (B.O)

Get ready for the avalanche of "BLASPHEMER!"-type responses after this post, dude - you can't disagree with Obama or a Democrat without being a racist/bigot/homophobe/teapartier/GlennBecklover.

Hydra: MFL: ghareAnd why is having a primarily academic background a bad thing for a politician?

MFL: Barack. Obama.

Mentat There was a time in this country where we actually applauded having educated Presidents.

There was a time in this country where we applauded people who accomplished things more than the people who studied them.

The problem with Barry isn't that he's educated, it's just that he has nothing else to offer. Most conservatives thought he would be bad, but he's surpassed those expectations to the point of hilarity.

He may have a degree from harvard but it's become painfully obvious he doesn't have the skills to run an ice cream stand and can't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. And by his recent statements about the supreme court, he doesn't seem to even have a basic grasp of how the three branches of our government are supposed to work. That's like 5th grade shiat.

He's a terrible president and all of those folks who are emotionally invested in this guy have the undesirable task of turd polishing for the next few months.

If anyone tells you different, they don't know what they are talking about. (B.O)

Get ready for the avalanche of "BLASPHEMER!"-type responses after this post, dude - you can't disagree with Obama or a Democrat without being a racist/bigot/homophobe/teapartier/GlennBecklover.

Get a room you two.

MFL: He's a terrible president and all of those folks who are emotionally invested in this guy have the undesirable task of turd polishing for the next few months.

ya know what's the worst part? lets pretend for a moment that everything you just said was true (it's not but we're going to pretend for a moment). Obama is STILL better than any of the current Republican front runners. THAT is why Obama is going to win. Not because he's the smartest or best guy in the country...no. He's going to win because the Republicans are so f*cking bad at their jobs that this country literally has no other choice than to re-elect Obama to the white house.