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Elizabeth Warren to ‘Romney-Brown Republicans’: ‘We don’t run this country for corporations’
The Washington Post ^ | June 8, 2012

Posted on 06/09/2012 7:41:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — With a voice hoarse not from last week’s Massachusetts Democratic convention, but from “the parties,” she said, Elizabeth Warren took the stage at the annual Netroots Nation conference here Friday afternoon with a clear goal: link her GOP opponent, Sen. Scott Brown, to the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney.

The Harvard professor and Democratic Senate nominee made no mention in her 10-minute remarks of the months-long flap over her Native American heritage, an imbroglio that the Brown campaign as seized upon and that polls suggest could take a toll on Warren in November.

Rather, Warren’s only allusion to the episode came as she told the cavernous hall of nearly 3,000 progressive activists that she remains determined to stay in the race for the same reasons she jumped into it.

“Let me make clear, I am not backing down,” Warren said to loud applause.

As she seeks to unseat Brown in what stands to be among this year’s most competitive (and expensive) Senate battles, Warren on Friday repeatedly took aim at “the Romney-Brown Republicans” on matters ranging from her signature issue of financial regulatory reform to campaign finance and the battle over health insurers and contraception.

“The Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, said, ‘Corporations are people.’ No, Mitt, corporations are not people,” she said to cheers. “People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick, they laugh, they cry, they dance, they live and they die. Learn the difference.”

After pausing again for a long round of applause, Warren added: “And Mitt, learn this. We don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.”

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1 posted on 06/09/2012 7:41:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Give it up, woman. Wait a minute. Are you even really a woman?
2 posted on 06/09/2012 7:43:43 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Unions are corporations, and I just heard some moonbat on TV say that unions are people.


3 posted on 06/09/2012 7:44:55 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We don’t run this country for lying sacks of crap that claim minority status for personal gain.


4 posted on 06/09/2012 7:48:28 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Let me make clear, I am not backing down,” Warren said to loud applause.

Absolutely no conscience or common sense


5 posted on 06/09/2012 7:49:47 PM PDT by molson209
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sorry Fauxchohantas. Without corporations, people don’t have jobs. Without jobs, people don’t pay taxes. Without taxes, YOU don’t have a job. You can’t Google it *itch!


6 posted on 06/09/2012 7:49:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

But was she wearing a headdress?


7 posted on 06/09/2012 7:50:03 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who’s “we” and what Article and Section of the Constitution are you referencing?


8 posted on 06/09/2012 7:50:11 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"We don’t run this country for ..."

I think this completely sums up the liberal viewpoint.

9 posted on 06/09/2012 7:50:11 PM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
With a voice hoarse

Or is that a horse voice, kemosabe?

10 posted on 06/09/2012 7:51:26 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
we run it[the country] for people

Of course the idiotic occupy crowd will cheer anything anti-corporation but this probably goes right over their heads. Firstly, Warren doesn't run anything other than fraudulent job applications. Secondly, even if she were a senator, they don't "run the country". In fact, the less they do the better the country runs.

11 posted on 06/09/2012 7:52:18 PM PDT by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is the free market destined to wear chains and have their labor stolen for the extravagant salaries and benefits of the nonproductive public employee slave owners?


12 posted on 06/09/2012 7:54:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber (To the left wrong is right, down is up and backward is "Forward")
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To: RetiredTexasVet

13 posted on 06/09/2012 7:55:39 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY (Live Free Or Die)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Elizabeth Warren took the stage at the annual Netroots Nation conference

Hanging out with the nutroots ain't gonna help.

14 posted on 06/09/2012 7:58:44 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Unlike E. W. who would run the country for the benefit of the union thugs.


15 posted on 06/09/2012 7:59:24 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who is we, White woman?


16 posted on 06/09/2012 7:59:42 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Larry - Moe and Curly

One thing I like about FR. Half the time someone writes basically the same thing as me while I am typing. You are spot on with the liberal viewpoint. Two different cultures occupying a single geography.


17 posted on 06/09/2012 8:01:45 PM PDT by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This woman is a joke. Anyone that would vote for her needs to lose their citizenship for being an idiot.


18 posted on 06/09/2012 8:02:44 PM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
No, they run it for the Marxists, the atheists, the perverts and the traitors. People like my ancestors, like the people on this forum, built this Nation. We built it on concepts of personal liberty, individual responsibility, the nuclear family and limited government. It has thrived for over two centuries by adhering to those concepts. It is being systematically undone by the Democrat Socialist Party and its godless agenda.



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

19 posted on 06/09/2012 8:04:38 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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Warren added: “And Mitt, learn this. We don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.”

Another reason why Democrats know nothing about private enterprise and think only the public sector is hurting.

20 posted on 06/09/2012 8:07:53 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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