Posted on 05/04/2012 8:42:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Are Democrats about to lose the Senate seat held by the Kennedys since before I was born ... again? According to the Boston Herald’s Joe Battenfeld, a number of Democrats in Massachusetts are aghast over Elizabeth Warren's faceplant on her claims to Native American heritage, and now worry about whether her campaign has completely derailed:
Elizabeth Warren’s stumbling efforts to douse the firestorm surrounding her claims of being a Native American minority have raised concerns among local and national Democrats who are questioning her campaign’s competence.
“There’s nobody watching this that doesn’t think she’s in big trouble,” one well-known Massachusetts Democrat said.
Joe Trippi, a prominent national Democratic consultant, told the Herald that while Warren has time to recover, the campaign should have anticipated this issue would surface.
“The problem is they weren’t ready for something they should have been ahead of,” Trippi said.
Political analyst Larry Sabato is more blunt:
“This takes her biography into a bizarre dimension,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “It has derailed the effort to define Warren in a voter-friendly way.”
Sabato also said that Warren’s claim that she didn’t list herself as a minority to gain an employment advantage is not believable.
“This is what happens when candidates don’t tell the truth,” he said. “It’s pretty obvious she was using (the minority listing) for career advancement.”
That becomes even more apparent when one looks at the context of Warren’s placement at Harvard. Paul Bedard did some digging for the Washington Examiner and found that Warren was nearly alone on the Harvard Law faculty in terms of her alma mater’s status among law schools:
That “box checking,” as critics call it, likely played a role in her Harvard hiring especially when her background is compared to those of the other near-100 Harvard Law School professors and assistant professors, according to an analysis of law schools the professors attended. Most graduated from Harvard, and all from the nation’s top 10. Warren graduated from Rutgers University in Newark, ranked 82nd by Top-Law-Schools.com.
What’s more, only Rutgers has current law school professors who graduated from Rutgers. And in the analysis of the law school degrees of the roughly 350 Ivy League law school professors provided by a Warren critic, only one graduated from a lower-ranked law school than Warren, a Yale professor who attended the University of Nebraska Law School, ranked 89.
Harvard used that claim to brag about their own inclusiveness. Now they won’t even clarify if they’re still counting Warren as their lone Native American, Hillary Chabot reports for the Herald, which is having a field day with Warren’s identity crisis:
Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate. …
The 2011 report indicates that “Race/Ethnicity designations are from self-report data,” meaning whoever is listed as a Native American told the school of their tribal lineage.
Robert C. Clark, a professor and former Harvard Law School dean, is listed as part Choctaw in a 1999 Harvard Magazine article. Clark has worked for the law school since 1989 but wasn’t named in a 1996 Harvard Crimson article when law school officials sought to defend their minority hires. Clark did not return requests for comment.
Former law school spokesman Mike Chmura said in the 1996 article that out of 71 professors, only one was Native American and that was Warren.
This embarrassment comes courtesy of the curious American identity fetish. It wouldn’t exist at all if we hadn’t set up perverse incentives to make baseless (or at least undocumented) claims about heritage in order to gain financial advantages. This fetish started as a means to assist the truly underprivileged overcome economic disadvantages imposed by government discrimination, but became yet another means to exploit employment and educational placement systems for unfair advantage.
Can anyone objectively looking at Elizabeth Warren’s life make a case that a 1/32nd Native American background, even if it’s true, disadvantaged her in any way at all? Of course not; not even Warren can make that case, which is why Warren now says she used that identity claim for social purposes rather than economic advantage. Harvard’s actions speak louder than those words, however.
In the short run, Warren should be thoroughly discredited as a political candidate. In the long run, it’s far past the time to reconsider the incentives placed on ethnic heritage claims in education and employment, and to put a stop to affirmative action. Instead, we should be focused on improving schools through competition so that we produce equitable outcomes up front rather than treat people differently later.
Did the person get the job or just the interview? And what does it say about that person who lied about his/her name? We have Barack Hussein Obama in the WH.
The reality is that being a minority is actually a plus in employment, college admissions, etc. Tokenism is rampant as we move from a merit based society to on based on race, ethnicity, and gender. Affirmative action and minority business set asides are institutionalized in laws, policies, and regulations. We have "hate crimes." DOJ does not pursue cases involving discrimination against non-Hispanic whites--a new category that was developed in the 1970s by the USG. The MSM withholds facts and data to maintain a phony narrative that there is widespread discrimination in the US.
And voting ID laws are being attacked as being racist. The DOJ has been complicit in such attacks in the way they enforce the Voting Rights Act, an anachronism that unfairly punishes Southern states.
“There’s nobody watching this that doesn’t think she’s in [Heap] big trouble,”
Fixed it for him :)
It’s amazing that the best democrats in Assachusetts could do was to select an insane half-wit from Oklahoma to try to retake the seat Brown won. I suppose an insane half-wit is a step up from a drunken murderer.
She’s a member of the Wannabee Tribe
What gives?...It does not discriminate unless you are white. That is why that is there. Indian? Black? Asian? Top of the list. Ignorant? Illiterate? No education to fit the job description? Consider the white guy.
Now if it were a matter of faking a war record--or running a homosexual prostitution service--or leaving someone to drown--or sexual assault, rape, intimidation of witnesses, obstruction of justice, purjury--faking an entire personal history--something like that--maybe they'd get a little nervous...uh...
How's that???
Huh???
Oh. Yeah. I see what you mean.
No. The Democrats are not worried.
“I thought there was a lowest sleeze level. However, Massachusetts dim-bulb-crats always manage to prove me wrong.”
My thought is that your comments are also applicable to a former MA Governor too...
Now if it were a matter of faking a war record--or running a homosexual prostitution service--or leaving someone to drown--or sexual assault, rape, intimidation of witnesses, obstruction of justice, purjury--faking an entire personal history--something like that--maybe they'd get a little nervous...uh...
How's that???
Huh???
Oh. Yeah. I see what you mean.
No. The Democrats are not worried.
Apparently, the citizens of Mass are having doubts about her too. Thank God.
But...but.. she has high cheekbones above her ears even. Wait, wait let me get my glasses. HMMM... she’s as blind as I am.
She’s a textbook example of an arrogant lying liberal gaming the system liberals created, pretending to be a protected minority while getting rich off taxpayer money. I hope this helps wake voters up to what scum leftist academics really are.
RE: . I hope this helps wake voters up to what scum leftist academics really are.
Just remind yourself — THIS IS MASSACHUSETTS, the state that VOTED FOR the “swimmer” Ted Kennedy, after his cowardly abandoning of Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick Island.
She’ll go back to a hard-core steady diet of “I want to cap the interest rates on your Visa and Master Card, and line up all those bankers for a public flogging”. She’ll be back up by double-digits within a month. The anti-banking populist voter out there does not mind if its a fake Indian applying the boot to the backside.
We’ve all done it... Not me. All I can tell from records, internet trees and family history is that we were dropped here from Brigham Young’s bunch, Menachim Begin’s or Art Bell’s.
RE: Apparently, the citizens of Mass are having doubts about her too. Thank God.
Having doubts does not necessarily translate to voting against.
This is Massachusetts mind you, the state that prefers “The Swimmer” Ted Kennedy and Bawney Fwank.
If she gets the hook, look for Michael Capuano to get drafted to be the Rat candidate. Unless, the Rats don't care about this seat and want to keep it open for a Joe Kennedy XXXVIII run vs. Brown in 2018.
Por Clintonfatigued:. ¿Quién predijo esto? Si se pone el gancho, mira a Michael Capuano para conseguir elaborado para ser el candidato de rata. A menos que, las ratas no se preocupan por este asiento y quieren mantenerlo abierto durante un plazo Joe Kennedy XXXVIII vs Brown en 2018.
Her scalp will be hangin’ on the wall, where it belongs for being so stupid.
Libs have a tough time apologizing, but if she done that along with some weak excuse as to why she did it, this would be behind her. After all, it was quite a while ago. Now she is committed to defending the indefensible, and non-stop. Bad position to be in - ask Anthony Weiner !!
Speaking of which, there are some pretty funny headlines here: http://www.theroot.com/buzz/wittiness-weinergate-best-headlines
¿Joe Kennedy XXXVIII frente a Brown en 2018?
Tienes que asumir que Brown gana esta vez. No estoy incluso seguro que esto va a ocurrir.
...the company does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex or race. What gives?
If the “company” has any contracts with the feral gubbmint they have to report the number of “special people”, i.e. designated minorities they employ annually to said gubbmint.
If all of your employees are older white males it is highly unlikely you will get the contract in the first place much less have it renewed.
I don’t care for Scott Brown, but it would be very sweet to see the libs twist in the wind if Warren the Injun loses.
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