Posted on 06/03/2012 4:39:37 PM PDT by presidio9
Elizabeth Warren fessed up last week and admitted telling Harvard Law School officials she was a Native American. Actually, it wasn’t quite a fess up – because she admitted only what she had to and didn’t apologize for taking weeks to answer the question.
She also didn’t put the problem to rest.
In fact, her announcement was provocative rather than reassuring because it was oddly cavalier, suggesting she sees the whole controversy as no big deal. And her words were so surgically prepared, they seemed more tactically designed to make the press go away than help voters assess the situation.
Warren’s specific statement went something like this: “I let people know about my Native American heritage in a national directory of law school personnel. At some point after they hired me, I also provided that information to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard.” She added, “I did not get special breaks because of my background.”
The screaming absence of specific dates in the statement leads even a casual reader to focus on the claim that Penn and Harvard were not told about her minority status until “after” they hired her. Clearly, this makes no sense because Warren effectively “told” all schools she was Native American when she “let (the law school directory) people know,” which was, before she was hired by both Penn and Harvard.
Hardly settling the issue, Warren’s attempted explanation moves her status from suspiciously silent to deviously Clintonesque.
Rather than addressing whether she falsely claimed to be a minority, Warren wants the focus on whether she got any “special breaks” as a result. She knows she has a much better chance of at least breaking even on
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She Fluked up.
I predict...within twelve months...someone will be producing either a movie or a TV series....about some punk kid who declares himself to be an American Indian, and gets accepted into Harvard Law School. The bulk of the movie will center on how Harvard uses the kid left and right....at various dinners and conferences...till finally the kid is so embarrassed...that he just leaves the school....never to graduate.
I hope Breitbart investigates if her adult children used this ploy for college admission, scholarships, and job preference.
For the life of me, I still can’t understand what the butt-sex crowd and Sonny Bono ever saw in that no-talent freak.
I think she would be a great VP candidate for Obama. :)
So... what she is saying is that she did TRY to get a special break, but it didn’t work?
I’d rather see the ending where he gets thrown in jail for fraud.
Let’s say her kids DO claim status. That would make them 1/64th Native American. At what point does it not officially matter?
Most people of the USA may chalk up her lies as typical of any lawyer or politician.Just a little white lie.
For those of us who actually are eligible to claim legal tribal status, but do not, it is a double slap in the face.
I don't force my grandmothers tribe to legally recognize me as a member for various personal ethical reasons.
Not least of which is a certain level of respect for those who are full tribal members.
I can't imagine how loathsome her self serving lies would be viewed by an active tribal member, of any of the recognized tribes.
For those who can't understand the degree of insult she dealt to the tribe...I offer an absurd but apt analogy.
A draft dodger fleeds to Canada in 1969 and returns with his young family after Carter grants amnesty in 1974.
In 1990 the dual-citizen daughter of the draft dodger files a claim against the VA claiming PTSD, and is declared to be “partially disabled”, due to the non-service of her father in the USA military.
I did say it was absurd, but I think it accurately describes what would leave the same flavor of insult in the mouths of those who must still taste it, every day of their lives...
Typically she responds to questions about her Native American heritage by nervously saying she wants to focus on the real issue.
What’s the real issue? How the Middle Class is getting hammered.
You can only hear that line so many times before it becomes an obnoxious cliche. She is way past wearing it out and now she looks rediculous.
Odds are in Massachusetts it actually is no big deal, and polls seem to suggest that. Just like when Blumenthal was proven to be a liar in CT and won the election anyway, the D in front of her name is more important than anything like ethics or integrity. After all her intentions are good.
Speaking of which, how is Cindy Sheehan doing these days? Did she ever get to talk with President Obooshma?
In Jamaica, persons who were the children of octoroons (1/8th African) and white persons were designated "statutory white".
In the Spanish-speaking world (whose culture vultures in ethnic-studies departments in the States call us endogamously racist), persons of the same degree as "octoroon" were called ochavado, viz., 1/8th , and also albino or quinteron. Persons who were children of an ethnic European and an ochavado person were referred to as requinteron or salta atras ("jump across").
However, persons of Indian heritage had that blood fraction tracked and counted against them, even down to 1/128th part Indian, such persons being called in Guatemala castizo, whereas in e.g. Puerto Rico, that term was used for persons who had 1/4 Indian ancestry instead.
These ethnic descriptors and epithets were inscribed on a person's baptismal certificate and endure, under the Spanish social and legal system, for life.
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