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Posted on 07/30/2012 5:59:23 PM PDT by libertarian27
Despite her national popularity among Democrats and an online petition with 1,247 signatures calling for her to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Elizabeth Warren will not be headlining the gathering in Charlotte, N.C.
Instead, the Harvard Law professor will speak ahead of former President Bill Clinton who will officially nominate President Barack Obama for a second term in office on Sept. 5 at the Time Warner Cable Arena.
“Elizabeth Warren has championed the protection of the middle class throughout her life,” said 2012 Democratic National Convention Chair Antonio Villaraigosa in a statement. “At President Obama’s side, she helped level the playing field for all Americans and worked to make sure that everyone from Wall Street to Main Street plays by the same set of rules. Like President Obama, Elizabeth is a leader committed to rebuilding the economy from the middle class out, instead of focusing on the top down economics of the past fueled by outsourcing good jobs, risky financial deals and budget-busting tax cuts for only the wealthiest few.”
Convention addresses can sometimes take a rising political star to the next level, as was the case when Obama, then a state senator from Illinois, delivered a knockout speech during the 2004 convention.
In a press release, Warren called sharing the stage with Clinton an honor, and said she is eager to talk about "what is happening to America's families.
“I grew up in a hardworking family, in an America that was investing in kids like me. President Obama is committed to making sure that America has a level playing field for all our families and to ensuring that every kid has the opportunity to make it," Warren said. "When I worked with the President to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I saw first-hand his commitment to building a future for our children and our grandchildren. Mitt Romney and the Republicans want to go back to the same policies that broke this economy. It is time to move forward.”
Warren, who is in a heated battle against Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown over the Senate seat previously held by the late Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, has shown she can appeal to Democrats nationwide, as detailed by her interstate fundraising prowess.
Since last July, Warren has raised $24.33 million, compared to the $12.74 million Brown has raised, although he started the political season with $6 million left over from his 2010 special election campaign.
Warren has also taken Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, to task in the past, including at a June Obama fundraiser in Boston where she discussed his references to corporate personhood.
“No Mitt, corporations are not people,” Warren said. “People have hearts, they have kids, they have jobs. They get sick, they love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference.”
At the convention, which will take place from Sept. 3-6, delegates from across the country will also work to approve the party's official platform heading into the November presidential election.
And according to a report by the pro-LGBT Washington Blade, same-sex marriage will be, for the first time, included in the party's platform at the convention.
Retiring U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told the news organization that over the weekend in Minnesota, the platform drafting committee agreed it was time to make it official.
“I was part of a unanimous decision to include it,” Frank told the Blade. “There was a unanimous decision in the drafting committee to include it in the platform, which I supported, but everybody was for it.”
The news organization also reported that language condemning the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as an institution between a man and a woman, and words supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, will be a part of the platform.
Ugh!
As much as I really don’t appreciate Scott Brown I’m voting for him to keep this twit out of Washington - Hiyataxa
Charlotte was the territory of the Cawtaba tribe. I don’t know how good their relations were with the Cherokee.
Will she speak in Injun? Maybe with a Fekawi tribe accent. And they also have the rapist, sexual predator, draft dodging, contemptible traitor speaking too. What a forum!
So .... the serial liar will be followed by the serial rapist.
Princess Rising Star. I still like Chiefess Crazy Liberal the best.
I fully expect them to sprinkle the used syringes that were taken from the grounds of “Occupy Wall Street” around the auditorium as she’s preparing to speak.Such an act would represent an acknowledgment of Princess Liawatha’s spiritual leadership of that courageous movement.
She can’t make it.
She at heap-big pow-wow.
Warren: "You didn't get here on your own"
Clinton: "yeah, but I'm here and I'd Hit that"
Ø: "You didn't build that, I'm going to Hit that too"
WWill she wear her Eagle Feather head dress.
I say they should hold the RNC and the DNC in the same week.
Let ‘em battle it out for ratings...
“How! Me Elizabeth Warren. Me heap excited regarding raising marginal income tax rates on the richest 1%. Bring much wampum. Blankets in every teepee.”
I hope she claims to be Cherokee again by pointing out her high cheek bones
Squaw flip many tee-pees in Oklahoma, make much wampum.
Wonderful! Squaw Lying Bull will get the chance to once again prove the saying: “It’s best to think one is a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
But, then again, she’d be only speaking to the choir.
The only time Elizabeth Warren inquired about her Indian roots was when she asked her mother “Who the Fekawi?
To be greeted with a row of tom-tom beating squaws!!!
Will squaw bigmouthliar be speaking CHEROKEE at the DNC convention?
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