Posted on 12/06/2018 6:26:58 AM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — The plan was straightforward: After years of being challenged by President Trump and others about a decades-old claim of Native American ancestry, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would take a DNA test to prove her stated family origins in the Cherokee and Delaware tribes.
But nearly two months after Ms. Warren released the test results and drew hostile reactions from prominent tribal leaders, the lingering cloud over her likely presidential campaign has only darkened. Conservatives have continued to ridicule her. More worrisome to supporters of Ms. Warren’s presidential ambitions, she has yet to allay criticism from grass-roots progressive groups, liberal political operatives and other potential 2020 allies who complain that she put too much emphasis on the controversial field of racial science — and, in doing so, played into Mr. Trump’s hands.
Advisers close to Ms. Warren say she has privately expressed concern that she may have damaged her relationships to Native American groups and her own standing with progressive activists, particularly those who are racial minorities. Several outside advisers are even more worried: They say they believe a plan should be made to repair that damage, possibly including a strong statement of apology.
The advisers say Ms. Warren will have to confront the issue again if she announces a presidential campaign, which is expected in the coming weeks, and several would like her to act soon.
Publicly, at this point, the senator isn’t second-guessing her actions.
“There have been a lot of thoughtful conversations about this, and I appreciate that,” Ms. Warren said in an interview. “I believe for everyone in public life that transparency is crucial.”
Asked if the criticism of the test has inspired any regret, Ms. Warren said: “I put it out there. It’s on the internet for anybody to see."
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For those here that do not know, the population against which her DNA was compared is a very small group of South American native people, and there is only a hand-waving sort of understanding as to how those people got to South America.
Well noted, mewzilla!
or Conway Twitty
“People see me everywhere
They all think I really care
But myself I can’t deceive
I know it’s only make believe”
with apologies for changing two pronouns.
” EW clocked in at somewhere around 1.5-2%.”
and that was 1.5-2% of native South American ... if you even believe any part of the bogus test ...
Phony Indian stands by phony DNA test.
need to have a character injun mocking her at her any and every campaign event doing a rain dance or some damn thing/
p
Why doesn’t she just grow her hair long, dye it black and braid it like she did before? heck, she kinda did look indian with that whole thing...she could put some face paint on too...
Half breed!
Now her “hometown” (Boston not Okla.) paper, the Fenway Gazette, er, Boston Globe (owned by the owner of this year’s World Series champ) is advising her not to run because she’s divisive.
So the prez candidacies of both Deval and Pocahantas basically end on the same day? She may still run though...remember Nixon v McGovern in 72? Nixon won 49 times as many states as McGovern...
Trump landslide in the making as the squaw attempts to become the Big Chief.
Those DNA results are an embarrassment to her, but she appears to not understand that.
kinda like hillary-either that or she just doesn’t care..
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