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13009271, That would actually be my reasoning too, lol Posted by kfine, Thu Apr-21-16 04:14 PM
> > >>> >>> Or the financial system bailout/TARP, which >>>>Elizabeth Warren actually chaired the Congressional >>>Oversight >>>>Panel for.
>>> >>>wait, how is this a knock against Warren? >>
>>Sanders opposed TARP, and both he and his supporters like to >>rage incessantly about HRC's ties to the financial industry. >>So I find it interesting when Sanders supporters deify >>Elizabeth Warren, when she was a Republican lawyer who, at >one >>time, worked in support of big financial institutions during >>her time at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and then decades >>later steered the implementation of a bailout program that >>Sanders continues to criticize. >> >
>i'm not well-versed on the full particulars of the bailout, >but it's my understanding that she was part of committee vs. a >dictator making singular rulings about the banks. i do know >republicans and the banks were very much against her inclusion >in the process, so i'd have to assume that she herself at >least had issues with the bailout despite it going through. if >she was pro-bailout i'd think those banks would have been >happy to have her involved. just my thoughts. >
All good points. Btw, wasn't insinuating she played a dictator-like role. I actually don't even have a major problem with Elizabeth Warren.
But I do find the overzealous, contradictory, and concurrent support of Sanders, deification of Warren, and demonization of HRC illogical when pieced together into one perspective lol
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