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13009271, That would actually be my reasoning too, lol
Posted by kfine, Thu Apr-21-16 04:14 PM

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>>> Or the financial system bailout/TARP, which
>>>>Elizabeth Warren actually chaired the Congressional
>>>Oversight
>>>>Panel for.

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>>>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.
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>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