Interesting Claim To Stake...

So Elizabeth Warren thinks of herself as the founder of the Occupy Wall Street movement, does she?

Warren walks fine line on Occupy movement

A widely circulated video for Occupy Wall Street features rousing marchers beating on drums, grainy videos vilifying former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, and a singular voice, held up as a clear-speaking hero: Elizabeth Warren.



The video, filled with file footage of a Warren interview, has been viewed nearly 185,000 times since it was posted on YouTube on Oct. 3 and is one of many indications that some in the movement consider Warren, a Massachusetts candidate for the Senate, their standard-bearer.

You want to die on that hill, Mrs. Warren, please be our guest. While the "Occupy[Insert placename]" movement might be all the rage in the uber-lefty enclaves you inhabit, you'll find support drops off precipitiously once you move out of Cambridge or Amherst. I loved this line:

“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,’’ she told the website. “I support what they do.’’

Could you, in 500 words or less, define exactly what it IS that they do, precisely? The movement has been disjointed; seemingly unlead - except through the addition of $oros$ fund$, with the aims, goals, and boogeymen changing daily - if not hourly. The enemy is Wall Street. Well, not just Wall Street; it's all of America that worked hard and made something of themselves - that's hardly a message you want to push too hard, is it?

You've got these insane and inane "demands" - like free college tuition, universal free health care, etc. - that would absolutely bankrupt the government and shutter many institutions if implemented. To say nothing of the fact that once a college education is completely free, it becomes next-to-worthless. Blaming Wall Street for your student loans because you majored in Underwater Basketweaving at Elite U. might sound like a great plan, but when you start demanding that John and Jane Q. Public pay for your mistake - which is what .gov $$$ are - you start losing support rapidly. Especially with things like this:

Thirty-one percent said they would support violence to achieve their goals, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they agree the government “has a moral responsibility to guarantee health care, college education, and a secure retirement for all, no matter what cost.’’

Got that? Nearly a third "support violence to achieve their goals". This is the movement Warren is trying to claim credit for, folks. Think about the implications of that statement. A sizeable portion of the OWS crowd would be perfectly fine with government troops marching on private businesses to seize their bank accounts simply because they made too much money. That's not an America I want to live in. It is, apparently, close to a third of the America that Elizabeth Warren would like us to live in, though.

Warren is trying to play it both ways - she wants all the credit for the OWS movement, but none of the downside, like the riots, arrests, rapes, and bickering over funds. It's a classic politician move, mind you, and certainly nothing out of the ordinary for any politician to pick-and-choose the elements that they want associated with their image. It's just a little humorous to see Warren - the classic "look at me, I'm an outsider" - playing traditional politician games like a pro.

Time will tell if Massachusetts is ready for someone who makes Ted Kennedy look downright conservative...

That is all.