Opinion of Elizabeth Warren

[Mechaman]

FF on the balance. I do strongly disagree with her on the role of the United States in the Middle East, what kind of relationship the United States should have with Israel, and the extent to which we should allow markets to influence social relations, but I think that she brings real and important points to the table and as a force within the Democratic Party.

This pretty much.

I was very skeptical of her when she first ran for office (though that was mostly about how much of a shot she had at winning, glad I was very wrong on that front), but I got to say that the overall first term impression is quite good.  If there is anything the Democratic Party needs more of it's left wing populists.

[Mechaman]

ON the whole Native American thing:

I'm not going to call bullsh*t on Warren's ancestry entirely here.  It's a very cultural thing in Oklahoma for pasty white people to claim to be Native American when they are like 1/168th Cherokee or something.  To her credit, it seems that Warren merely claimed to have Native American heritage, which makes her a lot less annoying than most other "Plastic Natives".  However, was this relevant to bring up in a Massachusetts Senate Primary?  Most likely not.

With that said, it was pretty dumb for Brown to think this was some sort of deciding issue.  In reality, nobody gave a sh*t.  If anything, I think that Brown would've been much better off attacking her connections with Obama while playing up the regulatory populist theme.  Then again, that would require Scott Brown to have a brain.

[Mechaman]

I'm not going to call bullsh*t on Warren's ancestry entirely here.  It's a very cultural thing in Oklahoma for pasty white people to claim to be Native American when they are like 1/168th Cherokee or something.  To her credit, it seems that Warren merely claimed to have Native American heritage, which makes her a lot less annoying than most other "Plastic Natives".  However, was this relevant to bring up in a Massachusetts Senate Primary?  Most likely not.

She used her "heritage" to con her way into the club of tenured Harvard Law Professors.

Haha, citations please!  And something other than conservative speculation.