Reading this pablum reminds us how far left our state has gotten.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

I personally dislike Warren. How about starting out your political career locally. I'm sure the people of Cambridge would vote for her. How about being truthful that would make her likeable. How about having actually done something. I know everyone is going to say she was in charge of this commitee and is standing up for the middle class. But in reality she was appointed to these positions by the president for one reason, to prep her for her run against Brown. She has lied and made millions off foreclosed homes. She is not likeable she is despicable.

That's funny, Ms. Dolan, you don't have anything to say about the fact that Ms. Warren lied to Harvard University about being a minority in the sense that she claimed to be of Cherokee Indian decent when in fact that cannot be proven? That's not backbone, that's the same sense of entitlement that has brought us to where we are. Further, Manny is right: making party line votes on a committee she was appointed to is hardly backbone. That's following the crowd.

Mara,
You have got to be kidding, EW is perhaps one of the most dishonest people to run for public office in a long time. Much is made about standing up for the middle class. Can you point to one thing other than serving the president in an appointed position that has served the middle class. She ran ads that lament the amount of student debt, while working at university that has a 33b endowment and pays her handsomely, while they charge tuition of 75k to attend law school. The cost of attending college is out of reach for the middle class. The poor kids get grants and other forms of aid and the rich and international students pay the full boat, the middle class goes into debt. The cost of college has increased and much kmore that the rate of inflation and is largely driven by the bloated salaries of professors. If she wanted to stand up for the middle class, why not attack Harvard. The reason she does not want to anger her donors or the people that for the most part are making the big money on wall street that she is claiming to be against.
Now she is claiming that there is a war on women and again the ads are full of half truths. She is not running against Scott Brown, she is attempting to turn the campaign into an indictment of the republican party. She is not connected to the state and her ads show it. You may want to read today's Globe a mouthpiece for the dems and even her own party is not happy. You say she is warm and engaging, I am not buying it.

Fred,
Like many people you missed the issue, I am not complaining about the cost of an education, I am pointing out the hypocrisy of making ads talking about student debt while working at a place that charges 75k a year. I want to know why you think it is okay to subsidize the cost. Where do you think student loan money comes from, the sky or your taxes. By the way, I went to a private college and my kids do as well, the difference is that I pay for it, not you with your tax dollars. I guess I should ask you to pay the next bill when it comes. I also think it is interesting that you fail to see the contradiction in your own statement, in that EW seems to think we should all be paying for kids to go to college, by making it easier to get loans.

Fred, here is the history of her contribution . "Through Warren's efforts, the bureau was established by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law by Obama in July 2010. For the first year after the bill's signing, Warren worked on implementation of the bureau as a Special Assistant to the President in anticipation of the agency's formal opening. While liberal groups and consumer advocacy groups pushed for Obama to nominate Warren as the agency's permanent director, Warren was strongly opposed by financial institutions which had criticized Warren as overly aggressive in pursuing regulations, and by the Republican members of Congress. In July 2011, Obama announced the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the bureau's director, subject to Congressional approval.[32] However, in December his nomination was blocked by a Republican-led filibuster in the Senate.

On 4 January 2012, President Obama named Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray the Bureau's Director in a "recess" appointment, over the objections of Republcans who insisted that the Senate was still in session.[33][34] Before a director was confirmed, the agency was not able to gain the full measure of its powers. It could supervise the compliance of banks with existing laws, but the Dodd-Frank financial legislation dictates that it could not supervise other financial companies or write new rules without a director.
You may want to do more research.

No matter what one thinks about Elizabeth Warren or Scott Brown, you have to admire Mara's courage, as demonstrated by writing and publishing this letter. Personally, I have met both Elizabeth Warren and Senator Scott Brown, and they both couldn't have been nicer, or more down to earth.

Mara M'Dear, you should consider your reputation before writing about how much you 'really like' a life-long liar.

Ms. Warren's original claim-to-fame was a book she co-authored on bankruptcy with Teresa Sullivan who went on to become Pres of the Univ Virginia.

BUT, problems with their research have simmered for over 20 years. You see, they 'cherry-picked' their data, then DESTROYED it claiming they 'were protecting peoples' privacy'. In academic circles this was suspect, because their findings could not be independently verified.

Doctor Sullivan abruptly 'resigned' in June.

The fraud you 'really like' wrote a book on cherry-picked data, claimed to be a Cherokee for over 20 years, wrote a recipe for Cherokee Crab Cakes, and with her family flipped some 20 foreclosed homes in Oklahoma, - while castigating Wall Street banks for foreclosing them.

Now she complains about the high cost of college tuition, while drawing a $350K/year salary from Harvard. What is YOUR definition of hypocrisy?

If you're unaware of the WALL STREET $$ that Elizabeth has collected for her campaign, google: "Warren" + "NY $ociety" + "Karen Mehiel". You'll find a good list complete with pictures of her rich 1%er donors. More hypocrisy, - lots more. What's to like?

Scott Brown sponsored a law to deny birth control to rape victims. That's about as un-likeable as you can get. Imagine your daughter going to the hospital after a traumatic event and the doctor withholding information about emergency birth control! He even authored a bill that would require her to look at pictures of the fetus before she could consider abortion.
http://www.ontheissues.org/social/Scott_Brown_Abortion.htm

Most recently, he cosponsored the Blunt amendment, which would let employers opt out of providing healthcare coverage for religious or moral reasons. Employers could opt out of coverage for cancer, diabetes, birth control, or virtually anything that didn't suit them.
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/scott_brown_defends_defeated_b.html

He voted with his Republicans to filibuster the Fair Pay Act. There's nothing likeable
about standing against equal pay for women. He's voted 75% of the time with the Republicans and helps uphold filibuster after filibuster.
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/06/05/senate-republicans-block-paycheck-fairness-act-battle-over-women-issues-shifts-ballot-box/scOh1E0SzQQeTjINYeTfbM/story.html

Scott Brown isn't just unlikeable, he's too extreme for Massachusetts.

As Scott Brown knows the Fair Pay Act would be a disaster for the country. Imagine men and women's compensation being determined by the politburo in Washington rather than the free market. It's a slippery slope.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

Mike,
All I can say is please read the threads you posted and see what they actually say.
The first is actually says that Scott Brown opposes any law that requires a person to violate there religious convictions and actually only requires full disclosure.
The same with the second, what you are saying that somoeone who is against abortion is required to violate their religious beliefs.
The last bill was supported by all the women rebublicans as well, and for reasons such as the restrictions would have placed undue pressures on small businesses.
I appreciate that you support Warren and that is fine, but to attempt to turn this into a gender issue or a "war on women" is not going to work.
As far as "too extreme". I wonder how you can support a party that boos the inclusion of God in their platform and then claims it was a techincal oversight. I would say that is extreme.

Ron - NO ONE, anywhere is requiring someone who opposes abortion on religious grounds to HAVE and abortion. Likewise, NO ONE is making someone who opposes birth control USE birth control. Instead, what is happening is that people are trying to enforce their religious beliefs on others and deny other people their rights by expecting the government to conform to their religious beliefs.

Alice,

I have grown daughters in the workplace. No where have I said women should not receive equal pay for equal work. The free market does reasonably well at this; the government would do a lousy job.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

Nobody opposes equal pay for equal women. Some of us didn't like the particular way a law was phrased.

The real ISSUE here is Mz. Dolan – having just lost her senate race – trying to salvage scraps by claiming she backs Pocahontas because 'she's likable'.

Likability should NOT be a qualification for the US Senate. Gravitas SHOULD be. Mz Warren doesn't have it.

Warren is a lifetime box-checking FRAUD, who published a book based on cherry-picked data, who castigates Wall Street banks while secretly flipping foreclosed homes, has enjoyed an enormously inflated $350K salary while having the nerve to rail against the cost of a college education,...and who wouldn't meet with the REAL Cherokees who came from Oklahoma to talk about her 'ancestor'.

I'm trying to understand what Mara finds 'likable' about this fraud.

The press has run stories saying Warren is retooling her campaign to attenuate her shrillness and amplify her 'likability'. Dolan is simply one of these tools.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

Elizabeth Warren - A one percenter for the one percent.

How many time can one say it, Elizabrth Warren is a fraud and a hypocrite

I love how people complain about Warren's honesty and then turn around and vote for Scott Brown.

Ahahahahahahaha. Some commenters have zero integrity.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If your opinion favors a liar, political plant and pawn who the mindless voters of Massachusetts will support so be it. This is why the Kennedy family was elected so many times here.

Why are so many men threatened by Warren? Seems a little out of kilter.

Really, Reverend? You have lived by a code of honor? And that code allows you to belittle and denigrate people on this comment string. Some code. You disgust me.

There you go again Alice. The word 'denigrate' has racist overtones and should not be used in polite company.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

Alice,
Settle down.
Your party line extremism is showing.
What happened to all the tolerance preached by your party?

Mara and all the others who support Warren. Please explain how she is "likable when there at least two issues that have been raised that go to the very core of what we should want in our elected officials and that is integrity. First, the false claims about her heritage. Second, the very real issues raised about the research done in one of her first books. One of the co-authors just recently was forced to resign her position as president of the University of Virginia. So far we have heard nothing from the candidate. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/11/The-Academic-Scandal-Elizabeth-Warren-and-Harvard-Dont-Want-You-to-Know-About
My position is she is a fraud, she is running a campaign based upon her defense of the middle class. She is a puppet of the party and even they are now unhappy with the way she is running her campaign.
By the way, I think integrity is much more important that whether I like someone. I do not want to go out for a beer with her.

You gotta admit, neither candidate is particularly exceptional. That said, the senate needs a moderate republican more than a very lefty dem.

I like Brown, he is likable...but I do get a bit nauseated when I see him on TV driving around in his truck or walking around in a black bruins polo pandering to working stiffs...seems a bit phony, don't it?

Also, did EW in fact say that she was going to fix the credit card debt for fishermen? I hope not, that would sure sound like competive pandering. Besides, what ever happened to paying off your short-term debt within 30 days?

I like Scott Brown because I'm tired of the one-party system in Taxachusetts. Also because he is bipartisan, for instance he has broken with the Repubs on significant social issues (www.scottbrown.com/issues/womens-issues/).

PS - Fitzroy, In the most recent ads that I have seen of him driving his truck he was talking about the bill he proposed and got approved for precluding "insider trading" by congressmen. How long has that been going on?

Mr. Fred O'Leary ... get a grip. I just went over all the comments and somehow missed your early one or it didn't register immediately. How do you conclude who works and who doesn't? How do you begin to not realize that many people enjoy the fruits of their own labor, worked very hard and were not privy to give-aways, yesterday or today? Does it ever occur to you that perhaps individuals work out of their homes, that the $ they expend comes from their personal hard-earned labor over years or that they may have served this country in ways you have not and are simply entitled to rewards for their dedication and sacrifice, many putting their lives on the line for all of us, you? Don't be so quick to judge and make derogatory statements about individuals who take the time to express their thoughts and feelings, who give accurate facts. As far as I can tell, none of us knows personal stuff about any of the commenters and rushing to judgement about personalities as you did in your comment is inexcusable. Think before you speak.

Another loony lefty for whom Massachusetts idiots will vote for if only because there's a (D) next to her name on the ballot. It doesn't matter that no one is working, health care is in shambles, the national debt is in the trillions, and our borders aren't secure. As long as the Dems put up someone to whine about gay rights, abortion rights, and legitimizing illegal border-jumpers, the fools in Massachusetts will decide that this is what we need in Washington!

Hey JohnnyMass,

Great comment, thank you! Please check out
http://www.wickedlocal.com/waltham/news/x1931752153/Letter-to-the-editor-Barrett-thanks-supporters#axzz27SOTwABs

It's people like Warren, her Husband and the Author of this post that are wrong with this state. Idiots. You'll be getting exactly what you all deserve. And isn't granny doing such a great job in Washington? Haven't heard a peep.

How's that Benghazi congressional testimony working out for Patch Progressives?

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

I figured it out Rev,...why Progressive Women don't care about Benghazi...

It's because no WOMEN died there....

Now if a WOMAN [preferably a lesbian] had died in the Benghazi annex, the MSM and women's groups would be ALL OVER the story.

But, as you can see, Mara Dolan and Niki Tsongas are...<chirp>...

The only thing that would draw more progressive interest would be a recently-immigrated non-white single-parent vegetarian transgender casualty who was just getting their life together again.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III