Pocahontas

Elizabeth Warren has shown once again what her qualifications were for teaching at Harvard Law School ... she is a consummate and consistent liar. Not just a fibber ... nor an exaggerator ... nor even a bloviator ... she is a bald-faced, feather-headed, shameless impostor. Say goodbye Lizzie. (You can still solicit campaign funds however.)

Afterthought: At least Warren never appeared in blackface.

Dreams

I just ran across a 56-minute video of Barack Obama discussing his book, "Dreams from My Father," at the Cambridge Public Library in September of 1995 ... see: Video. Please watch it ... it is a worthy hour investment. This reference also contains a video of a discussion of this Obama lecture as it relates to Frank Marshall Davis being a father figure for Obama (the first video). I recommend that you watch the second video first and then, if interested, go back and watch the first one second to see if you can agree with its observations.

But it is the second video that is most important in my mind as it gave me a few insights into this man's being ... a man who has been at the helm of our country for the last seven years. Here are a few of my thoughts that I derived from his lecture:

- I now believe that Obama did in fact write this book ... as opposed to the rumor that it was ghost written. He may have had lots of editorial assistance ... but it was clearly an Obama original.

- Obama was then an older student at Harvard Law School ... after he had been a community organizer in Chicago and traveled to Africa. Perhaps this added to his gravitas and helped propel him to edit the Harvard Law Review without the usual requisite law writings.

- I also now believe that Obama is brighter and more articulate than I have given him credit for in the past ... not as articulate as those who lade his Teleprompter, but certainly glib and perspicacious.

- It also seems obvious that Obama is a complex and layered personality ... much more layered and hidden today than he was back in 1995 ... possibly a product of the many handlers that have shaped his political career during the ensuing 20 years.

- To me it is also obvious that race has been the idee fixe in most of Obama's political decisions during his presidency ... driven by the kind of incidents to which he relates in the book passage he reads in this lecture. This obsession seems the basis of many of Obama's poor presidential decisions.

- At one point in the video Q and A, Obama makes the point that white America today lives in a mainly black culture. I concur, but feel forced to add that, up until about 1960, the opposite was true. It was the final liberation of American blacks that more balanced justice  ... but also flipped our culture ... not always for the betterment of our society

Legal Eagle

Massachusetts Senate candidate, Elizabeth Warren, has a very unique riposte to Senator Scott Brown's charge about just how little she stands up for the common man.  She now says that, even though she was a lawyer (or perhaps a legal consultant?) for The Travelers Insurance when it was a defendant in a class-action lawsuit by a plaintiff group of asbestos victims, "[s]he pointed out that that plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case and asbestos workers’ unions have said her advocacy in the case helped protect the settlement for victims" (see: boston.com Story).

Perhaps it is true that, even though Elizabeth Warren was contracted to help the defendant, The Travelers, and took a hefty fee for this legal effort, she was "secretly" working for the plaintiffs.  How can this be?  Either she is misrepresenting what she did in this case ... or she violated her legal ethical standards when she tilted toward the plaintiffs when representing and taking money from the defendant.  This is clearly a major conflict of interests ... and should cause a further look by the Harvard Law School and/or the Massachusetts Bar Association.  Ha Ha!!