COULD SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN KNOCK OUT FORMER FIRST LADY, HILLARY CLINTON, IN THE COMING BATTLE FOR U.S. DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINEE FOR 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS?©
--Attorney Patryk Utulu

In Washington, DC [Capital of Capitalism and Global Economy], this – and variations of the same – pointless question is what passes for intelligent political conversation these days. The way the question is asked on TV/Radio/Social Networks/Cocktail Bars with smug self-satiated smiles, a visitor to Planet Earth would be forgiven for thinking that 2014-2015 [the two full years before November 2016 President Elections] have suddenly vanished from world calendar. This frivolous question is even more remarkable considering that President Obama was sworn in to a second term just this January 21, 2013. Yes, 2013! Not even a year ago and already the political/media game of whoz-d-next-president is in full swing?

Why?

Because in Washington, DC, political governance is dead! Washington, DC is in a viral political depression and is so paralyzed with meaningless distractions and deviously manufactured crises that the peoples' business is ignored and even judicial vacancies pile up because politicians won’t even bring up these nominations for debate, much less a vote. Because U.S. politics has become the last bus stop of politicians who HATE Government! Yes, you read me correctly: U.S. Congress [especially the House of Representatives] is now the career path of politicians who engage in zero-sum politicking, hyper partisanship, dumb escalatory brinksmanship, blatant character assassinations, denunciation of political opponents, racially-motivated birtherism, mischief-making and raw contempt for the American people.

The current Congress has the lowest approval rating in history at 12%. Some states are openly defying Federal laws and many State Legislatures mischievously make laws they know full well will be challenged (and ultimately defeated) by the Federal Government because the U.S. Constitution doctrine of preemption gives the Federal Government exclusive jurisdiction over certain issues. But the States make those patently “illegal” laws anyways, with the objective that even if the law is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, the law could still be used to create confusion, punish ideological opponents and ultimately serve the propaganda purpose of convincing the people of those states that the U.S. Federal Government is meddlesome, high handed and "foreign" entity that should be hated.

Once a politician has convinced people to hate their own government he can defund critical government programs he’s ideologically opposed to and then blame the manufactured "unavailability" of those services on so-called governmental incompetence. Meanwhile millions of Americans are jobless and homeless to the point where personal and economic insecurity have become the new normal in the richest nation on earth. And while gun violence escalates out of control and politicians undergo paralysis by analyses and U.S. mainstream media gets to be too cozy/lazy to investigate or comment on anything worthwhile [not even to challenge politicians who reject consensus/compromises that hitherto made governance possible and America great], the political class resort to burying their collective head in the sand by pretending that what is most important is who is going to be the U.S. president in 2017!

Apart from salivating over – and breathlessly reporting on – which movie star or starlet forgot to put on her underwear, the U.S. news media does little else. It takes the memory tricks of a griot to recall the last time a mainstream publication devoted two days in a row to issues of America's long term mass unemployment or dubious home foreclosures by banks or credit crunch or outrageous costs of Higher Education or termination of Nutritional Assistance for poor pregnant women or defunding of children’s food stamp program. Instead our media talks pure political drivel. I truly I hope this childish guessing game is a Freudian expression of our collective shame in our inability to govern ourselves.
See: www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/elizabeth-warren-vs-hillary-clinton-63029827612
Yes, visit the website and you will see a respected media outlet (MSNBC) boldly asking the same question “Elizabeth Warren vs. Hillary Clinton?” with the seriousness of an imbecilic child who thinks that peeing on the living room carpet deserves a lifetime achievement award. Such as shame!

What’s my view on a possible Elizabeth Warren vs. Hillary Clinton nomination battle?

My honest view is: Why fight each other for the nomination? Is Nomination process a school yard fight that must be ritualized every four years? For all I care Elizabeth and Hillary can toss a coin to decide who should top their ticket as Nominee/Running Mate. Why not? They are both eminently qualified. America is ready for women to lead not just from within the wells of the U.S. Senate but from the White House. It might even be fun to see two serious women working together to help Americans put food on the table.

It will come as a shock to the world that millions of Americans go hungry to be every night. Yes, MILLIONS! That millions of Americans are homeless and jobless! For while Washington politicians (that have $Million stashed in PAC Funds, and guaranteed Federal Healthcare, and fat salaries and corporate golden parachute retirement packages waiting for them) are engaged in noisy political posturing, even America's highly educated middle class is now frightened to death: frightened of homelessness because most Americans are just two pay checks away from being homeless. Frightened of losing their jobs the majority of which don't even pay living wages. Frightened of losing their marriages due to financial stress. Frightened of losing their children to gun violence because our gun culture is so strong it is easier to get ten guns than to get $100 loan from banks to start a business. Frightened of being gunned down by co-workers because a person released from mental asylum today can get his hands on a gun faster than he can get follow-up medical help for his mental illness…and, above all, Americans are frightened because of the God-awful realization that the way things are going in this country, this will be the first generation of Americans whose children will be less economically prosperous than their parents.

America’s current problems have been stacking up for decades. This president is cleaning up the mess but even a magician can’t it up the mess fast enough. In USA the tax code is so rigged with loopholes corporations can make $200Billions/year in after-tax profit but pay ZERO tax. Not only can they avoid paying taxes, they also get a tax refund worth millions of dollars. Whenever politicians make the token effort to "solve" the problems they start from the premise that they must cut-cut-cut winter heating oil assistance for old people and supplemental nutrition assistance for pregnant women and children.

Daily, the concept of American dream is being diminished by pointedly needless austerity measures in the midst of a soft economic recovery, salary stagnation, and ideologically motivated war on pregnant women, children, the poor, the sick and the elderly! What is happening in America frequently reminds me of two lines from William Blake’s 1863 Poem, Auguries of Innocence:
“A Robin Redbreast in A Cage”
“Puts All Heaven in A Rage”

Blake probably meant that humans have no right to hinder Nature’s course so Creatures should roam free. But it’s not Darwinian survival of the fittest where a prosperous society has no social responsibility towards the less fortunate. Free and stable societies have the unfortunate tendency of always being addicted to other peoples’ revolutionary violence. We see wars and political instability so many times in so many far off lands that we convince ourselves that we are immune from such instability.

The question we often forget – but one that should always whisper in our obtuse consciousness – is: what happens when America’s downtrodden masses can no longer tolerate the “redbreast” of opulence that is brazenly rubbed on the economic cage to which our indifferent society has confined them?

Patryk Utulu is a U.S.-based attorney and Strategic Communications Consultant
[All Rights Reserved. All materials subject to Copyright Privileges and Immunities]

Patryk_Utulu: COULD SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN KNOCK OUT FORMER FIRST LADY, HILLARY CLINTON, IN THE COMING BATTLE FOR U.S. DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINEE FOR 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS?©
--Attorney Patryk Utulu

In Washington, DC [Capital of Capitalism and Global Economy], this – and variations of the same – pointless question is what passes for intelligent political conversation these days. The way the question is asked on TV/Radio/Social Networks/Cocktail Bars with smug self-satiated smiles, a visitor to Planet Earth would be forgiven for thinking that 2014-2015 [the two full years before November 2016 President Elections] have suddenly vanished from world calendar. This frivolous question is even more remarkable considering that President Obama was sworn in to a second term just this January 21, 2013. Yes, 2013! Not even a year ago and already the political/media game of whoz-d-next-president is in full swing?

Why?

Because in Washington, DC, political governance is dead! Washington, DC is in a viral political depression and is so paralyzed with meaningless distractions and deviously manufactured crises that the peoples' business is ignored and even judicial vacancies pile up because politicians won’t even bring up these nominations for debate, much less a vote. Because U.S. politics has become the last bus stop of politicians who HATE Government! Yes, you read me correctly: U.S. Congress [especially the House of Representatives] is now the career path of politicians who engage in zero-sum politicking, hyper partisanship, dumb escalatory brinksmanship, blatant character assassinations, denunciation of political opponents, racially-motivated birtherism, mischief-making and raw contempt for the American people.

The current Congress has the lowest approval rating in history at 12%. Some states are openly defying Federal laws and many State Legislatures mischievously make laws they know full well will be challenged (and ultimately defeated) by the Federal Government because the U.S. Constitution doctrine of preemption gives the Federal Government exclusive jurisdiction over certain issues. But the States make those patently “illegal” laws anyways, with the objective that even if the law is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, the law could still be used to create confusion, punish ideological opponents and ultimately serve the propaganda purpose of convincing the people of those states that the U.S. Federal Government is meddlesome, high handed and "foreign" entity that should be hated.

Once a politician has convinced people to hate their own government he can defund critical government programs he’s ideologically opposed to and then blame the manufactured "unavailability" of those services on so-called governmental incompetence. Meanwhile millions of Americans are jobless and homeless to the point where personal and economic insecurity have become the new normal in the richest nation on earth. And while gun violence escalates out of control and politicians undergo paralysis by analyses and U.S. mainstream media gets to be too cozy/lazy to investigate or comment on anything worthwhile [not even to challenge politicians who reject consensus/compromises that hitherto made governance possible and America great], the political class resort to burying their collective head in the sand by pretending that what is most important is who is going to be the U.S. president in 2017!

Apart from salivating over – and breathlessly reporting on – which movie star or starlet forgot to put on her underwear, the U.S. news media does little else. It takes the memory tricks of a griot to recall the last time a mainstream publication devoted two days in a row to issues of America's long term mass unemployment or dubious home foreclosures by banks or credit crunch or outrageous costs of Higher Education or termination of Nutritional Assistance for poor pregnant women or defunding of children’s food stamp program. Instead our media talks pure political drivel. I truly I hope this childish guessing game is a Freudian expression of our collective shame in our inability to govern ourselves.
See: www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/elizabeth-warren-vs-hillary-clinton-63029827612
Yes, visit the website and you will see a respected media outlet (MSNBC) boldly asking the same question “Elizabeth Warren vs. Hillary Clinton?” with the seriousness of an imbecilic child who thinks that peeing on the living room carpet deserves a lifetime achievement award. Such as shame!

What’s my view on a possible Elizabeth Warren vs. Hillary Clinton nomination battle?

My honest view is: Why fight each other for the nomination? Is Nomination process a school yard fight that must be ritualized every four years? For all I care Elizabeth and Hillary can toss a coin to decide who should top their ticket as Nominee/Running Mate. Why not? They are both eminently qualified. America is ready for women to lead not just from within the wells of the U.S. Senate but from the White House. It might even be fun to see two serious women working together to help Americans put food on the table.

It will come as a shock to the world that millions of Americans go hungry to be every night. Yes, MILLIONS! That millions of Americans are homeless and jobless! For while Washington politicians (that have $Million stashed in PAC Funds, and guaranteed Federal Healthcare, and fat salaries and corporate golden parachute retirement packages waiting for them) are engaged in noisy political posturing, even America's highly educated middle class is now frightened to death: frightened of homelessness because most Americans are just two pay checks away from being homeless. Frightened of losing their jobs the majority of which don't even pay living wages. Frightened of losing their marriages due to financial stress. Frightened of losing their children to gun violence because our gun culture is so strong it is easier to get ten guns than to get $100 loan from banks to start a business. Frightened of being gunned down by co-workers because a person released from mental asylum today can get his hands on a gun faster than he can get follow-up medical help for his mental illness…and, above all, Americans are frightened because of the God-awful realization that the way things are going in this country, this will be the first generation of Americans whose children will be less economically prosperous than their parents.

America’s current problems have been stacking up for decades. This president is cleaning up the mess but even a magician can’t it up the mess fast enough. In USA the tax code is so rigged with loopholes corporations can make $200Billions/year in after-tax profit but pay ZERO tax. Not only can they avoid paying taxes, they also get a tax refund worth millions of dollars. Whenever politicians make the token effort to "solve" the problems they start from the premise that they must cut-cut-cut winter heating oil assistance for old people and supplemental nutrition assistance for pregnant women and children.

Daily, the concept of American dream is being diminished by pointedly needless austerity measures in the midst of a soft economic recovery, salary stagnation, and ideologically motivated war on pregnant women, children, the poor, the sick and the elderly! What is happening in America frequently reminds me of two lines from William Blake’s 1863 Poem, Auguries of Innocence:
“A Robin Redbreast in A Cage”
“Puts All Heaven in A Rage”

Blake probably meant that humans have no right to hinder Nature’s course so Creatures should roam free. But it’s not Darwinian survival of the fittest where a prosperous society has no social responsibility towards the less fortunate. Free and stable societies have the unfortunate tendency of always being addicted to other peoples’ revolutionary violence. We see wars and political instability so many times in so many far off lands that we convince ourselves that we are immune from such instability.

The question we often forget – but one that should always whisper in our obtuse consciousness – is: what happens when America’s downtrodden masses can no longer tolerate the “redbreast” of opulence that is brazenly rubbed on the economic cage to which our indifferent society has confined them?

Patryk Utulu is a U.S.-based attorney and Strategic Communications Consultant
[All Rights Reserved. All materials subject to Copyright Privileges and Immunities]

Elizabeth Warren is still a neophyte compared to Hilary, also Wall Street will not allow her to get there, she is their tormentor in chief. I think she is better where she is, her greatest impact will be felt in the Senate.

Hillary started her presidntial party primaries before president Obama. The latter was able to win her in a very shocking manner, owing to his oratory. She purposely rejected her re- appointment as Secretary of State because of her Presidential ambition. She would be counting on her husband's well oiled political machinery to get the ticket.

I doubt if she was going to win the general elections against the Republicans who play aggressive politics. Though her husband is touted to have the same approach like the Republicans of using the press and blackmail to bring an opponent down, I doubt if Americans will be ready to stomach the near- collapse of government that Republicans usually leave a Democrat president with.

utumunta: Hillary started her presidntial party primaries before president Obama. The latter was able to win her in a very shocking manner, owing to his oratory. She purposely rejected her re- appointment as Secretary of State because of her Presidential ambition. She would be counting on her husband's well oiled political machinery to get the ticket.

I doubt if she was going to win the general elections against the Republicans who play aggressive politics. Though her husband is touted to have the same approach like the Republicans of using the press and blackmail to bring an opponent down, I doubt if Americans will be ready to stomach the near- collapse of government that Republicans usually leave a Democrat president with.

Bros your submission is not that correct, the republicans are done for for a very long time, they are not winning the White House anytime soon, they have the issue of the TP to deal with, those guys are winning the elections for the democrats. Hillary has a political machine as well, the only thing that may stand in her way is her age.