How do you feel about this?
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."

I would like to now more about the 1/32 part Indian lie that the media seemed to bury as quick as possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN2FGuYgtlY&feature=related

@David - While I don't agree with perpetuating a myth or falsity I do see a great issue with not coming out on the record once and for all and state why she took funds based on the "thought" she might be an Indian. Imagine if students in school to get grants and scholarships just started lying or conveniently forgetting?

@David How can you say she hasn't benefited? If it's not important, then why did she go through the extra effort to identify herself as Native American throughout her career? She's already a woman, so she was already in one "protected group", so why bother going the extra mile?

Whether or not she is or isn't Native American isn't that big of a deal. Its the denial that identifying in that way helped her, and its the continued willful denial that she did anything wrong.

It speaks to the credibility of a candidate. If you are going to "be" something, own up to it, and don't deny that it has helped you reach levels in your career that would have otherwise been closed to you.

Dave,
"Her family always believed themselves to have this heritage."
I have no idea what her family thought, All I know is what she has said and she is a politician.

Liberals and especially power hungry Progressives, certainly feel free, to create falsehoods, dressed up as reality. Making it up as they go along, to benefit themselves and those of the same ideology.

The TRUTH is not to be believed, because of a convincing argument but because the TRUTH conforms to reality.

Certain cultures and minorities surround us, using the exact same methodology, of bending reality, to yield lies as truth. Spinning a web of fabrications for personal or professional gain, would appear to some, those who deal with reality for the proof of facts, not unicorns and rainbows, as an act of manipulation and deceit, thus unworthy to be in a position of power granted from and paid for by the taxpaying legal citizens of the United States of America.

The truth has been proven by conservative bloggers, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, Native Americans, records and documents keep by the state of Oklahoma and U.S. census' dating back 100 years.

Matthew, I agree with your feeling, but as I said, I have yet to see any evidence that Elizabeth Warren "took funds". Please, if you have a credible link to a respectable news source that has made and backed up that claim, you will completely convince me.

How did she NOT benefit, David? I don't need to provide links. She makes $700K from Harvard University. The evidence that she HAS benefited is already there!

So tell me...if she hadn't "self-identified", would we even be having this conversation? Would anyone outside of her hometown have ever heard of her?

I can't tell you for certain...but I can tell you that she has attained fairly lofty status in her profession. She has self-identified as something she might not be. (My parents told me when I was growing up that I could become an astronaut or President, and while both could still technically happen, them telling me that doesn't make it so...) The burden to prove that she HASN'T benefited from her falsehood rests on her.

Again, Chris, for the record--I NEVER said (despite your earlier accusation) that Elizabeth Warren never benefitted--I said that I have yet to see any proof that she deliberately misled people, or that she benefitted. And you are correct--you don't need to provide links--but some impartial documentation would certainly help YOUR arguments. As far as your latest--are you suggesting (again without any back-up) that Elizabeth Warren's career, her $700,000 salary, her "lofty status", were all somehow dependent on her belief/claim/lie/mistake that she had Cherokee ancestors? Because you really might want to back that up. I myself would love to see Ms. Warren on that great show with Professor Gates, about finding your roots. Los of surprises on that one. Though for me, the whole issue of ancestry seems a bit ... how shall I put it? ... less important, really, and especially with regard to the way living people--including, of course, politicians--behave NOW.

I have two issues with Professor Warren.

1) The obvious lack of candor in dealing with her “Native American heritage”. She has continually stonewalled on this issue. She went many weeks, refusing to answer reporter’s questions. Why? Why not release her employment applications and clear this up for good? Her lack of willingness to produce documentation that could clear this up is highly suspect and brings her overall credibility into question.
2) Professor Warren has continually stressed that she is sympathetic to students, and the loans they accrue while in school. How does she reconcile this with the outrageous salary she is pulling down from Harvard?

Honestly not trying to pick a fight, but curious... if you are "proud", why wouldn't you use your real name? I'm trying to figure out why people don't. It seems like it is because they can say things they wouldn't normally say!?!

This woman is a hypocrite and a pathological liar who has no experience politically. She's an embarrassment to the party.

"Im part Native American because Mommy told me so and I have high cheekbones." "I was the first woman in the country to breast feed ehile taking the bar exam." Yet she refuses to answer any questions to back up her stories. If you're going to run for the US Senate you better have all your i's dotted and t's crossed before you start making up fables.

"People are losing their homes" (Liawatha bought homes in OK for low fees, evicted the owners and turned around and sold them for major profits). "Kids can't afford college tuition anymore" (Lyin Lizzie makes $350K with rent free housing at Hahhhhhhhvad teaching one or two classes a week and wonders why kids can't afford tuition costs?). She owns a multi-million dollar home, yet she claims she's one of us? BS.

What a fool this woman is, as is anyone who votes for this Nobama puppet.

David, I respect your intellect greatly, by refraining to use the word 'racist', in your comments to my posts.

I pledge my allegiance to God, and my King is Jesus Christ. As stated before, I am a Conservative Democrat.

I have lived long enough to have seen that every single social program, with trillions of dollars of funding, over the last 45 years is an absolute and complete failure. Millions have died directly from Liberal ideology. I pray that now since the nation is completely broke and insolvent, we will have to go back to the drawing board and reacess all the failures and the complete devastation it has caused the poor and minorities, beginning with the crisis situation of the African American family breakdown.

Imagine, we've paid trillions of dollars for cradle to grave entitlements and have nothing but astronomical murder rates on our return. Liars and Ideologists have become a cancerous tumor in our political arena. The time is now to restore respect, integrity and morality, the very characteristics that defined the Civil Rights movement. Characteristics are learned by cultural groups, families through generations through thoughts and behaviors. We certainly have failed in that regard,starting in the sixties, once the Father figure was thrown out and replaced by the Government welfare programs, birth control and abortion.

I find it hard to believe that people vote for people with no sunstance.
She comes out of nowhere, is a big hypocrite to boot and people love her.
This is why this country is sunk IMO.
She is so far over most people here socially in her life style that it's not even funny, yet some seem to "connect" with here. How so? In your dreams?
Ya right, like I connect with Bill Gates too.
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I hope no one told her Milford is actually a highly Republican/Independent town, could be quite a beating, unless it's the Patch statewide. Then she'll be the Indian queen that can save us from the evil honky: Scott Brown.

QUESTION: What specific regulations should be put on Wall Street groups to prevent the crises of the recent past from repeating (Glass-Steagal? Financial Transaction Tax?)

The way a live chat works: you participate by asking the candidate a question. It is moderated. This is not specific to one Patch, it is across the region. If you want to ask a question, come back during the hours noted in the article, and pose a question.

I wonder why Pocahontas Warren ducked a group of Cherokee women who wanted to meet with her? She hid behind closed doors peeking out the windows.

Democrats,

no ethics
no morality
no problem

Democrats will support any ethically-challenged candidate, translation, any liar, so long as Big Government is advanced,

@ UglyHat -Framingham Patch has a policy of using your real name on your account. It is intended to create an environment where neighbors treat each other with respect because you know who you are talking to. It's much easier to be nasty hiding behind an alias. In general that is why you find actual discussions on Patch as opposed to the constant flaming on MWDN.

My question is about Elizabeth Warren's work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What were the biggest challenges you faced? What do you see that has come from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

Massachusetts would be foolish not to re-elect Scott Brown in November.
Scott Brown has never voted for a tax increase. Elizabeth Warren wants to repeal the Bush tax cuts and increase Social Security taxes. Scott Brown has voted to repeal Obamacare. Elizabeth Warren supports Obamacare and wants to go to a single-payer system, which will ruin our health care system. Scott Brown supports the Keystone Pipeline, which will be good for our energy needs and create good paying jobs. Elizabeth Warren opposes the Keystone Pipeline. Scott Brown supports SECURE Communities to protect us against criminal illegal immigrants, such as the one who ran over and killed Matthew Denice last August in Milford. Elizabeth Warren opposes the Secure Communities Act.
I think the choice is clear; you decide.

I find it interesting that even Professor Warrens supporters refuse to address the Native American issue. And to be clear, the issue is NOT whether or not she is part NA. The issue is did she falsely take advantage of the system by claiming she was entitled to special consideration. We _know_ she made the claim, what we still don't know is if she was entitled to do so. And her consistent lack of candor regarding the subject is not helping her cause

Im still waiting for someone to explain how she reconciles her outrageous salary and benefits at Harvard with her claim that she believes higher education should be more affordable.

OK, Dems....let's go back to your war hero, John Kerry. Why did he catch an ethical smackdown when he attempted to run??

He lied about his military record(he embellished what he did). So how is this different? Lizzie is embellishing who she is. If anything, she is sending a poor message to the young women of MA and America. "It's not enough to be an intelligent and successful woman, you have to lie about who you are, and to have an extra twist to being a woman."

She brought this upon herself. She should have left her "ethnicity" out of her rise to prominence at Harvard. She herself didn't allow people to judge her on her own merits.....she wanted to be known as a native american woman.

If we can't trust her about who she is, how can we trust her on ANY issue? This is absolutely an important cornerstone of her campaign.

My biggest concern is her backing. Is Geroge Soros or anyone from Hollywood contributing to her campaign? She seem to have a lot more money that Scott Brown.
She being in Congress will just hasten us down the road to a Socialist, Marxist governmen as Obummer is doing now.

David, you continue to evade my questions (very similar to the Professor!).

The issue is did she falsely take advantage of the system by claiming she was entitled to special consideration. We _know_ she made the claim, what we still don't know is if she was entitled to do so. And her consistent lack of candor regarding the subject is not helping her cause

Im still waiting for someone to explain how she reconciles her outrageous salary and benefits at Harvard with her claim that she believes higher education should be more affordable.

@Davis Nolta.

Nokay, (haha), John Kerry embellished his record. I do not deny he served, nor do I deny he served honorably. It has been established that he took a little bit of creative license about where he served and what he did. He did not have the evidence to back his claims. So how is that being smeared? If I tell you that I am the crown prince of Zamunda, that doesn't necessarily make it so.

Or, in a more realistic scenario, I served 12 years in the US Navy. If I told you I was an Admiral in charge of an aircraft carrier group during that time, would you believe me, simply because I was in the Navy, I can "speak the lingo", and I said I was an Admiral? Or would you demand proof?

If you cannot be honest about something as simple as WHO YOU ARE, how can you expect anyone to trust you?

While I do dislike her...it is for this exact reason. I won't hide it. I think anyone who is overlooking this blatant deception she is pulling is naive.

What's her agenda? Seriously? What's in this for her? If she could be dishonest about who she is, to the point that she's plagiarizing recipes and landing cushy Harvard professorships, where does it stop? She's already collecting millions from her white guilt-infused followers. She refuses to sit down with "her people". Why won't she meet with the Cherokee? I bet if a group of white guys wanted to have a sit down with Scott Brown and he ducked it, you'd have some not so nice things to say about him....

I have a question. Will she be given the same access as Scott Brown to daily secret meetings with Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers and Heads of State?

Those daily secret meeting must be critical to running the government, and I suspect that only most trustworthy people are getting the invitations. They must be important, since Senator Brown has mentioned his attendance at them on so many occasions.

Chris--you don't agree that calling John Kerry, a decorated war hero, "Hanoi John" in the House of Representatives, was part of a smear? And that was the tip of the iceberg. And Kerry had neither the need nor the incentive to embellish anything. (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Kerry/Attacks_on_Vietnam_service) None of which has much to do with Elizabeth Warren. With regard to her, whom I admire from her work to protect consumers against lending and credit card corporations, I would agree with you that if she deliberately lied, that would be a serious problem for her. But as I've already said, I haven't seen any proof that she deliberately lied. And in the end, I'm afraid that her "heritage" is less important to me--I don't at all agree that who your ancestors are IS who you are. And I like Scott Brown--but I don't think he is as smart as Elizabeth Warren, and I don't think he cares as much as Warren when it comes to protecting the shrinking, working, middle classes of Americans.

And if you tell me that you are the crown Prince of Zamunda, I will at least grant you the courtesy of believing that you might well believe you are...

David, the ball is neither of our courts! It is in Professor Warren's court. And she continues to evade the question. If she had a good answer, don't you believe she would have presented it? She knows that she cannot justify her actions and is hoping that that it will go away.

Her hypocrisy regarding the cost of higher education (and its direct relationship to her salary) is also an albatross she has to carry. As this campaign season continues to unfold, so will the wrappings of Professor Warren.

@David, I find it funny that you don't question her integrity knowing that she stated she is Native American, while also knowing she refused to meet with members of the Cherokee tribe that came to Massachusetts to question her on her claims of ancestry. These are questions I want to know the answers to. She was already in one marginalized group being a female, so that was already to her advantage, to add the Native American only gave her a virtual slam dunk to getting a job, qualified or not.

Hmmm, if the vote is anything like the Patriotic voices being spoken here Brown will be re elected. I don't think Lizzie will get a job as a lawyer for any of the new casinos.

Another reason this nut must be stopped.
http://www.bostonherald.com//news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1061146849&utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SECTION_news_DATE_07-19-2012--07.04

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Hmmm Mark:

"Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in." Island by Adolphus Huxley

Instead of slugging down the Fox News Kool-Aide, why not read the entire statement?

"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."