Senator Warren (aka Lie-awatha) not running for POTUS

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

I'm not convinced she's lied and I don't believe you could prove it if you had to.

A lot of people have Native American ancestry and aren't official tribal members. To become a member of the Cherokee Tribe (as Warren claimed) I had to show evidence tracing my bloodline back to the original Dawes Rolls. Doing so doesn't get you a lot beyond tribal voting rights as the Cherokee don't have a minimum blood threshold...Both my kids are in process right now, it's not a quick thing. She appears to have believed she had Native American blood and other family members have said the same thing. If she genuinely believed this -- regardless if it's right or wrong -- how can you say she lied?

Why this would compel her to indicate minority status on a school directory I don't know, perhaps she just thought it was a neat thing and wanted to express it. More importantly though, from everything I've ever read she never gained any benefit from doing so and she was highly qualified for every position she achieved.

Remember the big reason this story was floated in the first place was because Scott Brown couldn't match her on the issues...it was all he had.

-spence

"I'm not convinced she's lied "

Shocker. Somehow, you aren't convinced that Hilary lied about the sniper attack, despit the video footage of what actuallyhappened. To you, no prominent politician with a (D) after their name can be a liar.

"She appears to have believed she had Native American blood "

How could you POSSIBLY know what she actually believed? How coudl you know that she didn't just check that box to get the job she wanted?

Using your "logic", I can say that Gov Christie's people really thought they were conducting a traffic study when they snarled traffic on the bridge.

"she was highly qualified for every position she achieved. "

So was justice Bork. In the real world, poitical considerations sometime mean a great deal. Is that news to you?

[spence]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

How could you POSSIBLY know what she actually believed? How coudl you know that she didn't just check that box to get the job she wanted?

Well, that's what she said. As I indicated, I don't see any evidence she checked a box to get any job nor did she receive any special favors.

So was justice Bork. In the real world, poitical considerations sometime mean a great deal. Is that news to you?

Irrelevant.

-spence

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Well, that's what she said. As I indicated, I don't see any evidence she checked a box to get any job nor did she receive any special favors.


Irrelevant.

-spence

"Well, that's what she said"

Oh, well, in that case.... So since she didn't admit to lying, you assume she is not lying. May we all assume, therefore, that you don't think for a minute that Christie had anything to do with the traffic snarls? Similarly, you believe that O.J. is innocent?

That's what liars do, Spence. They say things that they know to be false.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

"Well, that's what she said"

Oh, well, in that case.... So since she didn't admit to lying, you assume she is not lying. May we all assume, therefore, that you don't think for a minute that Christie had anything to do with the traffic snarls? Similarly, you believe that O.J. is innocent?

That's what liars do, Spence. They say things that they know to be false.

You have no evidence she knew it was false.

You also have no evidence she used it for any material gain.

-spence

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

You have no evidence she knew it was false.

You also have no evidence she used it for any material gain.

-spence

"You have no evidence she knew it was false."

No? Let's re-cap...

When she taught at the University of TX, she listed herself as white. Then after she was in the Ivy League, a reporter asked her why the school listed her as Native American. She claimed to have no idea why the school listed her that way. When she was showed her application, where she listed herself a Native American, she changed her tune and said "oh that's right, I did tell them that."

Ha she provided any proof of her claim? The Globe had reported on the existence of a marriage license by her great-great grandmother, then issued a retraction.

Maybe she's actually a chameleon, white one day, Native American the next?

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/10880/

[scottw]

this is hysterical isn't it?

...Chief Little Big Mouth defending Liawatha the Crooked Squaw