HOW JUICY – AT 10:31 A.M. ET: Joe Biden met with Elizabeth Warren last week. We don't know if Joe was aware of Liz's past statements about him. From The Hill:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote scathingly of Vice President Biden while she was on the faculty of Harvard Law School, mocking his White House ambitions while slamming his support for a bankruptcy bill that she said “hurts women.”
“With his presidential aspirations growing, Senator Biden must be delighted ... with the halo effect that suggests that he is one public official politically active women can trust,” Warren wrote in a 2002 Harvard Women’s Law Journal article.
Biden recently met with Warren — seen by many as wielding a powerful endorsement in the Democratic primary race — as he considers launching a presidential campaign.
Warren, who was elected to the Senate in 2012, has become a leading voice for the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. In 2002, years before her political career began, she criticized then-Sen. Biden (Del.) as siding with big credit card companies over working-class women in the debate on bankruptcy reform.
“The group that will be most affected by the changes in the bankruptcy legislation Senator Biden so forcefully supports will be women, particularly women heads of household who are supporting children,” Warren wrote.
“Not a single women’s group that has spoken publicly about the bankruptcy bill agrees with him, but his public position as a champion of women seems untarnished,” she continued.
The International Business Times first reported on Warren’s criticism of Biden in the law journal.
Warren also questioned at the time whether Biden believed women were financially literate enough to understand what was in their interest.
COMMENT: Those words will come back to haunt if Biden and Warren are on the same ticket, which is possible. I'm surprised this didn't come out sooner. Warren is to the left of Biden, which could cause serious friction. The left is not tolerant, or flexible.
September 1, 2015 |