THE GUARDIAN: …Just as they were officially launching Ready For Warren, a grassroots group trying to lay the groundwork “for a leader who’s fighting on our side for a change”, it was disclosed that Clinton would receive $200,000 to stand in for former president George W Bush and address a conference of financial services executives in Boston next week…
Warren devotees have other reasons not to get too carried away. Several polls indicate that Clinton has a broad base of support among Democrats. A Pew survey earlier this year found 87% of liberal Democrats saying they wanted Clinton to run for president, while 83% said it was likely they would vote for her. The senator herself appears, for now at least, genuinely unwilling. “Please sit down, please sit down,” she told those shouting “Run, Liz, run”. Any time the question of a White House bid is raised, Warren, a former lawyer and Harvard University9 professor, repeats the same mantra: “I am not running for president.”
Yet her stubborn refusal to deviate from the present tense has opened a crack in a door that Warren supporters on Friday seemed ready to shove off its hinges. Van Jones, a Democratic activist and former White House environmental adviser – who has said of Clinton “I think she’s blowing it” – compared what Warren inspires among the Netroots faithful to “Beatlemania”… (more)
