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Really? This shit again? When your candidate has pretended to be no less than 2 other people so he could talk about his sex life openly? [/quote]

Not defending Trump.  Cannot stand him.  But, Warren has baggage, as well.  She talks about income inequality--but look at her own background.  She talks about the corrupt banks--but she made money off of foreclosed homes.  She talks about the cost of college, but look at what she made at Harvard--for teaching very few classes.  She talks about giving everyone a fair shake--yet she claimed minority status.  (Look at Harvard law faculty--I went through three or four pages of them, and they ALL had been to Ivy schools.  Yet, Warren did not.  Odd.  She was hired there about a year after she was identified as Native American.)  She's a poseur.  Yes, she is entertaining, bright, and personable.  And a FRAUD.

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Nice story bro.  Charles Fried, the staunch conservative who hired her to HLS says you're wrong.  And as someone who was taught by her, I can say she was one of the best profs there.   [/quote]

Let me just add that Warren was considered a rising star in academic circles while before she showed any political aspirations. If you think she wasn't a successful scholar and didn't warrant her place on Harvard's faculty, you just don't like her. You've dead wrong on the facts.[/quote]

She was considered an academic star unril a lot of her research was exposed as being weak.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/07/considering-elizabeth-warren-the-scholar/60211/

To me, Warren really exposes herself as an unsophisticated talking head when she riffs on student loans. She generally likes to claim that student loan borrowers shouldn't be paying higher interest rates than the Fed Funds rate, which completely ignores (a) the different credit risks for the different class of borrowers and (b) that lower student loan interest rates would actually implode the federal student loan programs because the program clearly depends on interest revenue for future sources of lending. Either she is being completely disingenuous or she is making basic mistakes that no alleged superstar in the area of bankruptcy law should be making.

My read is that because her populist streak resonates so well on campus, the academy holds her up as an alleged superstar. Ironically, the same people that tell us that diversity is important so that group think doesn't set in seem to overlook the fact that the academy is one of the least viewpoint diverse professional areas AND the members of the academy are the gatekeepers to the ivory tower.

Can't speak to her as an in classroom lecturer, but as someone who read her casebook cover to cover and practices in a related area of law, I do not find her to be particularly insightful in either the academic context or an application context. In fact, I seem to recall a few years back she was part of that loose coalition in the field of bankruptcy that was agitating for reform of the BK code to make it less friendly for secured creditors and more friendly to certain classes of unsecured creditors (like hourly labor and retirees).

Trump is absolutely a fraud, but so is Warren. Whether you see one of the two or both as a fraud is almost 100% determined by your political affiliation. 
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