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Wow: Warren Now Says She Self-Identified as Native American to...Make Friends

searcherseeker Wrote: May 03, 2012 5:59 PM
Perhaps if there were a question which asked: Are you a: Socialist Marxist Communist Statist Check one please. She would have gone to more luncheons and group somethings. As Mark Twain once remarked, "Always tell the truth. Then, you don't have to remember as much."
NW-Res Wrote: May 03, 2012 6:28 PM
Joe, you're killing me LOL. This also applies to Warren: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

A surreal update to my item from yesterday, which posed two questions about the curious case of Elizabeth Warren, alleged "Native American."  The first: If Warren never, ever, ever would have exploited her possible heritage for career advancement, why did Warren classify herself as a Native American in 1986?  The second: Why did she remove that label nine years later -- after she'd achieved tenure at Harvard?  Yesterday evening, the candidate answered both curiosities.  I swear I am not making this up:
 

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might...

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