Mitt Romney’s (r) privilege gets dissected in thirty seconds by Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D):
Starting at 4:13 in the video:
…Lawrence O’Donnell: Do you understand the income category that Mitt Romney is in?
Elizabeth Warren (D): Yeah, actually, I think I do understand it. And that is that Mitt Romney pays fourteen percent of his income in taxes. And people who get out there and work for a living pay twenty-five, twenty-eight, thirty, thirty-three percent. I get it. Mitt Romney gets a better deal than any of the rest of us because he manages to earn his income in a way that has been specially protected for rich folks. I think that’s wrong….
Are you paying attention, Claire?
Claire, you were very, very good confronting the Tea Partiers in 2010.
Now, it is time you learn how to frame the central issue in 2012.
Please, Claire, go to Massachusetts (or at least get a collection of tapes) and watch Elizabeth Warren talk about income inequality. And, Claire, you are not …. oh horrors!… a Harvard professor.
With Rex Sinquefield prominence, you can use him as the target. And, don’t forget it is OK to use your good fortune (see how Obama refers to himse1f) in why the 1% need to pay more.
Claire, we know you know this. It will really energize the base.