Brown knocked it out of the park. Well done, appealing the rank and file. He is one of us; this carpetbagger from Oklahoma has nothing in common with anyone around here; Scott makes us all proud in DC and represents us well. He has earned and deserves your vote.

Debates are where you get to know the candidates, I wish Representative Ross would agree to more debates than only one with Paul Heroux.

Mr. Ragman,
Areyou paid by the word or sentence? Gimme a break!

Great job by our U.S Senator Scott Brown in his debate with Elizabeth Warren. His views and his actions in the Senate are reasons that he deserves to be re-elected. Senator Brown showed in his debate that he will continue to fight for business owners and workers alike by not voting to raise taxes and spend like a drunken sailor. He understands the need for real private sector job growth, not shovel ready construction jobs and government jobs. Elizabeth Warren showed me that she's a liberal left looney who will vote to raise taxes and vote for out of control spending, just like the rest liberal lefties in Washington.

We don't need another PHONEY in Washington, I'm voting for SCOTT BROWN.

Sarek: Did you even watch the debate? Professor Warren appeared weak. Her biggest problem was she used all her "good stuff" in her attack ads. She brought nothing new. Critics knocked Brown's ads for being to syrupy. But he saved his "good stuff" for this debate when he could face Warren mano a mano. Good strategy, IMO.
I think this is the first debate. Maybe Warren will get it together for the next one. It is highly unlikely these debates will change peoples minds IMO, Brown did a far better job appealing to the undecided. Warren appealed to her base, who will vote for her no matter what. Not good, IMO.

What befuddles me more than why people would actually vote for Pocahontas , is why the Liberal Democrats don't see that we have a severe spending problem opposed to a revenue problem. I did build what I have, and I would like the Gvm't to keep their grubby mits off my stuff unless they can be accountable for their wreckless spending. How much of every dollar I earn should I be allowed to keep?

Is anyone else disappointed with the Patch's focus on politics and national/statewide issues rather than events and issues specific to our local communities? There are so many forums on line for people to vent (often rudely) about their favorite or least favorite candidate. I thought the purpose of the Patch was to help bring communities together with a focus on local issues.

Didn't Brown co sponsor a bill that gives employers and health insurer's the right to deny anything they deem "against their conscious"? That's a loophole big enough to drive a tank through. Very shady to me. Why didn't he brag about how big of a loop hole that is instead of boast about his truck and folding laundry?

@Amy - your comments are so comical this morning. Didn't you know that Nancy Pelosi told you not to read the healthcare bill, "just pass it, and read what's in it later." Tell me, is that the advice they give new homeowners out in California too when they go to sign their mortgages, "just sign it, read what's in it later." No wonder California is having a difficult time, if that's the advice the left leaning democrats hand out. Watch the video clips online, it's all in there. The floor of the house too.

Did you notice that two of the democrats from Massachusetts ran off to get hip replacements, just prior to the healthcare bill/obamacare/obamatax/pelosi-tax. You can sure bet those two were reading the fine print of what was in the healthcare bill, but for the rest of you....(don't read it, just pass it).........oops-a-daisy....surprise, surprise.

Nancy Pelosi on healthcare video....@Amy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQvCpNx1O0

Brown = $Banks$

Vote for him and you are really voting against reform of our stilted economic system that let's the wealthy get the most public welfare while pointing the finger at the poor.

Theres a reason he has gotten so much outside money. It smells.

Terry, have you ever been hired by a poor person? And what is wrong with working hard and making money? I'm sure Pocahontas has no funding outside of her reservation.

Gee what do you call the MSM???they have been in the tank for the Messiah since day one!

when you use name calling language like "Pocahontas" you are conceding that Scott Brown doesn't have any positive arguments on his side. You represent him poorly by degrading this discussion. Here and in the Sun Chronicle I've seen Elizabeth Warren called 'tin lizzie' and 'indian princess,' etc. You think you're so smart, I suppose, but it's racism, pure and simple. It's the same racism that Scott Brown used when he said, "look at her, she doesn't look indian." What ignorance!

Brown seems to know nothing about science -- and nothing about genetics and it's role in medicine and law in the 21st Century. That omission alone says he's not right for Massachusetts.

We in this state are proud of our medical, research, educational, and scientific institutions. We're proud to educate our children, if we can afford it. Massachusetts derives great monies from these facilities. If Brown can't understand a simple thing like how genetics work, that you don't always look like your ancestors, then he should go back to school and not tear down an educator.

Terry, EW is the one that called herself a Native American. I certainly didn't. Please define progressive taxation? I may be wrong becasue I'm not a progressive but that sounds like continued taxation until you have nothing left to give. I just don't understand what happend to taking personal responsibility and not expecting everyone else to pay your way. I understand people need help in the short term and I'm all for it. But to become the norm and not have any reason to get up and go to work is not living a productive life.

Gretchen: I know, we're all racists, homophobes bla bla.

I was also talking about ignorance....Scott Brown is ignorant, in the senses of that word: willfully refuses to learn what he needs to know in order to speak and represent his arguments well. He sees a white person and assumes she's lying. There are genetic explanations and he neglected to inform himself.

And he's ignorant in his snarky way of talking to and about her. There's a put down in everything he says about her. That is ignorant behavior. I expect better from a candidate than I've seen from Scott Brown. He's as hollow as Romney and Bielat.

your opinion. But what you say is invalid. She did not benefit. Meanwhile Brown is NOT discussing his ties to the purified Republicans (moderates purged) and their extremist agenda for the nation. No birth control, no public education only private religious (Christian) schools, no medical care for the masses. Nothing but tax breaks for the bankers, CEOs, corporations, ones, to Koch brothers, Adelman, Murdoch, etc. etc. You're on the wrong side.

Furthermore your name "yerkillinme" displays a kind of victimhood. No one is killing you. Taxes aren't killing you. Taxes are the price we pay for this civilization, which is made less civil when adult human beings still name call in a forum like this. Please look in the mirror.

Mr. Ragman: I am married to the same man and are to celebrate our 48th anniversary. I raised a son with a wife and two children. Neither would make that charge, nor the thousands of people I ministered to when I was a chaplain for a hospice. How dare you!! You are as ignorant as Brown with his racist comments.

Romney doesn't know who he is. He only knows how to run for president. Now, when he's supposed to display his ability to lead, he's failing. There is no there there. Brown, too, spent his time in the senate running for re-election, raising money for other Republican and the party. He could have prepared himself for a career as a Senator and statesman, worthy of the title "senator." He didn't. Now he's running scared.

I didn't see much in the way of critical thinking skills in Scott Brown's attacks. All the problems this nation faces and he starts the first debate attacking his opponent over something of no consequence. Look up Higher Order Thinking Skills.
Then look up Gov. Rick Perry. In TX, schools/teachers can't teach critical thinking skills. There's another gag rule. Keep 'em poor and poorly taught, and then you own them--guess that's the Republican way.

Well, that won't work in MA. We think before we open our mouths. Esp. in debates.

hey, even Romney's dad was on welfare.....
btw his mother was a skeptic and free thinker
she'd be rolling in her grave seeing Romney now--he's not even
practicing Mormon beliefs. She has to be baptized after
her death because she stoutly refused all her life.

Check the internet for a highly placed
Mormon who says Mormonism exists to care for the poor
until can stand on their own.

people want 'a hand helping them up--- not a 'hand-out

LOL. I will find the citation. No, the pope is Catholic. But many Catholics I've met who grew up in the 1930-50s often said, 'we're not Christian, we're Catholic' and tell me "We never read the Bible." I'm not trying to slam Christians, or Catholics, or Mormons for that matter. Only trying to highlight Mormon principle tenets, one of which, I believe, is charity for "the widow, the orphan, and the stranger."

here it is from Huffington Post. http://mormonsforobama.org/2012/09/20/dr-gregory-prince-mitt-romney-is-not-the-face-of-mormonism/
Also an interview with this man of sincere faith (IMO) on Lawrence O'Donnell's "Lean Forward" his "The Last Word" with a picture of Prince on the right hand side.
http://thelastword.msnbc.com/
By the way, if memory serves, O'Donnell is a practicing Catholic. I heard that when he spoke with a spokes-nun from the Nuns on a Bus tour.

for everyone's information, there are evangelical conservatives who work against the Church of Greed and Selfish Interest. Jim Wallis is one of them. He has a magazine called Sojourners. (He spoke at my husband's graduation from Andover Newton). Wallis has all the conservative social positions but wants Christians to care for the poor and "the poor at heart." I offer this since former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, though Catholic, was often assumed to be an evangelical because of his rhetoric.
http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/09/19/ethical-opportunity-video

hi Deb. nobody's perfect. But for Romney to castigate the 4% is to go against the core tenet of his church. Look up Mormonism. Giving $$$ is fine. He has a lot to give. To whom much is given, much is expected. But which is his church and his faith, manmade political systems or God as he personally understands God. Every hear of the eye of the needle? Or social capital. People are our social capital and they are more important than any system, libertarianism, Republicanism, Democratic-ism. What are we here for? to serve, right? Jim Wallis gets that even though he's anti-abortion. I can make common cause with him. Gregory Prince sounded eminently reasonable. I'd like to sit down and talk to him. I bet he does a lot of interfaith work.

Well Gretchen, there's what, 6, 7 billion or so of what you call "social capital" on the planet.
How many are you willing to take care of ?

Gretchen: I wish you would stop using religion, any religion, to forward your agenda. I am beginning to be embarrassed for you.

I had not heard the term "social capital". So I googled it. Do I feel any more enlightened? No. However, I have heard of the concept of "human capital". As human capital, "we the people" are not valued. We are only valued in as much as we benefit the political class, which includes academia.

I voted for Scott Brown two years ago, fell for the "barn coat-pickup truck driving everyday man" image like the rest of us. Sadly, he became one of "them" and now has become a candidate for pandering. He wants votes in the north shore so he tells them he wants to deregulate commercial fishing, in a zone where 13 out of 29 species have now been placed on the endangered list. He goes around to small business warning them about added taxes and how they would have to leave the state to save their jobs. But does not mention that the taxes are a federal tax, and they would have to pay them anywhere they go. His "bi-partisanship" in his first year resulted in voting for a democratic sponsored bill 2 times out of 16. And this year where "I can reach across the isle" became the buzz phrase he voted with Dem's 13 times out of 54(as of a month ago). His "I wrote a bill to stop insider trading" is only a partial truth, he did, but the one that got passed was by another senator that yes, did include some ideas from Browns bill.
I do not know enough about Warren, mostly because I am so caught up in the Stoughton Patch, but the fact that she has created the consumer protection agency tends to show me her heart is in the right place where a senators should be, looking out for us. Not only is the playing field not level, but it makes me nervous that the millionaires in congress get to write the laws that protect them, and not us.

Bob: Speak for yourself. I did not vote for Scott Brown because he was "barn coat-pickup driving everyday man". So I am not like you.
He served in Wrentham. He served on Beacon Hill. He serves in the military and he now serves in the Senate. He has a record. Like it or not, he earned it. Did she?

I love the way republicans serve in the military. George Bush relaxing in Texas National guard during Vietnam; Cheney and his multiple deferments, Romney in Paris during Vietnam and Scott Brown , who has been in the National Guard for more than thirty years conveniently missing the Iraq war and the longest war in history in Afghanistan. Yet, the Republicans are concerned about Warren possibly taking a position from a minority. How many young Americans have been maimed or have died in the place of these privileged few?

You forgot to mention Bill Clinton and Barack Obama who didn't even have the guts to join the National Guard. How many young Americans have been maimed or have died in the place of these privileged two?

Dude, Bush senior was the youngest pilot in the Navy in WW2, Bush 2nd was an F-4 Phantom pilot, Reagan was in, Romney, Brown, all were in. Cheney has had about 14 heart attacks, not a great canidate at any time.
Your hero Clinton hated the military and was a draft dodger, mental case Gore was a reporter, and B. Hussein Obama, was snorting lines and smoking dope, this was before becoming the least qualified Pres in American history. But I don't have to tell that, he's done such a bang up job of trying to bankrupt my country.

Bankruptcy Law is also taught at Harvard University, small world.

Taught by Elizabeth Warren. Isn't that the course she teaches for $300,000 a year?

She is soo atuned to the plight of the ordinary student. I wonder if she realizes how foolish she sounds?

Pocahontas surrounds herself with like minded people. Has no clue what it's like to work for a living. Her ads say she fights banks and businesses. (I don't know why she has a need to fight with them), anyway, you can see how this will create jobs? The only big business she seems to like is Planned Parenthood.

Shame on all you ladies that don't vote for Liz. Is Scott Brown really that cute? You girls are the same complainers that will cry, 'not enough women in politics'.

@Frank... The reason I ever went googling was because I wondered why a 63-year old woman with a prestigious job, all the money she could ever need (certainly more than most residents of Massachusetts), a decent family life with a husband and grown children would want to become a Senator. And lo and behold, there it was: Elizabeth Warren for president in 2016.

Around 1995, she took a job in Massachusetts and changed her party affiliation. That's okay, people do that, she might have wanted to fit in with the crowd. Running for Senator probably didn't occur to her until after Martha Coakley lost the bid.

Bottom line of all this is that a person with an eye on the presidency might not make a dedicated Senator. It's a little reminiscent of what Obama did... Senator, vote 'present' here and there, run for president, get the job, and depending on where you stand, make a mess of the job.

Typical Dem. that will lie and say anything to get elected.
Lieawatha rails against Brown for his supposed support of tax breaks for the oil Industry. (Tax breaks that by the way are given to many differant company's) Yet Lieawatha is employed by an institution, Harvard, that pays no taxes. Their endowment is currently valued at over 32 billion dollars. Where's the difference?
Lizzy seems so concerned about the cost of higher education, almost coming to fake tears when thinking about how students are getting hammered with high tuition. Yet she has no problem taking $360,000+ to teach one coarse. She is directly contributating to the problem she's so against.
The fake Indian lies on her resume. Takes a job away from a minority. Stops checking the Native American box when she gets tenure. Becomes the very first woman of color at Harvard???? I guess white is a color!

@Frank... "...his re-election is one step towards making Mitch McConnell as Majority leader."

To me, that's an odd argument. In my eyes, McConnell is no worse than Reid. The thing is the Democrats want to control it all, kind of like Massachusetts where Democrats set the agenda. The first two years of Obama's administration saw full Democratic control with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi spending money like only liberals can.

Actually, I'd kind of welcome Mitch McConnell as would all the other Republicans and scores of Independents.

@Emcee, your response is coherent and consistent with your prior posts. Thanks for that. However, Scott Brown’s position seems to be that we should vote for him because he is moderate and has a willingness to be bipartisan. He won’t have any opportunity to express those traits with a Republican Senate - unless he plans to buck his party when it really counts. I’m sorry, I don’t count voting for things you should vote for, e.g. legislation to address violence against women, as counting towards “bipartisanship”.
Anway, I think you’re on more solid ground with this line of argument than with the Warren for President 22-year gestation conspiracy theory...

@Andrew... It appears that Warren is not licensed to practice law in Massachusetts, even though she has.

"According to Professor Jacobson, Elizabeth Warren engaged in the practice of law while in Massachusetts, primarily through the writing and filing of briefs, even though she lacked a Massachusetts law license. One of her most notable cases involved representing The Travelers Insurance Company in asbestos-related litigation, for which she was paid $212,000."

Professor Jacobson is "a clinical professor of law and director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School".

We'll see how she squirms out of this one.

And the fake Indian doesn't have to pay the fee for a lawyers licenses. Another way the 1% are screwing us all.

hate! hate!
every time people dismiss Elizabeth Warren, they make Brown look worse.
you folks wouldn't know a fact if it bit you. Time for reason and critical thinking.
Not Faux Gnus, Tea Party propaganda. Think it through, will you. You are
being jerked around by the Right.

Interesting that Warren's three brothers grew up with the same knowledge and belief as she did, that they had indian in their ancestry. Their first cousins also hear these stories. Not a single individual could corroborate Brown's accusations, not even his wife. Many of his claims were even denied by family members who took him in and lived with him. He may "appear" more genuine as one poster noted, but his stories and claims are far more ridiculous then Warren's having an undocumented indian relative from Oklahoma indian territory.

Gretchen, to comment on a former post. The main reason I'm not voting for Pocahontas was her ad saying no one got rich on thier own because we drive on roads that taxpayers paid for, or something. That may be true for her and her Harvard cronies. Not in the real world where people work hard and are proud of thier accomplishments.

@Emcee of Seekonk - so many good points you have brought up here, too many to list. Yes, the continued agenda from the democrats, and it's never been more obvious. Just walk the halls of Harvard University, the trail of bread crumbs is there for everyone to see. Thanks for bringing up so many of your points above.

A suggestion, look beyond the vote in the election for 2012, beyond even 2016, and then past 2020. Catch a glimpse of the recently held RNC with Mia Love and Marco Rubio.

Avon-I paid for it. Again I'll ask the question. What percentage of my pay can I keep? No one seems to be able to answer that.

Marco Rubio= Theocracy. He could scarcely utter a sentence without invoking God. The public doesn't want an Evangelist in Chief. And polls are showing voters saying there's too much talk of religion in politics.

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists. --Mohandas Gandhi

@Gretchen: Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Certainly not you.

Marco Rubio a theocracy? Just because he's Spanish? That's a leap.

And I'm guessing that Romney's legal address is where he votes. In Massachusetts. That was an easy one.

Romney's hidden tax returns are property of the US Government, IRS department. If those guys are happy with them, who are we to question it. Romney is a wealthy man... Warren is a wealthy woman... Kennedy is a wealthy scion. Biden is a millionaire ten times over. So what's your problem with wealth. Democrats are well represented in the 1%.

no, it's Republicans. They have been co-opted by the religious Right, or is it the Right has coopted the ultraconservatives who run the party. I'm not saying Republicans are all bad or wrong just "Blinded by The Right." David Brock the author of that book woke up and saw what was happening to the nation he and I love.

EmCee and the rest of the haters here.
Do the words "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty" sound familiar. Brock wrote them as a high-up Republican operative. He participated in putting out many a smear against Democrats. He wrote a nasty book castigating Anita Hill defaming her in the 1990s and defending clown Clarence Thomas.
Then he grew disgusted with Republican tactics and went toward the party of light and reason (LOL). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock

So when you rebarbative types are railing against Elizabeth Warren with your sexist and racist smears, remember those names and the misogyny and racism and hatred and fear behind are ancient and have been used for hundreds of years.
They come readily to mind when someone's hatred of an opposing candidate rises too high. It's vile to call Elizabeth Warren names like some of you have put into print here. Ah but it says in the bible 'by their fruit ye shall know them.' Just so.

Avon, does it matter to you what heritage someone lies about? why would it be different if they were Black American?

Sorry Avon , you're correct. I don't always know what your talking about. Anyway. It has been a pleasure talking to all. Have a wonderful evening.

some of the posters used hate speech against Elizabeth Warren. Those who do --demean the whole election process. They take what might otherwise be a fair minded discussion to ever lower lows.

Funny how Scott Brown is trying to convince voters that Elizabeth Warren is not Native American! And that she got advancement because she 'checked the box.'
Well she is 1/16 Native American. And No, there's no proof that she got ahead by saying so.

Meanwhile you folks here, some of you, are doing the opposite: trying to convince yourselves and each other that she IS Native American complete with hoary old hate speech going back to when the Whites committed genocide, persecuted, and stole Native American lands. (That's not victimhood, that's factual history).

I wish you folks would get your stories straight...

My heritage includes some Native American heritage. My grandmonther was full blooded Senca. That would make me about 1/4 Senca. I find it ignorant of Scott Brown to stand up in a debate and say "and, um, you know cleary she's not." when referring to Mrs. Warren's heritage and weather or not she "looks" Native American. I give him the benfit of the doubt by saying "ignorant" because otherwise it would be flat out racism.

Sean, did you get ahead for your Native American heritage? I bet not. Most people are proud of their heritage. I think Scott Brown is following the republican playbook which says attack, attack, attack!!

Never mind the issues voters want to hear about from the candidates' mouths. Why else did he lead off the first debate with this non-issue? Why else did he follow up with a TV ad? It's all he/the Republicans know how to do these days. Say whatever it takes to win an election. Romney/Ryan/Brown/Bielat. Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee--times two!!

Avon and Gretchen: You are fighting the good fight. I'm not sure it is worth it, but I wanted to let you know that at least some of us are silently cheering you on....

Gretchen,
Elizabeth Warren's heritage is an issue, if she claimed to be Native American just to get into Harvard and the proof is she is not Native American, she is white. This becomes a character issue, not a heritage issue. Elizabeth Warren lied about being Native American, just to get scholarships to Harvard and get ahead, I have a problem with that. Just like Obama, he has lied about not being muslim and there are also questions as to where President Obama was actually born. Elizabeth Warren can't be trusted just like our President. Scott Brown is a man who can be trusted.

Mr. Lunt, Elizabeth Warren teaches at Harvard - she never went to Harvard. No one has claimed she used Native American status to get into Harvard BECAUSE SHE NEVER WENT THERE!!!! But why bother to support your opinions with facts?

It's quite common to meet caucasion people in Oklahoma and Texas who proudly mention their Native American roots regardless of how fractional it might be. They are also quick to say that not long ago one would not mention this because of prevailing prejudice. Although not as common here in New England, I've met many who have proudly claimed to have "Indian" roots.

Defense contractors, academia and government agencies are always under pressure to increase divirsity by complying with Afirmative Action programs. The pressure comes from the threat of withholding funds (research, contracts, etc.). I've known of employees who have volunteered personal minority information after they were hired. And I've also known employers who have taken the liberty to claim minority status of employees who they know to be a member of a minority group. Hispanic is one which is not always identified by physical characteristics or skin color.

I believe Elizabeth Warren's claim was perfectly innocent and was based on ethnic pride within her family's history. Meanwhile, the human resources person at Harvard needed it f his EEO scorecard. Funny thing, it happened within the epicenter of ethnic pride and ethnic chauvanism; New England where people are Irish, Italian, Scottish, etc., but not American.

Heres a shocker to think about. Colin Powell is not condidered a minority person according to EEO and Affirmative Action rules. He's not African American. His family came from Jamaica.

Avon: Good dodge.
OK. I get it. Gretchen injects religion as a "slur", I'm on my own. I inject atheism as a "slur", you see red meat.

Since you are so "happy to smash hypocrisy, inconsistency, and intolerance", you should have a great day. Just find a mirror.

I wish everyone a great day. Even you Avon. God Bless.

Avon Barksdale,

Here is part of a story that I found on FOX News that supports my theory that Elizabeth Warren is not licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.

(Sen. Brown rips Elizabeth Warren over Native...
Elizabeth Warren practice law without a license in... In the latest charge to roil the tense Massachusetts Senate race, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren was accused this week of potentially practicing law in Massachusetts without a license.
Cornell law professor and legal blogger William Jacobsen made the claim on his Legal Insurrection website. He said Warren's legal practice is listed as the Bay State but no records show her having a license to practice law there.
Jacobsen says he found no law license under Warren’s last name or her maiden name, Herring, during an exhaustive search of state records. Jacobsen said he also confirmed with a clerk at the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers that Warren has never applied for a license. Even so, it remains unclear whether Warren has violated any laws. The Warren campaign had not responded to requests to verify whether the candidate has a license in Massachusetts or elsewhere.)

Pocahontas?

I'm a full blooded Hekawi, Chief Wild Eagle was my Great Great Grandfather. I still live by the famous saying that he made, "See squirrel in tree, find happy moose". If more people lived by that saying, this country wouldn't be in the mess it is, and, honest people would be running for office.

WRKO regarding Elizabeth Warren - does she or does she not have a law license? Let's listen in with the link provided:

http://audio.WRKO.com/a/63759190/michael-patrick-leahy-on-granny-warren-s-little-law-license-problem-htm

Howie Karr show with Michael Patrick Leahy interview with Michelle. Listen to the part about "if Harvard University accepted $$$'s, then possible fraud" exists, due to a violation of Mass.Law. Then listen to the part regarding the welfare office.

Check with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.

Harvard University offers Tuition Remission and Tuition Reimbursement, so Elizabeth Warren has no excuse there either.

I guess if you vote for a guy just because he looks good in a magazine , my theory is , I'm voting for Miss Janauary 2010.

Wow. That's a lot of hostility, even for me.

Anyone feel like no matter who they vote for, we lose? I feel like either one we get, we got ourselves a liar. :(

Michael Fredrickson, general counsel for the BBO (Board of Bar Overseers), says he does not believe a law professor would be considered to have "a continuous presence" or "an office practicing law."

"If they actually practice here - as some part-time law professors at some of the smaller schools do - they might," Fredrickson says. "But being a professor at one of the large schools, their office is a professor's office, and the fact that they tend to dabble in the practice of law doesn't run afoul of our rule

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a rightwing family member sent me a screed against both Barak and Michelle Obama as not being lawyers, being kicked out of the profession, on and on, supposedly with proof. He's always sending things that a simple look on Snopes show to be an urban myth.
Watch for wilder and wilder attacks to come as voters take a look at what modern Republicanism has wrought. I'm not anti-republican. I'm anti-zealot and against the present gang of ideologues who push their bizarre notions. And the Billionaires (casino magnate, Adelman; the Koch brothers, etc.) who want to buy the election.

Akins, Romney, Ryan, Brown, Bielat. Not a decent human being in bunch. They will put out any lie in order to win. Going to be a nasty October. Watch for the October Surprise, folks. Keep your crap detector on high.

You know what, Gretchen, I'm beginning to believe you are an internet troll ("a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion."). I don't know why Patch allows you to continue to post as a troll, but I know that I can add you to the list of people to ignore.

Emcee, again, I am baffled by your wild charges, things I never heard about. Where do you get these things!!!?? I suppose your documentation is Faux Gnus or some Tea Party screed. Buffett is giving lots of his billions away to causes that help ameliorate a world of suffering. (Education, healthcare, etc.)

Berkshire Hathaway just bought a local (Attleboro) firm and plans to turn it around. (Unlike Kurt Schilling and his boondoggle. BTW his video company start-up and the resulting debacle could have happened in MA and not RI).

Actually I have said good things about Republicans in the past, Ed Brooke, the State's first African American Senator. I was so proud of him. I even voted for a Republican for Governor (when the Democrats ran John Silber--egad what a nasty tyrant he was! I was at BU at the time)!
I call them as I see them.

I have written this in response to your posts in the past. Guess you don't read them through or bother to remember. But hey, I'm just a woman, easy to discredit (sarcasm)!

Methinks you have a convenient memory....

@deb... "I think your on to something,..."

Just follow her political posts and it becomes evident that it can be nothing other than that. The editor will give her a pass as usual, but I've grown tired of the foolishness.

@Amy... "Berkshire Hathaway"

Owned by Warren Buffett, and yes I think it does operate like Bain Capitol. Investors with a lot of money can turn companies around which in turn, helps the surrounding population with jobs and boosting the revenue stream in the way of taxes, as well.

The Warren Buffetts or Mitt Romneys of the world are not our enemies.

I love it!! The liberals heads are popping off their shoulders! The truth hurts people...Every comment out of Obama's - Warren's and the MSM are lies. GOD help us if he gets re-elected - Sharia law will rule the day. Good grief. He must be stopped

yes, except Berkshire Hathaway runs companies well, gets them on their feet, AND keeps employees in place. Warren Buffett keeps them until they are solvent and even holds onto companies that it takes longer to turn around.
Bain Capitol goes in and fires most of the employees and sells the company off quickly and makes a bundle.
Avon, there is not one decent person in the bunch on the Republicans ticket. Romney /Ryan. Atkins, on and on. Utter intransigence against presidential initiatives (jobs, benefits for veterans etc.). Brown has proven himself again and again as a political operative. The only one who might have some decency is Bielat. I haven't heard him speak.

Democrats find a cause - fund that cause - then lock up the cause voters for eternity. If it wasn't so dirty and would be brilliant