Biden demanded Elizabeth Warren give him credit for her spearheading the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and it felt all too familiar.
Remember when we knew and largely loved Joe Biden as “Uncle Joe,” Barack Obama’s trusty vice president and surrogate “brother?” I long for those days. Truly, I wish Biden had let those good feelings, and that fairly fuzzy legacy, stand. But Biden had to go and run for president, dredging up the questions of how he mishandled the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings , his allegedly inappropriate touching, and an ever-growing number of patronizing interactions with women.
An unruffled Warren handled the Biden exchange with expert calm. Without having to directly refute Biden or assign him the credit he so passionately sought, she instead shaded him by thanking his former boss: “I am deeply grateful to President Obama,” Warren replied, “who fought so hard to make sure that agency was passed into law.
This response also felt charged, and deeply relatable to female viewers, both because of what Warren said and what she didn’t: It seemed the textbook case of having to keep cool and collected in the face of an interrupting male colleague, even if what you really want to do is go off. “Boy is Warren carefully not saying some things here,” tweeted FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver.
Despite the distraction from Biden, Warren mostly rose above, didn’t deign to squabble, and simply kept reinforcing her own accomplishment. “Understand this. It was a ‘Dream big, fight hard,’” she said of pushing for the CFPB. “People told me, ‘Go for something little. Go for something small. Go for something that the big corporations will be able to accept.’ I said, ‘No.
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