Behind the Ad: President Obama sings the praises of Elizabeth Warren

By Richard K. Barry

Who: Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign.

Where: Massachusetts.

What's going on: Warren's campaign will start airing an ad, which will feature President Obama offering strong praise for the Democratic Senate candidate.

The president says:

She's a janitor's daughter who has become one of the country's fiercest advocates for the middle class. She came up with an idea for a new, independent agency that would have one simple, overriding mission: standing up for consumers and middle-class families.

According to Politico, Glen Johnson of the Boston Globe wrote that:

The move comes after Warren has been on defense over Sen. Scott Brown's efforts to describe her as an out-of-touch rich candidate, and over a flap about whether she used her Native American background during her hiring process at Harvard in the 1990s (she and a prominent faculty member say it never came up).

Obama's team would dearly like to get back this Senate seat, which should, by all rights, be in the Democratic column. It is fascinating how Wall Street-connected incumbent Republican Scott Brown can get away with calling anybody else out-of-touch and rich. I guess he's got to try.

(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)