Sunday, November 05, 2017

Okay let's talk Donna Brazile. Update!

By now most of you have probably heard something about Donna Brazile's new book which makes the explosive allegation that the Hillary Clinton campaign made a deal with the DNC to bail them out financially in exchange for essentially commandeering the primary process.

I have not written anything about this before, because to be honest I was not sure exactly what was going on.

I read the initial article in Politico and felt that the evidence provided did not really support the allegations that Brazile was making.

And I think my initial hesitancy to accept the validity of these charges was warranted.

Here is the latest from NBC News: 

The Democratic National Committee struck a deal with Hillary Clinton in 2015 that gave her campaign input on some party hiring and spending decisions, but required they be related only to preparations for the general election, according to a memo obtained by NBC News. It also left the door open for other candidates to make similar arrangements. 

The document provides more context to the explosive claims made by former DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile in a forthcoming book, an excerpt of which was published this week. 

The August 26, 2015, memorandum of understanding from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook to DNC CEO Amy Dacey details the relationship between Clinton's campaign and the DNC long before she won her party's nomination.

Essentially the Clinton campaign offered up an initial 1.2 million up front and then offered to provide a monthly allowance as well as some additional funding moving forward.

However since the DNC had clearly mismanaged its funds the Clinton campaign wanted a say in how the money was spent. Which if you think about it makes pretty good sense.

But here is what was laid out in the memo that seems to have upset Donna Brazile so thoroughly:

However, the memo also made clear that the arrangement pertained to only the general election, not the primary season, and it left open the possibility that it would sign similar agreements with other candidates.

"Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to violate the DNC's obligation of impartiality and neutrality through the Nominating process. All activities performed under this agreement will be focused exclusively on preparations for the General Election and not the Democratic Primary," the memo states. 

"Further we understand you may enter into similar agreements with other candidates," it continues.

In fact the DNC did enter into a similar agreement with the Sanders campaign, but they decided not to use it as they felt they could do better on their own encouraging smaller donations from their pool of supporters.

The contention is that this agreement allowed the Clinton campaign to have a say on who the DNC hired, and how some of the money was spent, which Brazile charges gave them undo influence.

The evidence that such influence took place appears to be mostly in Brazile's head, but her allegation received some support when Elizabeth Warren chimed in with this.

Seriously?

Well that certainly complicated things, because Warren makes it much harder to simply dismiss this as a DNC operative gone rogue.

And just to make this entire story even more surreal Brazile reveals that she considered replacing Hillary on the ticket with Joe Biden: 

Brazile writes that she considered a dozen combinations to replace the nominees and settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the duo she felt most certain would win over enough working-class voters to defeat Republican Donald Trump. But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”

Well gee how gracious of Brazile to allow the Democrats to keep the candidate that they had selected on the ticket.

As you might imagine the response from Hillary supporters has been less than supportive:  

We were shocked to learn the news that Donna Brazile actively considered overturning the will of the Democratic voters by attempting to replace Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine as the Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees. It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate’s health. 

Donna came in to take over the DNC at a very difficult time. We were grateful to her for doing so. She is a longtime friend and colleague of many of us and has been an important leader in our party. But we do not recognize the campaign she portrays in the book. 

That is from a letter signed by nearly 100 campaign staffers who certainly do not agree with Brazile's interpretation of their efforts.

A number of pundits have offered opinions on what motivated Brazile to set fire to so many bridges, she was frustrated by not getting the recognition she felt she deserved, she is positioning herself to have a place on the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, who knows?

All I know is that anything that allows Trump to tweet stuff like this...

....is bullshit.

I realize that I will NEVER convince those Bernie supporters that the nomination was not stolen from them, especially after this.

However keep in mind that the Republicans are seriously concerned about their ability to win elections moving forward, and their only real hope lies with the Democrats sabotaging themselves with infighting and rampant mistrust within their ranks.

Donna Brazile just gave them an early Christmas present all wrapped up in a shiny bow.

So I hope her fucking book tanks, and she never finds a job working with any Democrats ever again.

I assume at some point we will see her on Fox News, where all progressive traitors seem to eventually find themselves.

And good riddance to her.

Update: Donna Brazile now says she found "no evidence" that the primaries were rigged in Hillary's favor.
WTF?

66 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:53 AM

    Why should have the DNC even helped Bernie in the first place? He has hasn't done shit for the Democrats while Hillary has spent her career promoting them. Fuck Bernie and fuck Donna.

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    1. Anonymous9:22 AM

      Bernie this, Bernie that, Bernie Bernie Bernie and it continues a year later. He had no chance of winning, but "Jane his wife" made sure he didn't pull out until they'd pocketed a cool $10M.

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    2. Bullshit. Hillary has spent her career promoting herself. And she started believing her own bullshit. Her campaign wasn't a campaign, it was a coronation. She figured she had it all rigged in her favor, but that damned electoral college ruined her plans.

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    3. Anonymous9:48 AM

      Hillary Clinton should be in the White House. Look what we ended up with due to idiots that cast their votes for him! What a horrid mistake!

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    4. Anonymous9:57 AM

      twodux - she certainly wasn't out in front of the people, but courting rich donors behind doors at who-knows-what price per seat.

      Remember her in the diner running against Obama? "It's SO hard" complete with tears. Tell that to the average working woman trying to balance that with family, when she has all the assistants money can buy.

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    5. DetroitSam8:46 PM

      Two things:

      Bernie Sanders also signed the same deal with the DNC. As did Donald Trump with the RNC.

      Donna Brazille is full of it if she thinks she has the power to remove anyone from being a candidate, let along for having a fainting spell. That is a process carried out by the full DNC nominating committee.

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  2. Anonymous8:56 AM

    I'll get slammed for this, but I imagine her in front of Judge Joe Brown. :)

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  3. Anonymous9:15 AM

    Round up of articles. She's getting busted everywhere.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-dnchfa-agreement-donna-braziles-growing-pile-of-nonsense

    https://wonkette.com/625225/donna-brazile-wrote-a-thing-oh

    https://wonkette.com/625335/donna-brazile-who-the-fuck-are-you-kidding

    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/05/donna-brazile-rigged-democrats-clinton-sanders-244566

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/open-letter-attack-onbrazile_us_59fe9cd1e4b0c9652fffc493?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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  4. Anonymous9:15 AM

    I'm fucking pissed at both Warren and Brazile. Bernie Sanders is not, never was, and never will be a Democrat. He never should have been allowed to run as one. We will continue to lose to Republicans because of shit like this!

    HeidiWY

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    1. Anonymous4:28 AM

      You'll have to change the election rules in all 50 states. He qualified to run as a Dem, according to their rules. This country's election laws do not favor anyone being able to run as a 3rd party candidate.

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  5. Anonymous9:16 AM

    Conservative shreds GOP for letting Trump turn US into ‘third-world dictatorship’

    ...“And there’s a reason why he’s getting away with it and that is that Republicans don’t care,” she asserted. “They could easily stop this, they could easily pass legislation or invoke the Emoluments Clause and prohibit him from receiving income and monies from foreign leaders. But they roll over and play dead. This is becoming a banana republic, a third world dictatorship where the rule of law is supplanted.”

    “The president’s financial and personal interests are above national interests and he cavorts with people who share those rotten values, antidemocratic values,” Rubin concluded.

    Watch the video below:

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/republicans-dont-care-conservative-shreds-gop-for-letting-trump-turn-us-into-third-world-dictatorship/

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    1. Yep.

      In the meantime Ivan, Sergei and Pavel are making sure the Democrats lose seats in 2018. Not that they need any help. Tom Perez is doing a fine job of that. He kicked all of Keith Ellison’s supporters out of key leadership positions in the DNC.

      Yeah, blame *that* on Bernie. Bernie is still working for the policies and ideas the progressives want that the DNC leadership ignored and continues to ignore.

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    2. Anonymous10:51 AM

      mlaiuppa - well, THAT'S news. Seems to me that the old boy's gone silent while the rest work to undermine us at every opportunity.

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  6. Anonymous9:16 AM

    Appleby!!
    Yay, we now can see money and not just your average citizens!

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  7. Anonymous9:19 AM

    Donna Brazile’s bombshell about the DNC and Hillary Clinton, explained

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16599036/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-sanders

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  8. Anonymous9:26 AM

    Honestly when I read this in Huffington Post I thought why is she doing this? Is she a democrat? Or a Putin plant?
    Well, now that she has sold her soul hope she enjoys her 15 minutes of fame. Sad thing.

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  9. Anonymous9:27 AM

    I heard Donna say she still was looking to get married. Maybe she found a Russian husband or boyfriend. Maybe Vlad came up with someone for her. She is a disgusting person, a traitor and backstabber. BESIDES Bernie was never a Democrat, always an Independent, and went right back to it after the election. He was just a spoiler and you have to wonder why only he and Rand Paul continually vote against sanctions against Russia? Dirty hands Bernie?

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  10. Anonymous9:30 AM

    Brazile has screwed herself royally. What an idiot she has proven herself to be! Bernie was the last one that should have been represented by the Democratic Party. He declared himself an Independent.

    We assuredly could use Hillary Clinton in the White House right now. The tub of lard currently there is a total disaster and despised by the majority in his own country and the world.

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    1. Anonymous2:05 PM

      i find the timing of the book interesting. Russia's getting close to dumpt.

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  11. Anonymous9:30 AM

    Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chair Donna Brazile said Sunday she has found "no evidence, none, whatsoever" that the 2016 Democratic primary process was "rigged" on Hillary Clinton's behalf, contra a recent assertion to that
    effect by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

    http://theweek.com/speedreads/735470/donna-brazile-says-found-no-evidence-democratic-primaries-rigged


    Clinton Campaign Staffers Accuse Brazile Of Buying Into ‘Russian Propaganda’

    Officials “don’t recognize the campaign Brazile portrays,” says open letter.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/open-letter-attack-onbrazile_us_59fe9cd1e4b0c9652fffc493

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    1. There’s rigged and there’s rigged.

      You can’t tell me a $1.2 million bailout and monthly inflow of cash doesn’t have some influence.

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  12. Dinty9:33 AM

    Turns out you don't need to be tall, thin and blonde with an Adam's apple to make provocative false statements to sell books.

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  13. Anonymous9:37 AM

    No, the DNC didn’t ‘rig’ the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/11/04/no-the-dnc-didnt-rig-the-democratic-primary-for-hillary-clinton/

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    1. Anonymous4:29 AM

      $he did it all on her own didn't $he?

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  14. Anonymous9:39 AM

    Her check from Putin cleared....

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    1. Anonymous4:30 AM

      You don't pay the winner in a rigged bout, you pay off the loser....

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    2. Anonymous10:18 AM

      You do know that this is literally McCarthyism right? Anyone who criticizes the Dear Leader must be a Russian stooge? Incredible.

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  15. Does anyone really believe Brazile had the power to replace Clinton with Biden as the party's nominee?

    She's full of shit. Without her gig on CNN she needs money and a scurrilous tell-all book is the quick way to fortune, the paid talk show circuit and a gig on Fox.

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    1. Her alone? No.

      But it does speak to the power of the DNC leadership to decide the nominee, not the people voting.

      When it’s only Hillary or Bernie, who isn’t even a Democrat, on the ticket, who do you think Democrats will vote for? They couldn’t have a ticket with only Hillary’s name on it. That would be too obvious. Bernie’s sin was to get too many votes and make it look like a horse race. He also forced her to shift left on some issues using the pressure of the people voting for him. Those people still believe in those issues. Issues the DNC is still ignoring.

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    2. Anonymous4:31 AM

      If you must rig the primary to win it, how the hell do you even hope to win the general election?

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  16. Anonymous9:43 AM

    Or maybe this was a plan to derail Warren..... either way she, Warren, has shown she is unfit for higher office.

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  17. Anonymous9:44 AM

    Top Clinton staffers hit back at Brazile

    "It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate’s health," the staffers wrote.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/04/top-clinton-staffers-hit-back-at-brazile-244554

    This too shall pass: Clinton-Sanders civil war is nothing new in Democratic history
    The conflict between “progressives” and “moderates” is the latest incarnation of a battle waged for decades

    https://www.salon.com/2017/11/05/this-too-shall-pass-clinton-sanders-civil-war-is-nothing-new-in-democratic-history/

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  18. Anonymous9:45 AM

    Elizabeth Warren screwed herself too! Surprised me! She should never gone against Hillary Clinton.

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    1. Anonymous11:02 AM

      Bahaha. Clinton and Clintononialism, is done. Any Democratic candidate moving forward is well aware that they will be better served distancing themselves from the Clintons.

      What happened? Hillary Clinton.

      Most hilarious and ironically titled book in decades.

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    2. Anonymous11:28 AM

      I'd pick Hillary Clinton being in the White House (any day!) vs the 'object' that currently sits there. He's an imbecile!

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    3. Anonymous4:16 AM

      Sorry but the Clinton reign of terror in the Democratic Party is finally over. Elizabeth Warren has every right to speak her truth about Hillary and for the first time in 25 years the Clintons can't punish anyone. The party. has moved on folks - wake up!

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    4. Anonymous4:32 AM

      So what has Hillary had to say about all this? Any public statements from Herself?

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  19. Anonymous9:55 AM

    You say, fuck Donna Brazile, who has spent most of her life supporting Democratic causes and candidates?? Read her book first before you make a snap judgment.

    I am a Hillary supporter. However, one of the accusations that Brazile made was that Clinton (and her campaign) steered campaign funding away from anyone in the Democratic Party, who was running for office in 2016, who supported Bernie Sanders, which was based on the authority and power this agreement gave Clinton with any DNC funding. Even if the source of these funds were not raised by Clinton. Seems like this type of sabotage to other candidates was done by Clinton not Donna Brazile.

    If this is true and Barack Obama had done the same type of manuevering to Clinton during 2008, or vice versa, there would be a lot of screaming of how unfair it was.

    I'm going to read the book before I jump to conclusions about Donna Brazile or Hillary Clinton. I hold both of these Democratic women in high regard.

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    1. Anonymous1:29 AM

      So do I. I do believe that there are nuances that have not been considered in the Brazile book and that have not been considered in this 'blockbuster, huge' Dem conflict.

      dowl

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    2. Anonymous4:17 AM

      Agree with you 100 percent. I supported her too, but it wasn't blind support like we keep seeing here at IM.

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    3. I remember Debbie Wasserman-Schultz steering money that was supposed to go to the DNC to her own personal campaign and getting Joe Biden to do a special video for her daughter's Bat Mitzvah when he was supposed to be doing some sort of campaign video.

      Of course, Debbie W-S didn't write a tell all book.

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  20. If it were Sanders that bailed out the DNC with “no strings attached” but ended up running in the primaries against Hillary, everyone would be screaming to high heaven.

    Just because there is no understanding doesn’t mean a monthly inflow of cash doesn’t have any influence.

    No one is saying Hillary wasn’t qualified and no one is waying she bought the election.

    It all just stinks.

    It especially stinks that Debbie W-S was allowed to stay as long as she did considering her mismanagement.

    W-S directed money to her own personal re-election campaign and there was also something about her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in there and Joe Biden. I don’t remember the details but at the time considered it to reflect very poorly on her job as head of the DNC. And she didn’t get fired for it. Now I know why. She’s best buds with Hillary and Hillary was providing monthly cash flow to keep the DNC’s head above water.

    Sorry, but Brazile was in the middle of all of this and she saw what was going on.

    I’m also not saying the election was “stolen” from Bernie. But I will say it wasn’t all totally above board and absolutely beyond doubt transparent and fair. Not when superdelegates have already been given to Hillary before the whole thing even started. That whole superdelegate thing stinks to high heaven and Brazile and Warren know it.

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    1. Anonymous10:11 AM

      I had forgotten all about the superdelegates, and again question why I even vote at all.

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    2. Anonymous10:17 AM

      Brazile is worse than Debbie W-S ever was! She needs to be fired!

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    3. Anonymous10:58 AM

      Not trying to rub it in, but how can you forget about the super-delegates? That is the whole game right there. And you are right, why even bother to vote (in the Democratic primaries).

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    4. Anonymous11:11 AM

      Fired from what?

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  21. Anonymous10:16 AM

    Good God Almighty! Brazile is coming across as mentally screwed up....her direction keeps changing. She should be fired from heading the Democratic Party Organization, that is for sure!

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  22. Anonymous10:25 AM

    Mean Girls?

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    1. Anonymous10:44 AM

      The 'boyZ' R WINing
      They luV a CatFight in 'T'-he mud.

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  23. Anonymous10:32 AM

    Trump commerce secretary's business links with Putin family laid out in leaked files

    Wilbur Ross stands to profit from company run by Russians, some of whom are under US sanctions

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/trump-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-business-links-putin-family-paradise-papers

    Howard Dean: ‘Jared Kushner will be indicted for money laundering’ and ‘the next step will be Trump family’

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/howard-dean-jared-kushner-will-be-indicted-for-money-laundering-and-the-next-step-will-be-trump-family/

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    1. Anonymous11:13 AM

      The Russia Investigations: D.C. Braces For More From Mueller; Ripple Effects Widen

      Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has removed all doubt that he intends to bring criminal charges in the Russia probe.

      http://www.npr.org/2017/11/05/561904209/the-russia-investigations-d-c-braces-for-more-from-mueller-ripple-effects-widen

      The Russian Hacking Scandal Is Way Bigger than Donald Trump

      The effort by Russian intelligence to meddle in the 2016 presidential election is just one of many projects within the Kremlin’s global hacking enterprise. The AP recently reported on the scope of this program based on a leaked digital “hit list” of targets in the U.S., Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Syria from a hacking group known as Fancy Bear.

      The list, picked up by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks, covered the period from March 2015 and May 2016 and included more than 4,700 Gmail accounts globally, including “at least 573 inboxes belonging to those in the top echelons of the [U.S.] diplomatic and security services.” Among the targets were John Kerry, Colin Powell, and then-supreme commander of NATO General Philip Breedlove, and more than 130 Democratic Party staffers and supporters—most notably, John Podesta. (There were some Republican targets.) Abroad, the list includes figures like Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian dissidents Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Navalny, and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot, as well as their associates.

      Fancy Bear has long been suspected of being affiliated with the Russian government, but the data shown to the AP reporters suggests both that Fancy Bear is working for the Kremlin and that it is a sophisticated cybercrime outfit, not some fat guy in his mom’s basement.

      http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/the-russian-hacking-scandal-is-way-bigger-than-donald-trump.html

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    2. Anonymous11:32 AM

      It's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Uy0Uznw4E

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    3. I so wanted to vote for Howard Dean, but by the time the primary got to my state, only John Kerry was left.

      Thanks, DNC leadership. Why bother to vote?

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  24. Anonymous10:34 AM

    How ironic, "without cheating."
    You'd know, dotard. You've had a life of it.

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  25. Anonymous11:27 AM

    The project took these 20-year-olds just eight weeks to complete. They already tackled identifying fake news and propaganda on Facebook — so Twitter was next.

    “Looking further into these accounts, we realized some of these accounts aren’t really human behavior,” says Phadte. “They’re constantly retweeting every minute throughout the 24 hours, they have thousands of followers – but they created their account really only a month ago”

    http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/11/04/cal-students-expose-fake-news-accounts-bots-twitter/

    https://botcheck.me/

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  26. Anonymous11:55 AM

    Where the alt-right wants to take America — with or without Trump

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/11/03/where-the-alt-right-wants-to-take-america-with-or-without-trump

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  27. Anonymous12:40 PM

    Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Tom Perez on Sunday said charges that Hillary Clinton was “incapacitated” by illness as the 2016 Democratic nominee are “ludicrous.”

    “The charge that Hillary Clinton was somewhere incapacitated is quite frankly ludicrous,” Perez said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

    Donna Brazile, the former interim chair of the DNC, on Sunday said she “was under tremendous pressure after Secretary Clinton fainted to have a quote unquote plan B” to replace Clinton as the party’s nominee.

    “I don’t know what Donna Brazile fell for. But all I know is under the rules and bylaws of the Democratic National Committee, she couldn’t have done this,” Perez said. “Hillary Clinton was anything but incapacitated. She was tireless. She was a work horse.”

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tom-perez-claims-clinton-was-incapacitated-are-ludicrous

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    1. Anonymous1:59 PM

      she was tired-but who would not be, working like a horse in hot weather-and she had a vest, that must have been hot and heavy.

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  28. Anonymous12:43 PM

    Donna Brazile Needs to Back Up Her Self-Serving Claims

    ...If Brazile wants to make these accusations she needs to provide the documents she’s referring to and something concrete about actions the DNC took to rig the primaries against Sanders. The fact that Wasserman-Schultz was a bad chair, the fact that the DNC was poorly run, that not enough money went to state parties – all true. But none of that is what made Brazile’s claims a bombshell. All of that was known. If she can’t back these claims up she owes every Democrat a huge apology. And I have to say that applies to Elizabeth Warren too who jumped on the bandwagon.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/donna-brazile-needs-to-back-up-her-self-serving-claims

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  29. Anonymous1:53 PM

    too late, you stupid bitch. are you a republican stooge?

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    1. Anonymous4:34 AM

      THAT sounds progressive and liberal of you....

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  30. Randall7:09 PM

    Whatever book Donna Brazile writes next will sell a million copies.
    Doesn't matter what it is, either.

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  31. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/tom-perez-dnc-shake-up

    "In a move that exacerbated the vast intra-party rift exposed during last year’s presidential primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has stripped a number of longtime party officials of their “at-large” delegate status or leadership positions, while appointing a slate of 75 new members that include Clinton campaign veterans, lobbyists, and neophytes.

    PPerez revealed his picks this week, ahead of the D.N.C.’s first meeting since he was elected chairman. Upon perusing it, progressive party members were incensed to find that he had demoted a number of veteran delegates who’d backed either Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison in his bid for party chairman against Perez, or Sanders in 2016."

    "TTo add insult to injury, Perez also tapped several individuals who have lobbying or corporate-interest backgrounds—a move that has sparked criticism in the past. The pack of new delegates includes Joanne Dowdell, a registered lobbyist for Fox News parent company News Corp; Harold Ickes, a veteran of the Clinton White House; and Manuel Ortiz, a lobbyist for CITGO Petroleum Corp and Puerto Rican interests. At least 10 additional Perez-tapped superdelegates have previously been registered as lobbyists, Bloomberg reports."

    http://inthesetimes.com/article/20627/dnc-purge-ellison-perez-bernie-sanders-left-center/

    Same old same old. Look to Democrats failing to gain seats in 2018 and possible losing a few.

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  32. Anonymous4:10 AM

    Donna Brazile has spent her life getting Democrats elected. Working at it, not sitting at her keyboard hurling insults. I'm astonished at the comments here calling her names and a Russian plant. This place looks like the Pee Pond today, trying to destroy anyone who criticizes the Dear Leader. Pretty lame.

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    1. Anonymous9:51 AM

      Ok. But why did she have to give more fuel to Trump and his people? I mean could have things been hashed out in house. Now we have to listen to Donald being vindicated in his tweets. It's maddening. Like Bernie. Yeah, there were things wrong with the DNC as is the RNC but couldn't people have round tabled it, and discussed it, instead of coming out with these inflammatory books? Not throw the DNC to the wolves. They will not use this well let me tell you. Both parties are in trouble and they should redo their mission statement.

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  33. Anonymous12:09 PM

    OPEN LETTER FROM HILLARY FOR AMERICA 2016 TEAM

    https://medium.com/@jesse_41795/open-letter-from-hillary-for-america-2016-team-f1c545304be1

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