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Donna Braziles Bombshell Isnt That Hillary Clinton Rigged the Race, But That the Democratic Party Blew ItThe Democratic Party has no discernible message, no recognizable plan and no real response to Donald Trumps serial rending of basic decency and honor.
JOY-ANN REID
11.04.17 11:39 AM ET
Donna Brazile may be burning the village in order to save it.
What else to take away from the former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee and longtime party operative in dropping the bombshell news this week about a fundraising agreement between Hillary Clinton and the DNC? Its part of a larger story that focuses on the Russian hacking of the Democratic campaign and the threat to the democratic process, but its the Clinton takeover of the DNC that took over the narrative this week.
Braziles revelation: that Hillary Clinton in September of 2015 entered into a joint fundraising agreement with the DNC that allowed the candidate to pay down the partys considerable debt in exchange for exercising control of some hiring decisions was seized upon by some supporters of Bernie Sanders as proof that the primary was indeed rigged against him. Predictably, Donald Trump joined in, tweeting in much the same way he in tandem with Russian bot farms did during the campaign, that the system is shot through with Clintonian criminality against which Bernie never stood a chance.
Caution has rarely been the watchword when it comes to any story containing the magic words: Hillary Clinton. The Clinton rules dictate that a presumption of scandal and wrongdoing must infuse every tale in which she is a character. But Braziles bombshell was a much greater indictment of a Clinton loyalist, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was at the helm of the DNC before she was felled in the Wikileaks avalanche at the start of last years Democratic National Convention.
As Brazile tells it, the DNC was dead broke by the time Clinton cut the deal to retire the organizations debts in 2015. Indeed, in the excerpt from her book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House, Brazile writes that by the time Clinton set the partys finances right and put it on a starvation diet, the DNC had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.
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leftofcool
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Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)He steamrolled them all and they tried a range of different things. Very little seemed to work.
Frankly, the majority of the blame still resides on the millions of people who voted for trump. They saw exactly what he was and either believed it and still voted for him or didn't believe it and voted for him. Or, incredibly, didn't see him for what he really was.
So, fuck 'em.
Me.
(35,454 posts)But with revelations today I think Donna was acting upon an agenda that combined filling her coffers along with smiting those who displeased her with revenge
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)chowder66
(9,075 posts)The fighting needs to be put aside and we need to find out what the DNC and other orgs need to succeed.
The past is the past, use it to inform better ideas and plans and take the emotion out of it. Get clinical, work on fixing things and aim for getting emotional payoffs on the winning end of things instead of harboring negative emotions on past events.
It's exhausting the party and it isn't attractive to those who may be mildly interested. If there's something we don't like we should be part of the solution to fixing it.
We have to change the races from 46% Democratic Nominee to 45% Republican Nominee to 60% Democratic Nominee to 30% Republican Nominee or better.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Aimless and broke.