A Lesson To the Hillary Fans on Hillary's Passive Aggressive Behavior

[berni_mccoy]

Or, How To Say Something Without Using Exact Words:

Question: "Is Obama A Muslim?"

Hillary: "No, I don't think he is... As far as I know."

She passively says she doesn't know, when she does very well know.

She didn't have to say it, and when asked, she could passively deny it, while she aggressively knew the truth and was having her campaign disseminate this information. If there is any doubt to that, Mark Penn, her campaign strategist wrote this in a memo to the campaign:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/08/penn-strategy-memo-march-19-2008/37952/

Penn Strategy Memo, March 19, 2007: More than anything else, this memo captures the full essence of Mark Penn's campaign strategy--its brilliance and its breathtaking attacks. Penn identified with impressive specificity the very coalition of women and blue-collar workers that Clinton ended up winning a year later. But he also called Obama "unelectable except perhaps against Attila the Hun," and wrote, "I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values." Penn proposed targeting Obama's "lack of American roots."

The campaign also admitted to distributing the image of Obama in traditional Kenyan garb.

So while Hillary never said Obama is a Muslim, she certainly was passively allowing her campaign to say it and distribute material on it.

[winter is coming]

1. It's another facet of plausible deniability.

HRC rarely owns her actions. That alone makes her unfit, in my eyes.

[daleanime]

28. +1

[highprincipleswork]

2. Excellent points! "artful smear", powerful news sources, innuendo, plausible deniability - STINKS!

[morningfog]

3. Don't forget, she also said McCain was more prepared/qualified than Obama.

[Wellstone ruled]

31. That one really tells you a story

about her personal likes and dislikes.

[Marr]

32. As seen here:

[amborin]

41. such hypocrisy

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Face it, Bernie took the bait and failed the Hot Head

Test. If Hillary can rattle the guy so easily, how well would he do when there are real world problems? This is a mess.

[berni_mccoy]

5. I don't think Bernie is the one who is Rattled. I think Hillary is by the way she's reacting

To Bernie making contact with a huge haymaker.

[revbones]

6. You think that was being rattled?

Watch the Greenpeace activist ask Hillary about fossil fuel donations.

[Punkingal]

9. Yeah, really.

She was practically unhinged.

[artislife]

16. That is when the real Hillary showed up.

Not one bobble of the head or cackle, just pure anger.

[Kalidurga]

8. You have a problem with hot heads?

How do you function in the real world?

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. Sure do when the guy starts frothing at the mouth

Because Hillary gives one of her nuanced wise guy answers to some TV guy - something that is fully expected.
He comes off like a fool that can't control his emotions.

[Kalidurga]

15. He speaks the truth

IDC if he does it foaming at the mouth or if he says it casually or if he stands on a roof and shouts it or if he does it as an op ed piece in a newspaper. It's still true.

[ThePhilosopher04]

12. Hillary can't handle criticism. She's soft, no backbone

Not to mention corrupt beyond anything we've seen in modern political history.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. You realize that Clinton was expecting a non answer

Ergo Sanders is weak? When Obama hit back it was the same, he is a hot head! I am a victim bs. The web has changed a lot of those dynamics and politicians have to be aware of this thing called the Internet.

The Clinton camp shows a distressing misunderstanding of that as well.

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. I would expect that she knew he'd lose it

And he did.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. No he did not

And this morning she backed down. I expect Bernie to also back down from open warfare. He established he is not weak. And he did mention the Panama papers. That one, though just as complicated as the email story on the technical side...will grow legs.

People really don't like shifty filthy rich people not to pay their taxes. (For the record, the articles are fascinating)

[The_Casual_Observer]

20. He lost it, and he brought up this Panama

Deal, yes, big deal, like every trade deal doesn't have unintended consequences.
What is Bernie going to do some day? Nothing in case there might be an exploitable loophole in everything?
Sure, he has all the wisdom of afterthought.

[azmom]

23. Unintended consequences is what a real leader

forsees and takes into account in their decision making. It was not some mistake, it was predictable based on Panama's past actions.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. I am looking at a different story

Or perhaps my filter is not partisan

So let me make s couple points here

1.- The only people who take this shit seriously are partisans and the beltway media. It does not matter if you are watching a race for city hall or the presidency, this is a rule of thumb. The more outraged the media and partisans seem to be, the less it is reaching actual well voters. So she smeared, he returned fire. That is Tuesday in American politics. But he did show he is not weak. How fast she backed down though, tells me this was polling horribly.

2.- The Panama deal has the potential of really outraging voters, once they realize it is bringing down governments. Next on tap: PM Cameron. Fifa, what the hell is that?

And personally I cannot wait for the full list of Anericans that were netted in that document leak. If you think this was just a few senior citizens buying property in Costa Rica, I got a fairly wet bridge for sale. For the record, I don't expect the Clintons to be there, but a few of their well connected friends will not shock me. I just paid my taxes, so are most folks. So yes, that has real potential.

As to the FTA, related, are you that tone deaf to have missed how angry the voters are about FTAs?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

22. Solid arguments never start with an exhortation to "face it".

Just, as they say, sayin'.

[daleanime]

29. ......

[pdsimdars]

30. Cue video of young Greenpeace activist asking simple quesiton and Hillary showing what she really is

But the American people already have her figured out, that's why her likeability and truthfullness are at the BOTTOM of the polls and Bernie's are at the top.

Face it, you can dance around with the little word games and mind games all you want, but the PEOPLE KNOW her for what she is. She shows it every single day.

[Marr]

34. Face it, Hillary wanted to smear someone, and instead invited a discussion of her own incompetence.

More bad judgement.

[frylock]

38. Hmmmnn.. rattled you say?

[CentralCoaster]

7. KR NT

[seabeyond]

10. Waaa, Clinton's unqualified! Waaa!!! Ya, a lesson.

[wiltom99]

35. She really is unqualified

She should never have a security clearance again. Not sure how one could be POTUS without it.

[seabeyond]

37. Bullshit.

[ThePhilosopher04]

11. That's the worst kind of human being.

[pantsonfire]

14. Jeff Weaver's response to this was brilliant...

"I went to law school just like Secretary Clinton, I know how to not say something, but say it in so many words."

[JonLeibowitz]

27. Bravo Jeff Weaver!

[winter is coming]

40. PWNED! n/t

[JoePhilly]

21. Some Sander's supporters seem to prefer Aggressive Aggressive behavior.

At least that's how it seems appears here on DU.

[berni_mccoy]

33. Well that follows suit in the honesty department. The underlying problem with Passive Aggressive

Is that it is dishonest, just like Hillary.

[JoePhilly]

36. Looks more like an anger management issue than "honesty" ...

... being displayed by some Bernie supporters.

The anger is the root cause, not the truth.

[frylock]

39. Better to be punched in the face than stabbed in the back.

[pdsimdars]

25. The fun with words, "is" is couple .

[grasswire]

26. Trump does the same thing!

All the time. All the time!