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riversedge

(70,259 posts)
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:25 AM Dec 2015

Hillary Clinton Takes to Twitter and Owns the Republican Debaters

Hilary is right. And she basically said the same thing during her speech yesterday in Minneapolis.



Hillary Clinton Takes to Twitter and Owns the Republican Debaters
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/16/hillary-clinton-twitter-owns-republican-debaters.html



By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Wednesday, December, 16th, 2015, 8:04 am



Hillary Clinton Texting


Hillary Clinton took “chaos candidate” Donald Trump and company out behind the proverbial woodshed last night as they fumbled about on stage, and took a switch to them. The Republican presidential hopefuls made their fifth debate a celebration of ignorance, hate and bigotry, and Clinton called them on it by live blogging on Twitter. Frank Bruni called it a “tense” debate in a New York Times op-ed, but I’d call it “appalling,” and Clinton seemed to agree.

Who we met at CNN’s televised debate last night was, in Hillary’s words, “7 Republican candidates who are totally unprepared to be commander-in-chief.” And by blazing away on twitter as they spewed, she showed American voters why.

Echoing president Obama, she condemned the repressive rhetoric coming from the stage, tweeting:


Hillary Clinton Verified account
?@HillaryClinton

We're better than this. #GOPdebate


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Hillary Clinton Takes to Twitter and Owns the Republican Debaters (Original Post) riversedge Dec 2015 OP
K AND R! JaneyVee Dec 2015 #1
I actually fell asleep not long after the debate started. Guess I only missed the vile but riversedge Dec 2015 #2
I only saw between 9:30 and 10pm. It made my brain hurt. JaneyVee Dec 2015 #5
Grandpa watched it and today said, judging from corporate media's response Iliyah Dec 2015 #3
I like your Grandpa. I kept wanting to throw things at the tv.... Hekate Dec 2015 #19
K&R! stonecutter357 Dec 2015 #4
It was totally awful theater. lark Dec 2015 #6
She is original. A real trailblazer. THE first guy to do what the other guy has been doing. Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #7
your talking point is old and BORING riversedge Dec 2015 #21
Wow, that's probably why NorthCarolina Dec 2015 #8
Wouldn't it be great if they would just hold the election on Twitter ToxMarz Dec 2015 #10
Baaaazing! oasis Dec 2015 #20
Lots of political organizing via landline over at Camp Weathervane this cycle? Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #22
Hillary's organizing isn't anything I've ever heard being called lacking. ToxMarz Dec 2015 #24
The GOP had a fifth debate? I suppose if I've missed the other four, no point in starting now. ffr Dec 2015 #9
Lots of people at DU still don't understand that the bile being NoMoreRepugs Dec 2015 #11
Hmmm Plucketeer Dec 2015 #12
Only... riversedge Dec 2015 #15
Reckon they'll accept my ballot Plucketeer Dec 2015 #17
Actually Bernie Sanders owned Twitter during the Republican debate. raindaddy Dec 2015 #13
LOL if you think Hillary runs her own twitter fbc Dec 2015 #14
That IS weird. Plucketeer Dec 2015 #18
K&R. You thell 'em Hillary! lunamagica Dec 2015 #16
She looks like a Corey Hart fan. Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #23

riversedge

(70,259 posts)
2. I actually fell asleep not long after the debate started. Guess I only missed the vile but
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:46 AM
Dec 2015

see clips of the vile today.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. Grandpa watched it and today said, judging from corporate media's response
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:56 AM
Dec 2015

We are f**ked as a nation. The notion that this debate was constructive shows how far gone the United States of America has falling.

Hekate

(90,738 posts)
19. I like your Grandpa. I kept wanting to throw things at the tv....
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 02:26 PM
Dec 2015

My husband likes to watch the debates, but it was so awful even he kept changing the channel.

lark

(23,134 posts)
6. It was totally awful theater.
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:19 AM
Dec 2015

I hated those ringing bells all the time, the interruptions, OMG it was total RW hate filled vomit inducing idiocy. I couldn't take it, watched it for a few minutes, walked away, come back about 20 min. later watched another maybe 10 minutes and couldn't take the spike in my blood pressure so turned off the horror show.

 

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
8. Wow, that's probably why
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:24 AM
Dec 2015

Bernie gained the highest number of new twitter followers during the GOP debate. Amazing how that works.

ToxMarz

(2,169 posts)
24. Hillary's organizing isn't anything I've ever heard being called lacking.
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 09:04 PM
Dec 2015

Organizing and actually showing up voters are two different beasts. The 'there's an app for that' crowd isn't so reliable when there isn't an app for that.

ffr

(22,671 posts)
9. The GOP had a fifth debate? I suppose if I've missed the other four, no point in starting now.
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:33 AM
Dec 2015

I'll leave it to you good people to watch that train wreck. No sense in raising my anxiety level unnecessarily. By the sound of it, that's pretty much what it would have done, just made me sick to my stomach.

Instead, I'll be focusing my energy on GOTV for the democratic nominee. And my family will be voting again, as we always do in every election.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,441 posts)
11. Lots of people at DU still don't understand that the bile being
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:44 AM
Dec 2015

spewed on that stage last nite resonates with a TREMENDOUS number of our fellow Americans.
The HRC/Bernie back n forth snarking amongst liberals/progressives/anyone with an ounce of sense
seems a bit counterproductive to me... a geezer in Florida

raindaddy

(1,370 posts)
13. Actually Bernie Sanders owned Twitter during the Republican debate.
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 12:00 PM
Dec 2015

Bernie Sanders gained more followers than anyone on stage in Las Vegas..

"After Sanders, Donald Trump's following increased the most, trailed by Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, according to Twitter. Poor Hillary Clinton, left out of all the action."

 

fbc

(1,668 posts)
14. LOL if you think Hillary runs her own twitter
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 12:46 PM
Dec 2015

Read the article. example tweet: "We're not at war with a religion. We're at war with radical jihadism. Hillary knows the difference"

It might be fun to point out how creepy it is that Hillary talks about herself in the third person, but c'mon, we all know she's not the one actually tweeting.

Bernie operates his twitter. Consultants tweet for Hillary.

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