It isn’t a case of the Democrats now going off soul searching, it case of total revamp from top to bottom after Trump’s win last Tuesday. The Amazing Democrats’ advice very early on to the Clinton Campaign (and some of those comments were posted on our social media platforms as far back as the late summer of 2015) went unheard unlike when we worked for the Obama/Biden campaign in 2012. It is time DNC to fire all your overpaid pollsters (who got it so wrong), consultants and the like. The DNC should of known in their hearts of hearts that after Bernie Sanders won twenty-two states with so little money against Hillary Clinton, their candidate of choice would be in serious trouble if the Republicans got a candidate who could storm the mainstream and social media which Trump did and of course got a bit of luck along the way with that first letter released by the FBI Director that certainly damaged Hillary in early voting and gave a huge boast for Trump with his base. Yes, a lot of questions will be asked as to how the FBI were allowed to influence an election so openly. But this was far from the only reason Hillary lost even if the DNC die hards believe it to be so. The DNC and Democrats have lost their way and have been now for a long time. Their obsession only seems to be with fundraising not the core principles of what the party was founded on, Trump was able to tap into that huge hole in the DNC. It was a party that once cared for the low income, the homeless, our veterans, the poor people of America and not the massive billions of dollars in fundraising which was totally wasted trying to take Trump down. Just think today how many homeless people that billion of dollars plus would do to help house the homeless crisis in our major cities which should have been a top issue for Hillary.
Hillary campaign interviewed myself and members of The Amazing Democrats, for the record we call ourselves The Amazing Democrats as we not die hard Democrats, we wouldn’t have followed Hillary in to the fires of hell if she was wrong and we wouldn’t be silent either even if it meant we were fired from the campaign, that’s the way worked in the Obama/Biden 2012 reelection campaign and we were amazed how we survived not to be fired (nearly maybe once or twice when we really overstepped our mark and criticized some of the President’s polices publicly). The interviewing process went back as far as January 2016 to join her campaign. We were subjected to rounds and rounds of interviews, back ground checks, etc. Months would go by and we heard nothing and then it would start all over again. It was by late August this Editor got interviewed for the sixth time, more back ground checks and then was offered four important positions in four different swing states and one of this offers came directly from the DNC. All this was paid employment and not volunteer work. That last weekend in August for me was were I suffered so much turmoil as I had to give them a decision by the following Monday. It meant dropping everything in my life and getting on a plane to Pennsylvania. What was most troubling in my mind was I could sense there was panic setting in for the Democrats and Hillary’s campaign. I didn’t sleep that weekend. I went back to the old formula that the Obama campaign thought me and even though I didn’t have access to data like we did when worked for Obama, never the less, I ran the data all weekend long. It is a long and laborious process that you can see today that both the pollsters and media don’t do, why? Maybe they just are too lazy to do it, who knows? You have to run every state’s county’s data county by county, you have then figure in the data available from both the candidates’ primary wins or loses, a lot of mathematics but in the end you get a somewhat overview, be it very rough. Also you have to take into account that I had been tracking the swing states every week since both primaries ended last year. Not good for Hillary and her team I could see, in fact the Wednesday before the election I was gloomy, I could predict Trump was going to win Ohio by three percent (he won by five percent so I was only out by two percent) and as you know, no Presidential candidate can take their place in The White House if they don’t win Ohio. With all this, it was the hardiest email I ever sent, declining the positions to work on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
As we move into the Trump Presidency, it’s going to be a very dark lonely path for the Democrats. Yes, there is the mid-terms in 2018, but if the DNC works as it has for the last twenty years, they are a very slow climb back up on Capitol Hill as remember this Presidential election in 2016 had the lowest turn out of voters in years, which helped Trump but destroyed Hillary’s chances of winning, nearly 50% of the electorate didn’t bother to vote and historically mid-term voting has a very low voter turn-out. Also if Trump makes any small success of his first term and as everything Trump touches turns to gold, whether you like his manner and process or not and as it very hard to unseat a sitting President, as we all know, Trump going for a second term, then the DNC and Democrats could be looking at the wildness for next eight years at least, that’s 2024, a very depressing thought I know, but maybe a fact unless the DNC make radically chances and that starts today, not six months before the 2018 mid-terms.
In the 2006 mid-terms under George W. Bush, the Republicans got wiped out in the House and the Senate. All the media said at that time that Republican Party need to reinvent itself and stop been the “party of no”. Did they? Of course not, in fact under Obama as President and because of their hatred of him, they became the “party of no, no, no” on every bill he sent to the House and Senate. Now look where they are ten years later. The power of Washington again with the Democrats hanging onto their coattails and the sad thing is, Trump gets to pick the next Supreme Court justice. If he gets two terms, who knows, with three more justices ready for retirement in the next few years, he might even hit the golden jackpot of nominating four Supreme Court justices, a very scary thought. The Democrats however can’t do as the Republicans did in 2006, which was nothing to change their image and beliefs but the Democrats aren’t so lucky. If the DNC go back to business as usual, it will be a very dark long road for the Democrats back to the shining lights of The White House. It is simply the base. The Republican base and the Democrat base is so so much different and as Trump said decades ago when he was a registered Democrat, pro-choice and donated a lot of money to Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaigns: “If I was to run as President, I would run as a Republican as their voters as so dumb and easy to fool, I would lie and lie to them until I got numbers”. That’s all he had to do for this Presidential campaign and he is the winner today not Hillary Clinton.
Which brings what fundamentally went south very early on in the Hillary Clinton campaign:
1. NEVER EVER underestimate your opponent.
2. If he/she gets down in the dirt, you go down there with them. Hillary taking the high road was her downfall as political correctness (PC) means nothing anymore in the world of social media as we saw with Trump, the King of Twitter and Obama/Biden in 2008 as the King of Facebook. PC has gone way too far in the US and the rest of the world and Trump, no matter what you think, turned PC on it’s head in this presidential election and as he said on 60 Minutes last night, “it was nasty, very nasty but I am the one sitting here today talking to you and not them”. In fact 2020 and 2024 will be so so much nastier. Rumors were that Trump using his own money, paid pockets of supporters all over America to flood the internet with lies about Hillary and Bill Clinton and the secret? They could never be traced back to him or his campaign. Why didn’t the Hillary Clinton campaign do the same with the rumors about Trump’s ties to the Mafia? Why was this never floated all over the internet? PC I guess but he won and Clinton lost. The new trend now with Presidential campaigns as Trump has lowered the bar, is to win 2020 or 2024 the candidates from both parties to win, will have to get down in the mud and get dirty. Sad? Of course but no cares about the loser, they only care about the winner.
3. Dump the negative ads. One billion dollars was such a waste of money by the Clinton campaign and Trump barely spent a faction of that. We kept telling the Obama/Biden campaign and the DNC in 2012, negative ads don’t work anymore and only turn all the voters off. Pity they didn’t listen.
The Amazing Democrats are not all about criticizing without offering the DNC suggestions for the road forward:
1. Fire all your overpaid pollsters, consultants, lobbyists, etc..
2. Allow the progressive members of the party to take over. (I do not mean the loony left), members who understand the issues of the day to day worries of the lower income Americans (who sadly are too many), the homeless crisis in our cities all over America, our veterans living on our streets.
3. Get back to what a community organizer really is. I used get so annoy with new volunteers who joined our team who tried to tell the person forcefully on the other side of the phone why they should vote for Obama or donate to Obama’s campaign and the DNC. A community organizer’s job is to listen and listen well and then send what they hear up the line and hope they are listening otherwise you get a result like Tuesday’s Presidential elections.
4. As the advice to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, get off the negative ads obsession (turns all voters off).
5. And please with every email you sent, stop looking for donations all the time. It makes us feel you don’t care about anything but money and donations which we know to be true.
6. Find the soul of the Democrat Party again of FDR and John F. Kennedy.
7. And finally, listen. Never stop listening to those on the ground as we are the ones who can make the difference from the Democrats winning or losing an election.
Here is to the 2018 mid-terms, see you then and to 2020 Presidential election. Keep the faith and a sense of humor as The Amazing Democrats do and God Bless America,
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Democrats and “Hillary’s People” need to seriously wake up to the most dangerous man for America on the planet and could even have a chance of being our next President of the United States. Donald Trump is not only America’s number one clown around the world, he is also a very dangerous man. The Amazing Democrats have remained silent these past few weeks as we are very disappointed with the direction of the Hillary Clinton campaign. We mentioned time and time it needs a massive shake up campaign staff wise and still (even with the new television commercials for Hillary Clinton’s campaign this week), we see the same old, same old boring save approach messages.
This has never worked against the GOP and we certainly wouldn’t have had a hope in hell re-electing Obama against Romney in 2012 if we had taken that approach. We took our gloves off and played in the dirt with the GOP and we did what we set out to do, we won. The fact the Clintons are friendly with Trump (or Jeb Bush for that matter) makes no odds. Trump threw the first punch when recently (in the South) he brought up Bill’s sex life. So Hillary time to get serious. Shake up your campaign staff from top to bottom and don’t be such a stick in the mud by not hiring some of Obama old campaigners as remember we won for Obama in 2012. There were no rules and there simply aren’t when you are up against the GOP, they don’t play fair and Trump certainly won’t. You and your campaign are giving Trump too much of a head start and you will regret this big time should he be nominated as the GOP candidate. Didn’t you make that same mistake with an unknown Senator called Obama in 2008?
The secret with Trump’s weakness is his business deals in the past. Dig and dig hard. In the 1980’s in New York, who did he do business with then? Follow the money. Follow his treatment of people who got in his way. For example take the poor people of Scotland and what he did to the locals there who were just trying to make a living. Trump is not just a man about greed and stupidity, he is a very dangerous man for America and the world. Wake up Ms. Clinton please and start the fight today and shake up your campaign staff and campaign. Don’t repeat the mistakes of your 2008 campaign – Editor, The Amazing Democrats.
Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged on Tuesday that her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state was a “mistake,” and apologized directly for it, uttering words that many of her allies have waited to hear from her in hopes that she can quell a controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy for months.
“That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” Mrs. Clintonsaid in an interview with David Muir of ABC News broadcast Tuesday night. “And I’m trying to be as transparent as I possibly can.”
Asked by Mr. Muir about a recent poll in which respondents used words like “liar” and “untrustworthy” to describe her, Mrs. Clinton conceded that she still had work to do: “Obviously, David, I don’t like hearing that,” she said. “I am confident by the end of this campaign, people will know they can trust me, and that I will be on their side and I will fight for them and their families. But I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. I really didn’t, perhaps, appreciate the need to do that.”
When asked if she had ever second-guessed her decision to make another run at the White House, Mrs. Clinton began to choke up, admitting that she had, at times, before invoking her mother’s admonitions to “fight for what you believe in, no matter how hard it is.”
“I think about her a lot. I miss her a lot. I wish she were here with me,” Mrs. Clinton said of her mother, who died in 2011. But, she added: “I don’t want to just fight for me. I mean, I could have a perfectly fine life not being president. I want to fight for all the people like my mother who need somebody in their corner. And they need a leader who cares about them again. So that’s what I’m going to try to do.”
Mrs. Clinton’s apology on ABC was the more striking for coming just a day after an interview with The Associated Press in which she maintained that she did not need to apologize for her private email account and server, saying, “What I did was allowed.”
And in an interview with Andrea Mitchell of NBC News on Friday, Mrs. Clinton, asked if she was sorry, allowed only that she was “sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions.”
In an Aug. 26 news conference, Mrs. Clinton said she understood why people had questions about the email arrangement, which she said came about as a matter of convenience so she could carry a single mobile device. She said she took responsibility for the decision to use the private server and said it would have been better to have used a private email only for personal matters and an official one for work.
Last week, Mrs. Clinton’s aides showed a video of that news conference to a New Hampshire focus group of independents and Democrats, according to a Democrat briefed on the focus group whose account was confirmed by a person in her campaign. Participants said they wanted to hear more from Mrs. Clinton about the issue.
The focus group also showed that the email issue was drowning out nearly everything else that Mrs. Clinton was hoping to communicate to voters — something Mrs. Clinton and her husband have complained about to friends.
Privately, some of Mrs. Clinton’s allies have drawn comparisons between her resistance to using the word “mistake” over the email server and her similar reluctance to say she had erred in voting as a senator to support the invasion of Iraq. That vote dogged her in the 2008 presidential primary, but Mrs. Clinton resisted calling it a mistake, despite entreaties from many liberals and some of her own aides.
Only in her 2014 memoir, “Hard Choices,” did Mrs. Clinton say she had “got it wrong” on the Iraq invasion.
“In our political culture, saying you made a mistake is often taken as weakness when in fact it can be a sign of strength and growth for people and nations,” Mrs. Clinton wrote.
“I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn’t alone in getting it wrong,” she wrote. “But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.”
In recent weeks, some advisers had privately expressed hope that Mrs. Clinton would acknowledge a mistake on her email practices in similarly clear and blunt terms.
But others on her team, saying they were bound by the constraints of a complex situation, with several investigations underway, argued that Mrs. Clinton was limited in her ability to defend herself.
For her part, Mrs. Clinton had long insisted that the controversy was a news media fixation that voters had not raised with her on the campaign trail. At a Democratic dinner in Iowa last month, she even made light of it, with a joke about the iPhone application Snapchat, whose pictures delete themselves. And a few days later, when a Fox News reporter asked if she had wiped her server of data, Mrs. Clinton quipped, “What, like with a cloth or something?”
Mrs. Clinton, who has said that she broke no rules and is trying to be as transparent as possible, turned over about 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department, which is reviewing them to comply with freedom-of-information lawsuits. She has said she deleted the remaining 31,000, which she deemed not work-related.
But the email controversy has stayed in the headlines, with new reports about whether Mrs. Clinton’s server contained classified information, the F.B.I.’s taking possession of the server to ensure its security, and the decision by the technician who maintained the server for Mrs. Clinton to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. (She says no material she sent or received was marked classified at the time.)
In recent days, Mrs. Clinton’s aides have signaled that she planned to address the email controversy more openly, and with a tone of humility rather than defensiveness.
Maybe it is the end of summer that Hillary and her campaign is finally listening. This week they announced we will see the more human side of Hillary. About time! However she needs to do what we have suggested for months regarding the private server crisis (which the GOP smartly have turned into a crisis) and put her hands up and just say three words to the American people: “I am sorry”. This works in American. When Bill was a bold boy in the White House the American people rallying behind him when he said “I am sorry” regardless of the GOP witch hunt at the time.
The DNC historically hide from severe unfair attacks from the right and the GOP. We saw this in 2000 with Al Gore and 2004 with John Kerry and their inaction allowed George W. two disastrous terms for America. Hillary needs to take more of the fight against the Bushes and leave the fact that the Clintons and Bushes are friends aside. There is too much to be lost if she doesn’t. Her private email server issue fuelled by the money raised by the Super PACs (RATs) by Karl Rove, Koch brothers, Dark Vader (Dick Cheney) and Mr. Handsome himself (Sheldon Aldeson) is building up even more stream. The GOP is very smart and the Hillary campaign should never under estimate them. It is no accident that they have called her to give evidence in Congress over her private email server at the end of October and the timing couldn’t be worse. The GOP want to string this issue out into the primaries (which is only a few months away now). They really want Bernie Sanders to take New Hampshire and the other Southern caucuses from Hillary. As much as we love everything Bernie says he hasn’t a hope of hell of winning over the Southern states’ democrats or moderates. That’s a fact of political life but it is good that Hillary has a policy of not attacking Bernie’s message. That is wise. It is also smart that the campaign has finally turned on attacking Donald Duck Trump. Trump will lose speed as his mouth will prove that he nothing but a hot air balloon that in turn will damage the GOP. The focus needs to be to ensure that the Duck gets the GOP nomination and that the GOP don’t succeed by having Bernie Sanders nominated as the Democratic nomination.
However we were disappointed last week when Hillary on MSNBC didn’t say she was sorry for using a private email server when she was Secretary of State. She needs to take lessons from her husband Bill on this. American loves when our high profile individuals say “listen I was stupid about that issue, I am sorry, please forgive me” and then we might move on from this private email server crisis that is slowly hurting Hillary’s numbers and will continue to unless her campaign gets really serious and fights back.
Hillary also needs to make friends with the media and stop treating them like they are all her enemies. Whatever you think of CNN, Ed Henry is no enemy of the Democrats and hasn’t a hidden agenda for Fox (Fix) News. Hillary needs to lighten up with them, let her humor (which she has) and her human side flow, otherwise she risks isolating herself. She also needs to come out of that place of safety that hides her within the campaign and make some bold moves like a visit to the Fox (Fix) studios for an interview and say “OK, now I am here, say all those things please you have being saying about me for months and give me the chance to answer”. Voters and the public like boldness. We see that with the Duck’s campaign. Hate him if you want but he is proving bold and says what he thinks (no matter whom he offends) and it is working for the moment. The American public are tired of the same old same old from the GOP and the Democrats. Washington is not just broken, the main parties are as well as they don’t listen to those who can’t make ends neat financially on a weekly basis since our financially meltdown in 2008 and that is a lot families across the US.
So Hillary let’s see you put your hands up and say “I am sorry” for the private email server and yes becoming more human and funny on the campaign trail will really help your campaign but also becoming friends of the media will really do wonders for your 2016 chances. Be like the Duck, look like you’re having fun like he says he does and not someone who ducks under the table every time a journalist mentions those three damning words: “private email server”.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will renew her focus this week on changing the country’s weak campaign finance laws to limit the influence of big donors, even as her supporters exploit those weaknesses to raise millions of dollars for her election effort.
The Clinton campaign plans to release a video Tuesday that frames the candidate’s crusade against the dominance of corporate money in politics as personal. The two-minute production notes that the Supreme Court’s decision to allow corporations and unions to pour unlimited amounts into independent political committees came in a case involving her.
Citizens United, the conservative lobbying group at the center of the Supreme Court case, went to court to gain permission to pay for the broadcast of a movie attacking Clinton. It was called “Hillary: The Movie.”
“One of the things that people don’t really realize is that Citizens United was actually started from a conservative organization that wanted to bring down Hillary Clinton’s candidacy,” Kristin Schake, Clinton’s deputy communications director, says in the video. “They didn’t like who she is. They don’t like what she stands for.”
Still, Clinton is in an awkward position on campaign finance. She is calling for a reversal of the court’s decision, vowing to nominate justices who would uphold limits on campaign spending. She has also said she would push for a constitutional amendment if the court will not bend.
“We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans,” Clinton said in a statement. “Our democracy should be about expanding the franchise, not charging an entrance fee.”
But the candidate herself is taking advantage of the openings the court created as well as the laxity of the Federal Election Commission to raise eye-popping amounts of cash.
Clinton supporters say they have no choice. Unilateral disarmament, they often say, would only assure self-destruction.
The candidate’s proposals for changing the system are unlikely to get much traction if Republicans maintain control of at least one house of Congress, as is widely expected. The GOP has shown no interest in rolling back Citizens United.
Republican officials, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, argue that the high court was right when it held that the ability to spend money in support of a candidate is a key element of free speech, protected by the Constitution’s 1st Amendment.
Republicans also have little fondness for other items on Clinton’s campaign finance agenda, including a new system in which the federal government would match small campaign donations.
Under that plan, contributions made by small donors would be matched up to an unspecified, modest amount. Candidates would only be eligible for such funds if they agree to new limits on the amount they receive from any individual donor.
Clinton also is proposing new federal rules that would require publicly traded companies to disclose to shareholders any political contributions they make. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been urging companies to resist such disclosure amid several years of pressure from shareholder activists and academics.
An annual report called the CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability ranks companies for their transparency in disclosing political donations. The publicity around the report has pushed many firms to reform their practices.
There are many things we should remember about the events of late August and early September 2005, and the political fallout shouldn’t be near the top of the list. Still, the disaster in New Orleans did the Bush administration a great deal of damage — and conservatives have never stopped trying to take their revenge. Every time something has gone wrong on President Obama’s watch, critics have been quick to declare the event “Obama’s Katrina.” How many Katrinas has Mr. Obama had so far? By one count, 23.
Somehow, however, these putative Katrinas never end up having the political impact of the lethal debacle that unfolded a decade ago. Partly that’s because many of the alleged disasters weren’t disasters after all. For example, the teething problems of Healthcare.gov were embarrassing, but they were eventually resolved — without anyone dying in the process — and at this point Obamacare looks like a huge success.
Beyond that, Katrina was special in political terms because it revealed such a huge gap between image and reality. Ever since 9/11, former President George W. Bush had been posing as a strong, effective leader keeping America safe. He wasn’t. But as long as he was talking tough about terrorists, it was hard for the public to see what a lousy job he was doing. It took a domestic disaster, which made his administration’s cronyism and incompetence obvious to anyone with a TV set, to burst his bubble.
What we should have learned from Katrina, in other words, was that political poseurs with nothing much to offer besides bluster can nonetheless fool many people into believing that they’re strong leaders. And that’s a lesson we’re learning all over again as the 2016 presidential race unfolds.
You probably think I’m talking about Donald Trump, and I am. But he’s not the only one.
Consider, if you will, the case of Chris Christie. Not that long ago he was regarded as a strong contender for the presidency, in part because for a while his tough-guy act played so well with the people of New Jersey. But he has, in fact, been a terrible governor, who has presided over repeated credit downgrades, and who compromised New Jersey’s economic future by killing a much-needed rail tunnel project.
Now Mr. Christie looks pathetic — did you hear the one about his plan to track immigrants as if they were FedEx packages? But he hasn’t changed, he’s just come into focus.
Or consider Jeb Bush, once hailed on the right as “the best governor in America,” when in fact all he did was have the good luck to hold office during a huge housing bubble. Many people now seem baffled by Mr. Bush’s inability to come up with coherent policy proposals, or any good rationale for his campaign. What happened to Jeb the smart, effective leader? He never existed.
And there’s more. Remember when Scott Walker was the man to watch? Remember when Bobby Jindal was brilliant?
I know, now I’m supposed to be evenhanded, and point out equivalent figures on the Democratic side. But there really aren’t any; in modern America, cults of personality built around undeserving politicians seem to be a Republican thing.
True, some liberals were starry-eyed about Mr. Obama way back when, but the glitter faded fast, and what was left was a competent leader with some big achievements under his belt – most notably, an unprecedented drop in the number of Americans without health insurance. And Hillary Clinton is the subject of a sort of anti-cult of personality, whose most ordinary actions are portrayed as nefarious. (No, the email thing doesn’t rise to the level of a “scandal.”)
Which brings us back to Mr. Trump.
Both the Republican establishment and the punditocracy have been shocked by Mr. Trump’s continuing appeal to the party’s base. He’s a ludicrous figure, they complain. His policy proposals, such as they are, are unworkable, and anyway, don’t people realize the difference between actual leadership and being a star on reality TV?
But Mr. Trump isn’t alone in talking policy nonsense. Trying to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants would be a logistical and human rights nightmare, but might conceivably be possible; doubling America’s rate of economic growth, as Jeb Bush has promised he would, is a complete fantasy.
And while Mr. Trump doesn’t exude presidential dignity, he’s seeking the nomination of a party that once considered it a great idea to put George W. Bush in a flight suit and have him land on an aircraft carrier.
The point is that those predicting Mr. Trump’s imminent political demise are ignoring the lessons of recent history, which tell us that poseurs with a knack for public relations can con the public for a very long time. Someday The Donald will have his Katrina moment, when voters see him for who he really is. But don’t count on it happening any time soon.
The DNC are wrong to fall in line with the main stream media and begun an email campaign last week to its followers to defend Hillary’s private email server when she was the Secretary of State. You have to wonder who is hired as their Communications Director that is allowed to make such decisions.
Once again the DNC are digging themselves into a huge hole that they won’t be able to dig themselves out closer to the election and will end up hurting Hillary in the long term and not helping her win in 2016.
The Democrats and the DNC need to learn and learn fast to fight fire with fire. It is no secret that Sheldon Aldeson, the Koch brothers, Karl Rove and Dark Vader (Dick Cheney) himself were investigating Hillary over a year ago and the private server issue was brought to their attention as the investigators had to justified the large fees they were charging. Is the American public really that stupid that they can’t see through all this GOP bull?
The DNC could of easily months ago (before this story broke) quietly remind our main stream media that Dick Cheney when he was VP destroyed the VP’s residence’s guest list (which was illegal). It baffles me why the DNC can’t reach back to a few years ago when the last Republican administration in the U.S. was in fact George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Why is there is so much inaction of the DNC when this story was bubbling up for months before it even hit the main stream media outlets? Come on DNC wake up please or you will hand the 2016 Presidency to the Republicans and this will be twice in your history you kicked Hillary in the butt. I am amazed she is so forgiving of you when the Super Delegates (another crazy DNC rule) elected Obama as the candidate in 2008 even though Hillary was by far the more popular candidate for us all.
It is not a case of that is the past and move on. It simply is PC (Political Correctness) that has taken over in America. The words now used daily to quieten logically discussion has being set by the CEOs of Corporate America and the rest of us including the media follow like sheep. The word they invented was “inappropriate” and now that word is used for everything and everyday millions of times across the country to control the voices of dissent. Never do you heard them say that their own salaries or bonus are “inappropriate” or that Donald Trump is “inappropriate” in how he speaks about people’s race. No, because he is wealthy, he is not a no-body because he has that healthy bank account. Do you see where this is going DNC? It is like Shakespeare said in Hamlet: “was and is, to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure”. What we will be known as in this decade in the twenty-first century is a “bunch of hypocrites”. It can’t be helped with our obsession with PC and the word “inappropriate” that is mostly used to suppressive the voices of dissent while the very people imposing these rules are overpaid bloated useless CEOs that pour their company’s big bucks into the Super PACs RATs.
Hillary needs to take a leaf out of Obama’s 2008 campaign when he hired (somewhat) inexperienced people for all areas of his campaign. Hillary surrounding herself with all these “experts” from Bill’s past administration will be her downfall. Her communications department to date has proving useless with the email server story. What her people and the DNC are ignoring is that oiling this very wheel with the main stream media outlets are the Karl Roves, the Dick Cheneys, the Koch Brothers and Aldeson in Las Vegas and you fight fire with fire. What Hillary should do from September 2015 is hold a weekly hour long press conference every Friday morning and allow the reporters free rein with their questions and allow five minutes only (every week if need be) on the email server topic. She would even be advised to put her hands up and say “look I was wrong, it was stupid of me, and I did it for conveyance; that was all. No biggie here. Did I get a memo from the President to say he was writing me up for this? No.” The American public love that. You did something wrong, you were caught, say you’re sorry and by the summer of 2016 we will all be sick of Hillary’s emails and her private email server and please when she becomes President may she never send one email!
Listening to the learned attorneys on U.S. Federal law, when she was Secretary of State it was a very gray area then concerning using a private server for Federal government business and it is very unlikely the FBI could even find a law to proceed to move into a criminal investigation. Sadly for Hillary and the campaign the Roves, Cheneys, Kochs and Aldesons are feeding the main stream media differently and most not worth their grain in salt just publish this misinformation. Sound familiar? We had it for eight years under the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration and Obama left them off scot free. It’s called the “President’s Club” and there is nothing we the voter can do about that.
But the DNC emailing all their supporters last week trying to explain Hillary’s emails and her private email server when she was Secretary of State will do Hillary a huge disservice in the long term and plays right into the hands of Rove, Cheney, the Koch bothers and Aldeson. Please DNC fight fire with fire and let’s get Hillary elected in 2016.
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