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Clinton Team Reportedly Has Someone New to Blame for Election Loss: Barack Obama
Mediaite.com ^ | feb 2 2107 gmt | ken meyer

Posted on 02/02/2017 11:27:42 AM PST by drewh

As Hillary Clinton and her aides continue to reel from their 2016 election defeat, they have now reportedly decided that former president Barack Obama deserves blame for what happened on November 8.

Ever since the election ended, Democrats have blamed people like FBI Director James Comey and Russian President Vladimir Putin for impacting the election with their respective actions. A new report from Axios’ Mike Allen, however, says that Clinton staffers are angry that Obama didn’t do more to help her deal with things like negative media coverage on her scandals and Russia’s efforts to sway the election.

Here’s what one Clinton official had to say:

“The White House was like everyone else: They thought she’d win anyway. … If he had done more, it might have lessened a lot of aggrieved feelings, although I don’t think it would have altered the outcome. The Russia thing was like a spy novel, and anything he had said or done would have helped get people to believe it was real.”

The reported conclusion among Clinton aides is that Obama should have come to Clinton’s defense earlier, and that he offered an inadequate response to the issues which clouded the public’s judgment. One Obama aide told Allen that the White House took a cautious approach to Russia because they didn’t want voters to think they were politicizing Russia’s hacking.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; election; obama
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1 posted on 02/02/2017 11:27:42 AM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

yawn


2 posted on 02/02/2017 11:28:54 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: drewh

Of course... “O” has had a ‘slash and burn’ career and a ‘slash and burn’ Presidency.... What did the Democrats expect?


3 posted on 02/02/2017 11:29:47 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: drewh
Doubt it. If 0bama had "helped", Hillary would have lost by even more.

4 posted on 02/02/2017 11:29:52 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: drewh

Another day, another scapegoat.


5 posted on 02/02/2017 11:29:55 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: drewh

I’m just happy to know that Hillary is so upset over the loss that she is still angrily looking for people to blame three months later.


6 posted on 02/02/2017 11:30:47 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: drewh

She lost because normal Americans hate her guts.


7 posted on 02/02/2017 11:30:49 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: drewh

Now that 0bama passed up his chance to pardon her, the gloves come off.


8 posted on 02/02/2017 11:30:54 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: drewh

I am not tired of winning. Not even CLOSE.


9 posted on 02/02/2017 11:31:07 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: drewh

>>> Here’s what one Clinton official had to say

What Clinton “official”? Official of what?

What title? What department? What function?


10 posted on 02/02/2017 11:31:27 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: drewh

Translation: He didn’t issue Hillary (and Bill?) an unconditional pardon before leaving office.


11 posted on 02/02/2017 11:32:17 AM PST by xzins (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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To: drewh

Obama could have announced the Obamacare rate increases anytime from October until after the election.

He chose to do so well before the election.

If the Hillary folks aren’t smart enough to know what that meant...no point in explaining it to them.

(Of course, one reason they didn’t _get it_ is because they don’t even know anyone who pays Obamacare rates.)


12 posted on 02/02/2017 11:33:49 AM PST by cgbg (Pedophiles--the siren is wailing--incoming!)
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Pat Buchanan said years ago that the Republicans lost those voters if they didn’t change their views on trade and immigration...


13 posted on 02/02/2017 11:34:05 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: drewh

Remember Obama said “I’m taking the entire month of Oct off to campaign for Hill”. Hahaha


14 posted on 02/02/2017 11:34:16 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: drewh

Hussein had Zer0 cred with Trump voters. No one listened to him no matter what lies he was spewing. Try again...


15 posted on 02/02/2017 11:36:19 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

It’s one of her BS groupies who has always been around her, just like flies on S&^T...only NOW she will have to pay them herself.

I think they’d kill one another fighting over her toenail clippings.

Any area within a couple of miles around her and Billy Boy is a REAL swamp!


16 posted on 02/02/2017 11:37:02 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: TakebackGOP

Yes. Pat was ahead of his time. Read “The Great Betrayal “ - also “The Death of the West” - it’s all there.


17 posted on 02/02/2017 11:38:46 AM PST by MacArthur
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To: drewh

Hopefully one of these days that bitch will look in the mirror and finally figure out that she and she alone was the reason why she was not elected.


18 posted on 02/02/2017 11:39:14 AM PST by bestrongbpositive
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To: butlerweave

Obama said he wasn’t worried about Russian hacking - why, because the election was in the bag. It was a non-event. It still is but they are screaming about it because the truth that the American electorate has thoroughly and convincingly rejected the Democrat Party is too painful to admit.


19 posted on 02/02/2017 11:39:18 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: BitWielder1

Fecal matter obeys gravitational imperatives.

It has been the Democrats’ own fault for not developing a farm team, grooming some former military officers, choosing good solid candidates in the “safe” districts and promoting them on a national scale, and doing the ground game in those districts where they already had a good relationship.

Instead, they jumped in to recruit from some very SMALL constituencies, making them their public face, rather than treating them like the props they are, and widely ignored the larger core groups, assuming, “Where else will they go?”

Stay home, or turn to Bernie Sanders, that’s where they went. And they never came back.


20 posted on 02/02/2017 11:40:33 AM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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