Posted on 11/05/2017 8:54:21 AM PST by Kaslin
The Washington Post reported new details from Donna Brazile’s forthcoming book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, that include the fact that the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee considered replacing Hillary Clinton as the Democratic party’s 2016 presidential candidate.
Following Clinton’s bizarre collapse during the 2016 9/11 memorial ceremony, Brazile seriously considered choosing either Vice President Joe Biden or Sen. Cory Booker from New Jersey as the party’s presidential nominee.
Brazile does not hold back her criticism of the campaign, palpably describing it as having “an odor of failure.” But it was not Clinton’s ailing health issues that caused her the most concern, rather it was the “anemic” campaign and those leading it.
"Brazile writes that she considered a dozen combinations to replace the nominees and settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the duo she felt most certain would win over enough working-class voters to defeat Republican Donald Trump. But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”
Brazile paints a scathing portrait of Clinton as a well-intentioned, historic candidate whose campaign was badly mismanaged, took minority constituencies for granted and made blunders with “stiff” and “stupid” messages. The campaign was so lacking in passion for the candidate, she writes, that its New York headquarters felt like a sterile hospital ward where “someone had died.”
Brazile also details butting heads with Clinton campaign staffers who attempted to boss her around.
“Brazile also recounts fiery disagreements with Clinton’s staffers — including a conference call in which she told three senior campaign officials, Charlie Baker, Marlon Marshall and Dennis Cheng, that she was being treated like a slave.
“I’m not Patsey the slave,” Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong’o in the film, “12 Years a Slave.” “Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!”
Brazile describes a creepy omnipresent-like feeling from Clinton operatives throughout the campaign.
"Brazile also was paid a surprise visit in her DNC office by Baker, who, she writes, was dispatched by the Clinton campaign “to make sure that Donna didn’t do anything crazy.”
“Again and again I thought about Joe Biden,” Brazile writes. But, she adds, “No matter my doubts and my fears about the election and Hillary as a candidate, I could not make good on that threat to replace her.”
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brazile even criticizes former President Obama’s ego.
“Brazile writes that she inherited a national party in disarray, in part because President Obama, Clinton and Wasserman Schultz were “three titanic egos” who had “stripped the party to a shell for their own purposes.”
Brazile writes that she inherited Wasserman Schultz’s office — with “tropical pink” walls that she found hard on the eyes — and “ridiculous” perks, such as a Chevrolet Tahoe with driver and a personal entourage that included an assistant known as a body woman.
The outgoing president no longer needed to assess his approval ratings or his policy decisions, at least not when the Democratic Party was fighting for its survival against a hostile foreign power,” she writes”
So far her memoir is shaping up to be a brutal blow against her own party, portraying an organization filled with internal strife and petty disagreements that caused massive damaging effects.
HRC had health problems? Who knew? [sarc]. Probably the first time Washington Post ever mentioned HRC health problems
Haha, good one doug from upland. Quick too.
“I believe that is being confused with Old People Smell.”
Delightful comment and I’m sure one that you feel applies to many FReepers,like me.
Thanks lot for an insulting post.
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Why don’t they just let the voters pick the candidate and stop meddling?
Hillary stinks. Literally.
body woman? Being this about Cankles, I’m afraid to know LOL
It’s good to be the Queen.
A body woman? To get rid of the bodies?
Several a day are posted on Twitter @DCCogan
“Hillary stinks. Literally.”
Yea, it was talked about a lot during the campaign. Probably due to her meds and deteriorating health.
Post more here. I always liked your song parodies.
Not exactly.
Hillary: "Huma, will you come loofah my stretch marks?"
I have a feeling that DB is ‘buying insurance’...
How many Sanders voters stayed home, voted third party, or voted for President Trump because that established beyond a doubt that the nomination was rigged?
We owe Ms. Brazille a thank you. For that and for now even further splintering the Democrat Party.
You don’t have to “do Twitter.” Just go to that link and you can read them.
I’m not sure what Brain Dead Buffalo thought Corey Booker would bring to the table; he wasn’t needed to carry NJ, and I don’t think blacks relate to him (despite enemedia attempts to cast him as Obama II). No real record of accomplishment; if anything, his tenure as mayor of Newark NJ left many blacks frustrated/disgusted.
Yo, Donna, are you familiar with the ties between slavery and the demonicRAT Party? If not, you ought to look into it. You might be surprised at what you learn.
'Course, I doubt if you would actually change your allegiance to the Party.
A key piece of the puzzle has been exposed: Hillary’s strangle hold on the whole DNC. And Hillary has no intention of giving that up. She will either be queen or the power behind the throne if she has her druthers.
That leads me to a prediction: The democrats, yes the democrats are the ones that are going to make sure Hillary and probably Bill go to jail. That is the only way they are going to pry the DNC from her cold dead hands (oops, maybe that is the other way).
Ahhh will do. Thanks. :)
I’m surprised this book ever made it to the publisher.
Just maybe, Donna is able to keep things a secret and not post everything on Facebook. Privacy is an almost lost art form for today’s politicians.
Someone connected to the party has given Donna the ‘go-ahead and say it’ permission. Maybe some of the top donors who didn’t like Hillary wasting or commingling their money any longer. Maybe a certain G. Soros.
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