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.
haha. SOMEbody gets me.
His last campaign for mayor of Newark was against a black machine Dem who referred to Booker as white (he is light-skinned) and Jewish (not sure where that came from). He has serious “street cred” problems...
So what gave Brazile the authority to dump one nominee and replace her with another on her own volition?
The diaper, I was thinking...
Brazile was hardly motivated by love of country. She was motivated by the government-in-exile headed by Obama and his lovely henchperson Valerie Jarrett. She was also motivated by the $$ she’ll make on the sale of the book and public appearances.
The Democrat Party is dominated and operated by two dons—Obama and Hillary. Hillary could crush the Obamas with the s**t she has on them. But it’s unlikely since it could cost her her life.
So for now, just put on the popcorn.
So far her memoir is shaping up to be a brutal blow against her own party,
Sounds like someone wants her memoir to sell...
thought the odor was a mix of cabbage and urine?
Billy boy looks like he definitely is suffering from early dementia in that pic
“Just don’t say old people. Don’t wanna rile the natives.
I have it on good authority that some old people smell like toothpaste, pipe tobacco, and old spice.”
Well I guess I hit all three of those...and 4 if you count old!
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.
Actually, I AM rather old, and I do my darndest to make certain that I and my house do not have this condition. Sorry if I hit a nerve.
I respect my elders. I had home trainin'
She was hiding that, her health problems, and the media helped, just like they did with FDR and his Polio related handicap.
Careful - a lot of us FReepers are using that as a natural air freshener.....
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.
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Excellent prediction! Great call. :)
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