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Donna Brazile Considered Replacing Clinton with Biden, Describes an "Odor of Failure"
Townhall.com ^ | November 4, 2017 | Timothy Meads

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. 

            


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016demprimary; 2016election; bookreview; brazile; donnabraxile; hacks; hillaryrottenclinton
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1 posted on 11/05/2017 8:54:21 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Odor? That was Crusty.


2 posted on 11/05/2017 8:56:39 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, yeah. We know. Old farts, boiled cabbage and stale beer.


3 posted on 11/05/2017 8:57:24 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

I believe that is being confused with Old People Smell.


4 posted on 11/05/2017 8:58:37 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Kaslin
“an odor of failure.”

and urine...

and farts....

and cabbage.

Don't forget cabbage.

5 posted on 11/05/2017 8:58:46 AM PST by bagster (It's okay to be white.)
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To: Kaslin

Hillary - the Corpse Flower in the room.

6 posted on 11/05/2017 8:58:48 AM PST by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: mewzilla
An oldie but a goodie from 2002...

"Crusty the Pantsuit": A Shrine to the Woman in Black

7 posted on 11/05/2017 8:59:04 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Kaslin
Brazile writes that she inherited “ridiculous” perks, such as a Chevrolet Tahoe with driver and a personal entourage that included an assistant known as a body woman.

Oh, riiiiiiiiight. If there's one thing demonicRATS of all stripes detest, it's ridiculous perqs.

8 posted on 11/05/2017 8:59:32 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin
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.”

Kind of like a Planned Parenthood clinic. Except it was sterile.

9 posted on 11/05/2017 9:00:55 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: mewzilla

The so-called “Water Buffalo” knows that H->! stinks...


10 posted on 11/05/2017 9:01:00 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: bagster
“I’m not Patsey the slave,”

Laws, no.

11 posted on 11/05/2017 9:01:01 AM PST by bagster (It's okay to be white.)
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To: Kaslin
Big Daddy: "What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?" -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
12 posted on 11/05/2017 9:03:28 AM PST by Scooter100
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To: Kaslin

Wait, the liberal media last year told me this was all right wing propaganda. Hillary was at the peak of health despite being thrown into the back of a van like a sack of potatoes. Who knew, the liberal media just repeated dnc talking points and the truth was actually the opposite of what they were telling me. Wow, maybe they really are just dnc operatives with press passes - Sarc.


13 posted on 11/05/2017 9:03:47 AM PST by Nicojones
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To: Kaslin

I keep seeing this Internet meme that DB considered replacing HRC. Total, unmitigated BS. She didn’t even have the power to name her own staff unless approved by the campaign. How in heaven’s name would she replace HRC?

This entire meme is absolutely nothing except a kind of click-bait to sell books.

The day she suggested this preposterous thing aloud, would have been three days before her burial.

This is nothing but an “I almost said something” moment.

Don’t be surprised if DB has a heart attack in 3-2-1 . . .


14 posted on 11/05/2017 9:04:07 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Kaslin
"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.”

And also to slip her the questions she was to feed her CNN colleagues to aks at the debates.

15 posted on 11/05/2017 9:06:01 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: mewzilla

Maybe someone’s “Grampers” were full. Pant suits can hide a lot.


16 posted on 11/05/2017 9:06:08 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Kaslin

“Odor of Failure”

I don’t think Donna picked that expression lightly. She apparently was a bit closer to her than she could handle.


17 posted on 11/05/2017 9:06:48 AM PST by BobL ( I beat up McDonald's and Walmart because it makes me feel like a man.)
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To: Kaslin

I’m sure she’s right about the odor, but my question is who died and left her in charge of choosing the nominee?


18 posted on 11/05/2017 9:07:22 AM PST by samtheman (Where is the Clinton Dossier that is the product of Trump/Russian collusion?)
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To: Kaslin

19 posted on 11/05/2017 9:07:39 AM PST by doug from upland (Stand and honor the flag --- locking arms BS doesn't cut it)
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To: Kaslin
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.

Which is exactly what she would've inflicted upon the entire country if her voter fraud efforts had succeeded.

20 posted on 11/05/2017 9:08:07 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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