When the Politico story described this arrangement as “essentially … money laundering” for the Clinton campaign, Hillary’s people were outraged at being accused of doing something shady. Bernie’s people were angry for their own reasons, saying this was part of a calculated strategy to throw the nomination to Hillary.But, of course, every word of the accusation turned out to be completely true. The outrage, as always, was merely over the temerity of reporters having pointed out the shady behavior in front of the public.
I wanted to believe Hillary, who made campaign finance reform part of her platform, but....
'I Wanted to Believe Hillary, But...'
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So again, the truth turned out to be even worse than what the paranoid crazies suspected. Hillary's people did not have "too much influence" over the DNC, they ran it outright.
Wow. At least when Republicans rig a primary we do it to nominate the least electable candidate we can find ... oh, wait. :)
Seriously though, the knives must really be out for the Clinton crew at this point. Brazille throws out a fig leaf of claiming (again) that the Russians hacked the DNC but I'm pretty sure that detail is going to get lost.
@ Christopher B - Brazile is not stupid and is playing her own game. She is m ore honest than the others, but that is damning with faint praise.
Two things about her piece. One is the tacit claim that DNC management didn't know what they were doing, and that even where management input was required (unanimity, apparently, when the DNC floated loans), they allowed the chair to act without control. It boggles credulity to think these grown, highly experienced and talented men and women atop the Party didn't understand what they were doing.
The other is that this piece, this manufactured angst and outrage, comes from the same woman who was so far into the tank for Clinton that she fed her debate questions in front of (at least) two primary debates. She's no more honest than any of the others of the Progressive-Democratic Party.
Eric Hines
Arguably, the Democratic Party rigged the convention (if not the primaries) for Obama in 2008. I wonder whether somewhere in Hillary's mind was the idea that turnabout is fair play. (Or simply that she wanted control to ensure that didn't happen again.)
Hard to be worse than what I stated...
"The other is that this piece, this manufactured angst and outrage, comes from the same woman who was so far into the tank for Clinton that she fed her debate questions in front of (at least) two primary debates. She's no more honest than any of the others of the Progressive-Democratic Party."
What this tells you, now that she's put this book out, is that the party faithful are beginning to think the Clintons are more of a liability than an asset, or think they're on the verge of getting busted, and want to disassociate so as to compartmentalize the damage to the Clinton camp and try to spare the party proper the impact of whatever scandal breaks.
It seems pretty telling to me that something is happening.
What this tells you...is that the party faithful are beginning to think the Clintons are more of a liability than an asset....
Or it's more venal and narrow than that (or in addition to that): Brazile is in this for her own aggrandizement and--also--she's trying to preemptively distract us from her own complicity in sabotaging a fellow Party candidate.
Eric Hines
Eric, if that's the case, why write the book at all? The media had pretty well shut that discussion down, and brought most of the party back in line. This just picks the scab back off- I don't see the motivation to do that sole as a CYA for something that wasn't really being made issue of.
Well, to make money, of course. Brazile is going to make a ton on the book sales.
That it was just about the money seemed insufficient to me. Then it occurred to me that the Clintons were the money lifeline for a lot of people in their orbit. Perhaps making money is the way to freedom from the Clinton 'plantation'. That makes more sense to me.
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