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Published on Nov 5, 2017
One-on-one with former DNC chair Donna Brazile
Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile sits down with George Stephanopoulos to discuss her new book on "This Week."
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Before a critical election.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)hlthe2b
(102,276 posts)(on the issue, my deviant DUers thinking otherwise)
Nitram
(22,801 posts)exaggerating her importance and responsibilities. I think she is being asked some good questions, but she's clearly a veteran politician. Always comes back with a torrent of words to distract attention away from the actual question she is asked.
emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029797086
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brazile-i-considered-replacing-clinton-with-biden-as-2016-democratic-nominee/2017/11/04/f0b75418-bf4c-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html
Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the partys 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Biden in the aftermath of Clintons fainting spell, in part because Clintons campaign was anemic and had taken on the odor of failure.
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Brazile writes that she was haunted by the still-unsolved murder of DNC data staffer Seth Rich and feared for her own life, shutting the blinds to her office window so snipers could not see her and installing surveillance cameras at her home. She wonders whether Russians had placed a listening device in plants in the DNC executive suite.
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Brazile describes in wrenching detail Clintons bout with pneumonia. On Sept. 9, she saw the nominee backstage at a Manhattan gala and she seemed wobbly on her feet and had a rattled cough. Brazile recommended Clinton see an acupuncturist. Two days later, Clinton collapsed as she left a Sept. 11 memorial service at Ground Zero in New York. Brazile blasts the campaigns initial efforts to shroud details of her health as shameful.
Whenever Brazile got frustrated with Clintons aides, she writes, she would remind them that the DNC charter empowered her to initiate the replacement of the nominee. If a nominee became disabled, she explains, the party chair would oversee a complicated process of filling the vacancy that would include a meeting of the full DNC.
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Nitram
(22,801 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)She was Chairperson of the DNC.
She wrote a book from her viewpoint, as Chairperson of the DNC.
Nitram
(22,801 posts)and choose a different one any time she likes! And she can spend as much of the Committee's funds as she wants for anything she personally feels is important! And she loves HRC and supported her 100% because she has great respect for her, but she had a few scores to settle so she included them in her book. And the rest of the Party was ineffectual and sterile except for her personal marvelous powers of persuasion and her limitless enthusiasm and experience! I mean, she entered politics at the age of nine! So the rest of the Party can GO TO HELL if they think she is exaggerating or settling personal scores at the expense of the Party's efforts to gain majorities in both houses of Congress!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)But hey, you're entitled to your opinion.
Nitram
(22,801 posts)In response to your post above questioning my statement that she greatly exaggerates her importance and authority. I'm a little surprised that someone who is "left of center" wouldn't have noticed...
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Brazile is exaggerating her role as chairperson. Perfectly accurate statement.
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)Can't wait to see her in the unemployment line.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)Hard to believe that for someone who is such a good politician (at least in this interview) knowing how to deflect and change the conversation she could say such stupid crap in her book.
She says in her book that the huge egos of Obama (!) Hillary and DWS destroyed the party and she had to fix it.
She is on the defense the whole interview and George asks her tough questions. She is cornered and petty.
Hope she gets push back from some of the stuff she said in the interview (maybe in the book too, I'll never know as I won't read it). She says she was "basically" working for free. What does the "basically" mean? Did she get paid? How did she support herself? Curious minds want to know.
She's done. Toast. She'll never work in Dem politics again. At least not under her real name.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)She's worked enough years for the party to be given that much respect at least.
There was obvious disfunction there. I blame DWS more than anyone. Brazile had to come in on a moments notice and try and make sense of the mess. I'm sure the Clinton campaign, that was used to their ace in the hole in Debbie paving their way in front of them, did not like at how now they had to deal with someone in authority that wasn't just catering to Hillary's campaign only.
And I don't buy into the argument that we cannot be self critical when Trump is in office. I think its overblown that this internal Democratic party squabble will somehow negate Trump and the GOPs actual criminal traitorous behavour in the publics eyes. I know Fox News and their propaganda is potent, but they are losing viewers while shows like Maddow's are gaining viewers.
We can afford to take the time to clean our weapons even while marching forward into battle.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)I also blame DWS (Obama should have removed her after the first disasterous midterms). It did feel like DWS was in Clintons pocket.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)of her life as a registered member of the Democratic Party, it's ludicrous to suggest that there shouldn't be positivity/bias towards her.