2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAlthough O'Malley found Hillary "to be forthright and honest," says email flap is a 'distraction'
...the former Maryland governor said the distinctions on important issues between him and Hillary Clinton, as well as the other candidates, are being drowned out by the continuing Clinton email issue and are being muted by the sparse number of debates scheduled by the Democratic National Committee.
Martin OMalley declined to speculate why Clinton on Wednesday suddenly changed her tone regarding her use of emails, and admitted she should have used separate accounts for personal and official matters. But he said the issue is a distraction.
Until we start having debates, our party is going to be defined and branded by questions like, What did Secretary Clinton know, when did she know it and when will the FBI conclude its investigation?
Thats not a formula for success in the fall, OMalley said. The formula for success in the fall is to speak to the issues that matter most around peoples kitchen tables and the concerns they have for their own kids and their future.
He said it is important for leaders to be open and transparent in all of their dealings, and, he said, Clinton, whom he supported in 2008, has never said anything to me that I could not rely on, and in all her dealings with me I found her to be forthright and honest.
read: http://www.wmur.com/politics/democrat-omalley-youve-got-to-just-keep-going/34951806
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)bigtree
(85,998 posts)...if she finds herself in poll trouble.
elleng
(130,972 posts)NOT after she and others have debated with Martin O'Malley, imo.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Until we start having debates, our party is going to be defined and branded by questions like, What did Secretary Clinton know, when did she know it and when will the FBI conclude its investigation?
Yeah - we need to move on from this.
In the meantime - the Republicans are getting to define the terms of the General Election - and their terms are plain ugly.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Less debates is not the way to go. The GOP clown car should be called out on their insane ideas on how to run this country. When the GOP has more debates scheduled than the democrats, it should make us want more not less debates.