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For Hillary Clinton, dreams die hard
The Winston-Salem Journal ^ | November 15, 2017 | Carl Golden

Posted on 11/15/2017 6:24:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Nothing, it seems, energizes Bill and Hillary Clinton's dedicated band of camp followers faster or with greater intensity than suggestions that responsibility for her devastating loss last November lay with the campaign itself.

Democratic Party apparatchiks and sympathizers in the media who cling to the Clintons like barnacles to the hull of a garbage scow spring into action at the first hint of accusations that the campaign team was grotesquely dysfunctional, beset by power struggles and populated by egomaniacal backstabbers.

Their latest target is longtime Democratic Party activist and former national chair Donna Brazile, whose recently published book "Hacks" is brutally unsparing in its portrayal of the campaign leadership as inept, insular and caustically dismissive of other more experienced individuals. The Clinton loyalists quickly began trashing Brazile, accusing her of shameless self-promotion and a crass attempt to hype book sales.

It's the same basic script the Clinton camp has followed since her defeat at the hands of President Trump: The blame lies with Russian agents, former FBI Director James Comey, WikiLeaks and other assorted evil-doers intent on blocking her from becoming the first female president.

The script also requires damaging the credibility of her critics, suggesting they have sinister motives -- financial gain or personal retribution -- or dismissing them as disgruntled, angry and vindictive people.

The script, moreover, demands bending the ongoing narrative away from embarrassing revelations while characterizing Clinton as seizing the high moral ground and driven by altruism.

In Brazile's version of the deal struck by the DNC and the Clinton campaign to cede control over virtually every aspect of the committee's functions to the campaign in return for a bailout, the arrangement was unethical but not illegal.

The Clinton version was that it was a sincere and generous effort by the campaign to assure the committee's financial stability and maintain it as a viable organization. Control of personnel, strategy and spending was merely a welcome side benefit.

The agreement, in Brazile's view, came perilously close to rigging the primary election process to favor Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Brazile concedes there is no hard evidence to support allegations of a rigged process, but there is little question that under her predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz, the committee tilted decidedly in Clinton's direction.

The uproar over Brazile's book is but the latest storm over the decision-making, strategy and overall conduct of the Clinton campaign. Earlier books, analyses and countless autopsies carried out on cable television talk shows have kept the issue alive for more than a year and all are remarkably similar in tone -- the election was in the bag, it was hers to lose and the ineptitude and stubbornness of the campaign leaders produced arguably the greatest electoral upset since President Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in 1948.

More to the point, though, it is the Clintons themselves who have refused to put the election behind them and who insist on rationalizing her loss and retaining a dominant role in party affairs.

National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, in television interviews, dodged all questions based on the Brazile book, by repeating "it's time to move on." He sounded much like someone who felt that if he repeated it often enough, it would somehow come true.

His wish, though, ignores the reality that the Clintons do not want to move on. Her continued public commentaries, for instance, are designed to re-assert her relevancy and convince Americans that they made a grievous error in rejecting her.

For Perez to realize his desire will require a confrontation with the Clintons to suggest they relax in their Westchester County home and spend quality time with their grandchildren.

It is time for Bill and Hill to accept the role of elder statespersons, available to share their wisdom with others but not supplant them. Neither has displayed any clear sign of gracefully retiring and, without a hard shove, will attempt to remain center stage.

They've become a cold sore on the upper lip of the Democratic Party and, without medication, will be the focus of what people see when they look at the organization.

In the meantime, the Clinton loyalists remain vigilant and stand ready to engage in hand-to-hand combat with those who would blame their idols for the current state of party affairs.

One can envision them rising each morning, slipping into their "I'm With Her" tee-shirts and fantasizing about striding the corridors of the White House.

Dreams die hard.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016; brazile; hillary; trump
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1 posted on 11/15/2017 6:24:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would be a bad thing if she drank a lot, cried a lot and and chewed her pillow in her sleep. That would be bad.


2 posted on 11/15/2017 6:26:30 PM PST by BipolarBob
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3 posted on 11/15/2017 6:26:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800><p><h1>NYC 9-11 Memorial 09/11/2016</h1>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fitting, since she has always been where boners go to die.


4 posted on 11/15/2017 6:28:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I still think every time I see this they all carry on like oh crap here she goes again lets get her in the van lets get her right again so she can go on with the show like a bunch of roadies and mangers keeping the train wreck of a performer going


5 posted on 11/15/2017 6:30:32 PM PST by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: al baby

Recently read an article about The Buffalo’s book where the author claimed Hillary was “helped into the van”.

Kinda like I used to “help” those bags of ground cattle feed into the back of dad’s pickup


6 posted on 11/15/2017 6:34:07 PM PST by digger48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It seems like one minute she's here,



And the next...



Falling to the bottom of a hypermatter reactor shaft. You never know.
7 posted on 11/15/2017 6:36:40 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They've become a cold sore...

More like a genital wart.

8 posted on 11/15/2017 6:38:03 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Telepathic Intruder

There was a Star Trek episode where this little guy had a dummy that he would show to the view screen.

I’m telling you, Hillary and that dummy are the same.


9 posted on 11/15/2017 6:39:45 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do you think we will ever get a clear, definitive explanation of what ailment affects the witch, or will the true nature of her condition pass into history’s hall of mysteries along with the true identity of Jack the Ripper and what happened to Malaysian Air flight 370?


10 posted on 11/15/2017 6:39:54 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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11 posted on 11/15/2017 6:40:00 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anybody else notice it was all Donna Brazile last week and then just as suddenly as she appeared, she fell off the charts?

Not a word since she started backpedaling about some of her claims in her new book.

I think the Clintons pushed back and used their velvet hammer approach to get Donna to understand the consequences of revealing crap about Hillary is not worth her life.

"Stand down and shut up or we'll do it for you" a la Clintoncide.

12 posted on 11/15/2017 6:40:37 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It is time for Bill and Hill to accept the role of elder statespersons... Elder rapists and crooks, you mean.
13 posted on 11/15/2017 6:46:15 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: blueunicorn6
I think you might be onto something.


14 posted on 11/15/2017 6:48:15 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

That’s it!!!


15 posted on 11/15/2017 6:48:53 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is not Christian of me and I feel sorry but I have to say that I loathe this woman as much as any evil person in world history.


16 posted on 11/15/2017 6:48:57 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: blueunicorn6
There was a Star Trek episode where this little guy had a dummy that he would show to the view screen.

I’m telling you, Hillary and that dummy are the same.



17 posted on 11/15/2017 6:50:50 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lol!


18 posted on 11/15/2017 6:51:19 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Thanks!

That is a good one!


19 posted on 11/15/2017 6:54:13 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://media.tenor.com/videos/cba8ba1bd38820f347fcb08d7aa51a10/mp4


20 posted on 11/15/2017 7:06:02 PM PST by Beowulf9
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