Anyone who follows this blog will recognize the basic issue I’ve raised all along re the Hillary Clinton campaign: Who anointed this woman? What gave her such a tremendous sense of entitlement that the Democratic nomination–indeed, the Presidency itself–was hers by right?
Former DNC staffer and Obama campaign manager Donna Brazile gives us the answer in her upcoming book. (for anyone that’s been hiding in the closet for the past day check out the following link)
http ://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774C
Clinton believed she was entitled to the Presidency because she bought it.
Brazile details how Obama left the DNC 24 million dollars in debt. Hillary Clinton’s campaign co-opted the party apparatus by paying off most of that debt. Almost one hundred percent DNC money intended for other potential Presidential nominees as well as down ballot candidates. While Bernie Sanders managed to match the money gush due to his popularity and fund raising prowess, his grass roots campaign was no match for the machinations of the Democratic Party establishment. As Elizabeth Warren now directly admits, the game was rigged from the start.
The Presidential primary season is a grueling process designed to identify the strongest candidate possible. That candidate was Bernie Sanders. By subverting the primary process the Clinton campaign left us with Trump, the most unbalanced and unqualified President in history. She victimized the American public for her ego and ambition. She degraded the moral standing of the Democratic party, and left it an easy target of conservative media. Trump can now legitimately divert attention from his multiple failings by once again attacking “crooked Hillary”.
Where were Donna Brazile and more notably, Elizabeth Warren last summer when these revelations would have mattered? Warren’s endorsement would have given Sanders a crucial victory in Massachusetts, which he lost by less than a percentage point. Their support could have given Sanders the nomination and we would now be in a very different position as a nation. They are as complicit as Jeff Flake and John McCain on the Republican side.
My only hope at this point is that this whole corrupt structure comes tumbling down and that something better rises out of the wreckage.
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