@detroitmechworks

Was of course, running Hillary Clinton.

There are many, many other Hillarys with MUCH better chances of being elected.

/snark

@gulfgal98 But that would be completely un-believable, right, @gulfgal98 ?

Laughable, even...

We could see what nearly every one of us here said about the Clinton campaign from the very beginning. I will start with her egotistical campaign slogan of "I'm With Her" which epitomizes everything wrong about the campaign and mostly about the candidate herself. In a Salon article out today, Bernie Sanders said of that slogan "It's so phony."

The campaign was ALL about HER, not about the voters or what she intended to do to help so many struggling Americans. It was all about her and her desire to become the first woman President. Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau was asked to help write her announcement speech, but dropped out instead.

The former speechwriter for the prior two presidential campaigns, Favreau reportedly dropped out of the announcement speech because the campaign did not have a “common purpose.”

There is a line in the Times review that describes the Clinton campaign as "shockingly inept campaign hobbled by hubris and unforced errors." The one word I have used for years to describe the Clintons, Hillary in particular, is "hubris." Hubris laced with a very strong dose of entitlement. This is a candidate who could not bring herself to actually get out and campaign among the people, but instead held small, private fund raisers among her real constituency, the well to do.

I despise the Clintons to no end and am still angry that the Democratic party cannot admit that Hilary Clinton and her arrogant and inept campaign are responsible for Donald Trump in the White House today.

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@CS in AZ and I was just going to post the same thing re: hardbacks and paperbacks.

As for this book, I read a teaser last week and it sounds like the Clinton chapters of Game Change with slight updating. In other words, pretty much what I expected. Sigh.

Paperbacks typically come out months later than the hardback because people who really want to read something will pay more to get it sooner. Even though paperbacks are actually preferred by most readers. In the used book trade, paperbacks are much more popular, while people's expensive hardbacks become doorstops. In the early days of ebooks, the download version was usually delayed until the paperback release, so as not to interfere with first run hardback sales.

I'm sort of tempted to read this, but not sure. I already despise her, but a dose of truth about the campaign might be beneficial to my state of mind. I like the one star reviews on amazon, complaining that the book fails to provide the approved talking-point excuses. So that's a plus.

@FutureNow
have EVER been acceptable to me. I was a young mother when I started watching the two Clintons pulling their shit to make their political bones. I watched as those two slugs VICTIMIZED those who had the least, were the most vulnerable in this country, like women on welfare. Hungry kids were no problem for Hillbillary. That's what dirty poor people who breed deserve, no fiod, no healthcare, no shelter from the elements. Those two fucks CRIMINALIZED POVERTY.

Then there were those who had done 'bad' things so to show what tough law-and-order guys they were, they pushed laws that made damn sure minorities and the poor (the super predators) went to jail for a long long time. Sell a dime bag, get caught with a joint, steal so that you can eat, do 20 years. (And that Biden fuck with his coke snorting kid is just as bad.)

When people saw what her friends Lloyd, Richard, and Jamie did to the economies of half the planet, and considering how much money she was taking from them during and after their financial rampage, the horrid wretch was doomed right out of the gate. In addition, once people saw the lengths she'd go to to hide what she was up to as SOS and after the two years of her lying about that server (just like she lied about the Rose Law Firm billing records for two damn long years) rational people didn't want her anywhere near the WH anyway. She was the most distrusted and disliked politician in America today.

I always laugh when I think about those two and the fact that if she hadn't lied about those billing records for two long years and had turned them over when she was originally asked for them, there would not have been an open investigation into those two and old Linda Tripp wouldn't have anyone to go tattle to when she found out about Monica and Bill's cigar fetish. She is due a big thank you for that one!! I wonder if Clenis ever thinks about that,

I think Clinton would have been a (just barely) palatable option to many progressives if Obama hadn't gone out of his way for the past eight years to assure us that there was no reason whatsoever to get our hopes up.

In 2008, Democratic voters had delivered the House, Senate, and Presidency, and almost immediately the backtracking and excuses started - our majority wasn't a "real" majority because Conservadems (supposedly a different breed from the usual name brand), the President has to represent all Americans (especially the powerful and wealthy), etc.

The fruits of their two years of legislative majority was a sop to the insurance companies devised by the Heritage Institute, and making sure no banksters or war profiteerers were prosecuted for their Bush-era crimes. Oh, and Lily Ledbetter!

Obama could've squared the deal with much of the base as late as 2014 by killing DAPL, TPP, and Keystone, but he just couldn't bring himself to cross his corporate masters (and naturally Clinton wanted those things too).