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is mentioned, my cat, who is an avid follower of C99 and sometimes logs in before me, horks up a huge hairball and I have to clean up the mess.

#2.1
Have you seen this article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/please-god-stop-chelsea-clinton-f...

This bit made me laugh out loud.... disturbing the cats!!

What comes across with Chelsea, for lack of a gentler word, is self-regard of an unusual intensity. And the effect is stronger on paper. Unkind as it is to say, reading anything by Chelsea Clinton—tweets, interviews, books—is best compared to taking in spoonfuls of plain oatmeal that, periodically, conceal a toenail clipping.

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@HenryAWallace but mostly on the hope that they'll patronize their local libraries more instead, as I think you've suggested elsewhere. But the other side of it is that I wouldn't mind if more people got to see inside a deeply fraudulent political system that props up monomaniacal deadbeats with the help of all and sundry in the Beltway and the MSM, as long as the paychecks and party invitations keep coming in for them.

Because the system in no way has anything to do with them serving the people; it's all about self-centered opportunism while at the same time being beholden to Big Money interests, and I don't think enough really grasp the extent of that. The characters involved, as Taibbi explained, see elections as "dueling contests of 'whip-smart' organizers who know how to get the cattle to vote the right way. If someone wins an election, the inevitable Beltway conclusion is that the winner had better puppeteers." People should also come away dissuaded from thinking Her was some kind of feminist struggle to break the glass ceiling. All of these myths need to be shattered. If the book does not accomplish that then I'd say outright, don't buy it.

In this sense her comradeship with fellow Neoliberal Nightmare from NY, Andy Boy Cuomo, can't be denied. Both are detested and there only because of family relations and misguidedly thought of as hopefuls by a clueless, hermetically-sealed party apparatus utterly disconnected from the public. Both have been sold to the public by powerful public relations firms as destined stars, only to be the complete duds. The proof is in the pudding, as they say...

There are so many shady ways that US political officials get enriched while in office - Andrew Cuomo edition: https://t.co/utoHflmvCD

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 19, 2017

And in the most misleading headline ever, The NY Times claimed "Sales of Hillary Clinton’s New Book Are Off to a Slow Start." In Sept 2016, with the candidates about to face off for the final stretch, they must have gotten what in retrospect had to be the first death knell clanging in their ears. $hills couldn't even sell 3,000 books in her first week. As the article explains there's usually months of media blitz prior and the first week sales are by far the strongest, usually accounting for a 1/3 of total sales.

Given that fraudsters can't sell their stories when the public smells a rat, in a way I would hope a book exposing Her in all her venality, entitlement, pettiness, and ugliness would sell a ton. These Neoliberal vermin need to be knocked out for good.

#2.1

The book is not a biography of Hillary, but it is about Hillary. It's not about the campaign of anyone else.

"Shattered" is a double meaning reference to her glass ceiling comment of 2008 and the film shown at her nomination that showed the glass ceiling of male presidents shattering as became visible. And of course, it also refers to how she and her campaign were shattered by her loss. Clever name, I thought.

I would love to see people treat it as irrelevant because I think low sales will reflect poorly on her. Someone released a book about Hillary's losing campaign and Americans yawned and went about things that mattered to them. Conversely, if sales are good, it shows interest in Hillary did not abate when she lost.

I don't think the book will says anything new about Democrats or Hillary anyway. Game Change exposed a lot about how the Clintons operate and her campaigns operate. As my post said, there's tons of other, free info on the internet people.

If someone is dying to read it, as my prior post said, borrow it from a friend or the public library. Just don't help make it seem like Hillary still has "juice."

I think she many run again, too. If I were sure she weren't running again, I would have said, "She won't run again." Instead, I posted "Take her at her word," the phrase she used when asked if she believed Obama was a Christian. Not yes, or "of course I do," but "He says he is and I take him at his word."

@HenryAWallace

Sorry, HW, but I did buy it (ebook version, I sure wouldn't pay hardcover price for it) and I'm reading it now, I've not gotten that far yet, but so far very little is about Hillary or the Clintons. It's about the 2016 campaign, and all of the dem party "operatives" who were part of it. And who will continue to run dem party campaigns in the future, whether or not we ever see another Clinton on a ballot. It's about the party, and the big names who control it.

It is very inside baseball re politics, of course, which is obviously not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm finding it interesting and learning about the people who run the games. It's not even "about Hillary" in fact... now that you say this, it strikes me how aloof and apart from it all she is, even in the book. She is a distant, mysterious character who the campaign staff are theoretically trying to get elected, but for many of them it seems they are there only because it's their job de jour. And they will be moving on to other jobs and campaigns.

There's also a lot about Bernie's campaign and his people as well. Im just getting to the chapter called Feeling the Bern.

I'm also liking it as an antidote to all the excuses and false blame bullshit we've been subjected to lately. That's why Clinton partisans hate it. It doesn't peddle their approved talking points, and instead reveals the incompetence that drove the whole thing off a cliff.

I think a realistic countering of their dishonest narrative of what happened is worthwhile, if for no other reason than to help bury the popular myth of the Clintons' great political skilz. Which obviously hasn't yet died the death it deserves.

I'm not saying read it or don't, but as someone who is reading it, I think your assessment of it is off base. People should buy it, if they have an interest in the subject.

#2.1

The book is not a biography of Hillary, but it is about Hillary. It's not about the campaign of anyone else.

"Shattered" is a double meaning reference to her glass ceiling comment of 2008 and the film shown at her nomination that showed the glass ceiling of male presidents shattering as became visible. And of course, it also refers to how she and her campaign were shattered by her loss. Clever name, I thought.

I would love to see people treat it as irrelevant because I think low sales will reflect poorly on her. Someone released a book about Hillary's losing campaign and Americans yawned and went about things that mattered to them. Conversely, if sales are good, it shows interest in Hillary did not abate when she lost.

I don't think the book will says anything new about Democrats or Hillary anyway. Game Change exposed a lot about how the Clintons operate and her campaigns operate. As my post said, there's tons of other, free info on the internet people.

If someone is dying to read it, as my prior post said, borrow it from a friend or the public library. Just don't help make it seem like Hillary still has "juice."

I think she many run again, too. If I were sure she weren't running again, I would have said, "She won't run again." Instead, I posted "Take her at her word," the phrase she used when asked if she believed Obama was a Christian. Not yes, or "of course I do," but "He says he is and I take him at his word."

@cjeagles If I were active in campaigns, especially paid to do it, I would be reading everything I could lay my hands on about the failed campaign, and about the Trump winning one.
I was looking at the whole issue from an outsider's viewpoint.
I know damn well Hillary's fans will ignore the book or read it and call it out as bullshit. Comey...no...RUSSIA...no...BERNIE all caused Her to lose, and White Guys.
I hope the book, whether purchased or checked from a library, will educate people to run candidates who have a stated agenda to improve the lives of all Americans.

#3.2 I'm interested in the book because to me it sounds like more about the losing campaign and tactics than it does about Hillary or painting her as the hero. It surely does NOT sound like they are painting her as a hero.

As someone who has worked on many campaigns and turned down a chance to for employment on the (not-so) inevitable one's campaign, my interest is personal.

But the most important reason to consider reading it (hopefully at a library for free) is to understand what we are up against in the DC establishment. You know that whole "know your enemies" thing? Yeah, that. I'm certainly not going to buy a book that puts money in the Clintons' pockets, which this book does not appear to. If someone has specific information to the contrary, that would be more useful than ALL CAPS demands to not buy or read the book.