- She really is thinking about it, isn't she? Archived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov
on November 4, 2019, 1:11 pm
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This lunatic is really going to run... https://www.dumptheguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/04/the-stakes-are-enormous-is-hillary-clinton-set-for-a-white-house-run A high-profile book tour. Countless TV interviews. Political combat with a Democratic primary candidate and Donald Trump. A year before the US presidential election, it looks like a campaign and it sounds like a campaign but it isn’t a campaign. At least, not as far anyone knows. All this could be dismissed as no more than a smart way to promote a book, were it not coinciding with mild panic in Democratic ranks. The primary has attracted a record number of candidates and record diversity yet, many argue, failed to produce a John F Kennedy, a Bill Clinton or a Barack Obama, in terms of natural political gifts or charisma. Yeh, that's the main issue here....jesus wept. It then descends into hit-piece hackery... “None of them are what you would call inspirational,” said John Zogby, a Democratic pollster, noting that few percentage points separate leading contenders Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg. Frank Bruni, a New York Times columnist, wrote of Buttigieg last month: “He’s so very strong but so crucially weak – which is the story of the Democratic primary, whose leading candidates are all agonizingly unsafe bets. In no way is that disgusting empty suit a leading contender. Speculation has been fuelled by Biden’s uncertain debate performances, tendency to trip over his own words and vulnerability in fundraising and polls. A New York Times Upshot/ Siena College survey in late October found Warren in the lead in Iowa on 22%, followed by Sanders on 19%, Buttigieg on 18% and Biden fourth on 17%. It was particularly bad news for moderates who fear Warren and Sanders will take the party too far left, giving Trump ammunition for his charge that Democrats are embracing socialism and raising taxes. If Biden’s candidacy collapsed, the centre lane could yet open for Clinton. No mention of the real reason Biden's tanking: people are sick of corporate dems and their neo-liberal bullshit...then when they do mention Sanders it's in a negative light. Imagine the shit fest if that deranged zombie actually runs..... |
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