Brazile Tells Angry Clinton Supporters: "You Are Destroying Her Candidacy"

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Politico   |  Ben Smith   |   April 4, 2008 09:04 AM


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Commmenters on the fiercely pro-Hillary site HillaryIs44 have posted a couple of e-mails from Donna Brazile that capture some of the e-mail heat that superdelegates are taking -- in her case, from Clinton supporters angry at what they see as her stealth support for Obama in an op-ed calling on Hillary to stop throwing elbows.

Brazile responded to one angry e-mail:

Do you know how many undeclared supers are now just turned off by people like you? Do you understand you're hurting her and not promoting Hillary? Perhaps that explains why a candidate like Obama has raised $40 million in one month. You don't have to e-mail me again.

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How does Brazile know that the emails she's referring to are from true Clinton supporters...or people pretending to be? These blogs are full of people who do not represent what they claim to represent...so why take it for granted? I think she should have just ignored them, rather than falling for "it"...if there is an "it".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:36 PM on 04/06/2008

Go Away Donna. The sooner, the better!!

She is SO in the tank for Obama. Then she attacks the Hillary supporters.
She is an Obama supporter because of his race! if Obama were not running, she would be supporting Hillary, because she is a woman! Donna is a true hyprocrite.
I ask you, if the race were now between Senator Biden & Senator Clinton; where do you think Donna would be?

I am saying this NOT as a Obama/Hillary supporter, but as a true supporter of Senator Biden, who is the most experienced person in our Great country to be President.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:24 AM on 04/06/2008

Note to Donna, dear your candiate is a habitual liar, she wants the rules changed even though she agreed to them before hand, because somebody told her that the carriage would pick her up and the little birds would fly around her and make her a new pantsuit for her coronation. Unfortunately, when the carriage showed up it was a pumpkin and the birds simply shit on her polyester pantsuit then they all flew off to listen to the real candiate in this race, Obama. So, you keep on blaming her supporters and Obama but in the end your gonna have to look in the magic mirror when it says, she's not the faiirest of them all.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:15 AM on 04/06/2008

Donna Brazile is one of the most balanced political minds this country has. Just love to listen to her.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:22 PM on 04/05/2008

Brazil is a real straight shooter

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:58 AM on 04/05/2008

What kind of kool aid are the Clinton supporters drinking? I mean, what the hell does it take for all of you to open up your eyes? I bet that Clinton supporters are the types to stay in abusive relationships because they do not know how to recognize when they are being screwed. Let's be clear on a couple of things. The Clintons relunctantly released their tax records because it is evidence that they are being pimped out by large financial backers. I have always known that they pandered to lobbyists.
What is even more disturbing is Clinton supporters being in denial about her gaining the nomination. I don't like being in the company of so many dillusional people. Clinton is losing and rightfully so. She lies and cheats her way to the top, which I suppose is what we are accustom to seeing in our leaders of present day. Even if Obama was not running, I am not so sure that I could stomach supporting Clinton anyway.
The Clinton supporters are some of the most rabid, sick individuals that I have seen in a long time, that would be from the tippety tops to the low racist bottoms.
I recall a comment being made by one of the Clintonistas stating that the Barack Obama was more for the "cafe latte sipping crowd". Well, I believe it and quite frankly, proud of it. The Clinton supporters on the other hand, well, we all know what they've been sipping on, lol.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:47 AM on 04/05/2008

Ms. Brazille,
I completely agree with you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:08 AM on 04/05/2008

She promised to quit the Dem Party if the Supers overrule the Pledged (elected) Del's. So what? If that were to be the case, there would not be much of a party left to be a part of. The Democratic Party would then have failed to be a democratic party! What's your point about Donna's promise, that you linked to?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:17 PM on 04/05/2008

Brazille started off Obama's race baiting strategy. She was the one who first instigated racial anger into the campaign by saying she "as an African American" was offended by Bill Clinton's tone. So Bill Clinton's "tone" was somehow racist? Give me a break, Brazille has been backing Obama from the get go, and helping the Obama campaign play the race card like a fiddle. It's people like her that are destroying the Democratic Party.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:09 AM on 04/05/2008

What jibberish...yes Obama has been trying so hard to be the black candidate and be the victim. Because he actually likes getting into subjects that bring his national approval rating down

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:42 AM on 04/05/2008

Wayne's whirled so much he dizzy and doesn't make sense.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:09 AM on 04/05/2008

I'll have what Waynes is smoking.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:24 AM on 04/05/2008

Wayne is the Undead.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:32 AM on 04/06/2008

Looks like Donna B. is FINALLY coming to the realization that loyalty to the Clintons means complete subjugation to them and their whims. Now, she's the target of their anger and she's feeling the full force of their bullying tactics.

Time to get off the fence, Donna, and face the same music Bill Richardson had to deal with when he presumed to assert his right of free speech and independent thought -- something not allowed by devoted Clinton loyalists.

This is what happens when you let a spoiled child run things in the house -- they're never satisfied, always want their own way, and throw a temper tantrum when they don't get it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:55 AM on 04/05/2008

Do you know how the Obama camp got the Civil Rights Hero and superdelegate John Lewis (who marched with MLK, was beaten in Selma and jailed) to switch his allegiance to Obama? By threatening to expose details of his personal life. Yeah, that's the kind of transcendence we want.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:27 AM on 04/05/2008

jrterrier, it must be hard to type with all those white sheets covering your body. Oh well. Just throw another cross on the fire, that should help you see more clearly!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:35 AM on 04/06/2008

here are a couple of links. more to come.

Black Superdelegates Report Pressure to Vote for Obama -- http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/1/125939/7809

and from a National Public Radio article:

"Cleaver notes that some members of Congress who support Clinton are experiencing threats " not from fellow members but when they return home.

They have been told that they would face opposition in their next election if they do not support Obama, and Cleaver says some " such as John Lewis " have become the victims of "robo-calls." In Lewis' case, the calls said "very, very derogatory things about him."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19096400

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and by the way, the fact that you are and others here are accusing me of being a racist and a member of the KKK just because you disagree with me and without knowing a thing about me or my race, creed, or gender tends to prove my point, don't you think? if you don't like the message, attack the messenger.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:05 PM on 04/06/2008

jrterrier, you have just written some pure and utter garbage. Let's see a link to your lies.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:07 PM on 04/05/2008

How dare you post lies on this board. If there were any facts to prove this it would have been in the news. So quit using propaganda to support Hillary when I am sure she would not even want scum like you backing her.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:18 AM on 04/05/2008

Yes, we do know. Obama simply waited. He waited until it became impossible for Mr. Lewis, a man who has fought against bigotry his entire life, to deny the racist rhetoric of of Clinton surrogates and the failure of Senator Clinton to forcefully repudiate that rhetoric.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:57 AM on 04/05/2008

you're full of it, too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:54 AM on 04/05/2008

link or die (well not really) but you are obviously a liar

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:44 AM on 04/05/2008

i've posted links. just a few moments ago to a story from National Public Radio and from another cite. i just checked and they haven't been posted. so if they don't appear, blame huff post "censors".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:19 PM on 04/06/2008

Prove it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:09 AM on 04/05/2008

Are you kidding. The Obama camp has been dirty since the start. Attacking Bill and Hillary on race in NH claiming that mention of LBJ and the fairy tale comment were racists, to rile up the African American vote in SC. Ads in Spanish in Nevada claiming that Clinton was disrespecting the Spanish community and didn't want their vote. A co-chair of Obama's SC campaign saying Clinton was like Lee Atwater, the architect of the truly racist Willie Horton ads for Bush I. His Ohio chairman with the blue dress nasty emails. Ads and comments from his campaign that she is a liar. And the list goes on.

Even during the Wright controversy, when Obama has clearly told multiple contradictory stories about what he knew or didn't know about what Rev Wright said, you didn't hear the Clinton campaign say a word. The only thing Hillary has said about Wright was when she was asked 2 separate times what she would have done. She doesn't need to take heat for Obama on Wright. If she is asked what she would have done, she needs to answer.

There is absolutely nothing comparable in the nasty, personal attacks from the Clinton campaign toward Obama.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:08 AM on 04/05/2008

True, Clinton is the monster frrom Cloverfield.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:36 AM on 04/06/2008

you are a blind fool

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 PM on 04/05/2008

I love this woman. She ALWAYS tells it like it is. Even I have to stop and listen when she sticks up for the Clinton's and I'm often forced to reconsider my position.

I am disappointed to see that she has been harassed by the wackjobs over on HillaryIs44. *shudder*

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:43 AM on 04/05/2008

When the world is watching, when they are this inspired, if you are not for Barack Obama, I hope you take another look:

http://www.tellingthoughts.com/us-politics/the-power-of-one

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:17 AM on 04/05/2008

I almost cried reading this! I love it!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:03 PM on 04/05/2008

That was a great link. Thanks

Sending it off to others, especially those "undecideds."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 AM on 04/05/2008

Thank you both,

I hope Hillary and Obama supporters come together. Imho, lives depend on a Republican loss and the stronger the coat tails the better.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:25 PM on 04/05/2008

Hear, hear!! It truly is a world issue and the POTUS affects the world way beyond its own shores. Obama is the only sane choice.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:22 PM on 04/05/2008

This wman has a lot of gall.
Which she didn't exhibit running Gore's 2000 campaign.

She is central to destroying Hillary.
We see you on CNN girlfriend.

At least Bob Shrum stays out of it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:06 AM on 04/05/2008

I doubt if Donna gets 1/100 of the crap that is hurled at Hillary everyday. Baby, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Besides, Donna, its not like you're doing anything to bring the two sides of the Democratic party together.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:58 AM on 04/05/2008

Hillary has crap hurled at her for one main reason. Rather than campaign as a person with skills, leadership and experience to run for President, she has taken the low road, and run as a campaign machine that spins every possible moment. Spin every instance and twist hard to bend to whatever will or communication she deems appropriate to 'look good'.

You think there would be no 'blow back'?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:34 AM on 04/05/2008

The party is split. Done. Over. The crazy Clinton supporters are moving their votes to McCain to show the DNC how it feels to be disenfranchised by the party. Really. It is clear from the polls that we have done in recent days that the Hillary supporters, primarily the diehards that are women over 50, feel the arrogance of this race has been a signal that they need to pull Obama down a notch and Howard Dean, Chris Dodd, the Kennedys, Oprah and all the others. It is clear that Obama can't win without the very voters that he chooses to ignore--these particular women and they are not going to take it lying down. It is sad, but the party has brought in on itself by buying into the crass media-making of a candidate like Obama, who has been manufactured for this campaign.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:24 AM on 04/05/2008

What polls? who the hell are you? You're just a dic*less blowhard with nothing better to do then pout about not getting his way.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:42 AM on 04/06/2008

It is clear that Obama can't win without the very voters that he chooses to ignore--swoosie1.

And, your proof that Obama is ignoring women is? Hillary, is the issue here as she decided that in order to win she must label Obama as the black candidate; and polarize her base, in a similar vein to how Karl Rove polarized our current political environment with the republican agenda. Hillary has been able to successfully divide the women's vote, which was her goal as she knew that females comprise over 50% of Democrats. And, when Obama still won this demographic in Maryland, DC and Virginia, Hillary turned the divisiveness up a notch, if such was possible, and began to set forth a path to rein them back in.

It also should be noted that not all white females over 50 are supporting Hillary, which seems to be implied by your statement which 'ignores' the facts.


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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:50 PM on 04/05/2008

Obama ignoring women voters? Dang, he went on The View, Ellen, and Oprah. Who else besides women watch that "stuff"?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:16 PM on 04/05/2008