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monmouth4

(9,709 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 04:37 PM Nov 2017

An excerpt from Brazile's book. Interesting

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When Clinton fainted in New York City while suffering a bout of pneumonia, Brazile writes that she considered replacing her and her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, with Biden and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, reports The Post, which received an advanced copy of the book.

Brazile says she thought a Biden-Booker ticket stood the best chance of winning over working-class voters and defeating Republican Donald Trump.

In the end, though, Brazile couldn’t bring herself to give Clinton the boot, even though she thought Clinton was a sincere but flawed candidate whose ,reeked with “the odor of failure.”

“I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her,” Brazile wrote. “I could not do this to them.”

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I found this very interesting and post it as another POV...

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JI7

(89,262 posts)
1. This is just weird
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 04:38 PM
Nov 2017

It might be one thing if she was saying these were her thoughts. That she just thought Biden booker ticket would be doing better.

But to write as if this was something she could actually do and was actually considering it until she thought of others feelings ???????

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
3. she wrote "I could not do this to them"....from what I'm hearing she COULDN'T do "this" to
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 04:41 PM
Nov 2017

them....so yeah this is just weird...wouldn't call it interesting.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
4. How could she even unilaterally replace Clinton/Kaine with someone else, when the
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 04:46 PM
Nov 2017

Democratic Party had already nominated them. Seems to be a really odd claim. I think she blowing bullshit smoke out her ass.

If she had pulled a stunt like that, the Democratic Party would have been destroyed in the GE, giving tRump and the Repubs a mandate to destroy the country.


pnwmom

(108,990 posts)
6. You left out the part where she brilliantly recommended acupuncture for Hillary's pneumonia.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 04:49 PM
Nov 2017

And where she said Obama had a "titanic ego."

I'm not interested in anything this woman says.

riversedge

(70,285 posts)
10. Donna has thrown both Obama and Hillary under the bus a few days ago. Seems the book
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 05:00 PM
Nov 2017

continues with that theme

Clarity2

(1,009 posts)
13. Me neither
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 05:46 PM
Nov 2017

And what can be misconstrued as ego, is simply the fact that he had to wear his confidence strongly being the first black president working against a GOP Congress and their voters that didn’t accept an African American in the WH. He could not appear weak in any way. Women in positions of power are told something similar. Rather than being strong and confident they’re called things like b*.

California_Republic

(1,826 posts)
11. No...
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 05:16 PM
Nov 2017

But..

“using her powers as interim DNC chair to initiate the process of removing Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine”

Clarity2

(1,009 posts)
12. Wait
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 05:41 PM
Nov 2017

She wanted to throw out Clinton just because she had pneumonia?? Oh give me a break.

She sounds like a narcissist tbh, thinking she holds sole power over that decision.

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