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riversedge

(70,359 posts)
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 11:10 PM Jan 2016

Donna Brazile DESTROYS Palin For Blaming Her Woman-Beating Son’s Arrest On Obama

good on Donna.


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Donna Brazile DESTROYS Palin For Blaming Her Woman-Beating Son’s Arrest On Obama (VIDEO) http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/21/donna-brazile-destroys-palin-for-blaming-her-woman-beating-sons-arrest-on-obama-video/




Track Palin served with the Alaska-based 25th Infantry Division’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team for a single year in 2008, while George W. Bush was still President.

Palin’s nonsensical claim didn’t sit well with veterans — or with CNN political commentator Donna Brazile, who put Palin on blast Wednesday.

“You have known me for a long time, so I’m just gonna say it: she’s a liar,” Brazile told Anderson Cooper. “That’s a damn lie.” She pointed out that House Republicans slashed $1.4 billion (with a “b”) from President Obama’s requested budget for veterans’ services, which included a $690 million reduction for medical care — the sort of thing that would help veterans with PTSD:

“I care for all veterans — I am the daughter of a veteran. And to go out there and to insinuate that the president of the United States is trying to hurt veterans when in fact he is trying to put more resources so that we can give our young and old veterans the care we need, that’s just a damn lie. You can say Donna Brazile said it. I approve this message.”

“Of course [Track Palin] should be held responsible for his own personal behavior,” Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord contended when asked if Palin was right to blame Obama. “But we have been told time and time and time again that there is a serious problem within the VA treating veterans. And I think that’s the point she’s trying to make.” He did not explain how in the world blaming Obama brought attention to any issues with the VA.

“Drink the water, Jeff,” Brazile shot back. “Drink the water.”

Watch Brazile smack Caribou Barbie down below:.................

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Donna Brazile DESTROYS Palin For Blaming Her Woman-Beating Son’s Arrest On Obama (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2016 OP
I would think that handmade34 Jan 2016 #1
Oh she or hers are always victims. Mendocino Jan 2016 #2
it has been pointed out that, mama grizzly that she is, she is so concerned about her son niyad Jan 2016 #13
Track Palin Joined The Military DallasNE Jan 2016 #22
The army has one year-only Ilsa Jan 2016 #27
My Source Said One Year, But That Was Misleading DallasNE Jan 2016 #30
The Republicans are so quick to blame others for their actions. Just like MICH GOV. Snyder rladdi Jan 2016 #3
Bill Maher should be good tonight. SCVDem Jan 2016 #4
If a son grows up to become a woman-beater, it must be the President's fault, not bad parenting. tclambert Jan 2016 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2016 #6
caribou barbie...reminds me of ed schultz restorefreedom Jan 2016 #7
To Donna Brazile demigoddess Jan 2016 #8
K&R TheBlackAdder Jan 2016 #9
I am a combat veteran with PTSD Fortinbras Armstrong Jan 2016 #10
My understanding is that he was never in combat, so he doesn't have PTSD. lob1 Jan 2016 #21
So she lied, and is trying to blame others -- or, at least, outside forces -- for her son's bad acts Fortinbras Armstrong Jan 2016 #24
I love her pandr32 Jan 2016 #11
just as a matter of curiosity, is there anybody who claims to remember actually serving niyad Jan 2016 #12
He only went to avoid prison n/t farleftlib Jan 2016 #15
yes, I know that. the question is, is there any proof, any eyewitnesses to him actually being IN niyad Jan 2016 #16
sorry my bad farleftlib Jan 2016 #17
welcome to du. niyad Jan 2016 #18
Thank you farleftlib Jan 2016 #19
if we had real journalism, she would have remained in the frozen tundra where she belongs. niyad Jan 2016 #20
wait--isn't she a member of the party of personal responsibility? niyad Jan 2016 #14
She's kind of like a Family Values Neocon Frisco Hillboy Jan 2016 #23
so true. niyad Jan 2016 #28
i would have mentioned GWBush electrocuting servicemen. pansypoo53219 Jan 2016 #25
Who serves for only a year? 3catwoman3 Jan 2016 #26
would not be surprised, given that the only reason he was in the military was because a niyad Jan 2016 #29

handmade34

(22,758 posts)
1. I would think that
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:24 PM
Jan 2016

Palin has made enough money from her scurrilous speeches to give her son all the help he needs regardless of what the VA is doing

personal responsibility only seems to apply when it's the "other"

Mendocino

(7,517 posts)
2. Oh she or hers are always victims.
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 03:36 PM
Jan 2016

John McCain ran a bad campaign, that held me down.

The big kegger blowout fight, we had to defend our honor.

My evil ex-BIL state trooper, he was out to get us.

Quit picking on Bristol, you bad journalists.

Those stupid wolves ran under my helicopter while I was cleaning my AK-47. Ok, that ones a stretch.



niyad

(113,636 posts)
13. it has been pointed out that, mama grizzly that she is, she is so concerned about her son
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:09 PM
Jan 2016

that she has not even bothered flying back to wasilla to check on him.

DallasNE

(7,404 posts)
22. Track Palin Joined The Military
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 01:33 AM
Jan 2016

Last edited Sun Jan 24, 2016, 09:09 PM - Edit history (1)

Because he got in trouble with the law (claims made tjat he cut brake lines on school buses). He was a misfit and only served one year. He was the primary one involved in the party gone wild where he got beat up and Todd got a bloody nose. And now this. The kid has had anger management problems dating all of the way back to high school, perhaps before. He is a danger to society and one of these days he will really, really screw up. He is another George Zimmerman.

DallasNE

(7,404 posts)
30. My Source Said One Year, But That Was Misleading
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 09:51 PM
Jan 2016

He was actually an Army reservist rather than regular Army and as such when his unit was called up he served one year on active duty, which was in Iraq in an "air cover" capacity for a Stryker unit. He had a 3 year military commitment and 2 of those years were spent in reserve status (attending drills and summer camp, I presume).

rladdi

(581 posts)
3. The Republicans are so quick to blame others for their actions. Just like MICH GOV. Snyder
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 04:46 PM
Jan 2016

Blames the very people that he hired. Now he has employed a crisis manager to keep him in office paid for by the MICH tax payers.

tclambert

(11,087 posts)
5. If a son grows up to become a woman-beater, it must be the President's fault, not bad parenting.
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 11:22 PM
Jan 2016

Parents' influence is really very small compared to a distant politician who may or may not respect that son's military service. I mean, did Obama personally call Track to thank him for his service? I think not. Given that level of neglect, how could he learn right from wrong and know he shouldn't beat his girlfriend? Who could possibly fill that void and help mold a young man's values and maybe teach him to respect and value women? What in Track Palin's life could have taught him to respect women? If not Obama, then obviously nothing.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
7. caribou barbie...reminds me of ed schultz
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:26 AM
Jan 2016

he says that a lot.

brazile has been awesome. she has been very supportive of all three candidates and speaks highly of all of them. even when the host tries to goad her into supporting hillary over the others (she is a supporter i am guessing) and try and get her to smack bernie, she won't. she just says good on all of them.

the woman is a class act.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
10. I am a combat veteran with PTSD
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 06:22 AM
Jan 2016

While I blame LBJ for my going to Vietnam, I do not blame him for my PTSD.

And when I am having one of my episodes, I would never do anything to harm anyone else.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
24. So she lied, and is trying to blame others -- or, at least, outside forces -- for her son's bad acts
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 08:19 AM
Jan 2016

Why am I not surprised?

I think that I find it particularly despicable that she is blaming Obama for something that, in fact, does not actually affect her son.

pandr32

(11,633 posts)
11. I love her
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 10:50 AM
Jan 2016

...always a pleasure to watch her.
We need to shout out loud and long that it is the Republicans, even though they pretend to be the party that loves and supports veterans, who are responsible for slashing funding for veterans' services.

niyad

(113,636 posts)
12. just as a matter of curiosity, is there anybody who claims to remember actually serving
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:08 PM
Jan 2016

with this grifter's son/thug in iraq?

niyad

(113,636 posts)
16. yes, I know that. the question is, is there any proof, any eyewitnesses to him actually being IN
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:14 PM
Jan 2016

iraq, in the military?

niyad

(113,636 posts)
18. welcome to du.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:21 PM
Jan 2016

dear sarah, remember that it is the members of YOUR party who are cutting the funding for vets.

niyad

(113,636 posts)
29. would not be surprised, given that the only reason he was in the military was because a
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 12:25 PM
Jan 2016

judge gave him the choice of military or jail on drug charges.

has anyone here seen any comments anywhere from anybody claiming to have actually SERVED with him in iraq?

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