2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPolitico: Wasserman Schultz Planned to Accuse Obama of Anti-Semitism if DNC Job Threatened
Snip>Wasserman Schultz has a different sense of herself. According to people who spoke with her, when she sensed Obama was considering replacing her as chair in 2013, she began to line up supporters to suggest the move was both anti-woman and anti-Semitic. Under fire last fall for her leadership, she took Obamas decision not to remove her then as evidence of renewed strength and said she was confident no one could get her out of the DNC before her term is over at the beginning of 2017, according to sources whove spoken with her. Shes also been known to joke around the office about how having a vacation home in New Hampshire might one day be helpful in a presidential run.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/senate-bid-could-be-solution-for-wasserman-schultz-115373#ixzz49ObnDIfg
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Updated with the actual article.
Autumn
(45,107 posts)yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)Segami
(14,923 posts)Autumn
(45,107 posts)of the bad perm club.
Segami
(14,923 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)She's in a great position to extort endorsements from them.
senz
(11,945 posts)Brock would do it, for a fee.
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)Not enough of them have spoken out against her.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)Must be as a republican.
I"m sure she will get support from her 300% loan shark buddies....and Wall Street of course.
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)It would be interesting to see which cabinet position she gives DWS as reward for corrupting the Democratic primaries. Likely SoS which DWS would use, like Hillary, to enrich herself and claim experience for a run as president./
annavictorious
(934 posts)the primaries and caucuses of each state.
How exactly did DWS corrupt them?
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)The state parties run the caucuses. Don't make shit up.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)They are not an entity unto themselves.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Response to me b zola (Reply #7)
HooptieWagon This message was self-deleted by its author.
annavictorious
(934 posts)While there was a story in Politico, it concerned A possible DWS run for Senate.
Why do the concerned progressives so frequently link to virulently right wing websites like Truth Revolt? Is this where they go for news?
Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)and a lot of other non-rightwing sites carried it to like mediate: http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-dws-wanted-to-paint-obama-as-anti-woman-and-anti-semitic-if-ousted-as-dnc-chair/
annavictorious
(934 posts)Truth Revolt and my question stands.
If the story actually had legs, there would be something more recent. The Political, Mediaite, and Truth Revolt stories all appeared in the same week in early 2015.
Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)Gearing up to do something as opposed o doing it are two very different things. Still, it shows she is ruthless, self-centered and disgusting.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Are you really that uninformed?
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)NOT a Senator!
Melissa G
(10,170 posts)Last I checked DWS is a Rep not a Senator.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)on all the political obstacles he has had to overcome based on her biased leadership?
annavictorious
(934 posts)He was allowed to run for the nomination of a party he didn't belong to. Sanders was pretty up front about joining the party in order to exploit its resources and run for president.
State Boards of Election determine what type of primaries and/or caucuses are held, not the parties. California is the rare state that gives the parties some say in who gets to vote in their primaries. The Democratic party had the option of closing California to Independents, and it didn't, even though the Republicans did.
The DNC is so obstructionist that it is allowing Independents to vote in the largest primary in the country. Kinda blows a hole in all the conspiracy theories.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)party's shenanigans and right-ward migration turned them off.
annavictorious
(934 posts)are not Democrats.
And plenty of Democrats were willing to vote for Sanders until he and his supporters made it clear that this is about Bernie and Bernie alone, not the voters, not the constituents, not policy, not the Supreme Court. It's about an entitled old man and his equally entitled followers.
Now tell me again, what obstacles did the DNC put in Sanders path?
.99center
(1,237 posts)We know this isn't about Bernie at this point. Hillary's next target is "entitled" followers. We now have the right wing faction of the DNC, and the republican party, attacking anyone who try's to protect our safety net and fight's for income equality. She is setting the same type of tone that Bush did before he tried to privatize SS.
Get out of here with that right wing attempt to demonize the "entitled"
whathehell
(29,067 posts)it could be difficult.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)I would take anything from there with a huge carton of salt.
Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)annavictorious
(934 posts)you got the story from Truth Revolt. And it's still a 15 month old story that didn't go anywhere.
Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)Politico IS the source NOT Truth Revolt. And the story didn't go anywhere because it wasn't that big of a story. No one was going to give a shit about what the DNC Chair was thinking of doing. It's not a crime to think about killing someone, it's a crime after you pull the trigger and take action. Still it got picked up by Mediate and a shit load of places.
Just because it wasn't a big story doesn't mean it didn't happen. Politico has sources as they say in the article.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Who supports DWS?
annavictorious
(934 posts)It wouldn't surprise me if President Obama did as well.
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... cite Debbie's record.
Lost a bunch of House seats, the Senate, 12 governorships and over 900 state seats while Chair of the DNC
Supported Republicans over Democrats in two Florida districts
Conceded entire districts to the Louis Gohmerts and Joni Ernsts of this world by abandoning the 50-state strategy
Supported a Republican retread for the Florida Democratic Party Gubernatorial candidate (he lost to Rick Scott, again)
Undermined President Obama's treaty with Iran
Shilled for the private prison industry
Shilled for the booze industry
Shilled for the payday loan industry
Blamed the voters for her failures
Yet still he came out and endorsed her. I'm guessing any threat was a lot worse than an anti-semite slur.
The alternative, of course, is that he's satisfied with those results.
annavictorious
(934 posts)Someone better tell him because he's actively campaigning for her.
And why do you give your candidate a pass when he shills for the military industrial complex? Why is that acceptable?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/bernie-sanders-loves-this-1-trillion-war-machine.html
allan01
(1,950 posts)muheahahahahahahahahahahaha
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)and no attributions to negative comments.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)When was the last time deranged David Horowitz spoke anything true?
annavictorious
(934 posts)also changes the source.
Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)because I am not magic I can't go back in time and make Politico drop the story that they first ran. Politico ran it first and so they are the source and if you don't understand that you are either not very intelligent or purposefully trying be intellectually dishonest.
Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)They site the article currently in the OP.
randome
(34,845 posts)Brilliant journalistic expose! One doesn't need to defend DWS to castigate those who dredge up unsubstantiated gossip and rumor in order to advance their political goals.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)This is not the type of article that makes a political partys national chairperson sound like he/she has a future continuing in that leadership position.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)If he's asked to weigh in on any FBI actions, I hope he remembers.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I hope she one day has to depend on Pay Day loans to survive in this world.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Since when has Obama fired anyone he has picked for any post?
Rahm Emmanuel? No.
Penny Pritzker? No.
Larry Summers? No.
Tim Geithner? No.
Bueller? Anyone?
What a bullshit story. And I say that even though I think that DWS has been a disaster as DNC chair.
zazen
(2,978 posts)I can't figure out if Obama's doing the Reagan/James Watt thing, where it's always helpful to have a lightning rod appointment who's hated more than you are and takes the heat, or if he's that intimidated by her fundraising connections, or if David WS and the whole personal network really matters that much.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)If the job description is "get people to not like you" i dont think it would be possible for her to deliver a better performance.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Derp.