You probably are the only one.

And you fight craziness with sanity and even tempered statement of fact.

I thought it was hard hitting. She called him out for what he and his minions are, and pulled no punches in doing so.

...measured tone was just the exact right tact to take when countering all that hateful craziness.

the craziness on the right. We need sanity.

If a kid is having a tantrum, the mom shouldn't shout equally loud. Just assert authority and reason. And send him to his room!

I don't listen to a lot of HRC's speeches but did catch this one. (Don't have cable so had to get C-Span on the computer). I thought it was entertaining. Made me laugh. But didn't make me want to jump up and down and hoot! (good thing)

It won't help draw in the Trump supporting idiots who believe that stuff, but it should help attract some reasonable moderates and perhaps even some long-time Republicans.

... to appear less a racist and somewhat sane.

She pushed the narcissist's buttons and set off a cascade of unhinged tweets and interviews .....


Successful in my mind

Of course, we want reasoned and calm response to the craziness of Trump.

However...I'm saying that it doesn't necessarily work against "crazy." That's all.


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Yes...to you and I, her speech made complete sense. But that is you and I and not necessarily the person in the middle that believes some or all of the Trump message.

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After hearing Trump (who keeps raising the "crazy bar&quot - I was so pissed that my initial reaction was to fight fire with fire. I wanted him to be taken down.

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I guess I just wanted her to be angry. I have seen Hillary angry and I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end. I know I was projecting. It is all my fear...Just can't imagine someone like Trump carrying the football.

Thank you for your concern.

It was a serious speech.

to some syphilitic spaz screaming your a " bigot " at a bunch of lily white fat white republicans?

Let it sit?

Edits notwithstanding.

gave examples why Trump is unfit to lead. Sad that the media can't do their job and Hillary had to make this speech.

Hillary was FANTASTIC! But your concern is duly noted.

That speech was perfect

She sounded better than probably ever to me. When the world is crazy, the Prez needs to be calm. Just ask Prez Obama!

I shouldn't let my fear override my reason.

Hillaries speech was fine but there are a lot of people who like Trump,while polls put Hillary ahead its still not beyond the realms of possibility that Trump could get elected. what bothers me about that likelihood is that it would mean the majority of Americas voting public are rightwing Trumpests,They will destroy the country.

And it worked. She's going to poke the bear from now until November.

It was one hell of a speech.

She not only made a superb progressive speech that relied heavily on facts, she presented herself in a calm and rational way, a wonderful contrast to Trump. Trump is the better hysteric. I think that's something Hillary is willing to concede to him.

only burns the building to the ground. Clear adulthood will prevail

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Okay..it is several hours later and I've read through the responses. How many ways do I have to say it!? I was wrong in my assessment of her speech. My anger towards Trump tainted my view of how I feel he should be handled. Yes...you are absolutely correct. A calm response is the best response.

Geeze, you would think I was some sort of Right Wing nut case by reading the responses. This is just further evidence that:

1) The written word is so easily misunderstood (without inflection and body language)
2) This place has changed.

I'm sorry if I offended you.

just to watch it die.

All the comments can be read here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512383926

The original blog:

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/08/25/hillary-clintons-alt-right-speech-in-nevada/

She burned the fucking Trump campaign to the ground and pissed on the ashes — in a remarkably ladylike fashion. Then she scooped up the piss-soaked ashes with a trowel, loaded them into a clown cannon and shot them into a toxic waste dump. Then she hopped into a fighter jet and strafed the dump. Then she took a space shuttle out of mothballs, strapped a nuclear warhead into it, flew up to the fucking International Space Station and then nuked the piss-soaked ashes of the dumped, bullet-ridden campaign from orbit.

SNIP

I wonder if people out there know what was being referenced.

...to be a certain age. Although it does come from arguably his most popular song.

really is, rather than angrily condemning his actions.

Unless one spends a great deal of time online, and spends a lot of that time reading political sites/social commentary, there's a good chance that they may not completely know what is going on with him. Breitbart.com is not as big of a household name as some may assume it is. While I know what their shtick is, I've personally looked at the site maybe three times altogether. I knew about Andrew Breitbart from here and other sites, of course, but I couldn't have previously named the current publisher, Bannon, if my life depended upon it.

I'm not really sure how many people even knew who David Duke was at this point, especially if they are younger voters who are not from the south. The KKK has not been the frequent subject of national news in a long time. Most of the 'modern' Kluckers 'transitioned' to 'white nationalist' groups, in a sorry-ass attempt to rebrand themselves as something other than thugs consumed by hate. (I suspect that younger voters are far more familiar with the Westboro Baptist Church cretins than they are with the current KKK).

So, I think that it was important for her to spell out exactly whom Trump has allied himself with, and to do so in a calm, instructive way. And since racism and bigotry should condemn themselves, at least to any truly decent person who knows what Trump is doing, she brought up those remarks by assorted past Republicans as a way of throwing down at the current Republican 'leaders' who, so far, seem perfectly willing to court catastrophe to take the presidency.

And I thought that she did it great.

your original assessment of Hillary's speech.

You need not be so concerned. Hillary's doing her part, and doing it well.

The rest is up to us.

She took him apart like a calm, but very efficient, surgeon.