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Beartracks

(12,751 posts)
1. Who's the FOX Friend on the left side of the screen that asks...
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 02:21 AM
Feb 2017

... "What do you say to voters who have lost their jobs, who have seen the border infiltrated by illegal immigrants, who realize we are not defeating ISIS?"

The dude says it's a problem that the Democratic platform doesn't address these voter concerns as if these are "The Issues" (tm). Shows how some in the media assume that the Democrats must address "The Issues" as that concept has been defined by Republicans, never stopping to think, "Gee maybe the bill of goods we've been sold isn't just bogus solutions to problems, but also a bogus definition of what our problems really are."

Oh, and: great job, O'Malley!

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Hulk

(6,699 posts)
2. "....we've gotta run, we've gotta run..."
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:43 AM
Feb 2017

Nice finishing line. You damn well betcha, you fook'n tools. You had better run. The ship is going down, and fox, along with all the geriatric lemmings and self-centered, greedy bastards that buy into that bull shit are going down with it. dRumpf may just be the best thing that happened to democracy and the Democratic Party, if we don't get lazy and ignore the opportunity.

Nice job Governor O'Malley. Keep your cool and get your message across. HRC was NOT articulating a clear message. She was my candidate, after Bernie...but she didn't have the message at all; and she was playing with a handicap of the Clinton administration era and 25 years of political service to the country. The repuKKKes know how to tear into a reputation and misconstrue truth to bull shit, and they did it well.

2018, it's then or never!

StevieM

(10,499 posts)
4. HRC had a good enough message that the exit polls (which I admit were sketchy this year) showed that
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:44 AM
Feb 2017

voters preferred her on the economy to Donald Trump. This race was all about the fake email scandal. The media spent 4 times more on that then they did on all the issues she tried to talk about combined. Which makes it all the more impressive that voters trusted her more on the economy.

She also had a good enough message that she had the race won--decisively--with 11 days to go. Then the FBI stepped in to rig the election.

StevieM

(10,499 posts)
5. I supported HRC in the primary but I have long liked O'Malley. Still...I am disappointed in him here
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:46 AM
Feb 2017

It wasn't neccesary for him to take two gratuitous shots at Hillary.

She delivered a solid message on the economy. It just wasn't enough to overcome the fake email scandal, especially after the FBI decided to rig the election with 11 days to go.

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