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DanM

(341 posts)
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 03:29 PM Mar 2015

Frankenfeinstein needs to STFU about HDR's legal email practices . . .

HDR's email practices were legal and acceptable! Past SOS's did the same thing she did, with not a peep said about it!

Dianne Frankenfeinstein needs to stop playing into the repug playbook, and suggesting a controversy where there is none.

Frankenfeinstein, shut the f*** up!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/08/dianne-feinstein-hillary-clinton_n_6826790.html

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Frankenfeinstein needs to STFU about HDR's legal email practices . . . (Original Post) DanM Mar 2015 OP
What is "HDR"? NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #1
Hillary Diane Rodham Fla_Democrat Mar 2015 #3
Gawd, I posted assuming everyone knows that! :) Thx! n/t DanM Mar 2015 #5
22 ? Twenty Two? Two Twos? Isn't that some occult number? libdem4life Mar 2015 #11
Maybe the HDR's were all taken.. Fla_Democrat Mar 2015 #17
I agree with your post but...what does HDR stand for? eom BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #2
A Democratic Political Cannibal. She hasn't been in the news lately and probably has libdem4life Mar 2015 #4
I never realized before but her speech is so halting, almost like a stroke victim./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #8
Been a while since I lived there, but seem to recall she did have some health issues. libdem4life Mar 2015 #10
Not certain her motive, but don't think it's cannibalism and disagree with using "catfight" . . . DanM Mar 2015 #12
Political cannibalism...yes. Catfight was intentionally used...as a chauvanistic perjorative. libdem4life Mar 2015 #15
Oh, you got me! :) Right on, I agree, thanks for your clarification! n/t DanM Mar 2015 #16
When you say "Frankenfeinstein", what are you referring to? procon Mar 2015 #6
You seriously think that ... 99Forever Mar 2015 #7
To what reasonable reservations do you refer? n/t DanM Mar 2015 #13
If you have to ask... 99Forever Mar 2015 #19
You're dodging. Spurious "reservations" happen all day long. Give me a reasonable one. n/t DanM Mar 2015 #20
"Frankenfeinstein"? We're doing this now? Iggo Mar 2015 #9
I think she's OK with HDR being in power, but doesn't want her or anyone having too much more. n/t DanM Mar 2015 #14
Let me be a little more clear: You think it's okay to call her "Frankenfeinstein"? Iggo Mar 2015 #18
I think you are on the right track, Iggo Hekate Mar 2015 #21
It's like a Mark Levin nickname tishaLA Mar 2015 #23
You've misquoted my Senator, for one. She's a Hillary supporter, and what she said was reasonable. Hekate Mar 2015 #22
You've ignored your Senator's attack, for one. Here's why she's not supportive and not reasonable: DanM Mar 2015 #24
You are way over the top in this thread. Get a grip. Hekate Mar 2015 #25
Calling out Feinstein for using a virtual repug talking point is over the top? DanM Mar 2015 #27
This is how you treat Clinton supporters? CanadaexPat Mar 2015 #26

Fla_Democrat

(2,547 posts)
17. Maybe the HDR's were all taken..
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 04:35 PM
Mar 2015

Maybe all the previous ones got so full of spam, it was easier to make a new account.

Could have been February 2nd when it was created.. 2/2 or the 22nd of any month.

I taxed myself getting the HDR, will leave the numbers to someone who is into numerology.








 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
4. A Democratic Political Cannibal. She hasn't been in the news lately and probably has
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 03:48 PM
Mar 2015

some sads she's not going to be the first Woman President. Worthy of "Catfight" attempt.

 

DanM

(341 posts)
12. Not certain her motive, but don't think it's cannibalism and disagree with using "catfight" . . .
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 04:14 PM
Mar 2015

Having watched Feignstein a while, my nearest guess is she loves power and can't let anyone else get too much more than she has. Bring 'em down a notch or two if they're threatening to get too much higher up the ladder than she is.

It's just pure love for power, which male politicians have and maneuver for as well, so I disagree with "catfight". Plus I hate that word anyway, with all the chauvinism it carries and has been used to denigrate us when we just happen to be competing with another woman. What's the denigrating word for when men compete against men? Oh, that's right, there is none . . .

Anyway, back to Frightenstein, I don't think she's a cannibal though. That's one good thing I can say about her, I don't think she will just purely throw another Democrat under the bus without reason. She's not throwing HDR under the bus, but she's saying there's some bus coming that HDR needs to get out of the way of (supposedly, an HDR email "controversy&quot .

She's feigning that there's that bus out there, which is why I call her Feignstein (she does feign sometimes). This plays right into the repug narrative. She's coming off as an unwitting tool!

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
15. Political cannibalism...yes. Catfight was intentionally used...as a chauvanistic perjorative.
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 04:27 PM
Mar 2015

I lived in California for decades, and she's been in office most of that time. I have never known her...while agreeing with all you said...to interact in this way, to a Democrat, and yes...it is sexist as Hillary is the first woman candidate-to-maybe be. Boxer would not say that in a million years. And it's not Feinstein's job to criticize a fellow Democrat.

And you're right about the men vs men, but this is only one small instance where that is true. That's mostly true on all counts...that's why, to me, attacking another woman is just wrong. It's not like someone asked her for her opinion, even though I refused to read it, seems she came out all on her own.

Why go public? Why make a big deal? What make headlines? Why not just call Hillary? A Cheap Shot for her own publicity. I'm also upset because I lost respect for her...a strong woman in politics.





procon

(15,805 posts)
6. When you say "Frankenfeinstein", what are you referring to?
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 03:57 PM
Mar 2015

If it's some insider joke, please provide the appropriate context so we can all get it.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
7. You seriously think that ...
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 04:00 PM
Mar 2015

... this is a good way to calm people's reservations about Hillary?


Well alrighty then.

 

DanM

(341 posts)
14. I think she's OK with HDR being in power, but doesn't want her or anyone having too much more. n/t
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 04:25 PM
Mar 2015

Iggo

(47,537 posts)
18. Let me be a little more clear: You think it's okay to call her "Frankenfeinstein"?
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 04:45 PM
Mar 2015

We're doing this now?

Because last week somebody thought "Killery" was okay.

Are we doing that now?

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
23. It's like a Mark Levin nickname
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 10:25 PM
Mar 2015

like the way he calls Sec Clinton "Her Royal Thighness" or Speaker Pelosi "Stretch."

Makes me sick

Hekate

(90,565 posts)
22. You've misquoted my Senator, for one. She's a Hillary supporter, and what she said was reasonable.
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 10:16 PM
Mar 2015

From your link -- this is what I heard Senator Feinstein say on MTP this morning:

A top Senate Democrat who has urged Hillary Clinton to run for president said on Sunday that Clinton was hurting herself by not doing more to address the controversy over the private email account that she used as secretary of state.

"What I would like is for her to come forward and say just what the situation is. Because she is the preeminent political figure right now. She is the leading candidate, whether it be Republican or Democrat, for the next president, to be the next president," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "I think that she needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is ... I think, at this point, from this point on, the silence is going to hurt her."


So what is your beef with one or both women, that you need to be so ugly? Speak slowly and be concise -- I want to understand where you're coming from.

 

DanM

(341 posts)
24. You've ignored your Senator's attack, for one. Here's why she's not supportive and not reasonable:
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 10:36 PM
Mar 2015

I quote the substantive excerpt from your quote, thanks for providing it!:

"the silence is going to hurt her"

What the f***, F-stein??? HDR, herself and via her allies, have not BEEN SILENT on this matter. It's been quite clearly articulated that the email practices were not only legal, but also there is precedent with prior SOS's!!! And it's not going to HURT her, because it's only a "controversy" in the wing-nut's demented minds!

The repugs have the playbook on how to damage Hillary with this nonsense of a TOTAL non-issue, and "the silence is going to hurt her" sounds like something straight out of it!

Call "your" Senator, and help her get sorted out!

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