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LAS14

(13,780 posts)
Mon Sep 5, 2016, 03:38 PM Sep 2016

I'm feeling more and more respect for the Clinton campaign's...

.. decision to lie low in August. Sure, it lets Trump step all over himself, and it does let the sharp edge of the latest e-mail fit dull (what was the latest, anyway???), but it also creates anticipation. Where's Hillary? Why doesn't she say something? All they've got to talk about is how long since her last press conference.

So now she's making headlines by irrelevancies like sharing the plane with reporters (apparently SOP for campaigns some time after they officially begin.) And her appearances today and those of Biden, Kaine and Bill are being covered.

And we didn't get tired of her. I bet even Trump supporters are getting tired of him.

I'm looking forward to an exciting couple of months.

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I'm feeling more and more respect for the Clinton campaign's... (Original Post) LAS14 Sep 2016 OP
plus, she was able to spend the "downtime" raising funds. unblock Sep 2016 #1
Dems don't have as many billionaires willing to write those big checks or who singlehandedly finance politicaljunkie41910 Sep 2016 #7
The 24/7 News can sit in the corner they put themselves in by covering Trump, and misterhighwasted Sep 2016 #2
Tell it Brother!!! eom Ligyron Sep 2016 #3
She'll be the first woman president. Did we imagine Hortensis Sep 2016 #4
+1000!! Kaleva Sep 2016 #5
In the next couple weeks, the last couple weeks will have been forgotten. AgadorSparticus Sep 2016 #6

unblock

(52,181 posts)
1. plus, she was able to spend the "downtime" raising funds.
Mon Sep 5, 2016, 03:43 PM
Sep 2016

it's not a great system, but given the rules we have, it's great that she was able to build up a nice war chest for some major october ad buys

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
7. Dems don't have as many billionaires willing to write those big checks or who singlehandedly finance
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:13 AM
Sep 2016

a Candidates entire campaign like the GOP has.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
2. The 24/7 News can sit in the corner they put themselves in by covering Trump, and
Mon Sep 5, 2016, 03:45 PM
Sep 2016

ignoring Hillary.

They have walled themselves off from the only leader qualified to lifting this nation out of the hell the Republican Party dumped America into.

Hope she never grants them another interview until they learn how to do their damn job on behalf of this country & all its citizens.

They created Trump

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. She'll be the first woman president. Did we imagine
Mon Sep 5, 2016, 07:33 PM
Sep 2016

that enormous change would happen without great opposition, including from institutionalized power bases?

We elected our first black president most of a decade ago by a solid majority, yet the backlash against that is still churning--not just against him and his family but against far more vulnerable black and other minority people across the nation.

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