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DonViejo

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Fri Mar 13, 2015, 10:08 AM Mar 2015

“A lot of us are disappointed and angry”: Martin O’Malley sounds off to Salon

Potential presidential candidate talks Elizabeth Warren, middle class -- and why some Democrats are "victimcrats"

JOAN WALSH


Martin O’Malley is having kind of a moment.

The former Maryland governor, who’s exploring a run for the 2016 Democratic nomination, still doesn’t break single digits in polls. He trails not only presumed front-runner Hillary Clinton but Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. And yet among all of those luminaries, he’s been the most upfront about his desire to run next year. Warren says she’s not; Biden won’t rule it out but hasn’t apparently raised money or hired staff. Clinton is almost certainly running, but she’s been more coy about it than O’Malley.

Now, with the media gorging itself on its favorite dish, an alleged Clinton scandal, and even some Democrats reportedly (and almost always anonymously) anxious about Clinton’s campaign, there’s new interest in seeing that the undeclared front-runner at least faces some primary opposition. Even some Clinton supporters think it could help her get the rust out of her operation and sharpen her campaign. Of course, things could also end the way they did in 2008, though there’s no compelling young senator from Illinois waiting in the wings this time around.

But there is O’Malley, and he’s getting a turn in the spotlight now that Clinton is seeming embattled. He’s trying to make the most of it, but he’s frustrating the media by refusing to kick his rival while she’s (sorta) down. In a 15-minute “Morning Joe” interview Thursday, the crew asked him about Clinton’s email issues five times. He mostly deflected the questions – “I don’t feel compelled to answer that,” he told a persistent John Heilemann — trying to turn the conversation back to his ideas about growing the economy and narrowing income inequality.

But when asked if he’d want his secretary of state to use official government servers, he answered, “Well, sure, it would be important to me.” (It should be important: That’s now the law, though it wasn’t when Clinton was at State.) That was enough: Matt Drudge got his link, to a Politico story: “O’MALLEY STRIKES: ‘Important Secretary of State Use Government Email.’” Every single other mainstream news report, like this one from ABC, accurately said he’d refused to take the bait.

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“A lot of us are disappointed and angry”: Martin O’Malley sounds off to Salon (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
I am glad he is doing that and not jumping up and down about it all. namastea42 Mar 2015 #1
 

namastea42

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1. I am glad he is doing that and not jumping up and down about it all.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 11:14 AM
Mar 2015

Shows he is a mature person and I hope this continues because he seems like a very viable candidate.

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