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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWAPO: Donna Brazile: I considered replacing Clinton with Biden as 2016 Democratic nominee
Donna's book sounds like a hot mess.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brazile-i-considered-replacing-clinton-with-biden-as-2016-democratic-nominee/2017/11/04/f0b75418-bf4c-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html
Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the partys 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Biden in the aftermath of Clintons fainting spell, in part because Clintons campaign was anemic and had taken on the odor of failure.
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Brazile writes that she was haunted by the still-unsolved murder of DNC data staffer Seth Rich and feared for her own life, shutting the blinds to her office window so snipers could not see her and installing surveillance cameras at her home. She wonders whether Russians had placed a listening device in plants in the DNC executive suite.
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Brazile describes in wrenching detail Clintons bout with pneumonia. On Sept. 9, she saw the nominee backstage at a Manhattan gala and she seemed wobbly on her feet and had a rattled cough. Brazile recommended Clinton see an acupuncturist. Two days later, Clinton collapsed as she left a Sept. 11 memorial service at Ground Zero in New York. Brazile blasts the campaigns initial efforts to shroud details of her health as shameful.
Whenever Brazile got frustrated with Clintons aides, she writes, she would remind them that the DNC charter empowered her to initiate the replacement of the nominee. If a nominee became disabled, she explains, the party chair would oversee a complicated process of filling the vacancy that would include a meeting of the full DNC.
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boston bean
(36,228 posts)emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)Brazile opens her book by describing the painful days following Clintons defeat. She received calls of gratitude from party leaders but still felt slighted.
I never heard from Hillary, she writes. I knew what I wanted to say to her and it was: I have nothing but respect for you being so brave and classy considering everything that went on. But in the weeks after the loss, every time I checked my phone thinking I might have missed her call, it wasnt her.
Finally, in February 2017, Clinton rang.
This was chitchat, like I was talking to someone I didnt know, Brazile writes. I know Hillary. I know she was being as sincere as possible, but I wanted something more from her.
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Brazile "felt slighted"? After attempting to replace Clinton/Kaine w Biden/Booker because she had walking pneumonia? Ok, sure..
Pugster
(229 posts)Brazile's comment was wonderful.
still_one
(92,535 posts)will buy her book, I sure won't
lapucelle
(18,417 posts)and then threatened to replace the choice of 16,000,000 voters because the nominee had pneumonia?
emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)All seems very contradictory of the excerpt we read in Politico.. Hot mess.
lapucelle
(18,417 posts)So with everything else going on, our nominee had to deal with crappy threats from the DNC interim chair as well?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Whenever Brazile got frustrated with Clintons aides, she writes, she would remind them that the DNC charter empowered her to initiate the replacement of the nominee
lapucelle
(18,417 posts)the interim chair would "remind" the nominee's aides that she could blow up the process by "initiating the replacement" of the candidate. How is that not a threat?
Let's play the double standard game:
Imagine if BS had won the nomination, and a DNC chair had given him the same "reminder" to keep him or his aides in line. Would that have been a threat?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)until this latest scenario is bizarre.
emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)heads just because you find them "frustrating." Of course YMMV
onenote
(42,870 posts)The rules governing the nominating process (separate from the charter) discuss the process for filling a vacancy in the ticket caused by death, resignation, or disability. It doesn't go into any detail about how the process is initiated, but it is clear that the role of the Chairperson is subordinate to that of the DNC.
G. Filling a Vacancy on the National Ticket: In the event of death, resignation or disability of a nominee of the Party for President or Vice President after the adjournment of the National Convention, the National Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee shall confer with the Democratic leadership of the United States Congress and the Democratic Governors Association and shall report to the Democratic National Committee, which is authorized to fill the vacancy or vacancies.
There was no way that Brazile had the sway to convince the party establishment to push out Clinton against her will. Donna has a highly over-inflated sense of her own importance.
R B Garr
(17,020 posts)Whenever?! So she just went around reminding people she could replace Clinton WHENEVER...?
LOL, this gets more and more bizarre.
lapucelle
(18,417 posts)Brazile picked someone different as her preferred running mate. Maybe Donna peeked at Tim's medical record and discovered that he once had pneumonia too!
On the other hand, it could have been Kaine's nasty disposition that set Donna off. He does have a reputation for being a frustrating troublemaker .
R B Garr
(17,020 posts)I cant imagine what people around her were thinking.
delisen
(6,051 posts)She is clearly trying to build on the Trump campaign's charge that Clinton was sick, had no stamina.
So now they have a democratic insider claiming she was about to call a major meeting of the DNC to replace Clinton as candidate.
We know that was never going to happen-but here is Brazile using Trump's talking points-was she and Biden planning a DNC coup? Seems doubtful.
Is Weaver trying to knock Biden out of the 2020 race?
Is Putin still trying to destroy Clinton? or destroy the Democratic Party?
This book is not an accident. Who set up the deal with the publisher? Who was the ghost writer?
Why this particular publisher?
Plot thickens.
R B Garr
(17,020 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)greeny2323
(590 posts)Then I looked up the rules, and lo and behold, I had no such power.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Are you fucking kidding me??
To me this phrase (and indeed this entire article) tells me she is either now being paid by Alt-Right money, or possibly she has been getting paid by Alt-Right money for a long damn time.
As there were 0 Democrats who thought there was anything at all in the Seth Rich death, THE ONLY PEOPLE PUSHING THIS PARTICULAR BULLSHIT STORY ARE/WERE ALT-RIGHT WINGNUT FOOLS. Donna Brazile just told on herself with this.
Folks Donna Brazile is dirty with the stink of Right Wing Money. Holy Shit. I am not prone to conspiracy theories, I don't jump to conclusions quickly nor haphazardly. But Holy Shit, this looks beyond suspicious to me. Donna Brazil's might have gotten away with it but she told on herself with this Seth Rich Bullshit.
Donna Brazil's sold out the Democratic Party.
I am sure of this.
R B Garr
(17,020 posts)of spoon-fed buzzwords, there is some payday for it. That is totally ALT-RIGHT language. As bizarre as this gets, she does give herself away with this. The JPR nuts are all into this Seth Rich conspiracy and any conspiracy involving the Clintons and now any Democrat who doesn't repeat their notions. This is pretty scary to see now.
chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House Hardcover November 7, 2017
by Donna Brazile (Author)
#1 Best Seller in Political Corruption & Misconduct
https://www.amazon.com/Hacks-Inside-Break-ins-Breakdowns-Donald/dp/0316478512/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509840593&sr=1-1&keywords=donna+brazile
Publisher: Hachette Books (November 7, 2017)
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I was TRYING not to think that Donna was somehow in bed with some of the Right Wing, either financially or...? Okay, financially. I'm not going to read her book for many reasons, including what appears to be VERY bad writing, but what I've seen shows me a woman who is thin-skinned, paranoid, and something of a bully. Like the co-worker from hell.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)as we speak.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Really reeks of a tell-all by a jilted lover sort of thing.