A Unity of None: Donna Brazile
By Fleaflicker on April 5, 2008 at 5:54 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, DNC, Donna Brazile, GLBT, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean
It seems that Donna someone should commit me Brazile is starting to have a meltdown. Not since her vainglorious days as Al Gore’s failed campaign manager has she been getting so much attention. And these days she uses that attention to weigh in on everything Democratic. Or so she thinks. The trouble is, that by weighing in on everything she is starting to let her biases show and giving everyone a glimpse at the ugly side of the person we all once had great respect for.
A few days ago someone at Hillary is 44 decided to publish the emails received back from Brazile to questions about her seeming Obama bias. To put it mildly, Brazile’s comments were hardly what one would expect from a “party leader.” In fact, some of the things she said were downright mean. Ben Smith over at Politico picked up on the story and further revealed the dark side of Donna Brazile.
Inside Donna Brazile’s BlackBerry
Do you know how many undeclared supers are now just turned off by people like you? Do you understand you’re hurting her and not promoting Hillary? Perhaps that explains why a candidate like Obama has raised $40 million in one month. You don’t have to e-mail me again.
Perhaps that explained why Obama raised $40 million in one month? Because of people like us that actually question all the bullshit put out by the media concerning Obama? Because we have the nerve to dispute the ridiculous lies that the Obama campaign uses as excuses to rephrase what Obama really meant when he said all that stupid stuff. Because some of us are offended by his racist bigoted spiritual mentor and his typical white person comments?
Yes, according to Donna Brazile it is because of people like us that Hillary is currently losing this race.
I just sent Hillary a private e-mail telling her that supporters like you are destroying her candidacy.
Isn’t that sweet of you Donna. And I am sure that Hillary really appreciates that what you said came from that unbiased heart of yours. Yeah, and pigs fly and take showers daily.
A regular commenter here at No Quarter named mimi sent an email to Donna Brazile pointing out the irony that an African American was disenfranchising the voters of two large states (MI and FL). And this was the response she received:
“Thanks for the joyful email. Like most of the other pro Clinton emails, I have now put them in a special folder called ‘tales from the gutter.
Stay positive and remember if she wins, you will need Obama supporters and donors. So please stop throwing stones. Give her the support now and stop sending frivolous emails.”.
It is now called throwing stones to point out the truth according to Donna Brazile. Of course we all know that she is the one that laid down the law totally disenfranchising Florida’s voters because of the decision to move their primary up. She even said at the time that she intended to send a clear signal to other states that the mighty rules of the DNC were much more important that the millions of Democratic voters in Florida or any other state. And this seems to be a trend with Brazile. Her “independence” is so transparently false that one need only take a casual glance at her own words to reveal where the woman is actually coming from.
But Donna Brazile isn’t satisfied taking just pot shots at “angry” Hillary supporters. She decided to weigh in on James Carville for his “Judas” comment which she sees as over the top. And she took it a step further by finding a way to blame this on Hillary.
Hillary, stop throwing elbows at Barack
Mere months ago, Richardson was running against Clinton. Why is his endorsing the presidential candidate with the most pledged delegates, state victories and popular vote count anymore traitorous than running against the former first lady and U.S. senator? Isn’t it a little too late to be getting up in arms about misplaced loyalty? Or is this just a warning to any other former presidential candidates, Cabinet secretaries, schedule C appointees, civil servants or former campaign workers of what lies in wait for them should they try to influence the outcome of this nominations process? If so, let me send an urgent message to Al Gore: Stay quiet.
You see to Donna, there is nothing wrong with hopping aboard a train that you perceive to be winning a race even though your past and your loyalties are elsewhere aligned. If you can be on the what you think is a winning team that somehow trumps loyalty, giving your word and honoring your commitments. For wasn’t it Bill Richardson who said he would endorse the campaign that ran the most positive message? I wonder how he squares that with Obama’s surrogate McPeak claiming that Bill Clinton was just like Joe McCarthy? Or Obama’s spiritual mentor God damning AmeriKKK A? And what of the truth behind Carville’s statement that Richardson really did betray Hillary? Didn’t Bill Clinton state forcefully that Richardson had told him to his face 5 times that he would never do that? But I guess if Bill Clinton is actually Joe McCarthy in disguise that destroys the credibility of anything he has to say. Discredit the messenger so you can safely ignore the message.
And the “warning” comment is what takes me over the edge completely. Nothing like playing the old Republican ruthless card on the Clintons if it just so happens to help the guy you support but you really can’t support because you are a DNC official and you are supposed to be unbiased but who cares, He is the One. But you know, Donna Brazile can’t keep her biases to herself. She has already made her mind up that Obama is going to get the nomination. And that apparently justifies, at least in her puny mind, her right to attack Hillary and Hillary supporters with impunity.
Poor governor. I don’t think Richardson deserves the attacks against him for doing what he thought best to unite the Democratic Party. Rallying behind the presumptive nominee is not traitorous, though I understand why the Clinton campaign would desire to label it as such. Unfortunately for team Clinton, these random and personal attacks aren’t working. In fact, Clinton approval ratings have plummeted to the lowest recorded level (37 percent in a recent NBC/WSJ poll) since March 2001. The last seven years have seen war, scandal, recession and terrorism, yet it is the Clintons’ scorched earth electoral policy that is tanking her approval ratings.
Yes, those of us that demand that the votes of every state count, that demand that the voters of every state in the nation be given the opportunity to vote before deciding a nominee, we are are the one’s that are standing in the way of unifying the party. And yet it is Brazile and Richardson and the rest of the “leaders” that have anointed Obama and called for Hillary to quit the race that are doing their absolute best to rip this party to shreds. They are so completely convinced that Hillary supporters are like uninformed cattle that will come home when they start ringing the bell, that they are willing to throw the majority of DEMOCRATIC party under a bus. Because they have decided that THEY want Obama to be the nominee. Never mind the fact that HILLARY has won more Democratic votes than Obama. Funny how it is only our side that seems to remember that this is a Democratic primary.
If you had any doubt that Brazile hopped upon the Obama bandwagon long ago just read a few of her writings. Of course she doesn’t come right out and say that Obama is her choice. But when you read between the lines and especially don’t read what an otherwise balanced assessment of things should include you discover that she has endorsed Obama by omission if nothing else. In an article on her website deploring the negative tone of the primary Brazile lets her true bias shine through.
Voters can’t find the real issues behind all that mud
First she accused him of having presidential ambitions since kindergarten. When that didn’t stick, the co-chair of Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign raised Obama’s teenage experimentation with drugs. She had to apologize.
The Clinton campaign is not without its faults, as well.
The campaign had to force the resignation of two Iowa volunteer coordinators who had forwarded e-mails that tried to tie Barack Hussein Obama, a Christian with a Muslim-sounding name, to Islamic jihadists.
Why can’t Clinton just tell her volunteers to stay on message?
But go ahead and read the whole thing yourself. You won’t find a single admonition toward Obama or the Obama campaign. It is as if they have been all sweetness and light while that mean old Hillary and her ruthless volunteers have been dragging this whole process through the mud. Isn’t that nice of her? And so unbiased. I wonder what she said when Samantha monster Power stuck her foot in her mouth? That’s right: ~crickets~
It wouldn’t be kind of me to call Brazile deranged. So I won’t. But I have to point out something she said that to me demonstrates exactly what is so very wrong about her and why she should be irrelevant. Again, her own words:
Race talk could cost Obama, Americans, more than just the
presidency
If Obama loses the race for the presidency, I surely hope it’s because the American people decide they want an old. wise hand, or someone who has spent more time inside Washington, D.C. Seriously, I would hope the rejection of Obama is not based on the color of his skin or his past association with a down-to-earth, wild-eyed preacher man who was “just like family.” I would find it absolutely horrifying that we would hold Obama to a standard that is rarely applied to others. Obama, like McCain and Clinton, is not perfect. While they might not have a pastor called Wright, they surely have been associated with controversial and sometimes unsavory characters.
Now please pay careful attention to the words in bold. She actually said that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is down-to-earth! After you stop laughing (or crying) perhaps we can examine the seriousness of her outrageousness. Uh… Earth to Donna Brazile: I don’t think that anyone that refers to a whole country full of people as “garlic noses” is down-to-earth. I don’t think that someone who believes that we live in the US of KKK A is down-to-earth. I don’t think that someone who thinks Louis Farrakhan is a person that truly epitomizes greatness is down-to-earth. And I don’t think that someone who believes that the AIDS epidemic was created by the US government as a plague to destroy the black population is down-to-earth. I realize it just might be me. But people like that seem more like whack jobs than anything else. Crazy uncle doesn’t even come close.
And finally just to give you a taste of how biased and self centered Donna Brazile really is we must recount her efforts to throw the GLBT community under the bus. On no uncertain terms, Brazile made it very clear that the Civil Rights community didn’t include GLBT members. It is something based SOLELY on the color of one’s skin, not the content of their character.
Dean admitted it was Brazile who objected most strenuously to a proposal put forward by gay Democrats to add GLBT delegates to affirmative action guidelines states follow when selecting those who attend the party’s national convention:
Dean said some “influential individuals” within the DNC Black Caucus, such as Donna Brazile, opposed the plan because it was seen as “an affront to the civil rights movement.”
“I wanted equal representation for gay and lesbian Americans,” he said, “and I wanted to achieve it in a way that wasn’t offensive to the history of the civil rights movement.”
We’ve seen this before, of course. One particularly galling example was when the National Association of Black Journalists vetoed the inclusion of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association in an umbrella group of minority journalists called — ironically enough — UNITY. Groups representing Hispanic, Native American and Asian American journalists OK’d NLGJA’s participation but NABJ balked, and even pressed UNITY to change its name to UNITY: Journalists of Color.
And no, you did not misread this. Under Brazile’s leadership the DNC will not consider the minority status of GLBT Democrats in determining delegates to the national convention. Does she sound like someone trying to unify the party? Maybe so in that Obama way that asks black people to reconsider their opinions about gay people by having Donnie I was gay until I was saved McClurkin campaign with him. Or by having Obama spiritual advisors like Reverend James Meeks that preach that homosexuality is an evil sickness. Yes, that is apparently the type of unity that Donna Brazile embraces. So the next time you see Obama supporters like Brazile on TV making all these pleas for unifying our party keep in mind what type of unity they are seeking,. Because it is a unity of none.
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Oh boy … you guys are still at it … I guess you’ll declare victory when McCain is sworn in, if indeed, he is.
Piddleing little he said, she said blurbs is all you got?
You’ve made a joke out of this site.
Pity.
god you people are such Toads.
It is going to so fun to hear you wail when we crush your hero in Denver.
The Eisenhower nomination was decided in a donnybrook in the credentials committee.
Anyway, the lad is now glissading down the farside of Gravity’s Rainbow.
The NYT, no less, has reported that he peaked in February.
They report that he is losing support amongst Democrats, notably men and those with higher incomes.
IM AN OLD CLINTON AIDE AND FAMILY FRIEND.
AS USUAL THE CW IS BASS ACKWARDS,
THIS IS SOOOOOO GOING TO CREDENTIALS…
HILL WILL FIGHT FOR WHAT SHE, I, YOU….
HER 15 MILLION VOTERS……BELIEVE IN.
AND THAT MEANS BEATING OBAMA IN DENVER.
Amen to that !!!
SEYMOUR: BE SURE TO TELL HER WE ARE WITH HER AL THE WAY!!! She needs to give us specific instructions on how we can best support her.
And any one who says oh she can’t beat his ass in the credentials because there will ” riots ” I say , hey the GOP will be sending
provocateurs to Denver whoever the nominee is. Believe it. So what the hell?
Go Hillary!
Yes it was in February when he was forced to shitcan his messiah rallies,come down off the mountain and actually talk to people impromptu. Twas then that his most used vocabulary word became evident: “Ummmmmmmmmmmmm”. Followed by his second most used word: “Ahhhhhhhhhh”.
don’t forget uh.
crush her, that’s what you want? This is still the primary, we’re all supposedly Democrats or what are you weighing in for?
It’s okay for Donna to be partisan when she admits it and quits her party job, since she’s pretending neutrality she’s way out of line. There is nothing fair in the media coverage of this race, and if our party leadership is so nuts they’ll assume the only reason to back Hillary is that we’re racist they are too stupid to be our leaders.
One thing is clear, if Hillary wins I’ll be demanding an overhaul of party leadership, out with these hacks, lets get some professionals in. If Obama wins because of this so-called leadership, meaning if they throw it to him when she has the popular vote, then I won’t donate a dime until these party hacks are out.
Yes Donna, I’d vote for your guy, even though he isn’t for universal pre-school, or universal health care, or for banning militias or for voiding Iraq oil contracts and bringing home contractors from Iraq, as well as troops, and even though his loose lips might set off some bad things in the middle east, because and only because McCain would be worse. But I have little doubt that McCain would win, all those indies who voted for Barrack are now on the McCain train.
The very idea that we need yet another under-qualified president who delegates is nuts, but that we back Hillary not because she’s qualified but because we’re racist and give a hoot about his bigoted pastor is nuttsier.
What sends Donna into lala land, however, it the idea that Hillary’s supporters are losing the race for her. Obama inspires his supporters to hate her and us. She has made no character attack on him, and we don’t either. That’s too Rove for us, he has policy problems, his character is no better or worse than any other politician. And, she hasn’t lost. Did you hear Jon Stewart’s Obama joke – he has a clear path to the nomination – if Hillary drops out?
What class you have Seymour and Radagast.
“Typical Obama Supporters” get nasty when the message is not going your way.
If be some unfortunate fate that Obama is the nominee …… McCain will be the next President of the US.
I thought Seymour was speaking for Hill and us–was he being sarcastic? I thought “former Clinton aide and family friend” meant he was reassuring us that she was going to fight all the way for us.
I think you lost the plot, podna.
Seymour was answering to Radagast.
Sorry, This is not Wind in the Willows, that place down the internet aways. Turn right when you get to Hate street the left on Misogyny Court…can’t miss it. The sign out front says,”tales from the gutter only”
I heard they serve a mean Kool-aid Colada down at that other blog…
meant for Radagast
This is clearly one of your best Flea. And the photo is so Her.
Does anybody know what Donna did for a living before she met the Clintons?
Funny, she seemed to think an awful lot of Hillary till the rumors of the strong-arming occurred and her face suddenly morphed one day.
http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Donna_Brazile.php
Check out some of the responses Ben Smith got-
“Donna is being a closet Obama supporter to keep her tv gig, and that’s fine with me, I’d do the same!”
“I saw Geraldine Ferraro on Fox again the other day, and she was acting CRAZY!”
“I think HillaryIs44 should be closed down for it’s vitriol.”
I HOPE these guys are paid to post this crud. It’s scary to think people who type such nonsense for free.
On the other hand, I wonder how much souls are going for these days.
John… did you get paid? You should have.
Geraldine is crazed … that is true… because of the antics of your candidate.
The next president of the US will be Hillary or McCain.
Your boy doesn’t have a chance.
So, as I said in my piece, ‘April Fools,’ at http://www.thecjpoliticalreport.com, “Nor is anyonee happy with party insider, Donna Brazile, who keeps threatening to leave the Democratic Party if her candidate, Barack Obama, doesn’t get the nomination. “If 795 of my colleagues [superdelegates] decide this election, I will quit the Democratic Party. I feel very strongly about this,” Brazile said.
So quit, you fool!”
Halli Casser-Jayne
http://www.thecjpoliticalreport.com/
Bye Donna.
I wrote to Donna and said:
Dear Ms Brazile;
Neutral? I use to have so much respect for you. Wright is a “moderate” black minister? wow …. can you give us examples of those ministers that are a farther extreme?
Looks like you will be resigning from the DNC ….. you said you would if the Super Delegates have to decide the race. I would wish you would stick around and somehow find it in your self to stand against Pelosi and start validating that the Super Delegates have the obligation to choose the nominee based on their own accord, their own experience.
I hope you come back to neutral, maybe you can’t ……I use to tune in when I saw you on TV … now I flip the channel.
Joyce
HER RESPONSE:
Yep.
I am neutral but not stupid.
Donna
Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. Please contact my office at (202) 628-8081.
MY RESPONSE:
Thank you for the reply.
HER RESPONSE:
You are free to flip, turn off and go have a beer or ice cream.
As someone who responds to all my emails, I take no issue with your opinion. In fact, with all due respect, I have responded.
So, please act with class. You have no reason to be disrespectful unless you’re just one of those hateful people.
I am not.
God Bless and good luck.
Donna
SHE CAN BE REACHED AT:
donna@brazileassociates.com
The second email was to your response of “Thank you for your reply”?
She lost it….
Good riddance Donna B! You have lost all credibility. I heard her on NPR last week, and she said, “The dirty little secret is, the superdelegates have already made up their minds, but they will wait until the primaries are over. Most of us have already decided who we will support.” Duh…gee, I wonder which one she chose…
Notice how all of her emails are so defensive and skew all the comments to reinforce a paranoid view of the Clintons. And the irony is, Clinton supporters are the cracy irrational ones?!! Has she been reading any Obamabot posts???? Those are some really nasty and fanatical folks!
why does donna think ANYONE would care?
Guess you can’t follow the links
I’m not sure what you mean. The links work fine.
Great post Fleaflicker!
Donna B. has been involved in numerous campaigns. And how many of the several presidential campaigns with which she has been associated resulted in a Democrat winning the GE? None. Yes, her record is none out of a gazillion.
Please, Donna, go away. I beg you. And pretty please, if you can’t do that, please stopp appearing on CNN, ABC’s “This Week,” et al, as a supposed neutral “Democratic strategist.” You’re about as neutral David Axelrod or Michelle Obama.
Oh, and as for the DNC Chairman, you’re doing a heckava job Deanie.
Heck of a job Deanie! Love it!!!
My new favorite is “Coward Dean.”
The most outrageous thing that Donna said is GBLT right is not Civil Right. This is blatantly wrong. The second one that came close is “Hillary need to keep her people on message”, but Obama is not responsible for his.
It might help if you include the content of the emails that we sent to Donna. So we can see the contrast of our message and Donna’s accusation that there were frivolous emails. It seems for Donna, any email that trying to point out the truth is a frivolous email.
I agree with what you said about the actual e-mails that were sent out Joey. I just don’t have direct access to them and no one replied with the information when Susan asked for it. If you know how to get a hold of those e-mails I will update this post with them.
Thanks!
I have e-mails from donna brazile/she is some real nasty person. thinks well of her self
Brazille keeps talking about Hillary’s tanking approval…
Oh really…? I could’ve sworn she led Obama in the general election against McCain, but that’s just me, what do I know?
Maybe Brazile will do for Obama what she did for Gore?
Perhaps she already is…..;-)
I’ve seen worse yet quoted on h44 as from Brazile. It’s amazing that she would spend so much of her time — Blackberry time at that — bickering with individuals.
What is amazing to me is that these are communications from a member of the Democratic Party leadership. These sound like notes from a teen-ager in a high school smack down. The unprofessional tone and wording are amazing to me. I could understand this kind of language from a blogger but a national level party official at the very top of the party hierarchy? Does D. Brazile have a street hood background somewhere? Her lack of high level communication skills is stunning. It seems to me this is ubiquitous in the Obama campaign. The other deeply disturbing part of this is that Hillary is getting slimed and wounded. The Pew poll showing Obama with the highest values like me rating of the 3 candidates and Hillary the lowest is troubling. I do not see how so many people simply accept his long associations with radical anti white religion as okey dokey.
Exactly, those were my thoughts about the unprofessional tone of the response and the others I read. Again, as having been in the position of having to field all sorts of correspondence, I can vouch that it’s not easy. I’ve read outrageous letters, emails that were hateful, mean, threatening, racist and some bordering on pornography. How do you think it felt for me, an AA, reading a letter from an avowed member of the KKK. I’m sure you can imagine what I would have wanted to say. But I didn’t. It’s called professional discipline. If Brazile thought the tone of the emails were frivolous, she could have simply deleted them. She doesn’t know me. She didn’t have to respond. No one would have known. In fact, she was the only one who responded to my emails. I have yet to hear from anyone else.
What’s in question here is not what I wrote her, I’m not in a leadership position. I am Jane Q Voter. I wanted to hear something to assuage my anger, my frustration. From all that I read on the Internet each day, I think everyone wants to hear something sage and wise from the Democratic leadership. And yet we hear nothing.
And what about Senator Hope and Change? Wasn’t he supposed to usher in a ‘new’ kind of politics? Oh wait….. As soon as Hillary gets out of the race and he has the nomination, then he, Dean, Brazile and others will soothe our angry nerves with pretty words filled with soothing platitudes.
Sorry, but I am no longer buying the load of dung these people are shoveling. I’ll share with you the one sentence that I wrote in my email. It’s a statement I first posted here on No Quarter:
WIN WITHOUT ME!
If that justified her angry response, so be it. But it’s the truth. If Obama is the nominee, I will not vote for him. I said it here on the board and at savagepolitics.com. I’ve also heard many angry democrats like me say in different words the very same thing.
But I guess our concerns as well as our votes are frivolous.
We’ll see.
I like that. WIN WITHOUT ME! That is exactly how I feel. I am staying home and baking some pies in NOV. Forget the voting!
Another thing that is disturbing are the new numbers out of NC that show that McCain is the most “trusted,” followed by Obama, and HRC is much lower. Their constant attacks on her credibility are having an effect. The idea that the completely fabricated Bosnia story is being compared to a 20 year relationship with an avowed sensationalist bigot is ludicrous! The other problem is that the relentless focus on all things negative for Hillary and NO THINGS NEGATIVE for Obama (including his long laundry list of lies) is being lapped up by uninformed voters. It’s all marketing at this point–and the media is Madison Ave. Exactly how we ended up with “W” for 2 terms and a false war.
The worse thing is that MOST of the Bosnia was true. There was simply the discrepancy between the “risk of sniper fire” and actual sniper fire. It was dangerous. Precautions were taken. She did arrive at the SECOND and THIRD leg of the trip in a blackhawk doing a corkscrew landing. They were accompanied by frakking gunships, but no one looks up the parts of her story that were true but were conflated. It wasn’t constructed wholesale from his brilliant mind. Some of that stuff was true and there’s no tape of that.
We have the might ambivalent, two-faced, Sinbad’s word for it though.
And now we have this piece of crap story about some lady who Hillary NEVER met ever. There’s tape of her actually hearing the story from someone else. What is the deal with the media and their bs?
And now tonight.. ABC news has a snarky piece on video (all over the Yahoo.com home page) about a story Hillary tells about woman who dies because she didn’t have 100 dollars for an exam. There is a video of a Deputy telling her that story… but the hospital is now denying it. Of course, the media is using it as a “tale”, and putting it with the Bosnia story.
I freakin’ hate the MSM right now. Obama can associate with his bff from that bank in Chicago that has been suspected of money laundering for the mob, but Hillary tells a story that was told to her on camera by a sherrifs deputy, and they spin it as though she has a ‘credibiliy problem’. They are doing the same thing to her that they did to Al Gore. And we all saw how that turned out.
Several regular posters over at savagepolitics.com received very different responses from Brazile yesterday that they termed ‘heartbreaking.’ The posters didn’t want to share the text and that’s alright. But it seemed to them that Donna was very extremely conflicted and they believed she was really supporting Hillary.
My response was simply that Donna went into CYA mode once the emails hit the Internet. I reminded them that Donna was behind the idea of “exalting rules over rights” in punishing FL & MI. I also mentioned that in a former job I had answered correspondence for the head of a non-profit and that I could right now render an email response solely based on what little I know about Brazile from the Internet that would break everyone’s heart and maybe even convince people to vote for Obama. I’m sure that Brazile evoked Hurricane Katrina, her relatives who’ve been scattered to the winds as a result and how the damaged AA community is desperately clinging to the hope of a new Democratic president who will return them to their beloved New Orleans and rebuild the city. Certainly, we all feel for the Katrina victims and are appalled by Bushco’s response, or should I say, lack of response. Yes, we all want change. We all want hope. We all want to get along.
But that doesn’t mean that we should let the powers-that-be shove Barack Obama down our throats if many us are convinced he is unqualified, inexperienced and are repelled by the underhanded way he has conducted a campaign full of negativity while blaming Hillary for all of that. He played the race card covertly, unashamedly and unapologetically. Brazile is still advancing the misquote that Michelle Obama made about former President Clinton. A quote that was only tacitly corrected by the MSM and is a matter of record. Bill did not call Obama’s candidacy a fairy tale. He was referring to Obama’s stance and posturing that he would not have voted on the War Amendment had he been in the Senate. Bill called him on it, labeling it a fairy tale. And Michelle never apologized for the misquote. Instead, she went on record in the New Yorker interview as wanting to scratch Bill Clinton’s eyes out. Yet, Hillary apologized for Bill, for herself, for Ferraro. And still you have people like Brazile, who should know better for certainly in her relations with the networks as a political consultant she has access to the archives and could see the truth for herself.
I’m sure Brazile now regrets having summarily popped off such emails from her Blackberry, forgeting the Internet in this age of technology is such a fluid thing. However, those emails are the real, unmasked Brazile. Her naked feelings. Especially the crack about why anyone would want to support a divisive candidate for president like Hillary.
As I survey the campaign that Obama has waged, it’s obvious that he is taking down many people in his quest for the presidency. Too bad that these people won’t step back from the political forest and check out the trees.
The landscape with Barack Obama in it certainly isn’t everything they are cracking it up to be.
OnE WOULD HAVE TO BE A TRUE SUCKER 2 BELIEVE DB IS SECRETLY BACKING HILLARY
Well said. I am another one who refuses to vote for the less competent, less experienced, less SUBSTANTIVE candidate Brazile and the DNC are trying to push down our throats with their constant attacks on Clinton. I have not seen ANYTHING coming from Clinton that could be construed as divisive on his level, but I have seen PLENTY coming from Obama and his minions that are divisive. Add to that his declaration that he wants HALF of the MI delegates-HALF – when he took his name off of the ballot by CHOICE, thus deserving NO delegates at all, and there is no way, no way I will vote for someone who wants to disenfranchise American voters. I am dismayed that so many of the DNC muckety mucks are supporting this arrogant, sexist, inexperienced man over Clinton, with her mastery of the issues, her intellect, her passion, and her long-standing commitment to women, children, the AA community, the LGBT community, the Latino community…You get my point. And what has Obama stood for?? Yeah – who the heck knows. Oh, wait – he gave a speech once that barely got any notice at the time, and because of THAT he has been proclaimed the Uniter.
I might add – to those who say people like me are giving the presidency to McCain by not voting for Obama, should he be the nominee, I say: No. WE are not the ones who gave it away. The DNC gave it away by treating women in general, and Hillary in particular, as well as voters of FL and MI, disparately. I’ll be writing in the name of the most qualified candidate, if she is not the nominee. And I’ll be sending all of my extra money to her, too. Brazile, and Dean, have done a grave disservice to our Party…
This was in response to your, MIMI!! It just got bumped down one…
mimi, agree re brazile. just too convenient that she suddenly acts nice. and the phony concern for how our criticism of obama is hurting hillary – puleeze!!!
also agree re taking down many people. doesn’t seem to bother him. well, won’t bother me when mccain wins and obama’s karma gets his behind knocked out of the senate. the only thing that would bother me is if obama wins. then i think we’re all in for big trouble.
FWIW-I saw her on CNN yesterday and she was being fair to Hillary. Said that her supporters want her to stay in because they think she’s the best candidate. Maybe one of her other personalities was dominant yesterday. I was surprised that’s for sure. So maybe the emails made her try to be more evenhanded???
It’s called CYA MODE!
Maybe she adjusted her meds?
tj she is a sneaky person,only pretending to be fair so she can stay on tv.Its all about donna brazile
Flea, A couple of points I think are very important, first Donna just doesn’t post these on her webpage, but a few of them (stop throwing elbows and the mud one) she put in the Philly press, if they were just on her page, I doubt many of the voters in Pa would read them, so she put them in the press, where people who don’t know much about her just that she is a “neutral”DNC leader is saying how awful Hillary is.This is at the bottom of the opinion
“Donna Brazile is a political commentator on CNN, ABC and NPR, contributing columnist to Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, and former campaign manager for Al Gore. Her column appears on Mondays. Write her in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.”
AND the Mud article was Dec 24 (yes Christmas Eve) 2007 before anyone even voted she was smearing the Clintons.
As added proof of what a complete Hypocrit she is
Here is a post from August Why Voting Rights Still Matter 2007-08-06 00:00:00.0
The United States of America encourages every nation but itself to adopt broad democratic principles and reform. It’s time we heed our own call and make a basic policy decision that it is in the best interest of our democratic form of government to encourage all eligible citizens to register and vote.
We know that election laws in some states emphasize voting prevention rather than encouraging the participation of all citizens who have that right. This is one reason why voter participation in the United States is lower than that in many other leading democracies. By contrast, election participation in six states that provide same-day voter registration – Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Wyoming – have reported higher levels of participation with little or no reported election fraud.
An election with integrity is one that includes all eligible and only eligible voters. While it is important to prevent and discourage any fraudulent and deceptive practices, our most urgent call today must be the systematic removal of all structural and political barriers that prevent eligible citizens from participating in their own government.
then later has this paragraph
As Americans, we must join together. We have the power to ensure that no American is ever denied this most basic right. As a citizen activist, I urge you to stand up for the right to vote. I urge you to monitor local election laws and to work with our allies to protect the vote for all citizens. Do you know if any new voting laws have been adopted in your county or state since the last election? What about the systematic purging of voters simply because they have failed to vote or moved without notifying the proper officials? What about restrictive voter ID laws that target the poor, minorities, youth, disabled and the elderly? The time to monitor local election laws is now.
A few weeks ago our country lost another champion of civil rights, Lady Bird Johnson. After her husband signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Lady Bird embarked on a 2,000-mile tour of the South to speak about the important new law. It is unfortunate that we are still fighting the same fight that Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson waged so steadfastly more than 40 years ago. In her memory, let us now assume our duty and our responsibility to protect the right of every American to vote.
Let us begin our work today.
http://www.donnabrazile.com/viewBlog.cfm?id=68
Thank you for writng this, we should send it to CNN as proof of why she should be firsed like Carville.
Lyn
Thanks Lyn. And yes, I probably should have pointed out that these were posted in PA as well. But I think the links I provided show that on her site.
I get so furious just thinking about this woman that is supposed to be a party leader and impartial and fair, that it makes even writing about her an unpleasant task. But one thing is for certain, she is as good a liar as Obama. And exactly as qualified.
Flea,
Fair? LOL!
What did you expect from someone who had been a member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies?
Donna is trying to position herself to be on the winning side.
What did she mean by “a candidate like Obama” ..Ummh…
Interesting. Sounds she knows he is not worth it after all..
4TH PART OF OBAMA’S SC RACE MEMO
Donna Brazile Lashed Into Bill Clinton For Comparing Obama To A “Fairy Tale” And Said “It’s An Insult… As An African-American” And That His Tone And Words Are “Very Depressing.” Donna Brazile lit into Bill Clinton over his insulting comments of Obama, where he called him a “fairy tale” and said “I could understand his frustration at this moment. But, look, he shouldn’t take out all his pain on Barack Obama. It’s time that they regroup. Figure out what Hillary needs to do to get her campaign back on track. It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former commander in chief. Someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem. For him to go after Obama, using a fairy tale, calling him as he did last week. It’s an insult. And I will tell you,
as an African-American, I find his tone and his words to be very depressing. .. I think his tone, I think calling Barack Obama a kid, he is a UnitedStates senator.” [Politico, 1/8/08]
4TH PART OF OBAMA’S SC RACE MEMO“
Donna Brazile Lashed Into Bill Clinton For Comparing Obama To A “Fairy Tale” And Said “It’s An Insult… As An African-American” And That His Tone And Words Are “Very Depressing.” Donna Brazile lit into Bill Clinton over his insulting comments of Obama, where he called him a “fairy tale” and said “I could understand his frustration at this moment. But, look, he shouldn’t take out all his pain on Barack i6Obama. It’s time that they regroup. Figure out what Hillary needs to do to get her campaign back on track. It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former commander in chief. Someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem. For him to go after Obama, using a fairy tale, calling him as he did last week. It’s an insult. And I will tell you,
as an African-American, I find his tone and his words to be very depressing. .. I think his tone, I think calling Barack Obama a kid, he is a UnitedStates senator.” [Politico, 1/8/08]
But I guess it was okay for Obama to call Hillary a (D-Punjab) last June. What is a punjab anyways?
Punjab is a state in India. Hillary has a lot of support within the Indian community, we love President Clinton and Hillary, and she has really made an effort to understand the needs of the Indian community and the issues that are important to us.
The D-Punjab memo was nativist and borderline racist. I used to be an Obama supporter, that is when my Obama bubble burst. Thank god.
Get a clue.The Obama camp quoted her.
1/18/08 PBS NEWSHOUR
JUDY WOODRUFF: How sharp are the divisions in the black community over this, Representative Lewis?
REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, I think there are strong feelings, because people are divided over whether to support Senator Clinton or to support Senator Obama. I happen to believe, at this juncture in our history, that we need someone with the experience to lead and prepare to lead.
JUDY WOODRUFF: But how confident are you, Reverend Lowery, that it is going to come to an end, given the fact that the two of you, even though you both say you want it to end, you do have a different interpretation of what’s been going on here?
REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: I don’t think there’s as much division as we think. I think the division came — it was people who have not taken a side, people like Clyburn in South Carolina and Donna Brazile, people who haven’t taken a side, who raise the issue of the inference of the remarks that came from the Clintons, not the Obama campaign.
REP. JOHN LEWIS: I think some people like Donna Brazile or even maybe Clyburn or some others in the African-American community are trying to use this as a cover to come out and endorse a particular candidate.
JUDY WOODRUFF: You’re suggesting that Senator Obama…
REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Well, I think you ought to let those people themselves, John.
REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, you raised it, Joe. I did not.
REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: I raise it because it’s in the news. You said the Obama campaign raised the issue; I’m telling you they did not. It was media people and other people who have been relatively impartial.
REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, you have tried…
REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: And I simply said I can understand how they could read that in those statements, “fairy tale,” “false hope”…
REP. JOHN LEWIS: Fairy tale has nothing…
REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: … Johnson. That’s not a positive approach. Let’s stay positive. Let’s stay on the issues and serve America.
REP. JOHN LEWIS: President Clinton referenced the fairy tale. It had nothing, not one word to do with the issue of race. It was all about the Iraq war.
Thanks for posting that dialogue Seymour Glass; I really hope the truth about what was done to Lewis comes to light. Lewis was clapping HRC strongly at the SC debate.
The more Brazile, Corpress, and the rest of the Obamacans try to shove O down our collective throats, the more we will resist. What don’t they get about us being sick of having our candidate chosen for us?
Thanks Flea, for your continued dedication to exposing the ugly side of Team O, that Corpress pretends doesn’t exist.
Excellent post Fleaflicker. She should be exposed for what she is and for what she is doing. She has been one of the most damaging persons in the party. Totally cynical and divisive.
If DB wants to be on TV despising HRC and
many others under the Democratic unbrella with her intolerant comments that’s up to the TV producers that hire her. But the DNC , Dean in particular should not allow her to sit there as a DNC “unbiased” rep.
Her demeanor, her behavior and her words intended to debasing 50% of the party are vulgar and poisonous and should have no place anywhere close to the DNC leadership.
It is sad, that someone Gore entrusted has fallen so low to elicit so much contempt.
“umbrella” that is…
It is not surprising that so many Gay Republicans vote against there interests but it didn’t know of any Dems. who did until I read that blurb about her block of the rights proposal Dean wanted. I can’t figure out the Repubs. who do it and I can’t figure this either. The other thing I don’t understand was not so much her lack of communication tact but that she, in this internet age, 1)responded that way in an email, which is like chiseling it in stone and 2)that she responded that way to VOTERS, Democratic VOTERS. The obliviousness behind those actions are certainly coming from a place where the best interests of Dem. supporters does not reside at all. By the way, for those who don’t know, she is not being outed on this post. Her she-news is old news. Google.
Is this correct? The Florida GOP legislature set an early primary date against the efforts of the Forida Dems. Instead of supporting the Dems against the GOP mischief, Brazile made a personal judgement that they hadn’t ‘tried hard enough’ and instead of following the prescribed punishment (losing half delegates) she set an unusual punishment (losing all delegates).
That double error in judgement of Brazile’s is the root of the problem. I’m sure the DNC rules are complicated enough that it would be possible to change that punishment even now, this week, to something that would not impact the voters or the candidates — thus letting the current delegates’ votes count toward the nomination as is, not reassigned (50-50 steal).
Is it unfair to single out Brazile here? Were Dean and others equally responsible for that ruling and that punishment?
Yes, the DNC could change the decision any time they wanted to. The “rules” allow them to do so. The DNC did not follow it’s own guidelines for dealing with this mess. The Democrats in Florida did try to stop the Repubs from changing the date but voted to accept it in the end because the Republicans included a paper ballot initiative that the Democrats had to support. The DNC ruled that the Democrats didn’t try hard enough to stop this which is complete BS. And yes, Brazile was the major voice disenfranchising Florida voters.
Thanks. Was Brazile also the major voice against MIchigan?
“The Democrats in Florida did try to stop the Repubs from changing the date but voted to accept it in the end because the Republicans included a paper ballot initiative that the Democrats had to support.”
What does that mean–a paper ballot initiative?
To give e-voting machines a paper trail.
Dems went along for a carrot.
Forgive me for being ad hom, but it’s time to can Donna’s ugly ass from CNN. Biased be-atch. And she can type that in on her little Blackberry keypad.
She is certainly not ugly. But neither is Arianna Huffington.
Well I don’t know about you all but I am out! Out of the democratic party for good! When did we become the party that disenfranchises the voters. I thought the race wasn’t over until all states had voted. It is sad that this party is run by a bunch of losers. I just wish when she said she would quit the party, she had quit. I saw her say that on CNN…….I think she would throw all democrats under the bus just to get her Obama in the White House. She does not care that it is not democrats voting for him. Losers, all of them, losers!
What do you think Donna Brazile would think “B-Rob” a BOmaniac that posted today insulting everyone but in particular J. Jackson as follows:
Isn’t that something? What would DB and the AA community think of these Obama supporters?
If you know how to email her; please forward her
this comment from an Obama supporter. I’m sure she’ll be thrilled.
Done Andy. I will fire it off to her!
Great! Let me know what she replies. I am sure nothing…
This guy B-Rob was trolling today in the CNN’s Roland Martin post;
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/05/cnns-roland-martin-interviews-hillary/
Send her there if she doesn’t believe this guy’s posts; he also called
Travis Smiley a “certified nutcake”
Andy…I’m sitting here with my jaw hanging open…I find it amazing Obama supporters like “B-Rob” have the nerve to call US racists. That comment was…wow, I honestly don’t know where to begin. He can’t be a true liberal, hell, I question many of these Obama supporters. Very few sound like open minded liberals.
Yep, that guy was trolling earlier today
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/05/cnns-roland-martin-interviews-hillary/
His comments weere the typical junk with lots of racists and ugly elitist
comments ( “we are the educated, you the low… ” whatever, etc etc).
he even called Travis Smiley a “certified nutcake”
Really ugly.
Someone sould make a big file with all his comments and send them to
Donna Brazile: so that she sees the company she is with and extols…
i don’t know what a jack-leg preacher is. but sure does sound like an insult. b-rob just keeps revealing himself.
what i don’t understand is why he keeps coming over here – surely he can’t think any of us will fall for his crap.
What amazes me is how stupid she is? How the hell did she get to where she is?
The Clintons gave her a break.
Just like Richardson, and this is how they’re repaid. Sad.
She sounds out of control. She should step down “for the good of the party” and take a long vacation.
Perhaps we should let her know.
JMHO
I am copying my e-mail I sent and her nasty response. Now I refuse to e-mail her anypore. She is a nasty woman:
Dear Ms Brazille,
As a new Democratic voter, I have been dismayed and deeply disappointed by your claim to neutrality in the Democratic primary race, when you actually show your obvious bias for Senator Obama. The media coverage has been horrendous to witness. There are reports out about the 28% of Clinton supporters who will not support Sen. Obama’s candidacy. Count me among them. I am well-educated and have done my research. His blatant lack of experience is a fundamental problem for me. His disrespect for Senator Clinton begginning with his comment Senator Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab) is way out of bounds. He has been sexist and very negative towards women.
You have not been overtly hostile like many other mainstream broadcasters, but you always seem to nudge the debate toward your own agenda. The Democratic Party is grossly underestimating the anger and disillusionment of women voters. You assume we will “come around” in November. You are wrong. I will not forget. I will never forget how you let women down.
Your comment this morning, 3/30, on “This Week” that “it’s all been worked out” is deeply troubling. If the Party decides the nominee without a fair incorporation of Florida and Michigan voters, there will be a mutiny within the party. It is not about “Hillary winning at all costs.” How can we be in Iraq promoting DEMOCRACY when we ignore it ourselves? If you ignore two important states and 2.5 million voters in your coronation of a nominee, the declared nominee will be considered illegitimate by a large part and parcel of the Party.
We cannot understand the persistent and unbalanced favoritism toward Senator Obama on main stream media like MSNBC and CNN. I won’t go into all the reasons he is unqualified for the position, and the lack of investigation into his record. It reminds me of the media promotion of George W. Bush and the run-up to the war. Have journalists lost all objectivity and professionalism? This role in our Democracy is essential, and without it, we end up where we are today, and worse.
Please consider my words, because I am speaking for many fellow Democrats and Independents, and the party leaders seem to have a deaf ear where this is concerned. If it is not resolved equitably, we will end up with another Republican president, and we can’t afford that either. We are only asking for a level playing field and a fair competition that is decided by the voters, not the pundits or the party operatives.
Sincerely yours,
Nancy H. Armstrong
Former ET1 (SW), USN, 1979-1992
100% Total and Permanently Disabled Veteran
Kansas Chairperson, Operation Firing for Effect, http://www.offe2008.org, Supporting full funding for the VA
National Director, Women’s Coalition, OFFE
Here is her response:
Nancy,
Suddenly you send an email after one or two shows. Perhaps you can go back and view more. Because the Obama folks are blaming me for being in the other camp.
I am free to do as I please. Neutrality means non declared not non opinionated.
Thanks for your time. If you have joyful thoughts send me, but no more this and that.
I am an American too.
Donna
I found her response to be snarky. You would think I accused her of not being an American. That is not what I said at all. Some people….
Nancy – Well said! I have lost all respect for Ms. Donna Brazile and the DNC.
You know after reading your thoughtful letter and that snide response I believe there are probably at least 50 of similar back and forths. I can see doing another diary of nothing but the communications from someone that is supposed to be a party leader. Because to me she represents the absolute worst kind of leader. And this stuff needs to be exposed.
I must have had my exchange with her before she got snarky and angry, because she wasn’t rude in her response to me, though I hit her pretty hard in my email to her. But, one thing really galled me from her response, and that was that she said, “We must all work together.”
I didn’t bother to reply that I guess she doesn’t think Florida and Michigan voters deserve to be part of that togetherness.
But, her comment proved to me that Donna Brazile and Howard Dean really DO think that all good Dems will come ’round in the end and support THEIR choice for the nominee.
Only I won’t do that. I will vote in solidarity with Florida and Michigan–meaning my vote will be {CRICKETS} in November and will not collude with disenfranchisement by the DNC––unless they come to a fair resolution to count those delegates in selecting the nominee.
No, I don’t care if John McCain wins. The lesson will be a painful one for the Democratic Party if he does. Perhaps it is a lesson they need to learn: Democrats Don’t Disenfranchise Voters!
I suspect there are a great many others who will do the same. We’ll see. I can only do what I must do, and that is stand up for my principles. So, that is what I will do.
“joyful comments” ? What does she want emails telling her how glorious she is? Nancy your letter was excellent and heartfelt and she send you a vulgar reply: “I am too an American”??? What was that about ?
Outrageous response from a DNC party rep. As a Veteran you should print that out and send it to the DNC c/o Dean.
They ought to be ashamed of themselves….
That woman has a lot of problems; a huge chip in her shoulder and lots of complexes…
One other thing I sent that letter to 5 newspapers. Our own Salina Tribune in Kansas printed the letter in the Letter to the Editor Section. They were very impressed with it.
OUTSTANDING, Nancy!!
Can you please provide a link to this newspaper and the letter to the editor section? I would really enjoy adding that to this diary.
I am going to have to go to the downtown library letters to the editors do not appear online. I actually live in another town not Salina. I live in Haysville. Hopefully the downtown library in Wichita has it, our library is too small.
Did they print her reply? Send it to them as a follow up to your letter.
Donna Brazile insulting emails need to be exposed; she cannot get away with this.
It is not to late to send e-mail to all the TV network that DB appears her lying face. Send to CNN, especially, so I can watch again few good talk shows in that channel. We can say that DB is a FAKE, BIASED & not an honest Democratic strategist, as the job description says.Can someone pls.post the e-mails of this network? We need to show this woman, that the supporters of Hillary are not dumb, as the Obama group says too!
Who can be our leader? Uppity Woman, are you there?
If she didn’t behave that way, CNN wouldn’t keep her.
The last time I saw Begala on CNN was when the commentator said to him, “You support Hillary clinton, so what do you think?”
Begala said “Yes I do, I’m the only person in this building who supports her” Then he answered the question.
I never saw him again.
incredible!
i stopped watching the msm in mid february – the anger was rising so high i might’ve keeled over if i didn’t stop. but i see nothing’s changed.
If you want to here Bill Clinton when he made the “fairy tale” comment go watch this and then decide how much spin the press put on it. I won’t be able to trust network news again….spin,spin,spin……
Bill Clinton fairy tale
well it didn’t work, here is a link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRkw03woqc
Whoa, I don’t agree with her definition of “neutral”. By her definition, it’s okay for her to be supporting Obama, she just is “undeclared”. So – what’s the POINT of that?
Neutral should have to do with your behavior and speech – commenting on each candidate fairly and without bias, not trying to push your own agenda. Sure, you might have a preference, but it can’t show in your professional work – because your job is to be objective.
She seems to think she can push her agenda, as long as she doesn’t SAY she’s for Obama. She’s very confused – I, too, am wondering about her intelligence and professionalism. Yes, how did she get this job? The very idea of a professional firing off these emails is mind-boggling. In any other job, she’d be fired for treating “customers” this way!
I think this is a situation that combines the political world (i.e. who is going to run the country) and the MSM. We are really seeing inside the entity and at the players, not just DB. There is such an *obvious* disingenuousness about these players and their agendas. DB is not just an MSM “expert” but is – correct me if I am wrong – a Democratic super delegate who has been influencing decisions about how the primary vote should be counted. She certainly has a strong opinion about that. May she should stay off the air for a while because her contributing to the echo chamber is clearly the basis for a conflict of interest.
Also: Comment by Seymour Glass | 2008-04-05 19:34:02 : Re: PBS Newshour. Interesting dialogue. Talk about disingenousness!
Here is another one of her post where she claims to be a “neutral superdelegate” then goes on to trash the Clintons (While saying both candidates but of course forgets to mention any BO wrong doings) and is awful to GF. She should be ashamed, if this is how the Dem Leaders bring about Unity, no thanks. I’m not sure how many places carry her Opinions but this was in the phillyburb a couple weeks ago, she really is trying to win Pa for BO and obbiously doesn’t care about the damage she is doing IF (I pray to God) Hilary is our Nom.
This is the Democrats’ year, if they don’t mess it up
By DONNA BRAZILE
After nearly a decade of disaster under the Bush administration, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done to make our nation great again. So why are some Democrats fighting over who should be first: a black or a woman? Well, here’s a novel idea from someone who is both a black and a woman: The needs, interests and priorities of the United States of America should come first.
As a neutral superdelegate who is becoming increasingly frustrated at the campaign’s divisive attitude and growing animosity between the Clinton and Obama camps, I don’t have a clue what the outcome will be. Nor do I have the power with my one vote to change the trajectory of this race. What I do know is that the tone of this campaign must change or the party will be torn apart — and President McCain will be sending thank-you notes to the Democratic Party.
By every measure, 2008 should be a year of victory for Democrats who have wandered, at times blindly, into the political wilderness trying to find their voice. A voice that should now be strong enough, wise enough and eloquent enough to speak up for those who have been left dazed and speechless by mounting debt, rising food and fuel costs, soaring interest rates on adjustable mortgages, fear of losing their jobs in a recession, and, worst of all, getting sick and being unable to finance their medical care.
In these final weeks of campaigning, each candidate needs to provide a clear vision of how he or she would jumpstart the economy, win the war on terror, prepare our children for a global marketplace, resolve the health care crisis and strengthen our country overall.
So why, when Democrats and those who switched to vote in the primary are clearly excited about two equally inspiring and talented candidates, are their surrogates, campaign staff or spouses pulling the rug out from under them? Who called out the circular firing squad?
Clinton supporter and former first female vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is a prime (though not only) example, tearing into Obama simply because he has managed to transcend the boundary of race with an uplifting message of unity. Some Democrats have succumbed to playing the kind of politics we once uniformly denounced.
“I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign — to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against,” Ferraro told the Daily Breeze, a small newspaper serving the Los Angeles area. “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”
Ferraro’s statements shocked me and many others not because she gave voice to what so many twisted people still believe — that somehow blacks get ahead simply because they’re “lucky” to be black — but because Ferraro had said basically the same thing almost 20 years ago when another black candidate, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, also took the party and country by storm, winning more states and delegates than many thought possible. “If Jesse Jackson were not black,” she told The Washington Post in 1988, “he wouldn’t be in the race.”
Then and now, Ferraro implied that the idea of electing someone who uplifts people is simply foolish and that such a candidate, ipso facto, is undeserving and unqualified. An “absolutely not!” repentant Ferraro resigned as a member of Clinton’s finance committee before telling the same California newspaper, “I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white.”
Shame on you, Ferraro. And shame on others who attempt to stir up hatred and create wedges between groups for political advantage.
Democrats of all stripes and those who wish to embrace a new direction for America still have the time and ability to put aside the politics of personal destruction and celebrate the most electrifying and historic election of our lifetime. But it’s up to Clinton and Obama to help end this primary race with a joyful cheer for the eventual nominee. If either candidate truly wishes to lead the Democratic Party, they must show they can keep the party united as they beg, persuade and even cajole voters in the remaining primaries and caucuses.
If this proves impossible, then perhaps it’s time Democratic voters, new and old alike, give that politician the pink slip and vote him or her out of our party.
Donna Brazile is a political commentator on CNN, ABC and NPR, contributing columnist to Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, and former campaign manager for Al Gore. Her column appears on Mondays. Write her in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.
March 17, 2008 6:57 AM
I thought that Donna Brazile used to be an ally of the Clintons – am I remembering that right? If so, maybe that’s why she got defensive at Richardson being called a traitor.
Here is DB’s response to the posting from the Obamabot:
I am in detox now from reading the emails. Spending time with family and friends in New Orleans. Thanks, DonnaSent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. Please excuse any typos or grammatical errors.
Good chance we may have worn her out…lol
Heh. If you WANT to wear her out, we might forward other Bot comments to her whenever we see a really strong one.
Iirc, in one of her replies posted at h44, she said (referring to a pro-Hillary email) something like ‘A candidate that inspires this kind of hatred is not fit to be president.’ In another, she said she was forwarding someone’s pro-Hillary email to all the SDs to give them a bad impression of HIllary’s supporters.
Maybe we could quote those when forwarding Bot comments to her.
That’s if we WANT to wear her out. Maybe it’s better to let her go on putting out lots of un-cool emails … especially if they’re getting picked up by MSM.
I knew she would have nothing to say about that guys comments;
we call her bluff about Clinton supporters and didn’t have anything to say.
Thanks for doing that Nancy H. Armstrong I appreciate it.
The e=mail posted above is the same e-mail I sent to the Salina Journal so you have it!
Why not try a different tack?
People should write emails to her expressing their sincere gratitude that Brazile has worked so effectively for Obama. Tell her that if she hadn’t imposed the “death penalty” on MI and FL, Hillary’s momentum might have been unstoppable.
You should also say that you appreciate how tirelessly Brazile has called out the Clinton’s racism, even though that must truly pain her, being such a close friend.
Etc, etc.
Throw out some better bait, guys!
It’s funny because it’s true.
I laughed out loud at this entire thread of comments – thank you! The Hillay-bashing on other web sites has forced ME into detox, so reading comments from like-minded people is a real boost. I have nothing to add, except – keep trying to post your comments on the Probama web sites. Every once in a while, one of my posts gets through – and maybe that’s all it takes for one Probama to re-think his or her (misguided) choice of candidate.
keep trying to post your comments on the Probama web sites.
I don’t know if there is liquor enough in my cabinet.
I have seen so many awful email responses from Donna Brazile posted in the comments of both Hillary is 44 and Taylor Marsh’s website. I used to really like her and seeing her turn so unprofessional and mean spirited has really been a let down!
Personally, I encourage people to stop emailing her. I don’t think it does any good because she is still in a position of power, and given Dean’s complete and utter lack of leadership, I don’t imagine that she will be removed from that position anytime soon. Sadly, she will still play a big role in determining what has happened to FL and MI and we really need them seated…
That being said, if someone is DETERMINED to email her, I would recommend Mark L’s suggestion, thank her for keeping FL and MI out and say that while you feel bad that 2.3 million votes won’t count, it is more important to get Barack as the nominee…see what her response is….you might get something interesting…
And for anyone who has ALREADY emailed her, please post here! People need to know what has been said.
can someone post her email address? Thanks!
Here is an email I sent her and the reply I recieved, below it. I sent this email after she said on This week w/George steph., her false statement about how the delegates from each state were alloted. I noticed there is a retraction up on Abc.com ,under that show, saying what she said is false.
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:29:07
To:info@brazileassociates.com
Subject: This week w/ george s
Your dismissal of the times reporters comments regarding the Hillary supporters shows how out of touch you are. The clinton supporters will never accept Obama as a legitimate nominee without the Florida and Michigan votes being counted. Your “fairness” stance is so hypocritical, without counting those votes. And the argument about changing the rules doesn’t wash when you are so happy to change the rule regarding how the super delegates vote. We all know the purpose of the supers was not to just follow the delegate lead. I guess you would not understand either, the Hillary supporters frustration with the media since just like many of them, your bias towards Obama has been evident the many times I have seen you on cnn. You don’t seem to understand, as much as you try to push Obama down our throats, we are going to burp him up again. Whether the super delegates name a nominee in June or Nov., if the votes from fla. and Mich. are not counted in full, we will not get over the feeling this election was stolen from us, just as we still feel the pain of the Gore election and that was 7 years ago. McCain here we come.
So out of touch for being in the moment and not declared. Just keep sending me hate mail and I send you another reply.
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I really feel like DB is in the tank for BO. She may be undeclared, but she is certainly not neutral. About a month or so ago she seemed to be maintaining something akin to neutrality on CNN, but something definitely has changed since then.
My heart really went out to her Katrina and post Katrina as it went out to all the family and family members and that doesn’t change.
I do think though that she ought to declare publicly and they should then introduce her as a BO supporter.
I certainly disagree strongly with her GLBT stance. It doesn’t seem very democratic at all.
I forgot to add that I am totally pissed about the MI/FL which I feel that she is at least partially to blame for…
that picture is what I imagine someone being “batshit” crazy would look like
Donna Brazile’s reply was at the bottom :
“So out of touch for being in the moment and not declared. Just keep sending me hate mail and I send you another reply.”
Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. Please contact my office at (202) 628-8081.
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I kind of felt like she was threatening me.
How was your email “hate mail”??
What does it mean “So out of touch for being in the moment ..”
She has delusions of grandeur, really… It’s Dean’s fault. he should have boot her out.
I don’t know why she called it hate mail. I read my email again after she sent that response and I didn’t think it was any worse than things she has written about Hillary or Ferraro etc.
It might be a cut and paste message she is now sending to anyone who questions her pronouncements.
She was threatening you, I think she meant another type of reply, definately not an email.
not brazile, but an article i saw on realclearpolitics. the person says he’s a clinton supporter, then says obama has run a positive campaign and we should all get behind him, etc.
i don’t know who this person is, but reading the article gives me the very clear impression this person is NOT a clinton supporter. seems like the latest tactic, a la brazile – claim not to be obama’s side then try to influence people in obama’s favor.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/05/my_fellow_clintonites_its_time_for_obama/
The Repukes are having a field day with this strange division we’ve created as well.
I see their little minion trolls all over the place pretending to be either pro Obama or pro Clinton just long enough to say something so heinous you realize it’s a set up.
When the trolls are 15 it’s much easier to spot them. Some of the OLD trolls are harder to figure out. Almost always talk in crude, sexual or extreme slander with NO attribution or links. Heavy personal name calling as well. Punks.
(keeps you on your toes)
The Repukes are having a field day with this strange division we’ve created as well.
I think this division is also sowing *confusion* in the GOP ranks. Which is fine with me. They’ve caused enough trouble, the r*tf*ckers.
Really?
You don’t see them as predictable thinkers, embittered drunks in a bar, oblivious to everything, but themselves, and their impending deaths?
Oh, wait, that’s Dick Cheney, sorry.
read this, definately a BO supporter trying to work on us. A poser like her leader.
Read that (poor) article and what he/she writes (the reasons for ) make no sense whatsoever. Essentially says that b/c of the Wright nightmare Obama is
really vulnerable in Nov. to McCain and hence we should all start rallying for him to help him out. It is preposterous and absurd.
Regional members of the DNC should hear about Ms. Brazile, loudly.
I meant regional representatives IN the DNC should hear about Ms. Brazile’s antics, including her gaming the Florida primary.
They will try to use every ploy possible to nominate the annointed one, including help him prevent the mich and Flare-vote.
I’d like to know how DB manged to be placed in such a powerful position. She wasn’t so great as a campaign manager.
IF the uncle Rev. Wright hate speech didn’t shock or surprise DB — we really need to know why?? Why isn’t she speaking out against the sexists language from Obama supporters — she has been playing the race card — but ignoring the sexist language coming from Obama supporters (and Obama himself).
DB should be removed from her position as political commentator for CNN etc — in fairness to the other political hot shots who’ve been removed because they favor Clinton.
I’ve been reading DB’s replies to polite email sent by individuals on Taylor Marsh’s blog — she has a problem and it is called anger management — she really needs to get some therapy and soon. She should also be removed from the DNC for biased decisions and general poor judgement.
It’s about time DB found a real job and resigned from the DNC.
Donna Brazile is like Randi R. An opertive who is having a melt down cause that bitchy Clintion woman just won’t sit down damn it. She is simply cracking up.
What I find shocking is how the Dem elite abuse Hillary during this campaign. 10 -12 years ago the Dem elite was satisfied with merely sitting on thier hands & saying NOTHING while thier party’s sitting president was being vilified by the Repugs in the most appalling manner. Their Clinton hated as grown since those days I guess. Now they just have to join the pile on. The bastards
I too sent DB an email but thankfully she did not reply to me…..yet. Basically it was about Michigan and Florida like all of yours. I think we should send all of the email we send to her, along with her replies to Howard Dean. Afterall most of this mess is because he lacks a spine! THANK GOD we did not elect him!
Below is my entire correspondance with Donna Brazile. I cannot complain about anything that I received from her. Other’s may have gotten nasty or snotty responses and I of course can only speak for myself. She ain’t my favorite person in the Democratic party by a long shot but I can’t complain about how she reacted to me.
—–Original Message—–
From: marj swanson
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:01:43
To:donna@brazileassociates.com
Subject: You Are A Disappointment
Ms. Brazile I have watched you on television for years. I have cheered
you on when George Will or some other conservative tried to diminish or demean you. I am saddened by what this primary season has done to the Donna Brazile that I once admired.
Please don’t claim to be neutral. You insult our intelligence when your
bias for Barack Obama is present every time you open you mouth. You area disappointment as is the Democratic Party that talks the talk but
doesn’t walk the walk.
Nice to see that disenfranchising voters isn’t just for Republicans any
more. Next time the Democrats start spouting about a culture of corruption, maybe they ought to look in the mirror.
I will vote for Hillary Clinton or NO damn Democrat. And FYI, I will
write in that vote if necessary as an Independent after being a Democrat for 40 years. The Democratic Party obviously has nothing to offer women. And you should be ashamed for being a part of a party that’s diminishes and demeans your gender. If you don’t have the integrity to be ashamed, I am ashamed for you.
And how amusing that only a short time ago the Democrats were gloating
because the Republican Party was in disarray. What irony.
Marjorie Swanson
Kenosha, WI
Her response:
It’s ok. Obama friends are mad as hell too.
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My response to her response:From: marj swanson
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:33 AM
To: donna@brazileassociates.com
The whole point is that it is not ok. What a disconnect with the voters when you think so.
And her Response to my response to her response:
Marj:
I have received so many emails from pro and con supporters of both and at times they exhaust me. Many of my fellow supers just delete, but I am trying to be respectful of views. Clearly, we are not in agreement, but I do respect you, your opinions and off course your candidate.
Take care and stay well,
Donna
Her response:It’s ok. Obama friends are mad as hell too.
I doubt that her Obama friends are mad about her stance on Florida and Michigan.
And her Response to my response to her response:
Marj:
I have received so many emails from pro and con supporters of both and at times they exhaust me. Many of my fellow supers just delete, but I am trying to be respectful of views. Clearly, we are not in agreement, but I do respect you, your opinions and off course your candidate.
Take care and stay well,
Donna
It’s nice to know that the Dem SDs that for the most part have been voted in and should care what the silly voters think, just delete any emails givng our opinion on who should be OUR Nom. I knew they didn’t care what we think, but it is still shocking to see in writing most just delete thei r emails that we take a long time and put alot of thought into,
But I’m supposed to give up even more time in Nov and go vote for who THEY choose? sorry I saw someone upthread will be baking instead, I think my family will have a very good dinner and dessert that day too, since they don’t want my opinion or vote
That was the part that really riled me; that they care so little about what the public thinks that they just delete. I can see deleting insulting rants which is why I try to be polite. People don’t pay much attention to raving loonies.
But just delete? At least, in her defense, Donna Brazile responds to those that contact her.
That said, I still don’t like her for claiming to be neutral when she obviously isn’t.
I, for one, will not email her again. It’s pointless. It will only make us look like we are harrassing her. I made my point and she let me know what she really thinks. She and the Democratic Party clearly don’t need my vote. So they can:
WIN WITHOUT ME!!!
Exactly mimi,
I was polite and made my point. But now all you Dems that think us peasants will get in line had better take a good long look around. Cause you just try and win without us. Delete that!
You folks are crazy. This is like reading some vile right wing nutcase site.
There’s a fine line between passionate and deranged. It seems a lot of you have crossed it.
I have met the enemy…..and they are us.
Here’s something just posted at hillaryis44.org by the Admin there:
admin Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
BTW, we are thinking of writing about Donna Brazile tomorrow. Some of you have emails which clearly prove Brazile’s pro-Obama, anti-Hillary bias. CNN should know about this. If you have some of these emails please send them to us at admin@hillaryis44.org
completely agree about brazile. but am positive cnn is completely aware of her pro-obama, anti-hillary bias.
that’s the same as their pro-obama, anti-hillary bias. i’m sure they think her bias means she’s doing a good job.
Of Course CNN knows about it. That’s why she’s there all the time. Same as Roland and that other, what’s her name, the mary poppins black woman. Amy? The fired Paul Begala when he remarked that he was the only one in the BUILDING who supported Hillary Clinton. They ditched Carville, although I have seen him back as a punching bag. CNN WANTs pro Obama “analysts”. THat’s why we see all those people we never heard of before Obama became the Chosen. CNN is in the tank for Obama. Warning them about Donna Brazile will send them falling onto the floor laughing, holding their stomachs.
The hell with the DNC! I say Hillary should take her supporters and run as an Independent! Then, maybe, my vote will count!
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I am voting McCain now, the DNC has done Hillary wrong and so has that nasty Bitch Donna!
Dean can go to hell and take Obama with him!
Welcome to the Club billyboi. This is one of the last places on the net that you can actually say anything less than adoring about the new boy wonder. I too cannot stand Donna Brazile.
JUST SAY NO TO BLACK LIBERATION MARXIST
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MCCAIN 2008 or until Hillary rises
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