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to have the press 'availability' that will shift ALL of the media's focus BACK ONTO HER EMAIL 'nonstory'and all its manufactured poutrage .
The email story is ONLY about political gamesmanship - it's a BS story being used to keep Benghazi a 'scandal'. It could have been addressed easily days ago
or even days FROM now.
Clinton campaign has NO SENSE of timing.
Who the F
is running the show there, and don't they bother to read ANYTHING other than articles about 2016?
trumad
(41,692 posts)Sorry--no idea what up.
blm
(113,083 posts)the story is already being stepped on because of this announcement of a Clinton 'press availability' today.
Talk about incredibly back timing. Hillary seems to be showing again that she lacks Bill's political instincts.
The email presser sure could wait while everyone is focused on the stupidity of the 47 repug senators.
Let the open-letter seditionists twist in the media headlines for a few days . . . God! that's a no-brainer.
But no-o-o-o-o-o, they have to do this presser and take the spotlight off the idiot repugs. Is this the beginning of a series of blunders like we saw in 2007-2008 that led to her blowing front-runner status?
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Which is just growing today now that people have had a chance to digest it.
blm
(113,083 posts)We had something IRREFUTABLE that could not be spun and had the HEADLINES to go with it.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)sign it. See: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/tom-cotton-2016-presidential-candidates-iran-letter/
And Cotton said he would welcome "even Hillary Clinton," the presumptive Democratic presidential frontrunner, to join the effort.
"I suspect she might have reservations about this ill-fated nuclear deal with Iran as well," Cotton said on CNN's New Day.
Several potential GOP presidential candidates have already signed onto the letter. Sens. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham are among the 46 Republicans who signed onto Cotton's letter "to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
President Barack Obama slammed the letter on Monday, accusing the GOP of making "common cause with the hard-liners in Iran" by attempting to undercut ongoing negotiations that face a first deadline for a framework agreement at the end of the month.
If she doesn't speak out against the 47, she's complicit with the bipartisan war party. Again.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)It was during the first part of her press conference.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/tom-cotton-2016-presidential-candidates-iran-letter/
The Democratic frontrunner for the 2016 presidential campaign told reporters at the United Nations on Tuesday that "one has to ask, what was the purpose of this letter?"
"There appear to be two logical answers," Clinton said. "Either these senators were trying to be helpful to the Iranians or harmful to the commander-in-chief in the midst of high-stakes international diplomacy. Either answer does discredit to the letter's signatories."
leveymg
(36,418 posts)bigger spectacle of nuclear ambiguity in which Hillary has a lead role. Please see, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026342657#post130
blm
(113,083 posts)and how the REALLY huge story sunk like a rock the moment this presser was announced.
I wish I could say I was wrong, but, after watching all the news programs today, especially this evening, I can't do that now, can I?
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)There's a hell of a lot more important things going on than Clinton and 2016 right now.
OP refers to this -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026341271
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]
blm
(113,083 posts)It was announced THIS morning that she would do the presser.
Fools.
randome
(34,845 posts)You're saying the campaign is both stupid and trying to recapture the limelight. You're not in the driver's seat so I don't think you're the one to label a campaign as stupid.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]
blm
(113,083 posts)Whoever put this together without considering the TOP story they were REPLACING is NOT the strategic thinker the campaign needs.
It is exactly as you state.
brush
(53,833 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)has a competing attention-getter. It's self-interest over everything, like all things Clinton.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)blm
(113,083 posts).
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)blm
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The presser has nothing to do with a scheduled speech.
Once again, you are correct.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Candidate or not, Hillary Clinton has a band of reporters follow her everywhere and cover everything she doeseven the success stories of her family charity.
Ignore the grumblings from a restless political press, the pundits, and her supposed political allies urging her to drop the pretense and declare her a candidate already.
The Hillary Clinton non-campaign campaign is a work of utter political genius. Seriously. It makes Frank Underwood look like Michael Dukakis.
On Monday, Clinton came to the center of the universe, the crossroads of the world, the Best Buy Theater in the heart of Times Square. The occasion was that most brutally banal bits of politickingthe issuing of a report.
-snip-
Full article
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/09/the-utter-genius-of-hillary-s-non-campaign.html
global1
(25,264 posts)off of the Repugs and this borderline traitorous letter. Timing is everything and I agree that this is just the wrong time for her to come out with this presser. I hope that this doesn't take the wind out of the GOP Iran Letter sabotaging the negotiations and our President.
blm
(113,083 posts)I'm furious at the lack of agility being shown.
lame54
(35,315 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)In a week nobody will care.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)CanonRay
(14,112 posts)IMHO. I sincerely hope that there aren't a string of them.
blm
(113,083 posts)They are going to need foot soldiers like us every step of the way to overcome the damage being done by the professional 'strategists' who should have been replaced years ago
samsingh
(17,600 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)it rhymes with strangulation?
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)they don't need HRC to give them an excuse.
It will be interesting if she uses this platform to draw attention to something the RW media is attempting to ignore or white wash.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)You know, snatch Our Victory from the Jaws of their Defeat.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)blm
(113,083 posts)Trying to push this off on those dealing with the REALITY of what happened today isn't particularly smart or funny
.and I, for one, have always appreciated your brain and your humor.
This was TOO glaring an error on her campaign's part - and, unfortunately, I turned out to be right after watching the news tonight.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)There is nothing more serious in human existence.
blm
(113,083 posts)who could have predicted the corporate media would choose to spend the day in heated discussions about a BS email story when the majority of the GOP senate committed a blatant act of sedition?
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)But the emails will have zilch impact.
The ruination of the planet is at hand,
and one sign is a tomato plant from last year
still giving tomatoes red and sweet.
blm
(113,083 posts)And THat is all I care about .Today.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Peace, b.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
Enrique
(27,461 posts)one of the most significant ones, since she is a hawk on Iran, and also the leading presidential candidate. I think Cotton, et al, were not expecting it.
I want to comment on a matter in the news today regarding Iran. The president and his team are in the midst of intense negotiations. Their goal is a diplomatic solution that would close off Iran's pathways to a nuclear bomb and give us unprecedented access and insight into Iran's nuclear program.
Now, reasonable people can disagree about what exactly it will take to accomplish this objective, and we all must judge any final agreement on its merits.
But the recent letter from Republican senators was out of step with the best traditions of American leadership. And one has to ask, what was the purpose of this letter?
There appear to be two logical answers. Either these senators were trying to be helpful to the Iranians or harmful to the commander- in-chief in the midst of high-stakes international diplomacy. Either answer does discredit to the letters' signatories.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)RWers are mad because she teased everyone with the email nonsense, and then "head faked" them by blasting Cotton.
http://twitchy.com/2015/03/10/hiding-in-the-cotton-hillary-clinton-kicks-off-press-conference-with-shot-at-gops-iran-letter/
blm
(113,083 posts)that the GOP letter should have been getting today?
You think her media experts advised her that this story would be her ticket to addressing the emails?
Let's get real - we all KNOW how craven the media is - they lost interest in the GOP letter INSTANTLY the moment the presser was announced.