180 days since Hillary held a press conference

[amborin]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/281918-pressure-builds-for-clinton-press-conference

[saltpoint]

1. She's been like, super busy thinking about

dropping out of the race, but she kept holding out for Bill Kristol to come up with an alternative candidate.

Now that he's named David French, Hillary's preparing a press conference for this Friday to announce she's ending her campaign and endorsing French.

Probably be a pretty big story.

[msongs]

2. it's been about 4.6 billion years since the sun formed (wikipedia) nt

[riversedge]

3. Sanders does press conferences just to whin and cry about something.

[Press Virginia]

4. If she can't control the questions she ain't gonna do it

[840high]

30. .+1

[ebayfool]

5. She's busy preparing for her promised debate w/Sanders. Wait. No. Oh, I know! Preparing all those ..

GoldmanSachs speeches for release, erm. No. Still looking into that. Uhhhh, running out the clock without making any more public flubs that she has to brush off her shoulders. Yeah, that's the one!

What do I win, Alex?!

[840high]

31. ....

[lunamagica]

6. Sanders doesn't answer questions at his "press conferences"

[SFnomad]

7. Somebody 5 hours ago, posted it has been 177 days ... so it's been 3 days in 5 hours? n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. Ask The Hill. It's their story and it says 180 days.

[Duckhunter935]

8. she is too busy looking for her transcripts

[passiveporcupine]

9. please don't post from right wing sources. nt

[amborin]

10. The Hill?

HRC herself likes Fox News

[Octafish]

12. Right. Today's topic is Jeff Weaver.

You should get with the program.

[lagomorph777]

13. I know, what's up with that?

Apparently it hurts Bernie because his campaign manager is a small-business owner?

[Octafish]

16. Bum doesn't know what it means to work for a corporation.

Remember Robert Duvall's character, Frank Hackett, from Network?

"Four hours ago I was the Sun God at CCA, Mr. Jensen's handpicked golden boy, the heir apparent. Now I'm a man without a corporation."

Few ever sounded more forlorn.

[senz]

15. It amazes me how the campaign goes from topic to topic

and all the little followers march in lockstep.

I cannot imagine formulating my comments to suit a daily agenda. The creepy part is the loss of spontaneity and authenticity in interacting with others. Which, come to think of it, is what is so weird about Hill partisans here on DU; few of them are willing to have a conversation. They constantly try to score points rather than reach any kind of understanding.

They probably have no idea what a turnoff that is.

I find entire campaign loathsome.

[Octafish]

17. It does make one stand out.

The missing empathy gene can't be grafted on later.

That word is Oblomovism.

Now, when I hear a country squire talking about the rights of man and urging the necessity of developing personality, I know from the first word he utters that he is an Oblomov.

When I hear a government official complaining that the system of administration is too complicated and cumbersome, I know that he is an Oblomov.

-- Nikolai Dobroliubov, "What Is Oblomovism?" (1859)

As in 2008, I wasn't going to be anywhere near GD-P until Fox News Democratic Strategist, Pundit and Journalist stevenleser indicated I was a leader of the pro-Bernie set.

I had alienated almost everyone I admired in 2004, going for Kerry over Dean, I didn't think it was worth having to explain all the time, "Why?"

[senz]

20. My knowledge of Russian literature is limited

to Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov (not including Nabokov) and maybe a poet or two, so of course I'd never heard of Oblomov. My exposure to that kind of satire has been primarily Swift and Voltaire. Pretty limited. Although thinking of the current situation from that vantage makes it slightly more bearable.

The idea that these people could be missing a gene is mildly upsetting. But I can barely cope with the fact that so many behave like programmed automatons. Nothing seems to hold them together but adoration of something basically nonexistent and hatred for all who dare to criticize the object of their adoration. It's mind boggling; it doesn't seem possible. It ruins DU for me. When the ax falls in 2 weeks and honest discussion is no longer allowed if it's detrimental to a weak, flawed candidate who may be indicted at any moment, then I won' t miss this place. How could anyone miss a collection of automatons who use "communication" solely as weapon? What would be the point of signing on except to watch the unreality unfold like a grotesque side show?

It's like they want us to sign on with the unthinkable and then "learn to love Big Sister."

DU could have been such a great place. The administrator tries to be "fair" and manages to sound like he's as bewildered as anyone else ("these people just do what they want to do&quot but I wonder.

What you describe in your early experiences sounds like a pale version of what's going on now: a push for absolute conformity.

Maybe it's just a mirror of the unreality of the current political scene, I don't know.

[passiveporcupine]

18. Not sure what you are implying here

I'm not calling anyone out for talking about Hillary, just following Skinner's rules that we don't use right wing sources here and The Hill is a very conservative news source. Not like Fox, but still conservative.

[Octafish]

21. Sorry, passiveporcupine. Didn't mean to use you.

Today's talking point seems to be Jeff Weaver. For a while, there were four posts with his name in the subject line.

[passiveporcupine]

25. That's OK

I'm sick of the Brock memes too.

[senz]

14. Could she avoiding questions on the FBI investigation?

Clearly her avoidance of press conferences is based in a need to hide something. Did the FBI investigation begin - or intensify -- about six months ago?

[NCTraveler]

19. Right wing corporate media gets the back of her hand. Well done. nt.

[asuhornets]

22. Here ya go....nt

[link:http://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-live-hillary-clinton-delivers-foreign-policy-speech-322524227825|

[kstewart33]

23. Bernie held one the other day, well sort of.

Because he took no questions.

[Hekate]

24. Are you listening to her foreign policy speech in San Diego? Well worth the wait...

And to hell with the press conferences. MSNBC journalists were just reduced to counting the flags on stage while waiting for her to start.

There's 19 flags, btw.

And now she is righteously kicking Trump's orange ass.

[passiveporcupine]

26. In that speech, she just proved she's a war hawk and a neo con

I hope you are proud of that.

She wants to start a war with Russian and Iran. Nice.

[Hoyt]

27. Like she hasn't been answering questions on an almost daily basis. Jeeeez.

[WhiteTara]

28. Wow and yesterday it was 177 days

time sure does fly.

[Ferd Berfel]

29. cowardly - elitist

[asuhornets]

32. Now what? nt

[MyNameGoesHere]

33. yep and she still kicked Sanders ass

and is about to be the next president. Meanwhile Sanders has expended his energy and really got nothing. Smart lady, Sanders not so much.