2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDNC meeting prolonged: A motion to increase the number of debates!
Cecil from the Virgin ISlands, THANK YOU!
People are asking for new motions!
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Raine1967
(11,600 posts)objectiing to the three motions?
Raine1967
(11,600 posts)She is saying so as such that she is the head of the DNC.
This is not really cool.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Raine1967
(11,600 posts)from the Virgin ISlands asked about it.
I think she is really digging a bad hole for herself, to be honest.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)States are legalizing recreational marijuana, and she is down there arguing that sick cancer patients should be thrown in prison for getting high.
We need new leadership.
Raine1967
(11,600 posts)and on a personal level she is really a nice person.
I just really believe that she is doing a bad job in this position.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I think maybe she's got some tape playing in her head from 1996 about how "soccer moms" want the government to be "tough on drugs".
But she should understand that in increasingly large portions of the country, that shit doesn't play anymore.
Genghis Khan
(13 posts)Shell be a lobbyist after the cycle is over
frylock
(34,825 posts)Old Crow
(2,224 posts)(And I love your avatar, btw. )
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Andy823
(11,521 posts)I was wondering the same thing. If there is a motion on the floor I would think if there were a second on that motion it would move to a vote. Of course I don't know the rules for the DNC, but one would think it would be up for a vote!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)already he has shown us he can get the ball rolling whether it happens or not, he got it a first step.
good for him
JustAnotherGen
(33,268 posts)He's got it out there!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)no grandstanding, no personal attacks, and make the best case they can to prove their argument.
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)It means nothing of the sort. There is no protection against 'fluff' questions. All we have been assured by limiting the debates and by putting tight control on them. There is no garauntee of improved content at all. As a matter of fact a front runner would want these debates as short, controlled, and fluffy as possibly to kill anyone else gaining traction.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)discussion. I wanted more debates, now that DWS ruled against, the moderators can ask what they will, also the candidates answer what they will. The forum is just the vehicle.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)give their own little pre-planned lectures? Yeah, I'm sure that will go over well.
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)Had a deer in the headlights look then squashed the motion with some help from someone on the floor, I Wish only the debate motion was made at this time. Gawd these 3 rd way pricks have totally taken over the DNC, One more reason Not to Vote for Status Quo candidates Period, Take Back Our Country!!!!!!
MuseRider
(34,325 posts)big call out and Bernie's calling people who shut down debate and don't allow voting cowards.
I sat here figuring it probably really is a huge pain in the ass to try to do something like this in that setting but if I had been DWS after the last hour of call outs I think I would have found a way to call for a vote. She hemmed and hawed until they found someone to call the question to get her out of the uncomfortable position she was in.
Did she even listen? Did she notice the crowds reactions to the last two speakers? I think I would have been very tempted to try to call some kind of a vote but then I really do not know how 'inside' these things are usually done.
Sienna86
(2,151 posts)She is doing he bidding of the Clinton camp.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)because there's absolutely no other reason to not have earlier and more debates. She's protecting Hillary. All the other candidates want more debates.
pnwmom
(109,445 posts)But he's chosen not to because he wants to debate Hillary -- and he's been doing just fine without extra debates.
Koinos
(2,798 posts)It is not good to look weak and in need of protection. I also believe she is too strong a candidate to allow them to do that to her.
Clinton may reconsider and request more debates.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)What does that say about the DNC?
Koinos
(2,798 posts)That would play better than the present situation the DNC finds itself in.
The DNC, especially DWS, has dug a big hole for itself.
Better to stop digging and change course.
But Clinton would have to give the go-ahead.
ibegurpard
(16,811 posts)That's the first thing that needs to happen.