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In reply to the discussion: Lots of misunderstanding around here about what Michael Moore is doing. [View all]calimary
(81,195 posts)in which NOBODY brought up the Flint water crisis - before Hillary did, or made any reference to it AL ALL. She used her closing statement not to make the usual platitudes. She went straight to the Flint water crisis, voicing the outrage we all felt - and still do feel, at this late date. She was the ONLY ONE who even brought it up. Didnt wait to be asked.
Or maybe she did it because she had waited for a question about it to be asked - of ANY of what were then five Dems on that stage in that first debate. And the question was never asked. The issue never came up. And so she made her entire closing statement about the Flint Michigan water crisis. I remember marveling at that. She blew off the customary thank yous to the panel, the audience, her opponents, her followers, and used that key moment (so important when thats your FINAL opportunity to make your case for your candidacy and leave em with some memorable closing line). She threw that guidebook and the conventional wisdom away and made a vigorous appeal for serious attention to that water crisis.