2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Student describes how she became a Clinton Plant - Why is this Town Hall even taking place? [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)The town-hall that Hillary organized (the one that featured the planted questions) was a crisis-communication response from her campaign. She was losing ground to Obama, and many Iowans were very vocal about her impersonal and cold campaign tactics.
Clinton left her speeches, right after giving them. She never took questions. She stood at a podium giving her canned speeches. There was no connection with us. Which is weird, because every politician who comes through here, knows that you have to engage with Iowa voters. Republicans know it and do it, so do Democrats.
Hillary seemed like she couldn't be bothered.
So this town hall was her "I'm so sorry, I didn't realize!" event. She promised to be open and take questions from Iowans.
Then, we find out the questions were planted. Yeah...didn't look very good.
I have no clue what these weasels will do this time. She's behind the eight ball, her campaign is taking on water and Bernie is surging. This entire CNN thing was organized on her behalf. Maybe the dirty trick is that it was organized in the first place. Then again, maybe the entire thing is rigged (bombs lobbed at Bernie, softballs at Hillary and Hillary knows the questions before the event).
Isn't it so shitty that we are even having these discussions? The woman and her campaign are not trustworthy. I was so happy when she left our state in 08. It's been a very long campaign season. Does she even realize that she drains the fun out of the caucus process. Even the Republicans don't act like devious idiots they way she does. Happy to caucus for Bernie. Happy to have the caucuses here--and I'll be so damn glad when she exits our state. Sorry, NH, you get her next. I hope your voting machines are secure.