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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Remember When Hillary Said She 'Would Consider Obama For VP? [View all]
It was March, 2008. And it was a desperate tactic as she saw her campaign failing.
Obama Rejects Being Clinton's No. 2
Obama also said the Clinton campaign was "hoodwinking" voters when it suggested he was not ready to be president while also floating the possibility of a joint Clinton-Obama ticket.
We are at that stage now in this election.
She sees her support slipping away.
She sees the huge amounts of money the PEOPLE are giving to Bernie meaning he isn't going to run out of money and is going to go all the way to the Convention.
Meantime, again like last time, she is running out of money.
So what should she and her backers do to stop this unworthy challenger from interfering with her dream?
ACT LIKE YOU WON!
Tell his supporters they may as well join her as it's 'all over but the shouting'.
When she suggested she would 'consider' Obama for the VP slot, she was TRYING to create the impression that it was all over for his campaign and she was now taking control.
As an Obama supporter then her arrogance OUTRAGED me, her dismissal of the Democratic Process disgusted me and made me work even harder for Obama.
I believe I flipped my FIL to Obama from Hillary that night.
How dare they attempt to usurp this campaign AGAIN with the same old tactics that FAILED last time.
It's difficult to express to tone deaf people how INSULTING it is to voters.
She knows that for Bernie the worst part of the campaign is over.
She sees the internals, his rising support among minorities as women as more and more people get to know him, and her own diminishing.
So they are trying desperately to discourage Bernie's supporters having learned NOTHING from last time.
Not ONLY were we NOT discouraged by her arrogance back then we were ENERGIZED and we WON in the end.
And after WE won, it was Obama who got to decide what slot he would consider her for.
This campaign is a repeat of 2008 from the vile use of 'race' and 'gender' to the arrogant assumption that we Democrats are too dense to see what they are up to.
That is worth watching again as a reminder of how she runs her extremely negative and divisive campaigns.
She has the Corporate Media aiding and abetting her, has had all along.
But despite the Powerful Forces aligned against him LOOK WHAT BERNIE HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
We are not falling for it. We didn't fall for it last time.
On to the Convention and the Nomination Bernie!
I am actually encouraged by the now familiar signs of desperation.
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Actually it reads like what it is, a victorious Obama V Hillary supporter speech.
sabrina 1
Mar 2016
#2
"She sees her support slipping away." Exsqueeze me? What universe are you living in?
Buzz Clik
Mar 2016
#3
I know what the poll numbers were back then. I also know that by then Obama had received massive
sabrina 1
Mar 2016
#9
Lol, just let's say I am 'more experienced' than the nay sayers having been here before
sabrina 1
Mar 2016
#12
I guess this is the equivalent of Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech -- rallying the troops.
Buzz Clik
Mar 2016
#14