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Hilary is right. And she basically said the same thing during her speech yesterday in Minneapolis.
Hillary Clinton Takes to Twitter and Owns the Republican Debaters
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/16/hillary-clinton-twitter-owns-republican-debaters.html
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Wednesday, December, 16th, 2015, 8:04 am
Hillary Clinton Texting
Hillary Clinton took chaos candidate Donald Trump and company out behind the proverbial woodshed last night as they fumbled about on stage, and took a switch to them. The Republican presidential hopefuls made their fifth debate a celebration of ignorance, hate and bigotry, and Clinton called them on it by live blogging on Twitter. Frank Bruni called it a tense debate in a New York Times op-ed, but Id call it appalling, and Clinton seemed to agree.
Who we met at CNNs televised debate last night was, in Hillarys words, 7 Republican candidates who are totally unprepared to be commander-in-chief. And by blazing away on twitter as they spewed, she showed American voters why.
Echoing president Obama, she condemned the repressive rhetoric coming from the stage, tweeting:
Hillary Clinton Verified account
?@HillaryClinton
We're better than this. #GOPdebate
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JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)riversedge
(70,589 posts)see clips of the vile today.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)We are f**ked as a nation. The notion that this debate was constructive shows how far gone the United States of America has falling.
Hekate
(91,181 posts)My husband likes to watch the debates, but it was so awful even he kept changing the channel.
stonecutter357
(12,699 posts)lark
(23,237 posts)I hated those ringing bells all the time, the interruptions, OMG it was total RW hate filled vomit inducing idiocy. I couldn't take it, watched it for a few minutes, walked away, come back about 20 min. later watched another maybe 10 minutes and couldn't take the spike in my blood pressure so turned off the horror show.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)riversedge
(70,589 posts)NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)Bernie gained the highest number of new twitter followers during the GOP debate. Amazing how that works.
ToxMarz
(2,170 posts)oasis
(49,551 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)ToxMarz
(2,170 posts)Organizing and actually showing up voters are two different beasts. The 'there's an app for that' crowd isn't so reliable when there isn't an app for that.
ffr
(22,684 posts)I'll leave it to you good people to watch that train wreck. No sense in raising my anxiety level unnecessarily. By the sound of it, that's pretty much what it would have done, just made me sick to my stomach.
Instead, I'll be focusing my energy on GOTV for the democratic nominee. And my family will be voting again, as we always do in every election.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,556 posts)spewed on that stage last nite resonates with a TREMENDOUS number of our fellow Americans.
The HRC/Bernie back n forth snarking amongst liberals/progressives/anyone with an ounce of sense
seems a bit counterproductive to me... a geezer in Florida
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)So which of our choices would you have us fall in behind? Lemmee guess....
riversedge
(70,589 posts)one person to even consider
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)if I've puked on it and wiped it the best I could?
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)Bernie Sanders gained more followers than anyone on stage in Las Vegas..
"After Sanders, Donald Trump's following increased the most, trailed by Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, according to Twitter. Poor Hillary Clinton, left out of all the action."
fbc
(1,668 posts)Read the article. example tweet: "We're not at war with a religion. We're at war with radical jihadism. Hillary knows the difference"
It might be fun to point out how creepy it is that Hillary talks about herself in the third person, but c'mon, we all know she's not the one actually tweeting.
Bernie operates his twitter. Consultants tweet for Hillary.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)But I guess when you idolize yourself.....
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Ed Suspicious
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