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You seem to have some company, although I can't say it could be described as "good."
What do we see in this article if we try reading it without our Clinton-Derangement-Syndrome glasses on?
We see a few things, including a poorly proofed, ("the Clinton campaign should not be seen viewed as behind the organizer"
logically inconsistent piece of work driven by obvious hatred of Clinton and somewhat questionable ability. When we cut through the factless and spittle-flecked content that serves only to illustrate the authors' opinion, this is what we have.
1. A man named Alexander McCoy was the spokesperson for the veterans group that organized over social media and protested Trump.
2. Mr. McCoy requested press contact assistance from the Clinton campaign.
3. The Clinton campaign organized a conference call where the campaign provided logistical and media advice to McCoy and those who organized the event.
4. McCoy expressed that vets showing up in organizational T-shirts was discouraged, but there was no attempt to block participation by any individual members of vets organizations.
5. The Clinton campaign has stated that they will be happy to assist any vets who wish to speak out against Trump and his behavior.
6. One person who is never named as a source in this article was obviously disgruntled for one reason or another.
People are territorial beings by nature, and those who organize groups, events and protests are often fiercely so. Some make a living at forming advocacy groups, and visibility is their bread and butter. The IAVA is mentioned, and it is implied heavily that someone from the IAVA wanted to send their members to the event dressed in their IAVA shirts, which would of course increase visibility for that group.
Mr. McCoy seems to be a contributor only at a site called "Task and Purpose." The rally event is not the headliner on that group's front page. It appears that Mr. McCoy was genuine in not wanting this to be about any single group of veterans, to have any particular group come in and, in essence, take the event over and make it about themselves. This, from what we read in the article, rubbed the unnamed source's fur all kinds of backwards.
So - we have one vet organizer who got his feelings hurt when his group was not allowed to become the focus of the event, and he lashed out by complaining to a writer at TDB whose hatred for Hillary shines so bright that she is willing to attack veterans who protest Trump to feed it. That's immature, sad and ugly, and not in any way admirable behavior. Assisting veterans to speak out against Trump - that is admirable.
You can't accept the fact that your candidate has fewer votes...so you make up sad excuses.
Bernie supporters so uneasy. 
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You will find this to be something entirely different.
From my earlier post:
What do we see in this article if we try reading it without our Clinton-Derangement-Syndrome glasses on?
We see a few things, including a poorly proofed, ("the Clinton campaign should not be seen viewed as behind the organizer" logically inconsistent piece of work driven by obvious hatred of Clinton and somewhat questionable ability. When we cut through the factless and spittle-flecked content that serves only to illustrate the authors' opinion, this is what we have.
1. A man named Alexander McCoy was the spokesperson for the veterans group that organized over social media and protested Trump.
2. Mr. McCoy requested press contact assistance from the Clinton campaign.
3. The Clinton campaign organized a conference call where the campaign provided logistical and media advice to McCoy and those who organized the event.
4. McCoy expressed that vets showing up in organizational T-shirts was discouraged, but there was no attempt to block participation by any individual members of vets organizations.
5. The Clinton campaign has stated that they will be happy to assist any vets who wish to speak out against Trump and his behavior.
6. One person who is never named as a source in this article was obviously disgruntled for one reason or another.
People are territorial beings by nature, and those who organize groups, events and protests are often fiercely so. Some make a living at forming advocacy groups, and visibility is their bread and butter. The IAVA is mentioned, and it is implied heavily that someone from the IAVA wanted to send their members to the event dressed in their IAVA shirts, which would of course increase visibility for that group.
Mr. McCoy seems to be a contributor only at a site called "Task and Purpose." The rally event is not the headliner on that group's front page. It appears that Mr. McCoy was genuine in not wanting this to be about any single group of veterans, to have any particular group come in and, in essence, take the event over and make it about themselves. This, from what we read in the article, rubbed the unnamed source's fur all kinds of backwards.
So - we have one vet organizer who got his feelings hurt when his group was not allowed to become the focus of the event, and he lashed out by complaining to a writer at TDB whose hatred for Hillary shines so bright that she is willing to attack veterans who protest Trump to feed it. That's immature, sad and ugly, and not in any way admirable behavior. Assisting veterans to speak out against Trump - that is admirable.
LOL! Stealing this with no misgivings!
praise of the man. That's how "bromances" get started. 
Integrity is so yesterday. Who needs integrity and ethics when we can use dirty tricks and cheap, poorly done stunts like this. 
Bernie could beat Trump in a walk. No need to stoop to these low, pathetic tactics. Hillary and Trump are driving down voter turnout even before the GE. We will have a contest between David Brock & Roger Stone to see who can bury which candidate in a cesspool of smears.
Trump's donation shenanigans. What's that telling you? 
you disagree with a entirely different post by a different author on the same site is both absurd and ridiculously authoritarian. Supporting Hillary is not the reason for every board's existence. Reasonable adults can cope with that.
I link to my posts at DU and I don't agree with every post on this site. Hell, I haven't even read every post on either site, let alone agree with all of them; and Jackpine Radicals censors less than DU. You obviously favor more censorship.
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If Hillary Clinton becomes President, I will be upset, for reasons that should be no secret to any progressive who reads this forum.
If Donald Trump becomes President, I will be even more upset. If you actually cared about my opinion, you would have found me criticizing Trump right in this very thread. (Here's a helpful hint: "Will you still need me/Will you still feed me...."
I also have more than one post elsewhere talking about how I would face the looming unpleasant choice between those two. (Here's a helpful hint: "clothespin".)
this thread. I've seen less Clinton Derangement Syndrome on some right wing sites.
This was not a "Clinton" campaign event. It was a protest put together by Marine veteran Alexander McCoy. Could it have been a larger, more well organized event? Yes. But, that is what happens when your every day Joe and a few other people want to have their voices heard and have the courage to actually get out there in public and do it.
Alexander reached out to the Clinton campaign for PRESS CONTACTS. The Clinton campaign offered that and some nominal logistical assistance (a conference call for attendees) for his cause. And the Clinton campaign has made it clear they are happy to help any other groups as well. Nothing is stopping other groups from doing so. That is stated repeatedly in the article.
Amidst all the nasty put downs and smug judgements of naysayers, do any of you critics actually give a **** about him and his group fellow vets who actually got out there and pushed back against the Trump machine? Do you care about his message? Or, are you too caught up in finding ways to attack Clinton that his very legit cause is being drowned out in your BS. If you actually care, do something about it. I mean, what were all you folks who are insulting his efforts doing Monday while he stood out there on the sidewalk in NY getting jeered at by Trump supporters? Right. Thought so.
And, unlike the OP, I don't blame Alexander a bit for not wanting to have his message ABOUT TRUMP, hijacked by another agenda. It is his and the other Vet's protest. The fact that some Sander's supporters would have liked it to be a different protest made is ON them. Organize your own rather than demeaning this small group of Vets who actually showed up to challenge Trump. They are appalled by Trump, his lies and his use of Vets while doing NOTHING for them. And you know what they got for their effort? Trump supporters and people like you putting them down. Window washers dumping water on them. News agencies and posters on DU making it about Hillary instead of the Vets, their message and Trump. This is not about Hillary no matter how much some would like to spin the message to make it more "newsworthy." For me, what Alexander and his fellow Vets have to say is incredibly important and enough.
If Alexander or any of the Vets who showed up to the protest are reading this, know you are awesome. Thank you for your service, thank you for standing up and thank you for calling out Trump despite all the BS. I hear you. Other people hear you. You are heroes.
Mad props to you all. Thank you!
At Monday’s protest, Marine veteran and Clinton supporter Alexander McCoy served as a spokesman for the demonstrators—and went to great lengths to hide the Clinton campaign’s involvement with organizing the demonstration.
“We’re not affiliated with any campaign, we’re not affiliated with any organization,” McCoy told reporters, saying the protesters used “grassroots organizing techniques, we came together over social media.”
McCoy later told The Daily Beast he reached out to the Clinton campaign to obtain press contacts but denied that Clinton staffers had been involved in organizing the event.
Then, reached by phone after the event, McCoy acknowledged that the Clinton campaign organized the conference call bringing together possible attendees to the protest.
Sorry... NO.
I, like most, tend to believe the Organizer who WASN'T CAUGHT LYING regarding the event and directly disputes the deceitful Clinton Operative:
"An organizer who participated in Saturday’s Clinton campaign-led conference call also said McCoy had discouraged the participation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) or other major veterans groups to prevent them from claiming the limelight."
Is it any wonder people don't trust Clinton?
Alexander McCoy served six years in the Marine Corps, separating in 2013 at the rank of Sergeant. As a Marine, he deployed to Saudi Arabia, Honduras, and Germany in support of the U.S. Department of State. His writing on foreign policy, defense and veterans issues has also appeared in Reuters, Foreign Policy, the Jerusalem Post, the Daily Mail, and the Journal of Political Risk. He is the Marine Corps co-chair for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Ricks' Council of the Former Enlisted, and currently studies political science at Columbia University in New York City. He serves on the board of the Ivy League Veterans Council, which advocates on behalf of veterans in higher education, and High Ground Veterans Advocacy, which trains veterans to become grassroots activists.
His statements are consistent. The fact that he did not want his message to be hijacked by a different cause means he didn't want his message hijacked by a different cause. He wanted it to be about Trump. This is not difficult to understand. Alexander is actually a hero and a remarkable and accomplished human being. Petty, small minded smears based on partisan and fact free conjecture will never change that. I am incredibly proud someone of his caliber supports Hillary.
"At Monday’s protest, Marine veteran and Clinton supporter Alexander McCoy served as a spokesman for the demonstrators—and went to great lengths to hide the Clinton campaign’s involvement with organizing the demonstration.
“We’re not affiliated with any campaign, we’re not affiliated with any organization,” McCoy told reporters, saying the protesters used “grassroots organizing techniques, we came together over social media.”
McCoy later told The Daily Beast he reached out to the Clinton campaign to obtain press contacts but denied that Clinton staffers had been involved in organizing the event.
Then, reached by phone after the event, McCoy acknowledged that the Clinton campaign organized the conference call bringing together possible attendees to the protest."
But I don't know when I see that kind of language from a poster who has never ever posted anything positive, one might tend to think that they had an agenda.
could be finally held accountable. Campaign, person , staffer. Seems like quite a misstep considering trust issues again. Caught astroturfing and swiftboating is sort of a bad optic. 
are supported by the Hillary campaign /Democratic Party. This outrages many members of Democratic Underground. They are furious with the Democrat who will be running against Trump because her campaign gave some help to the anti Trump veterans. OK. As if it wasn't already pretty obvious what is going on here.... 
Now let's see if the donkey gets alerted.
Hillary's campaign helps a group to call out Trump and "Democrats" on here criticize her for it?
just when you think you've seen this place hit rock bottom, someone goes and proves you wrong
