In 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama sewed up the nomination, his team rushed to fill the ranks of the Democratic National Committee. That is normal, as the committee’s No. 1 task is to support the presidential campaign (the Senate and House Democrats have their own committees). If you remember, Howard Dean was the head of the DNC at the time, and he remained nominally in charge, but Obama’s team was in full control. Dean had been moved to the sidelines. It wasn’t an antagonistic move. It simply meant that the presidential campaign and the DNC had to be in sync, and the best way to manage that is to have people from the same team in charge.

So with that bit of background, say goodbye to Debbie Wasserman Schultz.



Davis is f’n fantastic, I’ve known him for years. He’s smart, energetic, passionate, and competent as fuck. In other words, the opposite of Wasserman Schultz.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/16/1539471/-Clinton-takes-control-of-DNC-buh-bye-Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz

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Hillary’s problems with young voters aren’t just her age and association with a past presidency that occurred when many of these voters were still in diapers. Hillary’s messaging tends to be out-of-tune with the aspirations of young voters. Take this Clinton campaign email attempting to raise money in anticipation of the general election. After some obligatory insults against her opponent, the campaign reassures their supporters:


In other words, Hillary’s own campaign is arguing that it’s not her message, political vision or experience that’s going to defeat Donald Trump. Her political machine can do The Donald in. Clinton is advertising to her donors that their money will be used for more polling, paid door knocking and high priced politicos to craft the most rigorously message-tested talking points... all those elements of politics that voters - particularly young voters - abhor. Clinton might assume that Millennials, the most tech-savvy generation, will embrace anything related to “data.” Yet Millennials’ love of technology stems from how it empowers them, as individuals, not that it can reduce them to mere data points and create opportunities for manipulation. Almost as off-putting as when Hillary showcases herself as a hardened political tactician is when she attempts to refashion herself as an outsider dedicated to taking on the establishment. Here’s another revealing campaign email:


Even the most low-information voter knows that Mrs. Clinton is hardly shocked by money in politics. In fact, the former First Lady is renowned for raking in hundred-thousand-dollar checks from big banks and foreign governments. Bernie Sanders knew this and consistently highlighted Mrs. Clinton’s cozy corporatism, understanding that young, idealistic voters crave a different kind of politics, which prioritizes regular people’s interests over the politically-connected.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-higgins/hillary-is-a-hard-sell-to_b_10463656.html

Does anyone remember the massive hubbub that surrounded the Democratic party back in late 2015 when it was revealed that a Bernie Sanders staffer had accessed the DNC voter database? Establishment elites ran around like headless chickens while Sanders quickly apologized and the staffer was removed from the campaign. Then the DNC overcorrected and barred one of the two Democratic candidates from having access to key voter information as a overzealous punishment. Well all of that sounds pretty funny with the breaking news that the DNC has been an open book for Russian hackers for nearly a year now.


The group of elite hackers have also attempted to access other important government files and databases, but they struck gold when they gained access to the DNC’s server, particularly obtaining a wealth of information on the Democratic party’s opposition information on Donald Trump. In addition to gaining a massive amount of Trump information, the hackers also were able to read all email and chat traffic during their perusing. All political campaigns gather oppo information on opposing candidates to give them plenty of dirt to reveal at-will when the time calls for it. Often, the information is never even revealed to the public. But now, the treasure trove of anti-Trump arguments the DNC were keeping hidden away for a rainy day are now the happy property of faceless Russians.


Citizens of a nation who have a frosty relations with the United States know more about Donald Trump’s dark dealings than the citizens of the nation which might elect him. Who knows what Russians will do with that information? And why are we just now hearing about this major breach? The DNC have known about it for about a month as the FBI alerted them to the breach back in May, and yet none of us were the wiser. The news seems to be coming out now because the DNC has finally taken action to boot out those who were infiltrating the database for a full year. Now, they claim that things are all safe and clean again.

Democrat Darling (/s) Debbie Wasserman Schultz had this to say about her failure as DNC chair:


Yeah, we bet you did, Debbie Dear. We already knew that the DNC was a massive embarrassment, but this is just too much to bear. We’ve been calling for an overhaul of the party for months, but now it’s a case of someone needing to take the fall for this massive error in security. At the very least, we are owed an explanation, and fast.


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http://trofire.com/2016/06/14/dnc-cant-blame-one-bernie-russian-hackers-access-dnc-server-year/