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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: DNC shields Hillary Clinton from debate stage [View all]MaggieD
(7,393 posts)25. As I said, 6 is plenty
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Since you vulgarly and rudely refer to "your party", what Party are you? This is Democratic Underground. No (R).....
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#144
The one overrun by people who like to mass alert and tear down anyone but Bernie?
AlbertCat
Aug 2015
#300
Anne Coulter or Kristen Powers could not have said it better! Am I right? "Hahaha"...is on that level.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#147
The party is being hurt by the oligarch control of the Party Elites. It's do or die, literally
rhett o rick
Aug 2015
#268
We should constructively criticize the party's candidates. That's what helps us win elections.
Scuba
Aug 2015
#5
Ah so your solution is to have no debates. Got it. Maybe the DNC will hire you as an unpaid intern.
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#22
The nomination will be all but clinched by Super Tuesday. I just hope Sanders concedes graciously.
George II
Aug 2015
#311
".. but given her history, and the fact that she's still standing after decades of battling the
Cha
Aug 2015
#277
" to donate directly " - what a sad response given the post Citizens United reality.
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2015
#314
In 2004, my support for Kerry and Edwards was based on their debate performance.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#124
I am 100% in favor of raising taxes on the UPPER middle class. Obama was wrong.
ieoeja
Aug 2015
#159
The point is that people making over $100,000 per year are in most parts of the country, not
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#203
"She is a terrible debater" ...and the DNC know it. That's why the debates are being limited.
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#209
Terrible debater? Sure, if you say so, but a few dozen nations she engaged with disagree.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#235
We don't know that for sure. She only lasted four years in the State Department.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#237
Clinton's "only 4 years" was a time of a hard earned rebuilding of the destroyed relationship America had with
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#239
She was asked that and answered. Look it up. Four years rebuilding foreign relations. You dismiss that?? Wow.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#243
the alternative of course is increasing full retirement age, decreasing COLA, and perhaps means
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2015
#315
Under Hillary a SC appointee may be more Wall Street friendly than under Bernie, but said
randys1
Aug 2015
#154
What makes you think I have to justify shit to you. Try reading the ps: in the op.
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#35
I want the DUer who called a person of color a "house rat" BANNED. I only find YOU using the term.
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#224
True, old "tactic". Which do you think is older, shooting the messenger or playing victim?
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#83
ph god. really? A chicken is a coward and I've heard it used against everyone. Be mad about
roguevalley
Aug 2015
#317
O yea because the GOP has clown debates we should have limits on Dem debates. WTF
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#17
There are only a few significant events in a primary contest: announcements and dabates.
morningfog
Aug 2015
#24
The 24/7 news is easily and usually tuned out, unless there is a big story like a scandal.
morningfog
Aug 2015
#58
For a front runner, six is too many. For a front runner who is losing support and
morningfog
Aug 2015
#67
Well I support Sanders, and perfer MOM as a 2nd choice, but that's a piss-poor article
Armstead
Aug 2015
#11
You don't really expect DWS to be honest about the reason the debates are so few compared to 2008?
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#218
Interesting article from the author of The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech.
Metric System
Aug 2015
#21
Attack the messenger again? WTF Yea look at who is trying to kill free speech here.
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#29
Apparently this ex-Fox News "liberal" house pet has found a new home at DU!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#87
You like these ex-Fox News propagandists, you can keep them, they are useful for attacking Clinton.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#234
What? How did Steven Lesser get into this, the OP is echoing Kirsten Powers.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#250
And forwarding the chickenscrawling of RW nutjob Kirsten Powers! What does that tell you?
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#79
Good post, Hillary will shine in the debates, she knows facts and she should be able to show she is
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#189
I bellieve some will be happy only 6 was scheduled. Who needs to run a clown car? Leave this to
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#257
Kirsten Powers? A Fox News Kirsten Powers opinion piece?? Thank you for my daily laugh!!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#75
Not only that, these known RW nutjob opinionators are given the mantle of "messenger" and are defended.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#142
Hopefully, the other candidates will join O'Malley in his rebellion against the DNC.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2015
#77
What a surprise! The only one's who agree with Debbie Wasserman Schultz are Clinton supporters.
delrem
Aug 2015
#80
FOUR debates before Iowa/New Hampshire. One of those on Dec. 19th (< 1 wk. before Xmas).
stillwaiting
Aug 2015
#94
those debates are needed to sell our candidates to the voting public as a whole
nashville_brook
Aug 2015
#123
You have that right, but the DNC dislikes the plural use of the noun, "candidate"
Android3.14
Aug 2015
#172
K&R. Chicken. She is not a good debater, in other words, she is not a competent candidate.
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#117
WTF? She was a very good debater in 2007 and 2008. I remember Jeff Toobin saying it was like Gladys
Metric System
Aug 2015
#151
Obama was much better. She does not come across as likeable in the debates, and especially
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#200
if neither Sanders nor O'Malley can take her out in 6 debates, then they aren't fit for the general.
msanthrope
Aug 2015
#128
the Democratic primary audience is open to both Sanders and O'Malley's platforms
msanthrope
Aug 2015
#146
Looks like they don't want a "Democratic" primary where there's more than one candidate.
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#232
It's unfortunate so many don't know the DNC announced SIX DNC sanctioned debates in 2007...
Spazito
Aug 2015
#162
The only thing any anti-fact, anti-Hillary crowd wants to shield is a lot of very fact challenged talking points.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#165
Good thing the Democratic Party members, then and now, got sensible about that nonsense. The current schedule was set...when?
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#240
I am looking forward to the debates, it will be a time with the DNC candidates on the stage together
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#211
They're doing it to save Bernie Sanders the embarrassment of being thrashed by Cllinton.
George II
Aug 2015
#293