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Barefooted ...

oldenGoldenDecoy — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 04:22:01 +0000

In reply to OGD ... it was an odd phrase,

Barefooted ...

Again to save me keystrokes...

As I just now pointed out to NCD over here...

Note Hillary's words from the convention.

That's where I'm seeing a problem.

~OGD~

OGD ... it was an odd phrase,

barefooted — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 01:45:16 +0000

In reply to Barefooted ... to save me

OGD ... it was an odd phrase, but one that got attention and is tough to quote; just ask Pence.

As for pigs and whether they're worth wrestling, I guess it depends on who's sloppier. It ain't Clinton.

ETA: As Politico puts it:

Friday night wasn’t the first time Clinton used her basket metaphor to describe Trump’s “alt-right” base -- which also made her remark seem more like a bungled strategy than a gaffe. In an interview last week with an Israeli television station, Clinton said, “Take Trump supporters and put them in two big baskets. There are what I call the deplorables -- the racists and the haters and the people who are drawn because they think somehow he’s going to restore an America that no longer exists.” The other basket, she said, was made up of Americans who simply feel the government has let them down and are searching for an alternative.

But Clinton’s self-inflicted problem was in her specific phrasing at the fundraiser, Democrats said. “You assign a number, as Mitt Romney learned, and you end up defending the number,” said Mo Elleithee, director of the Georgetown Institute of Politics and a veteran of Clinton’s 2008 campaign.

So she fixed the problem.

Barefooted ... to save me

oldenGoldenDecoy — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 00:50:49 +0000

In reply to OGD ... Clinton said (in part

Barefooted ... to save me keystrokes...

As I just now pointed out to rmrd0000 over here...

Oh and, here's some wise words to live by...

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

~OGD~

Driftglass calls it 'the

NCD — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 23:28:18 +0000

In reply to Peracles... She's re-framed

Driftglass calls it 'the radioactive core' of the Republican Party. Normally shielded from conversation and from naive independent fence sitters by beltway media both siderism and 'conservative' shills like David Brooks.

OGD ... Clinton said (in part

barefooted — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 21:26:38 +0000

In reply to Peracles... She's re-framed

OGD ... Clinton said (in part):

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

She regrets one word: "Half".

Stay focused on that if you so choose, but I think I'll focus on her bigger point. It's consistent with what she's been laying out about Trump for some time now and the people he's not only attracting, but actively seeking. Her campaign believes it's a conversation that needs to be had - Trump is a major party candidate running a hateful campaign targeting hateful people for votes. We must discuss that ... or be very sorry we didn't. So if she gets some heat and keeps it in the news cycle as a genuine critique about this election? Good for her.

So she's even nicer. She was

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:30:22 +0000

In reply to Peracles... She's re-framed

So she's even nicer. She was right the first time.

Frankly I was thinking "half of Trump's followers are deplorable people. If you're supporting him, you might stop to consider which half you belong to." Of course she can't quite say that, but I certainly can.

Peracles... She's re-framed

oldenGoldenDecoy — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:11:11 +0000

In reply to She was nice - she said "half

Peracles... She's re-framed that "half" part...

Clinton: It was wrong to call half of Trump supporters 'deplorable'

“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that's never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton said in a statement. “But let's be clear, what's really ‘deplorable’ is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ‘alt-right’ movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values.”

Staying centered on the pivot...

~OGD~

She was nice - she said "half

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:13:32 +0000

In reply to I am pretty sure that Marc

She was nice - she said "half"

I am pretty sure that Marc

CVille Dem — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 16:32:53 +0000

In reply to Wharton Boy? (aka STFU Donnie)

I am pretty sure that Marc Cuban will have Hillary's ear. I can tell you for sure that she knows how to give the "stinkeye" look. If anyone on her team doubts it, My whole family can come to where she is and give a tutorial. My son is particularly adept at saying "Asshole" as he coughs. Very effective as well, and could be a poke in the eye to those who consider a dry cough to be a symptom of a serious illness.

But back to topic: This article is great, and I also think is supported by his ghost-writer, who spent a lot of time with him for The Art of the Deal. I think she still has to make points on her own though; her mastery of facts and policy. When she killed at the last Benghazi marathon it was right after Planned Parenthood CEO, Cecile Richards survived her inquisition with grace, knowledge and an unflappable calm. I suspected that HRC saw that too and learned from it. I hope she does as well against theDonald as she did against theTrey.

OT, but is anyone other than me NOT clutching my pearls at Hillary's identification of Trump's followers/worshippers as racist, etc? He gets away with insulting and/or our southern neighbors, all Muslims, THE blacks, Latinos in general; and referring to her as "Crooked Hillary" every time he speaks her name -- his documented lies are ignored simply because of their frequency and egregiousness. I think Hillary should simply respond by saying "so what? Prove me wrong."