"The big lesson that the Democrats have learned from last year's election loss is to listen better to what real people think, rather than to their own pre-conceived notions"
But have they, really?? I guess time will tell, but I haven't seen much sign of that from the DNC's actions myself. I do hope they have, or do in time for the next election!
Donna Brazile's rather self serving diatribe undoubtedly contains many elements of truth. Not enough to revive Brazile's career as a DNC insider, nor as a journalistic pundit, but possibly enough to keep the Gendarme's from her door.
sidd's link to Politico contains the full text of her screed, and that's what I'll be using as a reference.
Usually I feel a huge empathy for whistleblowers, regardless of the content of their exposures. For whatever reason, this one leaves leaves me cold, and perhaps this is why I'm leery of leaning too heavily on the props she's providing.
E-Mail hacked or leaked?
She twice refers to the DNC's e-mails as having been hacked, then twice she refers to them as having been leaked. In one instance she refers to hacked e-mails, then in the very next sentence refers to the same missives as having been leaked.
This wasn't an error, it jumps off the page.
What message is dear Donna trying to convey?
She's certainly signalling that she knows absolutely nothing about whether the e-mails were hacked or leaked. She certainly signaled that asking her under oath about the possibility of the e-mails being leaked, wouldn't shine any light in that dark & dingy corner.
For this reason alone I'd like to see her deposed and asked about every aspect of how those e-mails ended at Assange's site, 3 days prior to the DNC's Convention.
Donna's Broken Hearted Melody.
By the time of Donna's September 7 call to Bernie, (We're all on a first name basis now, right?), she had already found her "proof", and it "broke her heart".
All this skulduggery had occurred under the watch of the "not a good manager, Debbie". Note now that this skulduggery has nothing to do with passing questions to Hillary, to the detriment of Bernie. That was a separate piece of skulduggery unmentioned here by it's perpetrator, our own dear Donna.
I'd submit that Donna knew very well what her candidate Hillary had done to the DNC, in part because placing Donna as "interim director" after Debbie's ouster was a huge F... You to Bernie and all of his followers. This was after all the woman who had attempted to "fix" the town hall meetings against Bernie.
This is getting far too long, so I'll drop it, but as I see it, Donna is simply validating everything that Wikileaks published so long ago. Those files so well secreted away that they were hidden behind the password, "password", and guarded by the Patriotic Awan family.
Terry