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We're shocked.
SHOCKED!...
Nobody cares about those leaks because they confirm something that was already obvious: Clinton is a triangulating politician dependent on donations from plutocrats who tailors a message to the audience. Good luck trying to sell that "dog bites man" story.
What's much more interesting is why the latest Trump tape has former endorsers running for the exits. It's also utterly unsurprising - everyone knows Trump is a narcissistic boor, and he's ALREADY SAID TERRIBLE SHIT ABOUT WOMEN IN PUBLIC, FOREVER. From here it looks like they were looking for an excuse to bail in light of the poll numbers after the first debate.
I'd revel in schadenfreude except I think there is a decent chance that the GOP might sort out a way to force Trump out, get the election thrown to the House of Representatives through some legal chicanery, and/or having retained slender majorities in both houses impeach Clinton and Kaine for the high crime of being Democrats immediately upon their inauguration. If I've learned anything from the last 20 years of American politics, it is that comity and respect for the electorate is utterly dead.
The emails don't appear to express positions significantly different from Clinton's public statements regarding financial regulation, assuming of course they're even genuine, which according to intelligence analysts who have examined the documents is very much in doubt given Assange's professed hatred of Clinton AND the fact we now know for certain Russian hackers have compromised both the DNC and RNC servers. So, it's not like there's really any sort of hoped-for bombshell in this, despite the GOP's attempt to use them to deflect criticism from the on-going saga of Trump's vile expressions of boorish, vulgar, puerile misogyny.
Trump looked and acted like a petulant miscreant.
(Now to head to Hotel Hotel and have fun!)
I live in Portland and so would be of no help to you in finding someplace up there. But it's on regular broadcast TV (CBS.)
You notice she just happened to "win" the "coin toss" to determine who gets the "opportunity" to respond to the first question first?
IT'S AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE!!!
lindy west would have been good
Didn't that "Cover it live" format allow for monitored slogger comments? Like they'd have to be checked & approved for relevant/worthiness prior to actually entering the thread?
I remember being frustrated by that software's lag time and responsiveness, but at least it did allow us to actually contribute to the threads. And given that slog was using it several years ago I'd wager that a lot of the issues were just processor/server speed related and should be better now.
I kinda feel like a jerk as I've bitched about all the formats that they've tried and this does seem like one of the better ones largely. But the contributors here also really are significant part of the appeal. Despite what Sean Nelson & Jen Graves may think.
"Did Hillary actually die from pneumonia? Is George Soros piloting her corpse remotely like a drone? We interviewed the fly to find out!"
Actually, I think both Cooper and Raddatz did about as good a job as possible (under the circumstances) of at least trying to keep the candidates focused on the questions, rather than going after each other directly, which is, after all, what is supposed to happen during a "town hall" style debate. Clinton did a much better job of sticking to that protocol, keeping direct contact with the audience and with individual questioners (whereas Trump seemed almost exclusively focused on the cameras or on the moderators), and for the most part only addressed Trump when given time to respond. Trump, per usual, was like the proverbial bull in the china shop: just lumbering around, both physically and verbally, stomping about the stage, interrupting, shouting over the moderators, going over-time (he actually spoke just slightly more than Clinton, despite his petulant whining about not being given enough time), and apparently trying to get into every shot - I don't think he sat down once after the debate started - and as physically close to Clinton as possible without actually invading her immediate personal space; clearly an attempt at intimidation, which Clinton, to her credit, generally ignored.
“The main message is that Hillary Clinton belongs in jail,” one protester said at the time when asked what the overall message of the protest was. “We believe that the world should know about the crimes the Clinton family has committed against the country of Haiti–the money they have stolen from the earthquake victims. And we believe that were this to be anyone else, they’d be in jail right now.”
“She’s not in jail because she’s being protected by the Obama administration, the Justice Department, State Department,” the protester said.
Yeah, we know, you read Brietbart, like that's any surprise...