tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post2686101856531522879..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Hillary Fingers ComeyThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-38918102798408049082016-11-14T14:32:44.945-08:002016-11-14T14:32:44.945-08:00Anyong....I wonder how much Comey was paid by the ...Anyong....I wonder how much Comey was paid by the Trump Jonesing crew to commit this dastardly deed? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6391286090348182512016-11-14T09:15:14.158-08:002016-11-14T09:15:14.158-08:00The obvious question is how much damage did Comey ...The obvious question is how much damage did Comey cause. According to EJ Dionne in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-fall-for-trumpian-triumphalism/2016/11/13/65070d6a-a935-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html" rel="nofollow">WaPo</a>, quite a lot:<br /><br /><i>... lest anyone doubt that the outsized attention given to the matter of Clinton’s use of a private server was decisive, consider that 45 percent of voters said that her use of private email bothered them “a lot,” and they voted better than 12-to-1 for Trump.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3790185935161699412016-11-14T04:52:38.393-08:002016-11-14T04:52:38.393-08:00Thanks for this, Anonymous. Anyone who thinks HRC ...Thanks for this, Anonymous. Anyone who thinks HRC was complacent or didn't care about people (like Harper no less!) haven't been paying attention; or have been paying too much attention to the right-wing vilification campaign. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-87385619399764842662016-11-13T16:08:19.833-08:002016-11-13T16:08:19.833-08:00Anon 12:45, Trump got fewer votes than McCain, Rom...Anon 12:45, Trump got fewer votes than McCain, Romney and CLINTON! Indeed, as counting continues, Clinton's on track to win <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/us-election-hillary-clinton-more-votes-popular-vote-any-candidate-barack-obama-donald-trump-a7413596.html" rel="nofollow">more votes than any other US presidential candidate in history</a> except Barack Obama!<br /><br />If the result had been reversed, with Trump winning the popular vote and Clinton winning the EC, could you imagine the howls of outrage about a "fixed election"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-81192580300062859112016-11-13T12:45:08.562-08:002016-11-13T12:45:08.562-08:00Trump didn't win - Clinton lost.
Trump got fe...Trump didn't win - Clinton lost.<br /><br />Trump got fewer votes than either McCain or Romney, and Clinton failed to get the votes out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76652439555639510082016-11-13T10:00:48.251-08:002016-11-13T10:00:48.251-08:00Thomas Frank was on CBC this morning with his anal...Thomas Frank was on CBC this morning with his analysis of the election, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/president-elect-trump-the-truth-class-letters-media-and-foreign-policy-1.3847616/thomas-frank-trump-won-because-the-democrats-betrayed-the-working-class-1.3847670" rel="nofollow">"Trump won because the Democrats betrayed the working class"</a>. <br /><br />Forget anything Hillary Clinton says; she's a technocrat. I liken Clinton with Stephen Harper, both policy wonks who love to have their fingers on the reins of power but who have no feel for the plight of common people. <br /><br />I hope Justin Trudeau listened to Thomas Frank's analysis of the American election. I hope the BC NDP listened. Political parties have to pay attention to the working class. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39990160096865019602016-11-13T06:10:23.319-08:002016-11-13T06:10:23.319-08:00The thing I have been thinking, Mound, is the toll...The thing I have been thinking, Mound, is the toll a campaign like this, with its subsequent loss, must be taking on Clinton. Like her or not, she put everything she had into it, and to lose after all of that must be devastating both psychically and physically. She is no doubt a profoundly disillusioned woman.Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-24283726276973003792016-11-12T20:46:23.182-08:002016-11-12T20:46:23.182-08:00This from Greenwald is pretty damning.
https://w...This from Greenwald is pretty damning. <br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/11/glenn-greenwald-trump-will-have-vast-powers-he-can-thank-democrats-for-them/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory<br /><br />I hope they haven't dumped the piece. I've saved it if they have. Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-47396563349725189792016-11-12T19:31:57.821-08:002016-11-12T19:31:57.821-08:00Foreign politicians would probably find it to thei...Foreign politicians would probably find it to their advantage to study recent Canadian history.<br /><br />We have Brexit, which probably would not be happening if the British parliament (especially the opposition Labour and Lib-Dems) had studied their recent Canadian history and insisted upon a clear question, and a clear majority.<br /><br />And, as TheMoundOfSound earlier blogged, we have emailgate in which Comey is reprising the roll of Zaccardelli.<br /><br />And Anonymous is correct in noting the fickleness of the left wing vote. It cost the NDP the last election in B.C. because Dix couldn't mobilize enough voters, despite the polls being hugely favourable towards him. Similarly Clinton would have won if she could have got Dems out to the ballot box, and not been so complacent.<br />crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39615859177812991192016-11-12T19:08:24.402-08:002016-11-12T19:08:24.402-08:00He is a real idiot. There is no reason why he coul...He is a real idiot. There is no reason why he couldn't have followed well established protocol and waited a few weeks until after the election before publicly acknowledging that the FBI was investigating more emails. <br /><br />I don't think he was being dishonest, but just got so caught up in the FBI's internal problems with "emailgate" leaks that he lost sight of the fact that because the election was happening and he needed to stay quiet for a bit, leaks and the FBI's reputation bedamned.<br /><br />crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-67340532403863978412016-11-12T16:13:26.283-08:002016-11-12T16:13:26.283-08:00Some 20-million votes were cast while Clinton was ...Some 20-million votes were cast while Clinton was under Comey's engineered shadow.<br /><br />These were mail in votes.<br />Even the right wing ENB radio in the USA reported this.<br />Reminds me of Chisty Clark's last minute hail Mary 'Jobs from fracked gas ploy that won her the last Provincial election. <br />Politics is a dirty dishonest business no matter who you support. <br /><br /><br />TB<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com