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Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Zero? What did they do that made a difference?
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As I was saying:
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Viewed in isolation, that brouhaha doesn't have a lot of substance. So DNC staff talked smack about Bernie Sanders in emails. If that shocks you, it may be because you are under the misapprehension that the DNC is composed of highly professional operatives sworn to neutrality in contested nomination contests. Truth is, the DNC doesn't have a lot to do with the nomination contest (hence the endless complaints about one thing it did control, the debate schedule), and isn't any more neutral than any other assemblage of political junkies with pasts and futures that are intimately connected to the fates of politicians like Hillary Clinton. As for the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair, the surprising thing isn't that she took the fall for the embarrassing emails, but that she has survived until now. The 2014 midterm debacle, not that she had much to do with the results, would have been enough to croak most DNC chairmanships. The animosity she earned from Bernie Sanders supporters probably made her resignation a natural by-product of any post-convention unity drive; it's also not unusual for nominees to assign someone especially close to them to the party chairmanship at the beginning of the general-election campaign.
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Ed Kilgore
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