Obama endorses Hillary Clinton

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Delete your account is the best burn of the campaigns so far haha.

Love Obama's video. Can not wait see him hit the campaign trail! And Joe, Michelle, Warren, Bill, etc. Gonna be great.
 
DeathyBoy said:
I like how Obama spins a narrative about her being Presidential material... and her official Twitter account posts that. Says it all about the state of politics as being akin to two children arguing over a play area.
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hm yes presidential candidates have always been extremely civil to each other

oh wait

http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/01...ical-mudslinging-and-character-assassination/

1800: Jefferson hired a writer named James Callender to attack President Adams. He wrote that John Adams is “a repulsive pedant,” a “gross hypocrite,” and “a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensiblity of a woman.”

1876 the opponents of Rutherford B. Hayes spread around a rumor that he had shot his own mother in a fit of rage.

A Democratic newspaper told voters that Lincoln should not be elected president because he only changed his socks once every 10 days.

1828: a Republican [actually, it’s predecessor, Whig] pamphlet said Democrat Andrew Jackson was “a gambler, a cock fighter, a slave trader and the husband of a really fat wife,” an insult for which he never forgave his opponents.

1844: Democrats call Whig candidate Henry Clay on his “supposed baggage train of gambling, dueling, womanizing and “By the Eternal!” swearing.” Clay lost.

1836: Congressman Davy Crockett accuses candidate Martin Van Buren of secretly wearing women’s clothing: “He is laced up in corsets!”
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Pagusas said:
ah got it. So this will really only register with people who were likely voting Hilary anyway.
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Mhmm. I guess you could also say she's showing Trump that he's not the only one who can say shit on Twitter, but her tweet has more of a "nothing you say is worthwhile" edge to it.

We all wish Trump would delete his account.
 
I'm guessing people don't know much about history if they're saying candidates treated each other with respect and courtesy or didn't drag each other's names through the mud in whatever form of news media was popular at the time. Surprise surprise guys, the ancient Romans were doing this to one another when trying to win a political seat of power. Come on now folks, things might be different these days in a lot of ways but certain things are damn near human nature.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
She's apparently really chummy with colleagues - she would drink McCain under the table while the two traded stories.

She is apparently not very good at expressing this side to the electorate.
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There was a good interview on BBC Radio 5 with the former EiC of Vanity Fair about this. She didn't mince words - "Hilary needs to embrace her inner bitch". If she's naturally dry humoured and strong, fuck it, why bother try to come across warm - it's overrated anyway.
 
Haha, great edit:

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https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/740980656612749312
 
Zaph said:
There was a good interview on BBC Radio 5 with the former EiC of Vanity Fair about this. She didn't mince words - "Hilary needs to embrace her inner bitch". If she's naturally dry humoured and strong, fuck it, why bother try to come across warm - it's overrated anyway.
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Vs a normal GOP contender she would not be able to do this.

Vs Trump though? She's going full POPGAF.
 
DeathyBoy said:
Well, yeah. But it moving to Twitter just feels sad.

Like 'HEY LOOK KIDS, WE CAN BE HIP TOO.'
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Literally that's what a social media team is for. There's going to be people who see it as sad and cynical, because it is, but the alternative is to have no social media team and that would get her killed in terms of outreach.

Few if any people are going to use this tweet as a reason not to vote for her, but the tweet will get noticed in a mostly positive way, which is what they want.
 
_woLf said:
A little unprofessional, but I doubt anyone really disagrees with her :-)
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You dont care about being a little unprofessional while adressing Trump. This is the way she should do things tbh, bully him like a millennial would do. He wont know how to respond.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I agree Trump is a weak candidate, and I do think Clinton is a much better candidate than she was eight years ago, it is SUPER IMPORTANT not to get complacent. I vividly remember pundits and amateur pundits talking about Bush’s unpopularity and how likely it was he would be Carter’d in 2004 and the Democrats lost that election, despite Kerry “crushing” Bush during the debates. I remember how Romney’s campaign, and a lot of Republican big shots, being completely shocked that he lost to a featherweight that was seemingly massively unpopular.

Here are the two notions people should keep in mind:

1) Trump’s strategies that got him the republican nomination will not necessarily work in a general election with undecideds.
2) That does not, at all, mean he will fail to get undecideds.

Undecided voters are leaners, not moderates. They can be convinced. They aren’t all just sitting there going “This person is too extreme for me,” some of them are doing that, and some of them aren’t. Either side of that could swing an election.

Clinton could crush Donald Trump in every debate, but the unforeseen could occur and just throw the election to Trump. A one-minute event could change the entire course of the next four to eight years. The stronger candidate will not always win.
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2004 and 2016 aren't analogous though. I don't remember Bush being compared to Carter at the time. We were in the middle of a major war: beating an incumbent is always an uphill climb under those circumstances. The economy also was not terrible at the time. Bush was going to win that election regardless.

Whereas in 2016, Hillary is following a popular incumbent president while the economy is solid. She also happens to be running against arguably the worst presidential candidate of all time. Trump is motivating people to vote who may have stayed home if someone like Ted Cruz was the candidate, for instance. We should be very confident. Confidence doesn't mean being lazy or not preparing though. I think Hillary will run a really good campaign, she'll raise more money than Trump, she has better high profile supporters than he does, and the party will be quite excited to vote in what will be a historic/consequential election.
 
Using bored social media interns as a referendum on the candidates' ability to exhibit presidential behavior seems a bit off the mark, no? This is inconsequential and harmless. I don't get why some folks in here are spinning it as some harbinger of unprofessional, classless Clinton behavior

That being said, counting retweets does seem more like something that some BoB guys and gals would do.
 
Cesare Borgia said:
2004 and 2016 aren't analogous though. I don't remember Bush being compared to Carter at the time. We were in the middle of a major war: beating an incumbent is always an uphill climb under those circumstances. The economy also was not terrible at the time. Bush was going to win that election regardless.

Whereas in 2016, Hillary is following a popular incumbent president while the economy is solid. She also happens to be running against arguably the worst presidential candidate of all time. Trump is motivating people to vote who may have stayed home if someone like Ted Cruz was the candidate, for instance. We should be very confident. Confidence doesn't mean being lazy or not preparing though. I think Hillary will run a really good campaign, she'll raise more money than Trump, she has better high profile supporters than he does, and the party will be quite excited to vote in what will be a historic/consequential election.
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Is the argument here that we should get super complacent?

What I am saying is the election can be lost, easily, simply by assuming victory. There is literally no benefit to saying otherwise.
 
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