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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe bs is a person of honesty and integrity. Someone who forgoes superpacs is not someone who spearheads a dirty tactic campaign strategy. In contrast, hrc stupidly feigns ignorance that her campaign accepts money from dirty energy, big banks, and big industry. Her problem is that she's being out-integritied. Now she has a miniscule chance to demonstrate she's the victim of dirty politics, and it's blowing up in her face.[/quote]

I believe this is why the DNC decided this morning to reverse it's decision.  I hope all this crap exposes the bullshit within the major parties, including the Democrats.  Politicians of integrity should be trumpeting the incredible corruption that the most recent spending bill permitted, that is allowing major donors to hide.  Money is continuing to roll in from what Bernie calls the "plutocrats" and "oligarchs" of big $$$.

The Democrats need to watch their backs.  Republicans are pissed off enough with establishment politics to turn toward the likes of that asshole Trump, and second place candidates but equally assholish Cruz and Carson.  Somewhat less assholish candidates are riding right on their tails.  Democratic voters are also getting pissed, and THANK GOD, they're moving toward alternative candidate Bernie Sanders.  You're welcome, America.

Wasserman Shmidt: No one trusts you.  HRC:  You're dangling precipitously on the edge.  Establishment candidates: Come clean, wash your hands of corporate influence and get our nation back on track.  Otherwise you're a bunch of corrupt bastards.[/quote]

The DNC restored data access because the Sanders campaign agreed to its conditions. Had the campaign agreed to this two days ago, data access wouldn't have been lost in the first place. By not telling Sanders of the problem, his staff put him in a difficult position.

If Sanders wants to run as a Democratic candidate and use the DNC's data platform, he needs to ensure that his staff abide by the user agreement. [/quote]

Agreed to all of the above, but I'll add that Sanders lost me when he blamed this on "some young staffers."  [b]The guy who did this, Josh Uretsky, has been working on national campaigns since 2006.[/b]  Do you know how long that is in campaign terms?  The guy is practically a Sanders-level wizened old veteran, as campaigns skew notoriously young. Uretsky was also the national data director.  Considering how powerful the VAN data is, that's a pretty senior position in the campaign.

This wasn't some young kid making an innocent mistake, and [b]for Sanders to portray it that way is disingenuous. [/b]

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All true, though I'm not sure it's Sanders choosing to portray it as young staffers run amok. That may be a Weaver/Devine concoction, not Bernie's doing.

Read this, though:

[url]http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sanders-gets-the-fight-he-wanted-216965[/url]

I really hope Bernie doesn't make tonight's debate all about his battle with the DNC. That plays to his base but will not help the Democratic Party in the general election. The average voter wants to hear about the issues, not internal party squabbles. [/quote]

The young staffer quote came directly from Weaver, who is Sanders' national campaign manager and would by extension be his presumptive chief of staff if he won.  Basically, he is Sanders' mouthpiece and I think we can assume that this statement was cleared with the candidate.  [/quote]

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