DNC Treatment Of Sanders At Issue In Emails Leaked To Wikileaks

18,115
11,769
Joined
Jan 11, 2013
[h1]  DNC treatment of Sanders at issue in emails leaked to Wikileaks[/h1]
(CNN) Nearly 20,000 emails sent and received by Democratic National Committee staff members were released Friday by Wikileaks, with one message in particular raising questions about the committee's impartiality during the Democratic primary.

The revelation threatened to shatter the uneasy peace between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders camps and supporters days before the Democratic convention kicks off next week.

The leaks, from January 2015 to May 2016, feature Democratic staffers debating everything from how to deal with challenging media requests to coordinating the committee's message with other powerful interests in Washington.

The emails were leaked from the accounts of seven DNC officials, Wikileaks said. CNN has not independently established the emails' authenticity.

One email features DNC staffers appearing to ponder ways to undercut Sanders, an insurgent Democrat who had a bitter relationship with party leadership. Sanders supporters charged that the DNC was biased toward Clinton, and Sanders late in the primary endorsed DNC chair Debbie Wassserman Schultz's primary opponent in her Florida congressional race.

On May 5, a DNC employee asked colleagues to "get someone to ask his belief" in God and suggested that it could make a difference in Kentucky and West Virginia. Sanders' name is not mentioned in the note.

"This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist," DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall wrote.

Neither the DNC nor Marshall immediately responded to requests for comment.

But Republican nominee Donald Trump said the emails were proof of the Democrats' "rigged" system, resurfacing an attack he's leveled against the party before.

"Leaked e-mails of DNC show plans to destroy Bernie Sanders. Mock his heritage and much more. On-line from Wikileakes, really vicious. RIGGED," Trump tweeted Saturday morning.

Leaked e-mails of DNC show plans to destroy Bernie Sanders. Mock his heritage and much more. On-line from Wikileakes, really vicious. RIGGED

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2016
[h4]'It's gas meets flame'[/h4]
The publication of the emails comes just a weekend before the start of the Democratic convention, where a major objective will be to unify the Democratic Party by winning over Sanders' voters.

Several Democratic sources told CNN that the leaked emails are a big source of contention and may incite tensions between the Clinton and Sanders camps heading into the Democratic convention's Rules Committee meeting this weekend. Representatives of the former primary rivals are meeting Friday night to discuss the issue.

"It could threaten their agreement," one Democrat said, referring to the deal reached between Clinton and Sanders about the convention, delegates and the DNC. The party had agreed to include more progressive principles in its official platform, and as part of the agreement, Sanders dropped his fight to contest Wasserman Schultz as the head of the DNC.

"It's gas meets flame," the Democrat said.

Michael Briggs, a Sanders spokesman, had no comment.

The DNC has previously had its files hacked by an individual named "Guccifer 2.0" that may have had ties to the Russians.

Hackers stole opposition research on Donald Trump from the DNC's servers in mid-June. Two separate Russian intelligence-linked cyberattack groups were both in the DNC's networks.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/politics/dnc-wikileaks-emails/

thoughts? 
nerd.gif
 
-DNC management should be purged, happen once, it should happen again.

But still, this didn't cost Bernie the primary. Hillary being being stronger in more demographics did.

-Bernie is not going to turn on Hillary for this. He has no reason to. Clinton days of protecting her girl Debbie might be over and done with.

-This is already being talk about in the politics thread btw
 
Last edited:
not swayed by the leaks. the leaks were collected over a series of what, 8 months? whoever leaked this, apparently knew what was going on...and did nothing. If these leaks were REALLY about exposing corruption in the DNC, and the injustice to bernie, they wouldve revealed these emails and saved bernie back then. instead, the held onto them for months and months. waited until right after hilary won the primary dem vote, THEN revealed it. they couldve exposed this stuff earlier and swayed the favor in bernie's direction but didnt.

i see this as a political play from the republican party. what other explanation is there for it? you watched bernie get cheated, collected evidence of him getting cheated, then when he was unfairly removed from the game....you reveal that he was getting cheated the whole time? nah. something doesnt feel right.
 
The party system is a severly outdated form of politics. Team red vs blue. :lol: people love living in a black and white world.
 
Last edited:
The party system is a severly outdated form of politics. Team red vs blue. :lol: people love living in a black and white world.

Dude go look at systems in other countries, a multiple party system won't be some cure all.

And the 3rd parties in America suck.
 
Dude go look at systems in other countries, a multiple party system won't be some cure all.

And the 3rd parties in America suck.

Course not. The entire system needs a reform. Look no further then our choices for proof.

Hillary and Trump both won in fair elections. Them being the nominee is not some failure of the system, imo.

Bigots and conservative populist have a strong voice in the GOP, and moderates and minorities have a strong voice in the Democratic Party.

The political system, when it comes to voting fails people in other ways more serious ways. Like voter IDs laws, gerrymandering, Super Pacs, inconvenient voter rules, etc.
 
Hillary and Trump both won in fair elections. Them being the nominee is not some failure of the system, imo.

Bigots and conservative populist have a strong voice in the GOP, and moderates and minorities have a strong voice in the Democratic Party.

The political system, when it comes to voting fails people in other ways more serious ways. Like voter IDs laws, gerrymandering, Super Pacs, inconvenient voter rules, etc.
dont forget the fact that the electoral college completely undermines the point of the popular vote in its entirety lol
 
Hillary and Trump both won in fair elections. Them being the nominee is not some failure of the system, imo.


Bigots and conservative populist have a strong voice in the GOP, and moderates and minorities have a strong voice in the Democratic Party.


The political system, when it comes to voting fails people in other ways more serious ways. Like voter IDs laws, gerrymandering, Super Pacs, inconvenient voter rules, etc.


dont forget the fact that the electoral college completely undermines the point of the popular vote in its entirety lol

Yeah, the president should be elected by popular vote.

The electoral college is an archaic system that gives a select few states too much power, and disenfranchises millions of Americans
 
Should be allowed to vote online. You can file for unemployment online, trust online banking but when it comes to voting.. let's not update it at all..

The choice of nominees does show how politics is a joke. No worthy candidate wants to run in this circus.
 
Trump and Hillary won primaries. There are primaries for all national positions. Even if voting was online, people have to get informed and participate.

Fixing national electoral system, and how parties decide the nominees are kinda two different subjects.

And most of the true dysfunction hurts down ticket races. Not party nominations for president

The "system" really didn't cost any one candidate the presidential nomination this go around. Or to put is another way, Bernie didn't get robbed, let it go everyone. :lol:
 
Last edited:
"Huh"

Trump and Hillary won primaries. There are primaries for all national positions. Even if voting was online, people have to get informed and participate.

Fixing national electoral system, and how parties decide the nominees are kinda two different subjects.

And most of the dysfunction hurts down ticket races. Not party nominations

The "system" really didn't cost any one candidate the nomination this go around. Or to put is another way, Bernie didn't get robbed famb, let it go. :lol:

Excuse me for being all over the place. I'm talking about the entire system, politcial process.
Voting online would change alot. To deny that is narrow-minded. Simply voting at a polling place does not make you informed. I think it's the opposite at this point. The sheep come in masses to vote based on who their union/party, etc tells them to vote for. Without doing any research of their own. Bernie had to switch just to have a chance. It's a shame really. No worthy candidate wants to run. If you think these noms are worthy. I dunno what else to tell you. I appreciate you trying to teach me tho. Thanks!
 
"Huh"

Trump and Hillary won primaries. There are primaries for all national positions. Even if voting was online, people have to get informed and participate.

Fixing national electoral system, and how parties decide the nominees are kinda two different subjects.

And most of the dysfunction hurts down ticket races. Not party nominations

The "system" really didn't cost any one candidate the nomination this go around. Or to put is another way, Bernie didn't get robbed famb, let it go. :lol:

Excuse me for being all over the place. I'm talking about the entire system, politcial process.
Voting online would change alot. To deny that is narrow-minded. Simply voting at a polling place does not make you informed. I think it's the opposite at this point. The sheep come in masses to vote based on who their union/party, etc tells them to vote for. Without doing any research of their own. Bernie had to switch just to have a chance. It's a shame really. No worthy candidate wants to run. If you think these noms are worthy. I dunno what else to tell you. I appreciate you trying to teach me tho. Thanks!

Defensive and condescending when someone simply disagrees with you, even minor things.

As usual. :lol:
 
Trump and Hillary won primaries. There are primaries for all national positions. Even if voting was online, people have to get informed and participate.

Fixing national electoral system, and how parties decide the nominees are kinda two different subjects.

And most of the true dysfunction hurts down ticket races. Not party nominations for president

The "system" really didn't cost any one candidate the presidential nomination this go around. Or to put is another way, Bernie didn't get robbed, let it go everyone. :lol:
Can't agree there. Bernies campaign was being suppressed by both the media and the DNC alike. Not sure I would use the term rigged, but that man Bernie definitely didn't get a fair shake and if the playing field was level, I'd wager Hillary probably wouldn't have come away with the nomination.
 
There are a few of those you realize are only interested in feigning intellectual superiority, and keep it moving.
 
Trump and Hillary won primaries. There are primaries for all national positions. Even if voting was online, people have to get informed and participate.

Fixing national electoral system, and how parties decide the nominees are kinda two different subjects.

And most of the true dysfunction hurts down ticket races. Not party nominations for president

The "system" really didn't cost any one candidate the presidential nomination this go around. Or to put is another way, Bernie didn't get robbed, let it go everyone. :lol:
Can't agree there. Bernies campaign was being suppressed by both the media and the DNC alike. Not sure I would use the term rigged, but that man Bernie definitely didn't get a fair shake and if the playing field was level, I'd wager Hillary probably wouldn't have come away with the nomination.

Go look at the states each of them own. Hillary won the South, and Bernie didn't even try in the South, and Hillary won the diverse states.

Even when Bernie had a chance to get his message out there, it really didn't stick.

Most importantly Bernie had to get a nice chunk of the black vote, which he failed to do. The DNC didn't cause that to happen
 
Last edited:
The party system is a severly outdated form of politics. Team red vs blue. :lol: people love living in a black and white world.

Dude go look at systems in other countries, a multiple party system won't be some cure all.

And the 3rd parties in America suck.

Still would be better than what we have which is progress.

Don't be so sure about that. There are much more vile political systems out there.
 
The party system is a severly outdated form of politics. Team red vs blue. :lol: people love living in a black and white world.

Dude go look at systems in other countries, a multiple party system won't be some cure all.

And the 3rd parties in America suck.

Still would be better than what we have which is progress.

Brah Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are the probably the best their parties have to offer, and they both still kinda suck in their own ways. Policy wise

IMO third parties in America should really just try to be logical representations of mainstream subgroups withing the larger main parties.

Indeed of trying to be niche, or pie in the sky parties.
 
Last edited:
It is like you can't help yourself

Let's be gentlemen.
I say I'm sorry and still no good. There was no cryptic meaning behind that post. Honestly, what do you want? You seems so bent out of shape when I post. There's a simple solution to you not being so bothered by what I post.....
 
Last edited:
Back
Top Bottom