Donna Brazile and her book "Hacks"

To Donna Brazile on Her New Book - Hacks
The View from the Middle

If you’re not a political junky like me, your first question may be, “Who is Donna Brazile, and why do I even care about her?” Donna Brazile is the now disgraced former Chairperson for the DNC (Democratic National Committee) during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. She admitted to sharing debate questions with the Clinton campaign while withholding them from the Sanders’ campaign and now she has written a book entitled Hacks.
A hack can be a person who works solely for mercenary reasons with mediocre professional standards, like the commonly used term “party hacks”. I thought for sure that was what her book would be about; the party hacks who botched the Hillary Clinton campaign for presidency. Instead it was an excuse filled, opinion stated as fact, pity party in which she couldn’t even admit or deny her horrendous mistake of sharing debate questions with Hillary Clinton. Now, it seems, her position is that she can’t remember. Isn’t that the amnesiatic explanation that Hillary Clinton invoked 41 times in her interview with the FBI about her computer server? Donna, you’ve learned from the best, or worst depending on a person’s perspective.
Obviously, I do NOT recommend her book for a number of reasons and in fact I’ll be sending my copy back asking for a refund. First, her opinion (which she constantly positions as fact) is that the Russians (if they were behind the hacking) only went after the Democratic Party, actually thought Donald Trump could win the election AND preferred Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton. Let me suggest another set of possibilities.
Whoever hacked into the DNC server, and it may well have been the Russians, was trying to hack into everyone’s emails trying to compromise our entire system so that our citizens would lose confidence in our Democratic process. It just so happens that the Democrats were grossly negligent (sorry, extremely careless) with their handling of sensitive data. John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign manager, responded to a phishing expedition and changed his password to “password”. What an idiot. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in a party that put servers in closets, bashed phones with sledgehammers and stored emails on Anthony Weiner’s computer.
Donna also theorizes that Vladimir Putin actually thought Donald Trump could with this election and preferred him to become president. This is opinion piled upon opinion. Let me offer you another notion. I would suggest that Vladimir Putin believed that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election like 99% of Americans, according to the Princeton Election Consortium. I don’t even think Donald Trump thought he was going to win the election on the morning of November 8th. Putin was sure that Hillary would be President, and he wanted to deal with a damaged President once the election was over.
Donna even defended Hillary’s famous “basket of deplorables” statement, which I believe actually cost her the election. Remember, this is where Hillary called half of Donald Trump’s voters “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic”. She suggested that Hillary should “own” this despicable statement. She even supported Hillary’s stance that she had to say this because “her opponent’s campaign had been built on prejudice, hateful views and cruel voices”. Isn’t calling tens of millions of Americans racists, misogynists, homophobes, xenophobes and Islamophobes prejudicial, hateful and cruel? Donna, this is what Americans hate about our politicians. They are hypocrites, constantly talking out of both sides of their mouths and this definitely includes Hillary.
Donna, if you ever get around to taking your ideological blinders off, you’ll realize that it wasn’t the Russians who caused Hillary to loose the election. It was just Hillary. When the first three words that people use to describe your candidate are “Liar, Dishonest and Untrustworthy”, according to Quinnipiac, you have a problem. I have stated before that we had two terrible candidates representing our two parties in this election, and Hillary ended up being the worse of those two.
She insulted even more people than Donald Trump did, and that isn’t easy to do. She took the wrong states for granted and was not able to energize her base, which was evident in her pitiful campaign rally attendance and lack of enthusiasm. Her platform was “I’m a woman” and “It’s my turn” which didn’t resonate with the public. If you keep blaming the Russians, you’ll never learn the real lesson.
By the way, I do agree with you about one thing, Donna. The average American (Democrat and Republican) is honest, hard working and patriotic. Americans will put the good of the country ahead of themselves. That is what they are looking for in our politicians, but people like that are a rare commodity in Washington DC. THAT is the biggest issue we have right now, and we should be working together to fix it. How many times can I suggest Term Limits!!!