blacklivesmatter Wrote:
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> MINNEAPOLIS – Martin O’Malley had one clear
> chance to make waves within the Democratic
> National Committee, and he seized it, delivering a
> fiery speech Friday that condemned his party’s
> leadership for what he called a process
> “rigged” to help Hillary Rodham Clinton —
> namely, curtailing the number of presidential
> primary debates.
>
> Accusing party leaders of trying to keep
> Democratic ideas hidden as the Republican
> presidential candidates spew “racist hate”
> from their debate lecterns, Mr. O’Malley, the
> former Maryland governor and mayor of Baltimore,
> questioned the decision to hold “four debates
> and four debates only” before the first four
> states finish voting.
>
> “This is totally unprecedented in our party’s
> history,” Mr. O’Malley said. “This sort of
> rigged process has never been attempted before.
> Whose decree is it exactly? Where did it come
> from? To what end? For what purpose? What national
> or party interest does this decree serve? How does
> this help us tell the story of the last eight
> years of Democratic progress?”
>
> While Mr. O’Malley never named the party’s
> chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman
> Schultz of Florida, his remarks about the debates
> were clearly aimed at her – and she sat looking
> grim throughout, barely clapping, and appeared
> angry when she shook his hand once he finished.
>
> He did not name Mrs. Clinton in his speech,
> either, but Mr. O’Malley was asked afterward if
> he thought the debate schedule had been arranged
> for her benefit. “Yes, I think so. Don’t
> you?” he replied.
>
> While Mr. O’Malley has been deeply critical of
> the party for weeks over the debate schedule, this
> was a frontal attack on the party’s leadership
> from its own stage. Without endorsements or many
> major donors, Mr. O’Malley has little to lose.
>
> But he was giving voice to a complaint that a
> growing number of party committee members have
> been making privately. Those members, mindful that
> Mrs. Clinton’s standing in some polls has sagged
> lately, have been concerned about a process that
> could ultimately do the party a disservice.
>
> But delivering such a raw speech startled
> Democrats at the party’s summer meeting,
> although it was met with cheers from the crowd.
>
> Mr. O’Malley, a lifelong Democrat and onetime
> chairman of the Democratic Governors Association,
> seemed comfortable playing the insurgent as he
> took the stage.
>
> He urged Democrats to draw a sharp contrast with
> the discourse among the Republican presidential
> candidates. “Silence and complacency in the face
> of hate is not an honorable option,” he said,
> alluding to Donald J. Trump’s divisive remarks
> about immigration and women. “We must stand
> before the American people and show them we have a
> better way.”
>
> Mr. O’Malley pointed out that the New Hampshire
> debate, the only one to be held before that
> state’s primary, was set for a weekend in
> December, when many people will be distracted with
> Christmas shopping and family obligations. (“At
> home we would call that too cute by half,” he
> told reporters after his speech.)
>
> Later, he acknowledged that he was not the only
> liberal candidate in the race, but trumpeted his
> accomplishments in Maryland, including signing a
> law extending in-state tuition rates to college
> students who are in the country illegally.
>
> At the moment, Mr. O’Malley is polling in the
> low single digits in almost every public survey,
> and he has been fighting to gain traction as
> Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent,
> has drawn a huge following.
>
> But Mr. O’Malley’s bold showing Friday seemed
> an attempt to remind party members attending the
> meeting that, if Mr. Sanders falters, Mr.
> O’Malley could be a credible alternative to Mrs.
> Clinton.
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/0
> 8/28/martin-omalley-rails-at-democrats-for-debate-
> schedule-rigged-to-aid-hillary-clinton/
>
>
> Democrats are still trying to prop up the lying
> criminal, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton?
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