2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat's up with Bill Clinton?
When he tries to be cute, he often ends up shooting his wife in the foot. It happened countless times in 08, and multiple times this past year relating to Obama or his record.
His analysis on Obamacare was correct, but dramatic, destructive and unnecessary in his language. We can't call it careless because he's too smart to be this careless, this consistently. He knows the media will cherry pick sentences. The wording and the drama with which they were delivered were intentional.
The timing is also strange when Trump is drowning in a sea of bad headlines, (D) voter enthusiasm is up and Hillary is surging in the polls. I'm sure Trump/Pence will thank him for this unnecessary talking point and headline changer, gifted hours before the VP debate.
If it wasn't intentional, he should probably stick to scripted speeches.
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)No one cares. The media and certain people are hyping a nothing issue. Both groups ought to cut the bullshit.
kimbutgar
(20,879 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)He was saying we have a healthcare finance "system" that has a big problem because we don't have a public option and that was what he was advocating for. He was also talking about the donut hole in ObamaCare that still leaves a number of people out. He wasn't saying he was against ObamaCare just that it had shortcomings and needed a public option remedy to fill the donut hole, and that should be done by allowing people to buy into Medicare and Medicaid on a sliding scale.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)tman
(983 posts)Josh Earnest "It's not exactly clear to me what argument he was making" and wished Clinton 'had chosen different words'.
That's a subtle way of saying "You're not helping" "Please shut up"
So it's not me concern trolling.
Cakes488
(874 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Don't be concerned...
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Don't worry. Concern leads to worry and stress.
awake
(3,226 posts)Bill rarely does things with Hillary in mind, in his hart he is a old school Southern Good Old Boy. Bill is one of the main reasons that it took me awhile to come around to supporting Hillary.
4now
(1,596 posts)and the sky is not falling.
kacekwl
(6,994 posts)Who cares about the media they will spin it anyway Trump wants. Truth is truth screw em.