KING: Obama and the Clintons still have no earthly idea why the Democratic Party lost...

[shawn703]

Over the past few days, the Obamas and the Clintons have made a series of statements on why the Democratic Party lost the presidential election to Donald Trump. The statements, if anything, reveal what happens when politicians are isolated from the American public for so long. While some nuggets of truth could be found there — by and large they all severely miss the mark on how and why Hillary Clinton lost. Instead of looking internally at mistakes they made, they continue to look outward — casting blame on anybody and everybody but themselves.

Both Bill and Hillary have blamed the loss on the FBI. While this is becoming a popular trope among the Democratic establishment, it's a terrible excuse for Hillary's loss. First off, the FBI investigation into the Clinton email mess was admittedly a bit of a public fiasco, but Hillary has openly admitted that she mismanaged the safety and security of her emails. In spite of it all, for months on end, Clinton denied violating any policies or laws — when the investigation revealed that she actually violated them repeatedly. She has to own her primary role in that debacle. Secondly, this is Obama's FBI.

After first putting some of the blame on a mix of media mistreatment and Russian interference, President Obama has finally started to suggest that the Clinton campaign made a mistake by failing to properly campaign outside of America's largest city centers. While this gets closer to owning the problem, even it does not honestly diagnose the real failures of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.

Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate to run against Donald Trump. Of course the Obama and Clinton families will never say this, but she was. I honestly believe that she may have been the only leading Democrat that Donald Trump could've beaten. Next to him, she was among the least popular politicians to ever run for president. Her weaknesses and challenges counterbalanced those of Trump time after time after time. Trump is a rich, unethical liar with major character problems. To beat him, you run the opposite of that. Clinton, true or not, was not seen as the opposite, but the Democratic equivalent.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-obama-clintons-no-idea-dems-lost-election-article-1.2916282

[riversedge]

1. I see Shaun is back to hitting on Hillary--and Obama again.

[zippythepinhead]

7. Is he related to

Shaun of the dead?

[Grey Lemercier]

2. ...

[stopbush]

3. No, Hillary did not violate any policies or laws with her private server.

If you're going to lie about that, then fuck you and everything else you say, Shaun.

Asshole.

[zippythepinhead]

9. bad to the bone

I'm with you!

[BeyondGeography]

4. I think they have an idea

[Ohioblue22]

5. Lol daily news. However dems lost because not enough dems

Voted for the dem nom. Now we got trump congrats

[SticksnStones]

6. Why post this here?

[shawn703]

8. This is the 2016 Postmortem forum

And this is Shaun King's 2016 postmortem analysis.

[zippythepinhead]

10. meh

meh, again.

[still_one]

11. Hillary WAS NOT the Democratic equivalent of trump. That is the same bullshit false equivalency

that gets thrown out.

susan sarandon was notorious for that garbage

It is a variation on the theme that certain folks like to hurl out that Hillary and her supporters are "third way Democrats", but that is not fooling anyone either. That is just another way to characterize Hillary and her supporters as "not being REAL Democrats"

Hillary won the primary, and by a large margin, and it was because more DEMOCRATS voted for her

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[uponit7771]

12. Comey, Voter suppression, Russia... !!!!

[oasis]

14. Does King have a "earthly idea" of how many half baked journalists make

a living from cranking out pure bullshit?