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With the Democratic coronation of Hillary (and Bill again, too) Clinton slated to begin Monday, it looks like Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won’t be waving her very curly hair, or the gavel, as chairwoman of the convention in Philadelphia.
In fact, she resigned her position as chairwoman before the convention began.
David Axelrod, the former senior advisor to President Obama, stated Sunday “I would ask her to step aside. I would ask her to step aside because she’s a distraction in a week that is Hillary Clinton’s week.”
CNN indicated over the weekend the DNC decided not to allow DWS to speak or preside over the convention (the term “quarantined” was used) while POLITICO reported DWS herself pulled herself off the convention dais for fear of being booed by Bernie Sanders supporters.
The latest trouble for DWS as DNC Chairwoman began after the (obviously calculated) leak of over 20,000 emails by WikiLeaks revealed DWS and staffers at the DNC were working very hard against Sanders and his campaign.
There was one particular email that set off its own shit storm where it appeared to indicate the DNC was going to play Sanders as an atheist to weaken his appeal to Southern voters.
Imagine that. DWS and the DNC working hard to ensure that self-described socialist Bernie would not get the nomination?
Jeez, as Gomer Pyle would opine, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
In reality, the American political system — in terms of how we pick our leaders — was always and continues to be just plain biased. There’s no fairness about it. Never was. Never will be. The expectation that political operatives like DWS and parties are arbiters of fairness is just plain silly.
Her job, from the beginning of the campaign, was to ensure that Hillary (and Bill too) got nominated. Period.
Whether you like her or not, both in her role as DNC Chairwoman or as the chief Democratic antagonist in the House (particularly after Congressman Anthony Weiner took one too many selfies), DWS has been the ultimate loyal soldier to the “mainstream” Clinton-Pelosi wing of the Democratic Party — whether it meant getting into contentious fights with Axelrod and the Obama White House or doing everything she could to ensure that Hillary (and Bill again too) sailed through a nomination process that was rigged from the get-go.
As chairwoman of a splintered and weak Democratic Party, DWS accomplished what Reince Priebus and mainstream Bushy Republicans couldn’t do — keep what would be in normal times a truly unqualified, populist candidate from obtaining the nomination for president.
So while DWS was forced to resign by her own benefactors, DWS got the job done for Hillary (and Bill too).
She may have, in the long run, also prevented the Democratic Party from becoming truly irrelevant to the majority of Americans too.
No matter what Axelrod or any other Democrats say, DWS should hold her curls and head high for a job well done.
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Steven Kurlander blogs at Kurly’s Kommentary (stevenkurlander.com) and writes for FloridaPolitics.com and The Huffington Post and can be found on Twitter @Kurlykomments. He lives in Monticello, New York.
One comment
Erica R Stoffel
July 24, 2016 at 8:57 pm
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
1. Opening & closing with remarks about her curly hair is sexist. Yes, it’s true. When you discuss women in terms mostly of physical appearance, that plays-into sexist, gender narrative.
2. She should hold her head high for getting the job done? It was a hit job! That’s like saying the mafia should be proud of itself for getting their jobs done. No! It’s shadowy, it’s organized crime (election-rigging) and it’s wrong. Period.
3. YOU and your take are part of the problem of the election process and how we view politics in this nation today Bernie supports (and Trump for that matter) go DIRECTLY against what you’re saying – “Hey, it’s politics! It’s dirty, it always has been – always will be. Deal with it.” See, I guess what you don’t understand (and what the majority of the establishment as well is apparently tone-deaf on) is that we the people are TIRED of simply accepting it as “It is what it is.” No, it can be better – and it will be better. We believe that. Sure, we’re humans and flawed and will always do stupid and unwise things – but, that doesn’t mean you just adopt license to break rules and do whatever the hell you want because everyone lies, cheats and steals anyway.
4. Finally, yes she DID break the DNC rules because IN THEIR OWN CHARTER they state the chair is to be impartial. HELLO. It doesn’t matter if Hillary and Bill like her and approve of her (and hired her) because yes, she helped them get what they wanted which was a chance to have 4 more years in the big white house. She broke their own rules! She broke DNC rules and for THAT she was wrong, regardless of what BIllary thinks. She is accountable to the American people and the Democratic voters FIRST – not the Clintons. That – and the type of logic and SOP that you discuss here is why she’s out, two outsiders gained enormous momentum this cycle, and people keep pressing for change. Wake. Up.
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