A unified hatefest
by digby
Someone should tell Republicans to delete all their Twitter accounts. They don’t have a sense of humor and they just end up embarrassing themselves:
The chief strategist of the Republican National Committee (RNC) accused Hillary Clinton of plagiarism in her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
#plagarism alert @hillaryclinton at @DemConvention “America is great bc America is good,” de Tocqueville “America is great bc she is good”— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) July 29, 2016
Spicer’s tweet references a portion of Clinton’s Thursday night address where she seemingly paraphrased Alexis de Tocqueville, the political scientist who wrote “Democracy in America.”
“But here’s the sad truth: There is no other Donald Trump — this is it,” Clinton said in Philadelphia. “And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn’t get: that America is great — because America is good.
“So enough with the bigotry and the bombast. Donald Trump’s not offering real change. He’s offering empty promises.”
“America is great because she is good” is often quoted from de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.” According to an analysis from The Weekly Standard, however, the passage does not actually appear in de Tocqueville’s work.
And this too:
By the numbers: @HillaryClinton booed 18 times @DemConvention, @realDonaldTrump 0 times at @GOPconvention— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) July 29, 2016
That’s adorable. And it’s true. Except for the #NeverTrump movement and the delegate walkouts and the Major Party figures refusing to vote for him and the runner-up showing up on the stage in prime time and refusing to endorse him it was a model of party unity.
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