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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:41 PM Feb 2016

That noble fighter of corrupt wall street is charging bernie

with, among other ghastly things, attending DSCC events to raise money for democrats.

Here's a diary from kos about Hillary exposing Bernie's corruption. Thank goodness dear Saint Hillary is saving us.



Alright, here we go….ready for the full bag o’ tricks from Camp Hillary?

Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Seeks to Portray Bernie Sanders as a Deceptive Candidate

As Senator Bernie Sanders returned to New Hampshire this morning after appearing in a Saturday Night Live skit, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was trying to cast him as a high-dollar fund-raiser of lobbyists and as an unethical exploiter of veterans, clergy, union workers and older people.

In a news release sent to reporters as Mr. Sanders made his way to a rally here, the Clinton campaign’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, said, “It seems the Sanders campaign has shifted from insulting and dismissing people who don’t support him to falsely claiming their support. Despite being called on deceptive campaign tactics and misleading ads for weeks now, Sanders has now chosen to mislead voters on a veteran and veterans’ group’s support. Enough is enough — voters deserve better.”
And this beauty:

And some reports have emerged questioning Mr. Sanders’ purity on the campaign finance system he incessantly bashes as corrupt. On Sunday, MSNBC reported that Mr. Sanders attended a “lavish” fund-raiser in 2007 to benefit the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that included as guests government relations executives who were “directly employed by corporations such as the financial firms Blackrock and Prudential Financial, or the defense contractor Raytheon. Others represent large Washington law and lobbying firms, such as DLA Piper, Patton Boggs, and Akin Gump.”
They really want to stick to talking about “high-dollar fund-raisers”, especially since it was for the Democrats? And, after they have been complaining all campaign about how Bernie never raises money for the Democrats? LOL, oops! Please proceed, Secretary.

So, let’s get this straight:

Hillary wants to run, RIGHT NOW, at this point in time, on integrity and selling out to rich people?



HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Talk about Karl Rove tactics? THIS is Karl Rove tactics 101, and has it ever been tried in a Democratic primary before, to attempt to prop up a candidate already SEEN as having integrity problems, and selling-out-to-the-wealthy problems?

Unbelievable. What is Hillary’s end-game here, even if these cheap-shots DO garner a victory? Act nice to Bernie voters, and watch them roll over to her? Really?


Do you see why many of us here have been declaring Hillary the very, very worst candidate that the Democrats could put up? I’ve never seen a candidate constantly looking for better ways to lose votes. Wow.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/7/1481416/-Is-this-what-Hillary-Panic-looks-like-NY-Times-story

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libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
1. I dislike saying this about a female candidate...but she just doesn't get it.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:44 PM
Feb 2016

For the younger folk, that was the rallying cry of the original feminists back in the 60s.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
2. I am so, so tired of her.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:46 PM
Feb 2016

Can we nominate Sanders and simply not have to see nor hear from her again?

If we nominate Sanders, it can be hoped that he won't give her a consolation prize in his administration and she'll spend her days as a private citizen.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
5. Why the scare quotes? It's not like the idea of fighting for sweeping change is inhrently bogus.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:59 PM
Feb 2016

The LGBTQ movement never gained anything from an increment.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
6. Sanders is a Senator.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:59 PM
Feb 2016

Should he not be nominated, he'll still be serving the public.

Clinton serves the oligarchy. I think she should do so privately.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
3. She's getting ever more ridiculous.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:54 PM
Feb 2016

You can't make this shit up! Is this a parody? Her desperation is causing a meltdown even greater than '08. No wonder the establishment is panicking and looking to replace her.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
8. The fact that the Establishment is openly looking for another option has to be causing panic
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:54 AM
Feb 2016

for Team Hill.

Personally, I think I need more popcorn. The "masters of the universe" seem to have lost their glamour.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
9. Everything I've read, Mook is a pretty bright guy.
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 02:12 AM
Feb 2016

I imagine the personell dynamics at Team Hill have to be causing him great distress. First of all, he's saddled with a candidate who's a pathological liar, and continually shoots herself in the foot, and otherwise is a constant source of unnecessary drama. Then there's her husband, not content to play second fiddle, constantly telling people how to run a 1990s campaign. Then there's the entourage of aides and advisors, all on their own power trips, trying to boost their status with the Queen in competition with each other, all those egos have to be pacified. On top of that are unhappy bundlers wanting to turn off the spigot, and party elites openly speaking of finding an alternative candidate. It's probably hell inside campaign HQ.

reformist2

(9,841 posts)
10. The Clintons always play to win, no matter the long-term costs.
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 02:19 AM
Feb 2016

I even saw a documentary where they were quoted on this. This is their core philosophy.

Their calculation is that if you lose the race, you're out of the game. There will be time later make it up to those you ran roughshod over, if you feel like doing so.

So, the Clintons do have a track record of winning. The tragic flaw is that by the time they declare victory, they have compromised and sold out so much, and smeared their opponents around them so badly, that their "victory" is completely tarnished.
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