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cali

(114,904 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 09:28 AM Feb 2016

When it comes to dishonest smears, Team Hillary clearly believes Go Big

Most attacks from the Hillary camp are stunning examples of the worst hypocrisy, and are Lee Atwater and Karl Rove inspired smears made up of a tiny bit of truth and a whole pile of dishonest shit. They expose themselves as conscience free in their alacrity to fling dishonest crap.

From insisting that Bernie is racist- yes, saying he doesn't care about PoC is calling him racist- to conflating Bernie's having raised money for the DSCC with Hillary's endless scarfing up of hundreds of millions in big and dark money. These lying flacks have declared that a labor pac which supports him and which he has nothing to do with, is equivalent to Hillary's dark money fueled superpacs that she coordinates with by exploiting loopholes in finance laws.

How anyone can support this garbage is beyond me.

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When it comes to dishonest smears, Team Hillary clearly believes Go Big (Original Post) cali Feb 2016 OP
Yep, Clinton is just getting started casperthegm Feb 2016 #1
Don't forget the single payer lies pengu Feb 2016 #2
The art of killing off your opponent's campaign is in everyone believing it was suicide HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #3
No more debt slaves. Vote Bernie2016. /nt NCjack Feb 2016 #4

casperthegm

(643 posts)
1. Yep, Clinton is just getting started
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 09:32 AM
Feb 2016

And wait til the Super Pacs come in their ads. She can hide behind them with no accountability because she are "unaffiliated" with her campaign. It's gonna get real ugly. But they're still underestimating the Sanders campaign. Because we aren't going to back down and let Clinton get away with it. We're going to be there and call them out on every lie. We've got the numbers and social media to combat the smears and we're not backing down.

pengu

(462 posts)
2. Don't forget the single payer lies
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 09:46 AM
Feb 2016

Bernie's coming for your Medicare!!!

Her campaign has just been disgusting at all levels.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
3. The art of killing off your opponent's campaign is in everyone believing it was suicide
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 10:01 AM
Feb 2016

The Clintons of 2016 seem incapable of such subtlety. For her the result she wants is "We came, we saw, He's DEAD!"

Her tactics to get there look more like a blood spattering video game than even the dark art of politics promoted by Machiavelli. Her surrogates this time around are no better, their cutting jibes are more warcries for believers than appeals for conversion.

Rather than looking like Ivanhoe riding in on a white horse, Bill's heroic chivalry looked more like an attack of the Kraken and threatens his legacy of being remembered as a silver tonged campaigner.

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