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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:35 PM Mar 2016

The LIE Machine: Hillary Clinton's Camp RAMPS UP ATTACK On Bernie Sanders' Auto Bailout Vote


When in doubt, just KEEP ON LYING and try running out the clock before you get caught......

The objective is simple, deflect and keep everyone's attention fixated on shiny objects, away from Hillary's own record and secret speech transcripts.




Hillary Clinton’s charge that Bernie Sanders opposed the auto bailout was criticized as a cheap shot for telling only part of the story. But Clinton’s campaign manager said Wednesday the attack line is not going away.

“Her point is you can’t just be with the auto industry when it’s convenient,” campaign manager Robby Mook said on a conference call with reporters Wednesday, following Sanders' stunning upset in Michigan. “When the auto industry really needed Sen. Sanders, he wasn’t there. That is a fact that we believe voters need to know. We’ll continue to talk about it.”

In 2008, Sanders voted for the standalone auto bailout, which did not pass. But he later opposed using TARP funds to bail out the auto industry because those funds were also earmarked for bailing out financial institutions — that measure passed. At the Flint debate last Sunday, Clinton pulled out the unexpected attack line in an attempt to damage Sanders ahead of the big primary in the industrial working class city. But Sanders' campaign fought aggressively to explain his full position and ultimately the attack didn't appear to sink in.

The disappointing results in Michigan, Mook said, taught the campaign that it must “work even harder to amplify Secretary Clinton’s economic arguments,” noting that she will focus on her plans to create good-paying manufacturing jobs as she looks to three industrial contests that go to the polls on March 15: Illinois, Ohio and Missouri. “We’re aligning this campaign to amplify that message as loudly and as clearly as we can,” he said.



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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-attacks-auto-bailout-220504?lo=ap_b1
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The LIE Machine: Hillary Clinton's Camp RAMPS UP ATTACK On Bernie Sanders' Auto Bailout Vote (Original Post) Segami Mar 2016 OP
David Brock UglyGreed Mar 2016 #1
K I S S I N G... E R Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #5
Ah those warm summer nights UglyGreed Mar 2016 #7
Every time David Brock's name is mentioned.... Segami Mar 2016 #6
Not the pizza rat!!! UglyGreed Mar 2016 #8
Hey! I like Pizza Rat! beam me up scottie Mar 2016 #9
A fight broke out in their campaign board room over the last pizza slice.... Segami Mar 2016 #15
I think Brock would only fight like that over money. beam me up scottie Mar 2016 #16
OH NOES! hootinholler Mar 2016 #17
I knew it.....they are so damn stupid. Punkingal Mar 2016 #2
Expect to hear her launch into another Auto-bailout attack tonight..... Segami Mar 2016 #11
Well, I think it back-fired in Michigan and it will again. Punkingal Mar 2016 #14
it's all they have dana_b Mar 2016 #12
they must figure that low information voters will still believe it... grasswire Mar 2016 #3
Makes No Sense SDJay Mar 2016 #4
NAFTA quite thoroughly destroyed much in the way of jobs glowing Mar 2016 #10
Michigan Exit Polling - 4 out of 5 believe Clinton is untrustworthy. They get it. EndElectoral Mar 2016 #13
 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
6. Every time David Brock's name is mentioned....
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:44 PM
Mar 2016

...I see flashes of PIZZA-RAT......... .......I can't shake it!

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
15. A fight broke out in their campaign board room over the last pizza slice....
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:59 PM
Mar 2016

Caught on security cameras....Brock fighting with an employee over the last slice of pizza.......



other angle



 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
11. Expect to hear her launch into another Auto-bailout attack tonight.....
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:53 PM
Mar 2016

Thats why Hillary's BFF smear-rodent David Brock is on her team.......Smearing, is their preferred weapon of choice. It keeps the Sanders campaign off-balanced & backpedaling while wasting time defending these lying smears........

Punkingal

(9,522 posts)
14. Well, I think it back-fired in Michigan and it will again.
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:55 PM
Mar 2016

Even some of her supporters like Evan Bayh came out and said it was not true. They have no shame.

dana_b

(11,546 posts)
12. it's all they have
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:53 PM
Mar 2016

that's how bad it's getting over there. This, his silly little "don't interrupt me", the fact that "socialist" is part of how he likes to define himself. Believe me, if he had e-mail scandals, Benghazi, flip flops, NAFTA/TPP, fracking, and on and on... they would be TEARING him apart!!

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
3. they must figure that low information voters will still believe it...
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:41 PM
Mar 2016

...and not hear the corrections.

Or they are terminally stupid.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
4. Makes No Sense
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:41 PM
Mar 2016

When you shoot yourself in the foot, do you point your gun at the other foot and shoot again?

 

glowing

(12,233 posts)
10. NAFTA quite thoroughly destroyed much in the way of jobs
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:50 PM
Mar 2016

I don't think we would have quite as many to create without the beginnings of these horrific trade agreements!

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