Short memories. Hillary said far worse things about Obama in 2008 than anything
Bernie has said about Hillary. And her campaign and surrogates were even worse. Who could forget her attacking Obama for his supposed ties to Hamas? How about her saying she doesn't know if he's a Christian, or the picture her campaign sent out of Obama in traditional Somalian dress? Or Bill's comment about how a few years ago Obama would have been carrying their bags. And on and fucking on.
Also, her campaign has tried to smear Bernie as racist and sexist from the get go.
The indignation over Bernie is hypocrisy writ large in neon.
Unable to find much that Barack Obama himself has said or believes that is particularly alien to the thinking and values of most Americans, Hillary Clinton and her supporters in the media have chosen instead to engage in a campaign of guilt-by-association.
Not surprisingly, right-wing media pundits and prominent Republicans have thrown their weight behind Clinton's efforts, taken advantage of the New York senator's attacks to smear the likely Democratic presidential nominee. For example, North Carolina Republicans are readying a television ad on the eve of that state's primary which includes a photo of Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright together, a video clip of Wright making incendiary comments, with a voiceover telling voters that Obama is "just too extreme for North Carolina."
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Indeed, Clinton has attacked what she has called the "activist base" of the Democratic Party, particularly MoveOn, which has been credited for bringing many millions of dollars into Democratic campaigns and thereby lessening the party's dependence on the corporate donors long favored by the Clintons. Blaming the group for many of her electoral defeats, she has complained of the way they have mobilized grass roots activists which have "flooded" state caucuses as a result of their ability to "turn out in great numbers." Emphasizing her differences with MoveOn's liberal positions on foreign policy and national security, she has tried to depict the group as far to the left, even resurrecting the long-discredited claim by Karl Rove that MoveOn opposed the war in Afghanistan.
Much more:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/04/30/clinton-smear-campaign-against-obama
http://inthesetimes.com/article/18834/hillary-clinton-campaign-bernie-sanders-president-obama-attacks
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-alleged-barack-obama-sold-access-big-donors-now-criticizes
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