Bernie Sanders Just 'Berned' Hillary's Campaign Chairman Hard

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/34584-bernie-sanders-just-berned-hillarys-campaign-chairman-hard

On Monday afternoon, Bernie Sanders's campaign dredged up a potentially embarrassing three-year-old tweet from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, former White House Chief of Staff and longtime Clinton confidante John Podesta. The tweet in question:

John Podesta @johnpodesta
Just applied online for Medicare. Took 5 minutes. Single payer anyone?

Under a single-payer system, a single public entity—perhaps Medicare, if the U.S. were to ever adopt such a system—would pay for everything, hence Podesta's tweet, which seems to suggest how simple Medicare is versus, say, the nation's private health care system. On its own, it's a completely innocuous tweet.

The embarrassment for the Clinton campaign is that Podesta's boss opposes single-payer health care. Clinton has been a strong proponent of the Affordable Care Act and has offered numerous proposals to expand health insurance options for Americans, but she doesn't support the kind of single-payer system that Sanders favors and that is common in Western Europe. Clinton has called single-payer a "one size fits all" approach that wouldn't work for a country as big as the United States.

[EdwardBernays]

1. The bigger Podesta embarrassment

Is that he's a lobbyist for the weapons industry and Saudi Arabia.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. Not many people know that

[EdwardBernays]

6. The problem...

and the blackhole is this...

Podesta Group represents totally awful groups, like weapons and the Saudis, but they ALSO run lots of generic progressive stuff like Center for American Progress and Thing Progress.

The President for TP is also part of the Hillary campaign.

And Podesta was part of the Clinton and Obama white houses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podesta

Strange how Someone like that has had two (and trying for a third) Presidents ear...

How can that be "progressive"?

"Whenever you think DC sleaze has reached its low point, it always manages to prove you wrong. Politico's Byron Taub and Anna Palmer this afternoon report that the authoritarian, human-rights-abusing government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Malki is about to hire The Podesta Group as its first lobbying firm.

That firm is run by Tony Podesta, who legally peddles his influence with Democratic Party politicians to shape legislation on behalf of companies such as BP Oil, General Dynamics, Walmart, and Bank of America. The New York Times, calling him one of DC's most powerful "superlobbyists", described the explosive growth his firm enjoyed since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008. The Center for Public Integrity reported in 2011 that Podesta and his lobbyist-wife Heather were by far the largest lobbyist-bundlers as of that early point in the election cycle: Podesta came in "with just under $350,000 bundled to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and the campaign of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada", while his wife "bundled donations have gone exclusively to Democrats — over $322,000 went to the DCCC and DSCC"."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/13/tony-podesta-group-iraq-lobbying


"The Podesta Group is a lobbying and public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1988 by brothers John Podesta and Tony Podesta and has previously been known as Podesta Associates, podesta.com and PodestaMattoon.[1][2][3] The firm most recently reorganized in January 2007 after current Chairman Tony Podesta split with former business partner Dan Mattoon.[3]

Podesta Group represents U.S. corporations, as well as non-profits, associations and governments.[4] It "has close ties to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration."[5]

The firm reported earning $27.4 million in lobbying fees in 2011.[6] In 2007, Chairman Tony Podesta was ranked by his peers as the third most influential lobbyist in Washington.[7]

The Podesta Group has been retained by Wal-Mart, BP and Lockheed Martin."[5] Other clients include Abdisalam Omer, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Amgen, Bank Of America, Cherokee Nation (Casinos), Cintas, Covidien, Duke Energy, Egypt, Genentech, General Dynamics, Harrah's Entertainment, Heineken, Merck, Michelin, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), National Public Radio (NPR), Nestle, Novartis, Orange County, Florida, Raytheon, Reed Elsevier, Republic of Albania, Republic of Georgia, Sallie Mae, Sunoco, Synthetic Genomics, TJX Companies, Tyco Electronics, Republic of Kenya and United Technologies.[8][9][10]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_Group

Who dares to even say that shit on DU? Not me.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. And, of course, he works for HRH's campaign. The filth runs deep. n/t

[Betty Karlson]

2. Oh some irony...

Isn't this what sunk Palin in 2008: when all her critics had to do was repeat her own words?

[Helen Borg]

3. Pretty easy with Hillary!

Over the years, she said everything and the opposite of everything!

[Betty Karlson]

7. And usually without saying why she changed her mind.

Everything she sudeenly shifted position on was preceded by "I have always said..."

[90-percent]

4. The dif between Hil and Bernie

Bernie has a long history of faithfulness to his core principals for decades. He was for a lot of things back when that was considered fringe and nutty and impossible. Now America has been rapidly catching up to where Bernie's always been.

Hillary seems reactive and constantly evolving and there's a lot of things from her husbands administration that were wrong and/or bad. She does not seem to have any core principals other than what would suit her audience or public opinion of the time?

Her IRW vote and statements like; "We came, we saw, he died" are as monstrous as Dick Cheney's greatest Dr. Evil hits.

I like Presidential candidates that have a track record of standing for their core beliefs, even if unpopular. Hell, we elect a President with the middle name Hussein eight years ago. Quite feasible we'll be electing a "socialist" (in the best traditions of FDR) this November.

-90% jimmy

[cui bono]

11. +1

[Duppers]

9. Someone please post a link to this thread in GD:Primaries.

I'd love to see how her supporters justify Podesta's involvement in Hillary's campaign.

[restorefreedom]

10. oh snap. good one bernie! nt