2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: DNC Vice Chair: Bernie Sanders "extremely disgraceful" for stating the obvious [View all]marew
(1,588 posts)They know very well Hillary is a DINO! She may call herself a Democrat but that does not make her one. If I call myself a tree, does that make me a tree?
Remember Hillary's gratuitous self-pitying comment about being 'dead broke"! Turns out in 1999, they bought a five-bedroom home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for $1.7 million. In December 2000, just as they were leaving the White House, they bought a seven-bedroom house near Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. The price was $2.85 million. It was, is, and always will be about her. She knew very well of the millions and millions she and Bill could and did make in speeches and numerous other activities.
The "dead broke" comment, unbeknownst to her, gave us a look into her true character. She had no concept, no depth, of what that comment in just a few words revealed to us all about her and her core values.
But lets get beyond labels here. To vote for anyone simply because of what they call themselves is short-sighted and dangerous. What I look for is the person who shares my values and who has supported those same values consistently and over time.
Wasserman Schultz (she has been working ferociously to gut new rules intended to rein in predatory payday lending- a real Democrat herself?- hardly!) and Brazile know very well Hillary is a badly flawed candidate and this is exactly why they feel a compulsion to disparage Bernie. They have become part of the corporate elite which rarely plays fair with the American people.