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Campaigning for Hillary, Bill Clinton pulls out all the stops
“When you’re making a revolution, you can’t be too careful with the facts,” he told the crowd of just under 300 who came to hear him speak Sunday afternoon.......
Without mentioning Sanders by name, Clinton recited a laundry list of double standards and lack of details in policy proposals he has identified in Sanders’ campaign — and labeled “her opponent the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big.”.....
“The New Hampshire I campaigned in really cared that you knew what you were doing, and how it was paid for,” said Clinton, after ripping into Sanders’ universal healthcare plan and free college for all proposals as impossible to fund.
After explaining how Sanders has wiggled around on the details of his single-payer plan he said: “It is good for America, I don’t think so. Is it good for New Hampshire? I don’t think so. The New Hampshire I knew would not have voted for me if I had done that.”
Clinton accused Sanders of hypocrisy for portraying his wife as beholden to Wall Street because of campaign donations and speaking fees she has accepted from firms like Goldman Sachs. He said he “frankly, fell out of my chair” after reading a CNN report that Sanders has been a prolific Democratic fundraiser, raising cash from the financial sector at retreats in Palm Beach and Martha’s Vineyard. “Anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn’t possibly be President,” Clinton said. “He may have to tweak that answer a little bit, or we may have to get a write-in candidate.”.....
Clinton didn't stop there. He launched into a discussion of the ugly “Bernie Bro” phenomenon that the Sanders campaign has denounced — backers who harass female Clinton supporters online and accuse them of “voting with their vagina” and call them “bitches.” Clinton called them “vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane ... not to mention sexist.”.........MORE
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/bill-clinton-bernie-sanders-hillary-218916#ixzz3zXrt6In5
Without mentioning Sanders by name, Clinton recited a laundry list of double standards and lack of details in policy proposals he has identified in Sanders’ campaign — and labeled “her opponent the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big.”.....
“The New Hampshire I campaigned in really cared that you knew what you were doing, and how it was paid for,” said Clinton, after ripping into Sanders’ universal healthcare plan and free college for all proposals as impossible to fund.
After explaining how Sanders has wiggled around on the details of his single-payer plan he said: “It is good for America, I don’t think so. Is it good for New Hampshire? I don’t think so. The New Hampshire I knew would not have voted for me if I had done that.”
Clinton accused Sanders of hypocrisy for portraying his wife as beholden to Wall Street because of campaign donations and speaking fees she has accepted from firms like Goldman Sachs. He said he “frankly, fell out of my chair” after reading a CNN report that Sanders has been a prolific Democratic fundraiser, raising cash from the financial sector at retreats in Palm Beach and Martha’s Vineyard. “Anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn’t possibly be President,” Clinton said. “He may have to tweak that answer a little bit, or we may have to get a write-in candidate.”.....
Clinton didn't stop there. He launched into a discussion of the ugly “Bernie Bro” phenomenon that the Sanders campaign has denounced — backers who harass female Clinton supporters online and accuse them of “voting with their vagina” and call them “bitches.” Clinton called them “vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane ... not to mention sexist.”.........MORE
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/bill-clinton-bernie-sanders-hillary-218916#ixzz3zXrt6In5
He is one very, very large dog
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