Ocasio-Cortez knocks Biden: He 'helped sell the invasion of Iraq' and 'spent years working to cut SS

[RandySF]

The progressive congresswomen's message was a retweet of one that Sanders put out Tuesday night that includes an audio clip of Biden talking about cutting Social Security as well as other entitlements, such as Medicaid.

Sanders's own tweet comes after his campaign released a video ad before last week's Democratic presidential primary debate in Des Moines in which Biden says that Medicare and Social Security should be on the table as part of efforts to reduce the deficit.

Over the weekend, Biden told supporters at a rally that the Sanders campaign "doctored" the video. Sanders denied the allegation and demanded that Biden apologize.

According to PolitiFact, the Sanders campaign's video wasn't doctored but was taken out of context.

"The Sanders campaign plucked out what Biden said about [former House Speaker Paul] Ryan, but ignored the complete passage which showed that Biden wanted Social Security and Medicare protected, and to accomplish that goal would require making changes to the tax code," the fact-checker noted.

On Wednesday, Biden reiterated this.

"I find it amazing that we go back and look at statements and many of them, most of them [are] taken out of context of 10, 30, 35 years ago," the Democratic primary front-runner said during an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"It's like me going back and pointing out how Bernie voted against the Brady Bill five times while I was trying to get it passed when he was in the House, or how he voted to protect gun manufacturers," Biden continued. "He's made up for that, he's indicated that was [the] past."



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479353-ocasio-cortez-knocks-biden-he-helped-sell-the-invasion-of-iraq-spent-years

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Thank you AOC!! Gotta like strong women unafraid to speak their minds!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[radical noodle]

3. Speaking one's mind should generally

include speaking the truth.

[sheshe2]

21. " Speaking one's mind should generally include speaking the truth."

[ehrnst]

37. +1000. (nt)

[Tiggerbay]

8. +1000

[SharonClark]

11. Well, she lied about Biden. Do you support that?

[LanternWaste]

14. I suppose feminism can often be a mere political convenience...

as your position is opposite to your own words in regards to another strong woman speaking her mind.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Speaking your mind is great if you're telling the truth.

If you're not, you're just lying loudly.

[calguy]

31. Unfortunately a mind is not a brain.

[robbedvoter]

2. Did Corbyn thank for your endorsement?

Cynthia Nixon? Other challengers of Democrats in midterms? Just checking.

[NYMinute]

4. How would she know?

She was 10 years old then and playing with barbie dolls

[SharonClark]

12. Barbie Dolls?

Do you know that or are you just be sexist?

[UniteFightBack]

23. Oh yes it's just so 'disgusting'.....I mean LOL. nt

[NYMinute]

15. My daughter played with barbie dolls when she was 10

[ehrnst]

38. As did my sister. Not a sexist assumption whatsoever.(nt)

[UniteFightBack]

24. So if they change it to GI Joe they'll be all good and smear free right? This kind of bullshit is

why some folks hate Dems because of nonsense like this.

[John Fante]

27. History books are thing, you know.

That's how I learned about the Vietnam War even though I was born years after it ended.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. That's a smear

[handmade34]

6. very disingenuous

[David__77]

9. 10, 20 AOCs!

...

[comradebillyboy]

10. I gave up on AOC a while back. I really don't think she has much of a future in the

Democratic Party. She seems to think we mainstream Democrats are the enemy.

[NYMinute]

16. She will be defeated in the primary and back to the bar nt

[George II]

18. Is she a lawyer?

[NYMinute]

25. Different kind of a bar

[George II]

28. A ballet dancer?

[NYMinute]

34. Think martinis, margaritas and pina coladas nt

[ehrnst]

36. That certainly was a big part of her campaign branding.

Bartending to make ends meet, one of the people, running for congress.

[oasis]

17. +1,000,000

[brooklynite]

19. Locking down that critical West Queens millennial vote for Sanders, no doubt

[George II]

29. I think that vote was lost when Amazon pulled out of their deal with the city.

[BannonsLiver]

20. Future star

Of the Green Party? It just doesn’t seem like she enjoys being in the Democratic Party much at all.

[Scurrilous]

22. Justice Democrats - Great People

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff, spokesman leave her office (8/2/2019)

<snip>

"Harvard University graduate and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Chakrabarti joined Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2015, overseeing technology operations.

In 2017, Chakrabarti co-founded Justice Democrats, a progressive political organization that recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run for office. Ocasio-Cortez went onto defeat incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) and win a seat in Congress, a stunning upset that made her a political superstar.

But Chakrabarti has made statements that infuriated moderate Democrats and caused an uproar inside the House Democratic Caucus, where the tension between moderates and progressives often runs high.

“Instead of ‘fiscally conservative but socially liberal,’ let’s call the New Democrats and Blue Dog Caucus the ‘New Southern Democrats,’ ” Chakrabarti said in a tweet that he later deleted. “They certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s.”

Chakrabarti also attacked Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kansas), one of the first Native-American women to enter Congress, over her support for a homeland security funding bill. “I don’t believe Sharice is a racist person, but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system," Chakrabarti tweeted. That remark infuriated a number of Democrats, including party leaders.

Trent also worked on the Sanders campaign, and he was a co-director of the Justice Democrats before joining Ocasio-Cortez's staff."

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/02/aoc-staff-saikat-chakrabarti-climate-1445478

[George II]

30. Chakrabarti also proudly sported a t-shirt brandishing the portrait of Nazi-collaborator and...

...American enemy Subhas Chandra Bose.

Chakrabarti:



That's Bose shaking hands with Hitler (google him, please!):

[Scurrilous]

35. That's messed up.

It's like they're attracted to the lunatic fringe. Died from 3rd degree burns in a plane crash.

[quickesst]

32. by now....

.... AOC has to be aware of the context in what Joe Biden said. For her to perpetuate the lie at this point is pure trumpian propaganda. Repeat it enough and people will believe it. AOC, like Trump, believes the American people are too stupid to understand what she and other members of Sanders campaign are doing. Right now, Bernie Sanders just wants to win, and it seems, by whatever means necessary. Maybe he'll think about doing the right thing after that.

[Gothmog]

33. I am really struggling to understand why I should care what AOC thinks?

I am not impressed with her. Has she done anything in Congress yet?