Bobby Mook, Clinton Campaign Mgr. "Bernie has some explaining to do" re: Martha's Vineyard

[99th_Monkey]

Bernie "raising 100s of thousands of dollars from establishment lobbyists for his Senate
campaign in Vermont".

Chuck Todd: "well, i guess he will need to answer to that" ..

When is Bernie going to put this one to rest, in the graveyard of bogus & ridiculous attacks
on Bernie by Hillary people, now about those Martha's Vineyards gigs.

My understand it that those were raising money for ALL US Senators the Democrats want
to see RE-ELECTED, that there were many sources of funds (not just corporate lobbyists),
and that by participating, Bernie was actually supporting other Dems, running for US Senate
and not just his own campaigns.

Do I have this ^ wrong? Is there some big 'scandal' here? Seems to me if Bernie had NOT
participated he'd be pilloried for "not being a loyal Democrat".

[Kelvin Mace]

1. It is no scandal

He was there to raise money for the Dems, and if he hadn't attended he would have been branded disloyal.

[99th_Monkey]

8. So my take on it is correct .. is that what you're saying?

Bernie was raising money for ALL US Senators that the Democrats
want to see RE-ELECTED, that there were many sources of funds (not just corporate lobbyists),
and that by participating, Bernie was actually supporting other Dems, running for US Senate
and not just his own campaigns.

[Kelvin Mace]

17. Yes,

this was trotted out last month and failed. It will fail again. The strategy is classic Karl Rove, which says a lot about the HRC campaign.

[99th_Monkey]

24. I SO want the Bernie camp to slam this into the trashcan, with a heavy dose of reality

and facts to support their debunking of this, because the M$M shills are giving it a "pass" as
something that does not deserve to be challenged whatsoever... it's maddening to watch.

[Kelvin Mace]

36. The corporate media

has picked their side.

[Dustlawyer]

14. I have already seen several posts claiming Bernie doesn't raise

money for the down ballot races and Hillary does.

[jwirr]

22. Yeah that was the meme a couple of weeks ago. Both ways?

[arcane1]

27. Whatever It Takes(tm)

[morningfog]

2. Not smart Mook!

[cosmicone]

3. It is another exposé of Bernie Sanders' hypocrisy. n/t

[Rocky the Leprechaun]

7. Insert foot into mouth.

That's Mook's problem. He's the clone of Mark Penn.

[cali]

9. Whine that Bernie doesn't fundraise for dems

Turn on a dime and scream hypocrisy when he does.

[KingCharlemagne]

11. Why don't you make up your friggin' mind? Just two weeks ago, you and your cohort

were criticizing Sanders for NOT raising money for Dems. And now you are crticizing him FOR raising money for Dems?

WTF??????

[beam me up scottie]

32. ^^^THIS^^^

[hobbit709]

4. Bobby definitely acts like a Mook.

[Maedhros]

5. The Clinton Campaign lies and distorts. It's what they do. It's who they are.

Her supporters are OK with that.

[madokie]

35. By hook or by crook

all that matters to them is a win

[Rocky the Leprechaun]

6. This Sanders supporter goes, 'nope'

Gotta explain all the Wall Street money first, and the continued existence of SuperPACs on Clinton's campaign.

[beam me up scottie]

10. I heard he had BREAKFAST with business owners too!

When will this madness end???

[99th_Monkey]

21. And I'll bet Bernie tipped the waitress, trying to "buy" her vote.

The Clinton camp is more in-your-face oily and dishonest, yet it seems to be back-firing on them,
yet they keep ratcheting it up. Do they really think it's going to start paying off at some point?

[beam me up scottie]

23. I bet he ate something other than bread and water too, PROVING he doesn't empathize with the poor!

The truthiness just gets truthier all the time.

[Punkingal]

12. I think that was just campaign talk, and Chuck's response seemed blah.

There is nothing there.

[thereismore]

13. Glass houses. nt

[Nanjeanne]

15. I just saw that and the stupid smirk after.

Chuck didn't challenge it at all. Of course. But Devine was on after and Chuck asked him about it so he was able to respond.

They have nothing so they are trying to say Bernie is talking out of both sides of his mouth. The thing is, it could work with someone who hasn't built their political career on integrity. With Bernie it's a lot harder. People just don't buy it.

[99th_Monkey]

29. Yes, that smirk was telling

telling me he knew he was lying through his teeth and was rather enjoying it. Asshole

[99th_Monkey]

31. How did Divine's answer sound to you? Was it effective? nt

[brooklynite]

16. I've been to the event with Bernie...

...and the event is a thank-you to anyone who contributes the max to the DSCC (approx $35,000/year). All of these contributions are from personal accounts; some of the contributors certainly have a Wall Street or corporate background; some (like me do not).

I don't think the issue is whether Bernie is or is not taking Corporate money. It's the ethos of spending time and attention with the 1%ers who can afford to provide this level of support to the Party, while playing up the merits and purity of small contribution donors. You could also argue that it goes against his "I'm against the establishment" mantra to hang out with "the Party Bosses" and their financial supporters.

[Kelvin Mace]

19. And if he had refused to attend and help

he would have been tarred for refusing to help the party. So, lose/lose.

HRC did that fundraiser, AND took money from Wall Street which benefited her personally.

[brooklynite]

26. This involvement goes back long before Bernie was running for President...

...and when he wasn't a Democrat; so nobody would have cared if he didn't. Angus King doesn't show up and nobody criticizes him for it.

[99th_Monkey]

34. But now that Bernie IS running for POTUS & being attacked as "not a REAL Democrat"

you can bet your bippy it would definitely come up and used as one more
sorry-ass microscopic shred of "evidence" to support that half-baked assertion.

[Kelvin Mace]

37. Angus King isn't running for president and doing well against HRC

if he were, it would be an issue.

Again, this is straight out of Rove's playbook. Take the person's strength and lie like mad to make it a liability.

You would think that someone certain they will be the nominee wouldn't use such a scorched earth campaign tactic. This reminds me of 2008 when Obama came on strong.

[jwirr]

18. We all need only to look in our emails to see the DSCC

fund raising that he was working for. And every Democratic candidate running for Senate got some of that money. Seems to me that Mook and Chuck need to learn how this works.

Every Senator including Hillary when she was a Senatorial candidate helped to raise money.

Ignore this whole shit pile - it is just Hillary and her politics as usual.

[AzDar]

25. For Mook, and all those WeatherVaners frantically scouring the microfiche for Bernie scandals...

[earthside]

30. Billy Preston was great!

I'll bet he would have support Bernie as a "soldier in the war on poverty ...!

[seaotter]

28. The stench of despiration sure lingers in a room, does it not?

some one light a candle.

[99th_Monkey]

38. +100 nt

[hootinholler]

39. Stench?

More like the heady aroma of sweet victory.

[Matariki]

33. The desperation is getting pretty pathetic, though comical

That they don't think this is going to backlash on them, and hard, is sort of amazing in itself.