2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton's frustration begins to show,Democrat's campaign chafes at enduring threat from well-funded
"After a year of campaigning, months of debates and 35 primary elections, Sanders is finally getting under Clinton's skin in the Democratic presidential race.
Clinton has spent weeks largely ignoring Sanders and trying to focus on Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Now, after several primary losses and with a tough fight in New York on the horizon, Clinton is showing flashes of frustration with the Vermont senator irritation that could undermine her efforts to unite the party around her candidacy.
According to Democrats close to Hillary and former President Bill Clinton, both are frustrated by Sanders' ability to cast himself as above politics-as-usual even while firing off what they consider to be misleading attacks. The Clintons are even more annoyed that Sanders' approach seems to be rallying and keeping young voters by his side.
While Hillary Clinton's team contends her lock on the nomination as "nearly insurmountable," the campaign frequently grumbles that Sanders hasn't faced the same level of scrutiny as the former secretary of state, New York senator and first lady. Her aides complain about Sanders' rhetoric, claiming he's broken his pledge to avoid character attacks by going after her paid speeches and ties to Wall Street, and they point to scenes of Sanders supporters booing Clinton's name at his rallies.
Actress Rosario Dawson's 15-minute speech at a New York City rally on Thursday, in which she rallied the crowd by crying "shame on you, Hillary" and noted that Clinton could soon face an FBI interview over the email controversy while at the State Department, underscored the growing tensions between the campaigns."
http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Clinton-s-frustration-begins-to-show-7224774.php
Metric System
(6,048 posts)ads against him. Meanwhile, he's attacking her character and calling her corrupt without actually saying the word. Both the Washington Post and NPR fact checkers called out his campaign this week. As for Rosario Dawson? Pond scum.
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)Her bullshit racial crap in SC lying about Sanders Civil Rights involvement was the worst thing in this campaign. She has not right to say anything ever after she pulled that shit. That is Rove bullshit 101. Swift-boating all way. Because Sanders involvement in Civil Rights was something she could not compete with she used lies to flip it and lied to the African American Community.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)chastising African Americans on social media for being ungrateful is what hurt his campaign.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)They would cut her some slack. She's the one that pivoted to Trump. So it's again ALL her doing, no one else to blame. Bernie can't help that her record is terrible.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)I'm so honored to be the nominee."
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)http://www.progressivestoday.com/hillary-clinton-says-hope-bernie-sanders-will-support-im-nominee/
Not exactly that but that is what he have been hearing since SC.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)the nomination that we will come together as a party."
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)If he were more open and less of a Gentleman, he would mention the simple truth that she is one of the MOST corrupt politicians within our party since the Tammany Hall days.
He would also mention the fact (not rumor) that she is currently under FBI investigation and would bring up other inconvenient truths he could so easily do.
No, you got it backwards, he's being rather nice by any objective standard.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)been flinging for months.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)hero or personality based untruth.
I Can't teach teabagers either, so I just accept people believe some strange shit and there is not much I can do about it.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)used to justify their attack on Sanders? We know it's us against the Establishment but I guess it had to come to this. Clinton's character has been attacked for a long time before this race. Do you remember when she betrayed the Democrats that relied on her to jump to the Republicon side of the isle and high five with Bush and Cheney about invading Iraq. Her character has been in question for a long fracking time.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)negative written about Sanders is discounted. I'm sick of Iraq being blamed on Hillary's single vote when the majority of Democrats (including VP Biden and SOS Kerry) voted the same way.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)enslave the lower 99%. Second of all the Corp-Media favors Clinton, they recognize that she will help them loot the lower classes and make bigger and bigger profits. Third conspiracies do exist in politics. Karl Rove made a career out of conspiring. The Think Thanks of the rich that you adore do nothing other than conspire. You love it because they conspire on your side. It's called situational ethics. I say frack those that would enslave us and those that don't have the fortitude to stand up for freedom and liberty.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)Attacking her stances is NOT attacking her person.... And only by noting the stark differences in their philosophical approach to governance can he establish his own persona in the public view ...
In other words, he HAS to show those differences in a political campaign. . It's what makes him different from Clinton ...
He has every right to be hoisted by his own petard ... And rightly so ...
grasswire
(50,130 posts)"claiming he's broken his pledge to avoid character attacks by going after her paid speeches and ties to Wall Street"
So if one points out your playing in the corrupt system I guess it is a character attack.
If it turns out she killed and ate some of Bill's lady friends and Sanders talked about it would that also not be a Character attack. Christ she is inside a bubble. Man he could be hitting her on email and he is not. Having people lie for you saying you are a racist is a character attack. And she did it, yet whines now about talking on issues.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)the Aristocracy that she so enjoys. She says that she would give tax breaks of $2,500 (if you go long form, otherwise you're fracked) to families sending their children to college. Figure it out folks $2,500 if you are going long form would reduce your taxes about $500 fracking dollars. That's two fracking books. Why didn't she just say it. "Let them eat cake."
Clinton's number one priority is amassing millions and millions. Her number two priority, and isn't this sweet, is helping Chelsea to amass a fortune also. Her number three priority, and who could blame her, is helping Goldman-Sachs rip off the lower 99%. They have been so good to her and Bill.