2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSeizing on Establishment Panic, Sanders Sharpens Contrast with Clinton
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/29/seizing-establishment-panic-sanders-sharpens-contrast-clinton'It is great to be against the war after you vote for the war. It is great to be for gay rights after you insult the entire gay community by supporting DOMA.'
With just a few days to go until the Iowa caucus, Bernie Sanders spoke to an evening rally in Burlington, Iowa on Thursday and made some of his boldest statements yet criticizing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's political track record and Wall Street ties.
Sanders, who has faced an escalation of establishment ire in recent weeks, made a sharp contrast between his principles and his rival'ssuch as his early and consistent opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Keystone XL pipeline, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton.
"Check the record, find out where my opponent was on all of these issues," Sanders said. "It is great to be against the war after you vote for the war. It is great to be for gay rights after you insult the entire gay community by supporting DOMA."
In recent months, Clinton has come out against the TPP and the Keystone XL pipeline, despite her previous support for both projects. Sanders depicted her evolution as calculatedresponding to public opinion rather than taking a principled stance.
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Triangulation fools some of the people all of the time.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Bernie's internal polls much have given him a scare.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Well.. Like Candidate like supporter
Both are full of it
ejbr
(5,856 posts)he never claimed to making that statement with a straight face.
Broward
(1,976 posts)In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
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TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)They are facts.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)I guess Bernie should say nothing and let Hillary campaign against herself.
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JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)She is handing out neocon talking points, ffs.
Speaking the truth is an attack and or negative?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)then you think Hillary was wrong to do so too. Comrade!
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Pandering carries a cost, Bernie is sending the bill to her.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)A lot of voters wouldn't otherwise know.
Reminding them of all her political flip-flopping is fair game. Bernie hasn't flip-flopped - that's a selling point.
senz
(11,945 posts)It's the choice of our lifetime.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)paleotn
(17,959 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)All Camp Hillary can do is whine that Bernie's gone negative. But he's only speaking the truth.
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)Every time she verbalize pandering words to the left....she needs to be slammed by the truth of the Clinton record.
Nanjeanne
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