2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNo, Madam Secretary. Senator Sanders did not write the Forward to the book, "Buyer's Remorse".
Transcript of Democratic debate, February 11, 2016He wrote a forward for a book that basically argued voters should have buyers' remorse when it comes to President Obama's leadership and legacy.
No, Madam Secretary.
Bill Press, the author of the book Buyer's Remorse, very animatedly declared, again, on his radio show this morning, at approximately 8:35 am EST:
1. 'There IS no 'Forward' in my book.'
2. 'Senator Sanders wrote a blurb on the back cover of the book (along with Congressman Keith Ellison and Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor).'
3. 'Sanders' actual quote is:
"Bill Press makes the case why, long after taking the oath of office, the next president of the United States must keep rallying the people who elected him or her on behalf of progressive causes. That is the only way real change will happen. Read this book."
Sanders does not mention Obama.'
----Bill Press
Sanders set the record straight after Clinton's accusation during the debate:
That's what I said. That is what I believe.
Perhaps Secretary Clinton is miss-recalling who actually did some notable criticizing:
Hillary Clinton criticizes President Obamas foreign policy in interview with the Atlantic, August 11, 2014
In the spring, President Obama articulated a philosophy for avoiding dangerous entanglements overseas that was modest in its ambitions and focused on avoiding mistakes. Dont do stupid things, he said.
Now Clinton is offering a blunt retort to that approach, telling an interviewer, Great nations need organizing principles and Dont do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a taping of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in July 2014. (Frank Franklin II/AP) via WP
As an aside, reportedly, and for the record, she'd previously decided to run for president at the Oscar de la Renta estate in the Dominican Republic in 2012, while vacationing with the Kissingers.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)On how to issue a correction or retraction. Curious on what the Hillary supporters would say a boutique this lie?
democrank
(11,103 posts)Only her coronation does.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)It was just a difference of opinion as to what the actual words were, and what they meant.
Sort of like Capehart and that photo.
In a way, Capehart and that photo is sort of a foreshadowing of what is to come. Almost everything is on record now, in private files or YouTube or whatever.
It used to be that a lie would circle the globe before the truth could put on its shoes.
Now, you don't even need shoes. You just have to hit some keys to bring up the truth, and a few more keys to send it all over the planet. Probably out into space at the same time.
You can run but you can't hide. As long as the PTB is unable to shut the Internet down the liars have to sweat.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)She says that a lot.
cali
(114,904 posts)malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)I am bookmarking your thread. I knew Clinton was very critical of Obama's foreign policy now I have proof I can link you. Thanks.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Forward? I heard he wrote the whole thing!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Which he DID. So it's thls OP that is lying.
In debating about the current president's successes, Hillary Clinton accused Sanders of writing a book blurb critical of the Obama administration, but the dig is only kinda sorta based in truth. ... Sanders did indeed pen an endorsement for a book by Bill Press entitled Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down.
While it's true that Sanders does not specifically mention Obama per se in that blurb for the book, he does talk about how the president must "keep rallying the people who elected him or her." That's a tacit implication that Obama (the subject of the book) has not done that.
I contest that implication vociferously. Obama has criss-crossed the country trying to rally support for the ACA, for gun control, for his infrastructure spending, etc. He still maintains a massive organization--Organizing for America--that not only has chapters that have organized public actions on behalf of these progressive causes, but that also TRAINS organizers. I still get daily emails from them. And I have attended public action events for both gun control and health care on the organization's behalf.
When you endorse a book with a blurb, you are inherently endorsing the preponderance of what the book says. I know: my husband was recently asked to write a blurb for a book that he really didn't care for. He politely declined to do so, even if it meant his name would appear on the book jacket. There's a MORALITY to that.
So the OP has made--yet another--false premise the subject of an attack post. No one EVER said he wrote the forward.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Edit because I found it here: http://www.bustle.com/articles/141435-did-bernie-sanders-write-about-obama-hillary-clinton-accuses-him-of-penning-against-president
Which, oddly enough says the exact same thing the OP does. You owe the OP an apology.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)She may have mistated the word "forward" for jacket blurb in a fast-paced debate. But his writing does definitely, absolutely appear on the book's cover in big, bold print. And sorry, you can't endorse a book on its cover and then say you don't endorse its main idea: how Obama disappointed his constituency.
String the witch up for a word! Burn her in hell! She used the wrong word!
But, of course, pardon Bernie for everything from his staff stealing voter data, passing out illegal flyers, making ads that suggest endorsements that were never made, and having to issue apology after apology for misstatements or misactions. But a word, oh! Let's make a federal case out of it.
The point is that Sanders has INDEED criticized Obama time and again, even calling for a primary against a sitting president--something that is never, EVER done by members of a president's party. But of course, he isn't a member of the president's party. He actually had the gall to call from his perch as an independent for someone to primary the sitting president of another party.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)complain jane
(4,302 posts)This is ridiculous.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Perfect.
Bets on whether the Hillarian will have the integrity to apologize?
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... is exactly equatable to all the "apology" that will be made by actual campaign officials.
-- Mal
Got it
(59 posts)This is no surprise.
HRC is unfit to be POTUS, let alone SoS.