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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFrom Bernie Sanders Campaign: Hillary Clinton's Credibility Gap
Press Release
Clintons Credibility Gap
April 12, 2016
ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday contrasted his record to Hillary Clintons stands on Wall Street reform, fracking, a corrupt campaign funding system and job-killing trade deals.
Meanwhile, Clintons credibility was questioned after she blamed Vermont for gun violence in New York. The charge backfired when The Washington Post called her assertion significantly misleading. Even Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Clinton backer, said she was wrong. It is campaign season, therefore, things are sometimes said by all the candidates that sometimes arent entirely accurate, Shumlin told Vermont reporters.
On a host of other issues, Sanders detailed differences with Clinton during a rally here at Monroe Community College.
Sanders faulted Clintons reliance on Priorities USA, one of her super PACs, which took $15 million in the last half of last year from Wall Street sources. That haul was part of $25 million showered on her by special interests. Our job is to stand up to these powerful special interests, not to take their money, Sanders said.
He doubled down on his call for Clinton to make public the transcripts of closed-door speeches on Wall Street that netted her millions of dollars in speakers fees after she stepped down as secretary of state. The payments include $675,000 for three paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, which on Monday agreed to pay a $5 billion fine for marketing shady mortgage-backed securities before the housing bubble collapsed.
Renewing his call for a nationwide ban on fracking, Sanders said Clinton has tried to masquerade her shifting stand on the extreme and risky method of drilling for oil and gas. When she was secretary of state she pushed fracking in countries all over the world, Sanders said. And she still has refused to come out firmly for a national ban on fracking. Sanders has launched a new television advertising campaign on fracking calling him the only candidate for president who would ban fracking everywhere.
On trade policy, Sanders said job-killing international trade deals backed by Clinton have shut down manufacturing plants across New York and thrown workers out of jobs that were shifted to Mexico, China and other low-wage countries. Sanders was a leader in the fight against the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. Hillary Clinton supported it. He later opposed normalized trade with China and other international trade pacts that she supported. I opposed every one of these disastrous trade agreements. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one. If corporate America wants us to buy their products they damn well better start investing in America, Sanders told more than 6,400 supporters at the community college.
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From Bernie Sanders Campaign: Hillary Clinton's Credibility Gap (Original Post)
imagine2015
Apr 2016
OP
Mental sharpness? LOLZ. Couldn't answer basic questions concerning his agenda
KittyWampus
Apr 2016
#9
Says the candidate who voted for the same CRIME BILL he criticizes Clinton for...
KittyWampus
Apr 2016
#8
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)1. Great watching him give his stump speech. The crowds love it.
Someone FINALLY speaking out what they are thinking.
salinsky
(1,065 posts)2. I guess it's better than calling her "unqualified" ...
... maybe he's learning, but it's too little too late.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)3. Second time this was posted today
Maybe someone didn't get the memo?
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)5. Good. I missed seeing the other one. nt
frylock
(34,825 posts)7. Can't we get back to the issues?
Like the 50 threads about Bernie's trip to Rome?
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)4. Living on the campaign trail has to be brutal on the mind and body.
I hate traveling for business and living out of a hotel for even a few days.
His energy level and mental sharpness are really inspiring. He's earning the presidency one speech one day of travel at a time.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)6. I quite agree.
I'm also near his age, and wouldn't have that level of stamina. He really is phenomenal.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)9. Mental sharpness? LOLZ. Couldn't answer basic questions concerning his agenda
at an editorial board meeting last week and you mention "mental sharpness".
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)8. Says the candidate who voted for the same CRIME BILL he criticizes Clinton for...
What an empty suit Sanders is.