Clinton To Supporters: WaPO Editorial Speaks for Me

[benny05]

From Politico:

One scathing newspaper editorial is worth a thousand of a candidate’s own words.

That’s the bet Hillary Clinton is making. While she has dropped direct attacks on Bernie Sanders from her stump speech, her campaign is planning to reprint a withering Washington Post editorial that accuses Sanders of running a “fiction-filled campaign” and distribute it to voters in New Hampshire ahead of the Feb. 9 primary.


The plan, an inside source said, is to have volunteers pass out reprints of the editorial and let the newspaper make the case against Sanders, with no commentary necessary from the campaign.
Clinton officials were thrilled with the editorial, entitled “Mr. Sanders Is Not a Brave Truth-Teller,” when it posted on Jan. 27. The editorial, sources said, nailed the narrative Clinton operatives themselves have attempted to put forward — that Sanders’ plans overpromise and don’t add up in terms of how to pay for universal health care, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and free college, among other issues.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-washington-post-anti-sanders-ad-218417#ixzz3yg2gkXGf

Now Clinton can duck while still accusing the Sanders campaign of going negative. Nice work if you can get it from a billionaire, eh?

[PatrickforO]

1. We'll see how that works for 'em.

An anecdote - in my state the Bernie people are calling Dems. I've been called twice and had a pretty good conversation with one of the volunteers, a man about my age or maybe some older. This fellow said that nearly everyone he calls says they are gonna caucus for Bernie. A co-worker tells me that his daughter is canvassing neighborhoods for Bernie.

One thing about Bernie - his followers are FERVENT supporters. Nothing lackadaisical or disengaged about them.

[onecaliberal]

2. I hope this shit backfires on her.

[VulgarPoet]

3. If a liar calls someone a liar

does that mean the first liar is telling the truth?

...Nah.

[NurseJackie]

4. Love it! <3

Love. It.

[guillaumeb]

6. Class solidarity among the 1% class being demonstrated here.

[guillaumeb]

5. So the 1% are circling the wagons to defend the gold?

This certainly inspires me to work for the inevitable candidate.

[cali]

7. People are overwhelmingly sick of the old politics

or politics as usual or whatever you want to call it. They know it's skeezy and it's always the same. Whatever else the electorate is saying and I'm sure its saying a lot of things, it's very loudly saying "we've had it with th status quo".

[Skwmom]

8. Bernie should hand out flyers about the Billionaire sweatshop owner that owns the WP.

[winter is coming]

9. Oh? Did one of her superPACs write it? n/t

[Fumesucker]

10. An editorial by an adjunct of a home delivery service

Thank you Charlie Pierce..

[Hell Hath No Fury]

11. Of course it speaks for her!

That's the damn problem.

[Nanjeanne]

12. So basically she is saying the anti-union billionaire speaks for her

that Jeff Bezos, the billionaire, the guy who has worked so hard to repel efforts to unionize Amazon workers in the US - workers that have had to endure horrible conditions -- that guy is speaking for her.

Why am I not surprised?

[quickesst]

13. Clinton To Supporters: WaPo Editorial Speaks for Me

Funny how the lack of simple quotation marks can be the difference between lying, and technically, not lying.?itok=2ykjTnKi