March 22, 2016

No, Bill Clinton Did Not Describe The Obama Administration As An 'Awful Legacy', nor is the MSM lyin

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/no-bill-clinton-did-not-describe-obama

Can BSers please calm down and engage in some critical thought before posting silly threads? I realize emotions are high, and you're desperate for good news, but these ridiculous stories from the web are not helping your cause. There is no excuse for not checking your stories and your sources and making sure you're not being played. This is one of several thread that simply seeks to smear the Democratic front runner, and regardless of your personal animus, allowing Karl Rove and his gang of ratfckers to manipulate you is still a bad idea.

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The video above was first posted by the "GOP War Room" seven hours ago. It purports to show Bill Clinton calling the Obama administration "an awful legacy," but it's just another ratfck by a bunch of ratfckers, who got the right wing echo chamber on it right away, with the help of USAToday.

Here's the transcript of the clip:

“I literally from the time I met her 45 years ago ‘til we talked yesterday, she is the best change-maker I have ever known. She always finds a way to make something good happen, to make people feel empowered, to buy people into the process, to make democracy work the way the framers intended for it to work.

Now, if you don’t believe we can all grow together again, if you don’t believe we're ever going to grow again, if you believe it’s more important to re-litigate the past, there may be many reasons that you don’t want to support her.

But if you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that when we were practicing trickle-down economics and no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her because she’s the only person who basically had good ideas will tell you how she’s going to pay for them, can be commander in chief and is a proven change maker with republicans and democrats and independents alike.”

There is a missing reference in that "awful legacy of the last eight years," and that's the reference to the financial meltdown and Republican obstructionism of unprecedented proportions.

Clinton's aides clarified for USA Today, but apparently the right-wing publications like Drudge, et al, see no reason to update their posts.

Here is the clarification:

"When Republicans controlled the White House, their trickle-down approach drove our economy to the brink of a collapse. After President Obama was elected, Republicans made it their number one goal to block him at every turn," spokesman Angel Urena said in a statement. "That unprecedented obstruction these last eight years is their legacy, and the American people should reject it by electing Hillary Clinton to build on President Obama's success so we can all grow and succeed together."

Sadly, it was picked up by Bernie Sanders and tweeted as well, uncritically. So now it's viral.[

Here's a protip: When Republicans are the source of a video like that, assume they're ratfcking, which they are, and judge accordingly.

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March 20, 2016

More about why BS refused to answer questions about the Amber Alert bill.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/18/me-first-why-bernie-sanders-voted-against-protecting-children

March 17, 2016

Another day, another anti-Clinton lie, this time about Coal.

ETA: This is in response to another thread which links to the NY Post, with the heading that Hillary was lying about coal, when it's pretty clear that she wasn't lying at all, simply explaining her statements, and reiterating her commitment to coal workers who need better jobs than coal mining, which harms their own health, their local environment and is adding to the climate catastrophe. (Sorry for the lack of clarity, my first post!)

http://wvmetronews.com/2016/03/16/after-questions-from-manchin-clinton-walks-back-controversial-coal-comments/
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A senior advisor to Manchin told MetroNews’ Hoppy Kercheval Manchin was “troubled and concerned by the comments and reached out directly to the Secretary and her senior advisor for energy.”

He also reportedly spoke with former President Bill Clinton in his attempts to clarify Secretary Clinton’s response to a question about how she would make the case for her candidacy to “poor whites who vote Republican.”

In that response on CNN, she said the following: “I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity — using clean, renewable energy as the key — into coal country. Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

Critics have seized on that line, though Clinton’s answer did continue.

“We’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people,” she went on to say.

“Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives, to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.”<snip>

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“I wanted to make the point that, as you know too well, while coal will be part of the energy mix for years to come, both in the U.S. and around the world, we have already seen a long-term decline in American coal jobs and a recent wave of bankruptcies as a result of a changing energy market — and we need to do more to support the workers and families facing these challenges.”

In that letter, Clinton backed the Miners Protection Act, legislation Manchin co-sponsored which, if approved, would secure health benefits and pensions for retired miners and their families.

She also made a promise to Manchin.

“I pledge to you that I will focus my team and my Administration on bringing jobs to Appalachia, especially jobs producing the carbon capture technology we need for the future,” she wrote in the letter dated March 15. <snip>