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In reply to the discussion: If it's out of bounds to keep attacking Hillary, it's out of bounds to keep attacking Bernie. [View all]Eko
(7,281 posts)Clinton-"I set up my campaign and we have our own data operation. I get the nomination. So I'm now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party," Clinton said. "I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it."
You found a very mild critique of the data operation of the party, not the whole party.
Now for Sanders just this year.
3-31-17 in Boston.
"And the reason is, in my view, that the time is long overdue for fundamental restructuring of the Democratic Party. We need a Democratic Party which is not the party of the liberal elite but a party of the working class of this country.
"We need a party which is a grassroots party, a party where candidates are talking to working people -- not spending their time raising money from the wealthy and the powerful."
6-10-17
The current model and the current strategy of the Democratic party is an absolute failure, Sanders said.
The Democratic party needs fundamental change. What it needs is to open up its doors to working people, and young people, and older people who are prepared to fight for social and economic justice.
The Democratic party must understand what side it is on. And that cannot be the side of Wall Street, or the fossil fuel industry, or the drug companies.
4-23-17
Well, I think what is clear to anyone who looks at where the Democratic Party today is that the model of the Democratic Party is failing,
02-02-17
Let me suggest to you, and some will disagree with me and thats okay, too. But let me suggest to you that what happened on November 8th. Trumps victory was not a victory for Trump or his ideology. It was a gross political failure of the Democratic Party,
7-13-17
"I'm going to stand up for the working class of this country that has so long been ignored, and in my view, the Democratic Party has not done a good job of standing up for the working class of this country."
"Well, for the last many, many years, the Democratic Party has been spending too much time raising money from its wealthy friends, turning its back on rural America, turning its back on the working class, talking about deregulating Wall Street, not paying attention to the needs of people whose standard of living has been in decline,"
I'm sure I could find more but there isn't any reason to. It is in no way equivalent nor is Clinton a politician.
Thanks!!!
Eko.