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2016 Postmortem

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9. well

Reply to cali (Reply #7)

Wed Jan 13, 2016, 11:24 AM

Jan 2016

...I just don't think this kind of talk is productive, or even rational in a campaign where policy differences are constantly distorted and exaggerated.

All of the invectives you're throwing out don't make your opinion any more convincing. Such is the standard of discourse today.

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Sanders campaign says Chelsea Clinton was 'wrong.' [View all] bigtree Jan 2016 OP

Hillary is attempting to deliberately mislead the public, she used her daughter as a tool to do that virtualobserver Jan 2016 #1

this is standard campaign fare bigtree Jan 2016 #5

lying is standard campaign fare....for Republicans, but it should not be for Democrats virtualobserver Jan 2016 #6

defining a plan which hasn't been presented in any detail bigtree Jan 2016 #8

not hyperbole....expanding Medicare to all Americans is not dismantling Medicare virtualobserver Jan 2016 #10

I've seen more egregious distortions of records and policy than this bigtree Jan 2016 #13

saying that up is down is not an expression of policy differences virtualobserver Jan 2016 #14

David Axelrod speaks for himself bigtree Jan 2016 #15

You've seen worse? ljm2002 Jan 2016 #21

Sadly, it is. That makes it no less dishonest and despicable cali Jan 2016 #7

well bigtree Jan 2016 #9

Hillaryand Chelsea are the ones lying to distort and exaggerate. JonLeibowitz Jan 2016 #16

it's not unusual for political supporters to regards their opponents as dishonest bigtree Jan 2016 #17

Perhaps. But in this case Hillary and co. are lying. And Sanders supporters are not. JonLeibowitz Jan 2016 #19

Hillary's trying to stand by her daughter, but Chelsea's Hortensis Jan 2016 #2

That's probably more of the tack I would have taken Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2016 #12

Good points, Proud. We'd hardly be leading the way Hortensis Jan 2016 #18

Bernie is more than a candidate. He is the harbinger of breaking up the Oligarchy. libdem4life Jan 2016 #3

In 2008, Chelsea Clinton made to me the single best argument for voting for her mother over Obama Bluenorthwest Jan 2016 #4

Everyone else says that, too, because she was wrong. eom Fawke Em Jan 2016 #11

These tactics will rebound on Hillary. She's hurting herself, not helping! LongTomH Jan 2016 #20