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When things get nasty on the campaign trail. This is going to be one hell of a fight.

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Bill is on the war path for Hillary. I guess the gloves are off.

Bill Clinton batters and blasts Bernie Sanders
MILFORD, N.H. — Bill Clinton’s milquetoast stump speech touting his wife’s biography and her power as a “changemaker” has transformed into a brutal litany of attacks on Bernie Sanders and the devious campaign the Clintons apparently believe he is running.
Clinton accused Sanders of hypocrisy for portraying his wife as beholden to Wall Street because of campaign donations and speaking fees she has accepted from firms like Goldman Sachs. He said he “frankly, fell out of my chair” after reading a CNN report that Sanders has been a prolific Democratic fundraiser, raising cash from the financial sector at retreats in Palm Beach and Martha’s Vineyard. “Anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn’t possibly be President,” Clinton said. “He may have to tweak that answer a little bit, or we may have to get a write-in candidate.”
Clinton didn't stop there. He launched into a discussion of the ugly “Bernie Bro” phenomenon that the Sanders campaign has denounced — backers who harass female Clinton supporters online and accuse them of “voting with their vagina” and call them “bitches.”
Clinton called them “vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane ... not to mention sexist.”


Bill Clinton batters and blasts Bernie Sanders - POLITICO
 
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I guess that is because of this:
Clinton looks to sisterhood, but votes may go to Sanders
CONCORD, N.H. — On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton’s quest to become the country’s first female president has encountered an unexpected problem: she is having trouble persuading women, young and old, to rally behind her cause.
The latest sign came Sunday, when a new CNN/WMUR survey here showed Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont beating Clinton among women by eight points — which represents a big shift from the results last week in the Iowa caucuses, where Clinton won women by 11 points.
The survey followed unintentionally problematic comments over the weekend by Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem, older trailblazers who were trying to encourage younger women to support Clinton.
Steinem apologized Sunday for saying on a TV appearance Friday night that younger women were supporting Sanders because “the boys are with Bernie.” On Saturday, Albright drew criticism for saying that “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” even though she has expressed that sentiment many times before.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/02/07/8c73740c-c50a-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html
 
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When the going gets tough the tough people get to work.
 
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Bill is on the war path for Hillary. I guess the gloves are off.

Bill Clinton batters and blasts Bernie Sanders





Bill Clinton batters and blasts Bernie Sanders - POLITICO

Clinton accused Sanders of hypocrisy for portraying his wife as beholden to Wall Street because of campaign donations and speaking fees she has accepted from firms like Goldman Sachs. He said he “frankly, fell out of my chair” after reading a CNN report that Sanders has been a prolific Democratic fundraiser, raising cash from the financial sector at retreats in Palm Beach and Martha’s Vineyard. “Anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn’t possibly be President,” Clinton said. “He may have to tweak that answer a little bit, or we may have to get a write-in candidate.

The CNN article this quote refers to is a hit piece. It doesn't show Bernie taking one cent from the financial sector.
 
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Bubba is calling others hypocrites? That's funny. His wife is receiving endorsements from Steinem and Albright. Women are to stand together. Right? Was Hillary in support of women when Bill was in his prime?
Glass houses and all.
 
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Wow, ha ha ha, laughable...

The Democratic debates being so ho hum, the candidates onstage two worn out old socialist tattered rags, both deathly pale [white] I might add, their old ideology even more worn out. Fighting over the women's vote.

Offstage, old Billy boy [who had his own "War on Women", though his was taking on each individually, with Hillary and the women's rights groups seemingly unconcerned since Billy was of the correct party and was fully behind a woman's right to off their offspring in th womb] making it interesting. Fun, though not as entertaining as the Republicans, to watch.

At least with the Democratic establishment backing Hillary and apparently going after Sanders, one understands that the same is happening with Cruz on the right with the Republican establishment doing everything they can to place insurmountable obstacles in his path. My dream face off would be with the more honest of each group, Cruz and Sanders, each representing the most pristine of these two almost completely diametrically opposed ideologies. What fun that would be to watch.
 
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The Trump Phenomenon has kept a lot of people from realizing that the Democrat Race, too, is having it's own problems.

There has to be a bunch of 2008 deja vu over there in Hillaryland. They're going to go full-Clinton on Bernie before this thing is over.

I did think it was funny when she accused him of sexism in the debate "Oh, fellow women, only someone like Bernie would think that, as a woman running to be the first woman President as a woman, I, as a woman, could be part of the establishment. Woman." :lol:
 
Re: When things get nasty on the campaign trail. This is going to be one hell of a fi

Politics as usual.

Just because watching sausage being made doesn't mean that the end product is not delicious.

At the end of this thing...everyone will be gracious to everyone else.
 
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accuse them of “voting with their vagina” and call them “bitches.”

Bill, with an erection.
 
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Kinda sad Hillary has to remind people that she's a woman.
 
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Meanwhile, Hillary has Gloria Steinem and Madeline Albright out there shaming female Sanders supporters, pretty much outright stating that because Hillary is female, they owe her their vote.

Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Rebuke Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders - NYTimes.com

EDIT: sorry, didn't see this addressed in post 2.

The push back was bad enough that Steinem had to apologize so I wonder what the reaction to Bill's tactic is going to be. It might energize female Bernie supporters.
 
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There is just SO much wrong here. Bill Clinton is disgusting.

I think this will backfire big time. It didn't work out for them last time they tried this.
 
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Yep, never mind those honesty and policy things vote for the demorat sister. Women are an oppressed majority in America. ;)

Exactly what they claim to fight against, sexism.
 
Re: When things get nasty on the campaign trail. This is going to be one hell of a fi

Politics as usual.

Just because watching sausage being made doesn't mean that the end product is not delicious.

At the end of this thing...everyone will be gracious to everyone else.

twas ever thus
 
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