Chelsea Clinton: Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare

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Well she's right. Democrats should want to build on Obama's legacy, not tear it down and start over again. Sanders plan is an unfeasible, unrealistic scheme that totally ignores political reality. Glad someone is finally calling him out on his nonsensical "policies."

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Ah yeah, Bernie is allowed to spend MONTHS calling Hillary Clinton corrupt, owned by Wall Street, etc. but the minute Clinton criticizes one of Sanders' policies suddenly she's NASTY and a LIAR. Come on dude. Sanders' has been running a "mean and nasty" campaign for months now.

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Ah yeah, Bernie is allowed to spend MONTHS calling Hillary Clinton corrupt, owned by Wall Street, etc. but the minute Clinton criticizes one of Sanders' policies suddenly she's NASTY and a LIAR. Come on dude. Sanders' has been running a "mean and nasty" campaign for months now.

She is corrupt and owned by wallstreet so he was really just telling the truth.

dude seriously how old are you? 13?

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“I believe that by the year 2000 we will have a single payer system. I don’t think it’s — I don’t even think it’s a close call politically. I think the momentum for a single payer system will sweep the country.”  - Hillary Clinton

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2014/december/hillary-clinton-1994-statement-on-single-payer

Also reminder that in 2008 she went on some rambling faux-offended screed about Obama that included lines like "Since when do Democrats attack each other on universal healthcare!?"

Since now, apparently.

Huh? She's not attacking Sanders on universal healthcare. She just disagrees with him on how to achieve universal healthcare.

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Campaigning on a public option would be a brilliant play from Clinton though. It would let her triangulate against Sanders, while still championing a long-standing progressive proposal. It would let her campaign on defending Obamacare from Sanders' desire to repeal it while still signaling to the base that she would go further left than Obama.

She should also continue to call out Sanders for supporting a massive regressive tax increase on the poor to fund his schemes though.

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Well, yeah, in 1993 Bernie wasn't pushing a plan that would undo President Obama's signature achievement and take hundreds or thousands of dollars out of the pockets of working class families.

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Well thank you, but I'm being very sincere here. Bernie doesn't have a monopoly on universal healthcare, and his plan to achieve it is not very good, for a number of reasons. Clinton is raising valid, if clumsy, critiques.

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I wonder who felt like attacking Sanders from the left would be a good idea...

Attacking Sanders for wanting to impose regressive taxes on the poor and middle class is not attacking him from the left.