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Statilius the Epicurean
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« on: January 21, 2020, 10:45:53 AM »

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"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," Clinton told the Hollywood Reporter as a part of the upcoming Hulu documentary on the former secretary of state. "He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

I see no lies here.

He's part of the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership team and was chairman of the Veteran's Affairs Committee where he worked with John McCain to co-author a bill on veteran's health, so it's obviously untrue that no-one likes Sanders or wants to work with him. Clinton is projecting her own feelings onto Sanders' colleagues in the Senate with whom he gets on fairly well.

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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2020, 03:36:29 PM »
« Edited: January 21, 2020, 03:42:01 PM by Statilius the Epicurean »



Criticising Clinton's foreign policy record is like the 10000th most objectionable thing Gabbard has done. Weird flex.
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2020, 06:06:32 PM »

I'll note that this thread has like 100+ replies and I can't find any posts disputing the actual substance of what Hillary said:

A) Sanders has (virtually) no friends in the Senate, and never has

B) He's never accomplished anything of note

C) He is a "career politician"

Instead it's six pages of "shut your f***ing mouth, bitch, you lost and everyone hates you."



I see you missed my reply on the first page which has 9 recommendations

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"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," Clinton told the Hollywood Reporter as a part of the upcoming Hulu documentary on the former secretary of state. "He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

I see no lies here.

He's part of the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership team and was chairman of the Veteran's Affairs Committee where he worked with John McCain to co-author a bill on veteran's health, so it's obviously untrue that no-one likes Sanders or wants to work with him. Clinton is projecting her own feelings onto Sanders' colleagues in the Senate with whom he gets on fairly well.


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Statilius the Epicurean
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2020, 06:41:40 PM »
« Edited: January 21, 2020, 06:44:57 PM by Statilius the Epicurean »

That story just has people saying they're impressed with his campaign.  None of them endorsed him except his Vermont co-senator.

The one-page VA bill was addressed above.

Clinton's claim was that "Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him." This is demonstrably untrue, Sanders has a role on the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership team!

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“There was a question in my mind of whether he could get back up on the bicycle after four years. But he’s off to a solid start,” said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat and a staunch Clinton supporter in 2016. “I know Bernie, I’ve worked with Bernie. I understand him. People have images of him, which may be different than mine. But if you’re asking me about Bernie Sanders vs. Donald Trump? No problem.”

“I certainly hear out in the political world a lot of concern [about Sanders]. I don’t hear a lot of that internally,” one Democratic senator said. Democrats “look at him differently because he’s not running against Hillary Clinton. He’s a major player in the party in a way that he wasn’t [in 2016]. He looked like a quixotic candidate. It’s not like people are sitting around thinking about how to keep the nomination from him” this time.

And when Clinton isn't ready to say she would support him against Trump:

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All other [than Manchin] Democrats interviewed for this story said they would support Sanders if he becomes the nominee.

If Democratic Senators can say that, why can't Clinton? If her rationale for refusing to is because his Senate colleagues don't like Sanders, why are they more willing to say they would endorse Sanders as the nominee than she is?

Clinton is letting bitter feelings over the 2016 campaign cloud her judgement.
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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2020, 04:45:40 PM »


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