Monday, February 29, 2016

Is 2016 against Sanders a rerun of the smears and dirty tactics of 2008 against Obama?





Turns out Hillary, her campaign, her husband and her surrogates have been recycling and reusing the smears, lies, false rumors and nasty campaign tactics they employed against Obama. Follow if you will some pages of the playbook.

I know I am but so are you, When cornered on an issue / argument that she couldn’t win,


She tried to blunt her greatest weaknesses by smearing them both on her toxic issues by implying they shared her bad record. The smears were factless, but when you have the media in your pocket, it doesn’t have to be true for them to repeat it.


With Obama she smeared him on taking corporate money. Seriously she ran ads, brought it up in debate and sent her surrogates out to spread the word accusing someone else of being in the pocket of wall street… now isn’t that rich? With Bernie she had her surrogates spread rumors about Bernie having a super PAC (which it turns out was the nurses union stumping for Universal healthcare) and that he had taken corporate money too… not millions, but he took it when he accepted money from the DNC in his last Senatorial run and the DNC while it had taken a lot of small donor contributions (much on a fundraising letter Bernie wrote for them), but also had taken from many of the same corporate donors who had written huge checks to Hillary, her family, her campaign and her foundation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb5AQpShLrI
Obama hits back on Hillary’s smear ad about taking corporate money
Hillary Clinton lies about Bernie and healthcare - The Young Turks
More I know I am but so are you
Seriously this is her go to, to justify her bad record on issues, she and her surrogates claim Bernie and Obama have been bad on the same or similar issues… This has played out on a bunch of topics with each but I'll highlight the more memorable ones. Obama who had been against the Iraq war like Bernie was accused of flipping on the issue. With Bernie she has pointed out Bernie voting for the 94 crime bill to excuse her and Bill’s role in decimating the poor and communities of color. What she ignores is that while she and Bill were bragging about the bad aspects of the bill like big increases in incarceration and were touting the bill to deal with the problem of young black youth as super predators. Bernie in voting for the bill touted the violence against women act and ban on assault weapons which were included in the bill. You won’t find him ever bragging about it, but you will find a couple speeches he gave during the debate of the bill and the vote on the bill where he implores the congress not to devastate communities that are already challenged and lead to mass incarceration.


Bill Clinton claims Obama was for the Iraq war like Hillary, Obama corrects the record
Bernie Sanders derides the congress over foreseen consequences of the 94 crime bill
Sanders calls the crime prevention bill a punishment bill, a retribution bill, a vengeance bill


Create a Rumor and then Pretend to be outraged over the subject


She race baited Obama with the 3am ad and had her surrogates spread a rumor that he was a muslim spreading a picture of Obama in Kenyan attire. For Bernie she sent out surrogates to to a red scare implying that socialism is a problem because you know, Russia. There were plain and simple smears on the core of who they are or have been for decades. he has attacked his 50 years of activism and advocacy for civil rights… she sent out surrogates like John Lewis to say he never saw Bernie as though everyone in the civil rights movement knew each other and implied he knew the Clintons. Well turns out he didn’t meet the Clintons until 1991. Not only was it shameful to do that, but more shameful to sully the pristine reputation of a civil rights legend like Lewis for her petty political gain. But it didn’t even stop there, she got one of her pundit lackeys Jonathan Capehart to then spread the rumor that Bernie was not the man in the picture from the segregation sit in… Well the photographer got upset, said it was Bernie and oh btw, I have a whole bunch more of Bernie protesting and getting arrested.




Setting the record straight about Bernie Sanders involvement in Civil RIghts


Hillary Clinton Lies, smears and dirty campaign against Obama


Clinton Horrified by Obama rumors that her campaign helped create
What I do makes is pragmatic, but you… well that’s unrealistic fantasy
She mocked Obama’s plans about being unrealistic, fantasy, dreams that will never happen, even mocked hope and change.. Sound familiar? all the same things she is saying about Bernie Sanders plans even though some of the nation’s top economists and nearly 200 noted economists have touted his plan as the best one being offered in this campaign and detailed what they saw as growth and savings they saw it bringing about.


Hillary talks about Obama waving a magic wand and the skies open, angels sing.
Sanders responds to what Clinton calls his pie in the sky plans
Howard Dean, Clinton surrogate attacks Bernie as merely visionary while Hillary is pragmatist that gets things done
Foreign Policy - Clearly a war hawk is better at Foreign policy than a diplomat
She mocked their ability to lead on foreign policy or as commander in chief. She mocked Obama as a one term Senator and community organizer and then mocked Bernie as not having announced his advisors and someone who only focuses on domestic issues. She couldnt attack him on experience since he has been in the congress far far longer than most anybody to have ever run for President.




Obama calls Hillary out on lying about him at a debate
Hillary establishment shills attack Bernie on foreign policy


He’s Not Ready, I am
With both she has at times made the claim that she is ready on day one, while he isn’t. Played this card hard with both


Desperate Hillary attacks Obama as her polls sink
Obama Ready on Day 1 and Questions Hillary’s judgment on foreign policy
Obama calls Hillary out on lying about him at a debate
The Gender Card

Hillary has used the gender card to play the victim against Obama while she and her surrogates present it to the American people as reason why it’s her turn to be president and to shame women who don’t vote for he. With Obama he told her to stop playing the victim, while with Sanders she said that she couldn’t take a strong position without being accused of shouting because she is a woman… the thing is, nobody ever said she was shouting. Lest we forget the Bernie Bros and Obama Boys who a Hillary surrogate create and coined to imply Sanders and Obama were masogonists because they had an army of sexist followers bullying the Hillary supporters. Of course this was debunked and then pinned back to the same person associated with her campaign who wrote both stories to plant and feed off the false narrative and turn the focus back to poor Hillary and her supporters.


Hillary plays the gender card, Obama tells her to stop playing the victim

Bernie Bros and Obama Boy - Daily Kos


Dont look over here, look over there
Finds Petty issues to fabricate to take focus off and argument she lost or is getting beat up on. With Bernie she painted him as a one issue candidate although he has been championing many causes for decades and takes about dozens of policy  She made the claim that he attacked her as a woman. Attacked his healthcare as tearing apart the existing affordable care act, claimed he was sexist, and basically had a new lie coming his way nearly every week, some mentioned elsewhere in this article. It was all about misdirection. With Obama she made a big fuss about him using some of the language of his surrogate in speeches, spread the muslim lie, claimed he was for the Iraq war before he was against it… again an ongoing string of lies and smears released every time she was in trouble to take the focus off of her and create doubt about her opponent.


Hillary accuses Obama of plagiarizing (note how petty she came off looking)
Hillary Smears and misdirection


Hillary spreads lies and teams with right wing media to smear Obama - Keith Olbermann show.
Attacks on Guns
She attacked Obama from the right on guns, this time attacking Bernie from the left. But is she? In order to attack Bernie from the left she is misrepresenting his positions. Sure the Brady Bill was a famous piece of background check legislation that Bernie voted against, that part is true… but the lie is that Bernie doesn’t support background checks. He has voted in favor of a bunch of other bills for instant background checks… so why against the Brady Bill? well maybe because the Brady Bill unlike the others wrote two massive loopholes into the law. Both the gun show loophole and the straw man purchase loophole became law and the two primary ways people who shouldn’t have guns get them thanks to the Brady Bill


Obama scolds Hillary for attacking him on guns
Gun Show Loophole and Straw Man Purchase Loopholes written into Brady Bill
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4 comments:

  1. Claudia TuttleFebruary 29, 2016 at 7:54 PM

    A very good read and very well written. Lot's of timely research went into this article.

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  2. UnknownMarch 1, 2016 at 2:03 PM

    Great article which I posted in segments on:

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    1. PolliticallMarch 13, 2016 at 12:26 AM

      thank you for sharing... This was a comparison I really wanted people to see... the closer Hillary holds President Obama to steal his popularity the more I want people to remember how horribly she smeared and lied about him in 08. We could really predict all her dirty moves by reviewing all the dirty tactics she used against our President... The more people remember how badly she treated him, the harder it will be for them to just give her his credit.

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