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My tweet above to the Dem debate moderators. Sure enough, Dana Bash asked the question. Here is the clip >
It’s possible of course she was already planning to ask it. The reason I wanted it in, and had asked moderators in previous debates to include it, is that it’s a debilitating retort to something I consider fundamentally dishonorable. Sanders has been citing Hillary’s Super PAC and corporate campaign contributors, and her speaking fees for months as if that automatically made her guilty of selling off her votes & views.
Sanders knows it’s garbage. He knows he has zero evidence she ever let contributions affect her policy positions, and that Barack Obama and Bill Clinton stood up against corporate interests and for working Americans many times – even though that kind of contribution helped them get elected.
Sanders has wanted to just run with the innuendo, imply she is corrupt and never have to back it up with any concrete example. It’s Rovian, and he was finally busted on it Thursday night.
He gives what appears to be an entirely unprepared answer – remarkable in itself. First he says Hillary’s decision that supports his months of guilt insinuation, is the 2008 Wall Street crash. Then he makes the brand new point that she takes money…
Pretty weak.
You don’t publicly impugn someone’s honesty and character, unless you can prove what you are saying. Sorry Mr. Sanders, it’s sleaze politics.