During the Flint, MI debate, Hillary Clinton had the audacity to claim that Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout. In reality, Bernie voted against the bank bailout because, in his words, the billionaires should bail out the banks, not American workers. Hillary cleverly said:
“I voted to save the auto industry. He voted against the money.”
Clever wording, that. She was referring to Bernie’s vote on TARP, not the actual Auto Bailout bill that Bernie voted Yes on. The auto bailout bill failed, so Bush used some of the bank bailout money to help restructure the auto industry and save jobs. *sigh* Here’s Bernie’s response to Hillary’s claims:
“There was one vote in the United States Senate on whether or not to support the auto bailout and protect jobs in Michigan and around this country. I voted for the auto bailout."
Hillary Clinton is a brilliant liar. She knows exactly what she’s saying. She didn’t misspeak. She wasn’t confused. She knows Bernie voted against the bank bailout, and she knows exactly why he did so. She also knows that Bernie supports American workers over the billionaire class that funds her campaign and her Clinton Foundation. Maybe Hillary just thinks that you can fool some of the people some of the time. That certainly seems to hold true in low information states where many people get their information from Faux News.
The billionaires must be shaking in their boots right now, knowing that Americans are rising up today to fight their decades of collusion and bribery of our elected officials. Hillary is their next-in-line to ensure ever increasing profits for investors in the insurance industry, Big Pharma, oil and fracking industries and endless war, among other life destroying ventures. But her campaign is falling apart as more and more voters realize how dishonest and untrustworthy she is and decide to support a more honest politician, Bernie Sanders.
What’s particularly scary to me is that the words Hillary spoke during Flint debate were likely written by her team and were probably “tested for their effectiveness.” She knows deep in her heart that those words are not true. She likely practiced that lie before she threw it in Bernie’s face.
Yet she manages to pull off a look of disgust for the imaginary, job-killing, anti-worker Bernie Sanders image that her lie is creating out of thin air.
It just makes me wonder if Hillary Clinton is a sociopath. Is she is so completely out of touch she can’t tell when she’s lying. Or does she come up with deliberate, cold-hearted, dishonest words as a calculated strategy to win at all costs? Is she just that good of an actor?
More importantly, does she even understand what this is going to do to her chances in the general election if she should win the Democratic nomination? About half our Democrats support Bernie Sanders, and he’s garnering more voters every day. He has brought in millions of new people, young adults and millennials, while bringing back millions more disaffected Democrats who left our Party in disgust over some of our elected leaders corporatist, neoliberal policies. If Hillary wins the nomination by lying about the character of one of our best Democrats, a hero to the middle and working classes, how will our Party win the presidency next fall?
The image above is from fellow kossack and Bernie supporter, Ezekiel in Exile, who received it in the mail. (Ohio) Now it’s more than just in a debate; the Hillary campaign has officially deliberately deceived voters. Notice she changed the wording to “Auto Rescue” which was not the name of the auto bailout bill. Clever. Duplicitous. Deceitful. Dishonest.
Just for kicks, here’s a short list of Hillary’s lies/distortions/misspeaks:
- Accused Bernie of standing with the Minutemen
- Claimed she is against fracking after pushing fracking in poor nations all over the world
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Accused Bernie of wanting to take people’s healthcare away
- Claimed Bernie’s universal healthcare plan would cost more than what we currently pay
- Claimed Bernie wants to delay the Clean Energy Plan
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Hillary cheats during debates as much as she lies.
- My favorite — Claimed to be against the TPP after promoting it all over the world. Says the most current version doesn’t “meet her high standards.” But she didn’t have legal access to the TPP at that time, since she was not in Congress and was no longer Secretary of State. She either lied about reading it, or she’s lying about no longer supporting it.
- Sniper fire, ‘nuff said
Feel free to add more examples in the comments below.
Just in case people read this diary after March 15th, here’s my firewall:
(Hat tip to expatjourno)
Disclaimer/Loyalty Oath: This diary is designed to constructively criticize Hillary Clinton.
Secretary Clinton, please stop lying. It’s bad politics and will cost you votes. Dishonesty, distortions and outright lies hurt our Democratic Party and down-ticket Democrats. Please learn from your mistakes regarding your statements about Bernie Sanders as well as his and your historical record. My comments and suggestions here are specifically designed to help you become a better candidate.
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