Clinton-allied group ties Sanders to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article35361897.html



WASHINGTON —


Hugo Chavez has left the stage but he hasn’t left the scene.

The late Venezuelan leader, a leftist firebrand, was inserted into the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Tuesday when Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent seeking the Democratic nomination, accused supporters of Democrat Hillary Clinton of smearing him by linking him to Chavez.



“They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even ]tried to link me to a dead communist dictator,” Sanders said in a fundraising email that criticized a super political action committee called Correct the Record, which supports Hillary Clinton.

The link Sanders referred to was first reported Monday by The Huffington Post, and it was a slam on Vermont, Sanders’ home state, accepting a donation of home heating oil from Venezuela’s state oil company, known by its acronym PDVSA. The super PAC, which is not controlled by Clinton herself, tried to link Sanders, an avowed socialist, to Chavez.

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[peacebird]

1. correct the Record does coordinate with the Clinton campaign, legally, because it doesn't produce

MSM ads. It works on the internet and by sending email to newsgroups. On edit: and Sanders Vermont was the 6th state to seek heating oil fromVenzuala.

[HassleCat]

2. Hugo? Wasn't that a little car from Hugoslavia?

I don't know how effective the ads would be, since most Americans have no idea who Hugo Chavez was.

[portlander23]

3. No apology yet ...

Video: Mrs. Clinton wouldn't have said the dishonest Sanders smear her Super PAC said on her behalf

[safeinOhio]

4. Was that before or after

She was a Goldwater Girl?

[nichomachus]

5. WTF, Bernie?

"Communist dictator?"

You mean the guy who was elected three times overwhelmingly and who pulled his people out of poverty by opposing thr US Corporate Dictatorship?

Is that who you mean?

We need a Hugo Chavez here is the US -- not some corporate lap dog.

[Marksman_91]

6. Chavez's policies and radicalism was eventually going to hurt Vzla in the long run

Now under Maduro, the country's finally feeling the consequences of those actions, and worse, the Maduro administration is exacerbating them. People did get out of poverty, yes, but besides that, everything else has been handled poorly, from expropriating productive businesses, to idiotic exchange rate controls to obtain dollars, and of course, the lack of any seriousness to tackle crime. Combine that with the radical "Us vs them" speech against those in the middle class and above for being responsible for the poor (even though poverty itself was already declining in the last couple of years before Chavez was elected,) and you got a country full of fanatics and corruption unlike any other in the whole region.

[nichomachus]

7. Well, you've got the Obama/CIA/Wall Street line down pat. n/t

[Marksman_91]

8. No, i just happen to know the reality better than you.

I'm Venezuelan, after all

[FBaggins]

9. Communist dictators are almost always "elected overwhelmingly"

That's part of the gig.

He most certainly didn't "pull his people out of poverty"... he condemned them to it.