Bernie Sanders runs nasty attack ad targeting Hillary on Wall Street donations

[cali]

Ominous music as a still of Hillary laughing with Lloyd Blankfein flashes on the screen. Voice says. "Hillary Clinton has solicited millions of dollars from Wall Street to fund her campaigns and enriched herself personally by millions, giving speeches to bailed out Wall Street firms. How can she claim to be tough on Wall Street when she owes them so much? Clip of Hillary from the Debate: "As Senator from New York, I represented Wall Street."

Oops no. He did no such thing. Lying by Camp Clinton in order to justify and ramp up the negative campaigning they're engaged in.

[djean111]

1. They sure are reduced to lies.

And something like that fictitious ad runs through my head any time I think of Hillary. Bernie doesn't need to tell me about that.

[CorporatistNation]

23. The "Fibs" Keep Coming... False Accusations of The First Order... That's Just How She Rolls!

Speaking the TRUTH is NOT going Negative... Hillary just does not want US to hear who she really is!

What a pathetic example for future Democratic Women Candidates to follow.

Kick And Rec!

[Ferd Berfel]

38. By falling back on LIES - HIllary has admitted she has Lost

She's feeling the Bern

[marble falls]

2. Not that it would really have been an attack ad:

"Hillary Clinton has solicited millions of dollars from Wall Street to fund her campaigns and enriched herself personally by millions, giving speeches to bailed out Wall Street firms. How can she claim to be tough on Wall Street when she owes them so much? Clip of Hillary from the Debate: "As Senator from New York, I represented Wall Street." is the truth.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. I'd watch that ad.

Of course, The response would be an inevitable soft-focus montage of cops holding kittens, firefighters, and hedge fund managers with hats held over their hearts, set to "God Bless America".

Reminding everyone that ties to wall street are as american as apple pie because nineleven, also nineeleven and did we mention nineleleven.... after all who can forget the brave collateralized debt obligations and bundled subprime mortgages packaged as specialized investment offerings with deliberately opaque disclosure requirements, which selflessly ran back into those burning buildings to save lives on that fateful day?

Bernie sanders doesnt WANT to respect those collateralized debt obligations which put themselves in harm's way on nineeleven. Why does Bernie Sanders hate America?

[CharlotteVale]

8. LOL. And grandmothers!

[Mbrow]

17. Mmmmmmmmm

Kitties!

[Vattel]

20. LMAO. Nicely done.

[klook]

21. "...who can forget the brave collateralized debt obligations and bundled subprime mortgages..."

DUzy material!

Now watch for some shadowy group to produce this ad "on behalf of" the Sanders campaign.

[ViseGrip]

4. Hardly an attack when you say there is a difference in the candidates and don't even name names.

When is the last time you've listened to an 'attack ad'? Just look at the republican ads, now, and back in 2012, and in 2008 when Hillary went after Obama for hitting her on healthcare.

This is a contest, not for the faint of heart. Bernie has every right to point out real differences.

He said nothing personal, kept it on the issue of Wall Street, one of our biggest problems. We've been had, and I can't support anyone who ignores this issue. This is one of the biggest reasons I support Sanders.

[Doctor_J]

5. when the first benghazi ad runs, or email ad, or Monica Lewinsky, then I'll be disappointed

in Sanders. Campaign issues are fair game, regardless of how rough.

[GoneOffShore]

7. Exactly.

[nc4bo]

6. No names mentioned but if the shoe fits.......

Squeal loudly about negative ads .

[SoapBox]

9. Bingo!

Gotta love how they keep telling us to stop being negative.

[paleotn]

11. No, but he should have...

HRC's close ties Wall Street does have an impact on how she would govern and is a legitimate campaign issue.

[Cary]

12. Because that's the system imposed on us by "conservatives."

They attack unions, successfully, because unions fund Democrats. They successfully lobbied the SOTUS for Citizens United. Their strategy is well documented.

I cannot blame Democrats for doing what they need to do. A former law partner of mine was a U.S. Senator. It takes an amazing amount of money. He didn't need their money and didn't want to spend his time helping them get more.

He lasted one term and was largely ineffective.

[kracer20]

13. Where did they all go?

I admit I had around a dozen or so of the Hillary supporters on ignore, just to make things a bit more peaceful around here, but it seems they have almost disappeared around here. What's up?

[bread_and_roses]

14. Every time I read "I represented Wall St."

I wonder what HRC thinks she meant? She was the Senator from New York - she was SUPPOSED to represent the people of New York. It sounds obvious to say so but "Wall St." is not a citizen. "Wall St." is not a person.

[LiberalArkie]

19. She thought she was just supposed to represent Wall Street. But she was supposed to represent

the entire state of New York, not just the city of New York City, not just the borough of Manhattan, not just the area of Wall Street.

I guess she forgot.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. I would be funny if she said "I represented Wall St., yo"

Represent!

Yeah, that would be funny.

[karynnj]

15. Now that would be a powerful attack ad, but as you say that is not what he did

The strange thing is that her campaign going crazy and CALLING what he did an attack ad does at least negative things:

1) Gives Bernie's ad - and even more the issue - tons of free coverage

2) It makes her look like she is whining -- yet wasn't one of the reasons to vote for her that she is really really tough and has dealt with attacks for decades.

3) The other thing is that, the only negativity that exists in Bernie's ad is what the viewer brings to it. Only if you agree that there was not enough regulations and that HRC is not proposing doing enough - is it even negative at all.

[Indepatriot]

16. #jamiedimonsabuela

[Mbrow]

18. unfortunately I was watching

Fox and friends at the Laundromat, If the HRC bots want to see attack BS just watch that shit.

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. I can't wait until the debate Sunday. HRH is going to try to attack Bernie on guns and healthcare

and he'll be ready with both barrels loaded. I hope he chews ger up and spits her out....in his polite, gentlemanly way, that is.

She deserves what's coming her way.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Cary]

25. And that's what really matters to you,

that she gets what you decided that she deserves.

That explains a lot.

[MADem]

39. Well, there's some accuracy in that incredible post....

And I say "incredible" because that really does take the cake when it comes to getting 'low' with regard to a Dem candidate.

But here's the accurate bit:

She deserves what's coming her way.

What's "coming her way" is nomination at the convention...!!! And yeah, she does deserve it!

[Cary]

24. A lot of people use ideology as a crutch, very much like religion

In the meantime what's happening in the real world?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/has-the-government-made-it-too-expensive-to-be-a-big-bank-1452731317

Extremists on the left and right are so caught up in their rhetoric, and their incessant need to hang cherry picked factoids on their conclusions. Radicals need to put the glue away and take in the bigger picture and the longer run.

The powers that brought us this mess do just that. They are working a plan made 50 years ago by a low level Republican operative named Jude Wanniski.

[klook]

27. Thanks for the info.

I confess I didn't know about Wanniski. Amazing that a Louis Farrakhan supporter came up with the central guiding principle of the modern Republican Party. Curioser and curioser.

[Cary]

29. He was not an economist yet he was the father of "supply-side economics."

It's all flim flam and part of a dangerous ideology that must be defeated.

[klook]

30. Yes, indeed

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I have a suspicion the origins of the Republican "Two Santa" narrative are not widely known. They certainly do continue to follow the lead of this snake oil salesman. They like to cloak the deception in respectability by attributing it to Milton Friedman and other supposed intellectuals, but reading about the origins makes it clear – in case it wasn't already – that this is a crackpot theory.

And the "Laffer Curve," drawn on a napkin--don't get me started! That's about the level of analysis that Cheney and Rumsfeld put into planning the Iraq invasion.

[Cary]

32. Anti-intellectualism

Extremists, both left and right, are like that.

[fredamae]

26. Could you Please specifically

point out the difference between a perceived "Attack VS Fact" in this ad?
Thanks.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. Horrors!! The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy attacks agains!!

[winter is coming]

33. The thing that kills me about faux outrage over that ad is that it doesn't say anything negative

about the "take millions from Wall Street and then tell them what to do" vision. All it does is mention that that school of thought exists, which it does. That mentioning its mere existence is "negative" speaks volumes.

[a2liberal]

34. It also doesn't identify anyone with that school of thought

It seems like a certain candidate is self-identifying with it by taking offense at it...

[cannabis_flower]

35. Right!

I mean, Bernie could have been talking about Hillary -- or most of the Klown Kar Kings in the Republican primary.

[Matariki]

36. I agree with your take on the motives

"...in order to justify and ramp up the negative campaigning they're engaged in."

If you want to engage in negative campaigning make sure the perception is that the other guy started it.

[John Poet]

37. I think they should run "As Senator from New York,

I represented Wall Street" as an ad....

and maybe then just scroll their contributions to her.


I suppose they could call that 'negative', but WTF. I was never on board with this
"never ever, EVER run a negative ad" thing anyway--
especially in response to a competitor.