Young Voter Confronts Hillary Clinton: People My Age Say You're 'Dishonest' + Video Clip

[appalachiablue]

Hillary Clinton had a message Monday night for a young supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) who said young people didn’t trust Clinton: Don’t get distracted.

At a CNN town-hall event Monday night, a student confronted the former secretary of state about the perception that she is dishonest.

“I’ve heard from quite a few people my age that say you’re dishonest,” the supporter said, describing himself as a supporter of Sanders.

He proceeded to ask her about what he perceived as an enthusiasm gap among young people for Clinton’s campaign vs. Sanders’.

Clinton said she was “totally happy to see young people involved in any way.” But she said she wanted voters to know that she thought she was frequently attacked because she fights for progressive causes.

“I’ve been around a long time — people have thrown all kinds of things at me,” Clinton said. “I can’t keep up with it. They come up with these outlandish things, they make these charges, I just keep going forward because there’s nothing to it. They throw all this stuff at me, and I am still standing.

"But if you’re new to politics and this is the first time you’ve really paid attention, you go, ‘Oh, my gosh, look at all of this.’ And you have to say to yourself, 'Why are they throwing all of that?’ I’ll tell you why: I’ve been on the frontlines of change and progress since I was your age,” she continued. “I have been fighting to give kids and women and the people who have been left out and left behind the chance to make the most of their own lives.”

Though Clinton remains the Democratic front-runner in many national polls and leads among older Democratic voters, Sanders remains far more popular among younger Democratic voters in polls.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/young-voter-confronts-hillary-clinton-041443552.html

Student Poses 'Dishonesty' Question to Candidate Clinton Who Answers at the Democratic Town Hall in Iowa Last night.

[Tarc]

1. ..."a young supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders"

Think that's all we need to know right there.

[Z_California]

5. Also known as

A young person.

[2pooped2pop]

12. Yes, because no one else thinks Hillary is dishonest

[R B Garr]

16. Indeed. You could tell he had the internet Hillary hate

talking points down. No authenticity in his question at all. He had no idea what he was talking about except he got to poke a stick for the Revolution. So phony.

[Android3.14]

20. Ah, the arrogance of age

I hope, when I get old, (I'm only in my 50s) that I'll have a better attitude than you.

[Tarc]

26. You're emphasizing the wrong part

Perhaps the quote should have just been left at "Sanders supporter".

[LexVegas]

2. Didn't see it. Can't watch it. Let me guess...young, white and male? nt

[JonLeibowitz]

4. Her dishonesty is well documented and transcends race, gender, and age.

[appalachiablue]

9. Correct. But the the old, white male whose 10 mins. of too many Qs that enabled Hillary

to go on a half hour meandering high volume litany to the audience about her foreign affairs and military Experience with no time out by Mod Cuomo was natural? Not in the least.

[2pooped2pop]

13. Are you suggesting a young white female would not question her problem with truth?

So does that mean u feel that women would support her because she is a woman?

[antigop]

3. well, Hill, you didn't want tech workers "to make the most of their own lives"

[Android3.14]

21. I bet several DU Hillary supporters would tie themselves up in knots

If they had the courage to even attempt to address why they want Clinton to put more Americans out of work.

[antigop]

22. I've said this before and I will say it again...

Hillary supporters:

1) Benefit from the status quo.
2) Have not been harmed (yet) by the status quo.
3) Want a female prez sooo badly.
4) Really do not understand the problems we face (thank you, MSM!)
5) Some combination of the above.

Oh, they will say she's "qualified", but the reality is...one of the above applies.

[Android3.14]

23. I'm going to keep that list

We need an additional category for some members of The Swarm.

6) Pretending to support her to satisfy some other need.

[roguevalley]

30. the swarm. it isn't bernie's fault if more people want him than HRC

its hers. If she really resonated you would be great numbers everywhere. You aren't and it would be good to consider why. No one can make someone like or vote for someone they don't. She just doesn't have it and in the end the caucus in Iowa will tell the story. NH is already a lost cause for her. How is any of this anyone's fault but her own?

[SheilaT]

24. And some Bernie supporters

are female and benefit from the status quo. But at least some of us do understand the problems we face, and while I would love to see a woman President in my lifetime, Hillary Clinton is not the one I want to see in that office.

[INdemo]

6. If you believe Hiilary works for Progressive

Causes then you believe the Sun rises in the West.
Wait is GoldmN Sachs aggressive?
Are Big Pharmicuticals progressives?If they are progressives then she is telling the truth.She speaks for progressive causes
Has Hillary ever once spoken out against Citizens United?

If she did Goldman Sachs,Bank America
Hedge fund managers would cut her off.

[Lage Nom Ai]

27. NY Times

She list it as one of her litmus test for Supreme court justice selection. Then again she said the TPP was the gold standard and spun on that too. Took money or Bill did not sure which one, from the folks pushing the keystone and then turned on them for the time being. It may be still a political chip for her to use with the Republicans when she want something. For me that is the larger issue, I think she would sell out liberal values to make her shit fly. Again that is just my opinion so all you Clinton fans stop before you start please. Don't ask for links or proof that she will sell us out although I could probably make the case.

[antigop]

7. ah, yes, Hillary "outsourcing will continue" Clinton

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702780.html

When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to New Delhi to meet with Indian business leaders in 2005, she offered a blunt assessment of the loss of American jobs across the Pacific. "There is no way to legislate against reality," she declared. "Outsourcing will continue. . . . We are not against all outsourcing; we are not in favor of putting up fences."

Two years later, as a Democratic presidential hopeful, Clinton struck a different tone when she told students in New Hampshire that she hated "seeing U.S. telemarketing jobs done in remote locations far, far from our shores."

The two speeches delivered continents apart highlight the delicate balance the senator from New York, a dedicated free-trader, is seeking to maintain as she courts two competing constituencies: wealthy Indian immigrants who have pledged to donate and raise as much as $5 million for her 2008 campaign and powerful American labor unions that are crucial to any Democratic primary victory.

Yep, you're a real fighter, Hill.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. I was getting copies made at a local Staples --

and the gal helping me -- she was maybe 19 -- noticed my Bernie button. She volunteered that she was voting for Bernie and said she "didn't trust" Hillary, citing Whitewater (!) as one case against her honesty. I have to admit I was surprised and a little taken aback at that reference.

I have heard the "trust" issue from several under 25 folks -- now I am curious to do a little drilling down on how they came to that view. Is it something that they just "absorbed" from their upbringing or from information gathering they have engaged in.

[JonLeibowitz]

14. I am <25, and I can tell you I deeply research all candidates who align generally with my views

So yes, some of us do the homework. No, my parents did not support Clinton but neither did they believe the conspiracy theories that surrounded them. Basically, they were independents, so I doubt I absorbed much from them. And now I identify much further left than they ever did.

[INdemo]

10. If you believe Hiilary works for Progressive

Causes then you believe the Sun rises in the West.
Wait is Goldman Sachs aggressive?
Are Big Pharmicuticals progressives?If they are progressives then she is telling the truth.She speaks for progressive causes
Has Hillary ever once spoken out against Citizens United?

If she did Goldman Sachs,Bank America
Hedge fund managers would cut her off.

[EdwardBernays]

11. Shame

They didn't ask why she chose to have the owner of one of DC's biggest lobbying firm as her Campaign Chairman... Or what impact the hundreds of thousands of dollars she's taken from the same firm - a firm which represents weapons manufacturers, big pharma and Saudi Arabia - would have on her foreign policy.

Or if she can explain why countries and Weapons Manufacturers that donated to the the Clinton Foundation, including giving cash to her husband to speak, were twice as likely to get State Department approval for weapons sales - even states with huge human rights violations - as countries and firms that didn't, while she was Secretary of State. And why she approved weapons sales to oppressive regimes at a much higher rate than even Bush did after 9/11, well. Firms that donated to the Clinton Foundation.

Theres plenty of evidence of systemic corruption, this guy just didn't ask the right questions.

[NCTraveler]

15. Great answer by Clinton and great question.

It was a question, not a confrontation.

[CharlotteVale]

17. It's not just people his age. People say she's dishonest because she is.

[DanTex]

18. Great answer.

[Fearless]

19. She had a chance to address the issue... she avoided it

At her peril.

[draa]

25. Ouch.

Anytime a questioner says the word dishonest, even as it was asked there, it's never a good thing because all that people hear is "dishonest." Nothing else will even register after that. And her answer didn't really address the question anyway.

[bigdarryl]

28. I never seen a politician who wasn't DISHONEST!!!!! WTF

[MrWendel]

29. ...

[Metric System]

31. He was the perfect embodiment of a "BernieBro."