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mhatrw

(10,786 posts)
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:05 PM Mar 2016

WaPo: 5 times Hillary Clinton has played fast and loose with the facts on Bernie Sanders’s record

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/10/5-times-hillary-clinton-has-played-fast-and-loose-with-the-facts-on-bernie-sanderss-record/

Hillary Clinton isn't doing anything that politicians haven't done for decades -- even centuries -- with her attacks on Bernie Sanders's record. But it's striking that, as Clinton has doubled down on the attacks, she has with some regularity played pretty fast and loose with the facts. She'll take a vote Sanders has made in his 25 years of Congress and gloss over most, if not all, of the details about it. The result is a carefully worded insinuation or even outright accusation that Sanders has voted against his base on everything from immigration to the auto bailout to fossil fuels.

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1. Immigration reform


2. The auto bailout


3. The Minutemen


4. The Koch brothers


5. Deregulating financial markets
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