Obama NEVER backed Clinton at private fundraiser (Bloomberg)

[CoffeeCat]

Last edited Fri Mar 18, 2016, 01:58 AM - Edit history (1)

Let me translate: Just another pathetic example of The New York Times advocating for Senator Clinton and working diligently as the PR and marketing arm of her campaign. I mean...seriously. Who needs to hire a PR firm to help you garner positive media support when you have The New York Times making up shit for you?

What a disgrace the NYT has become! The "Gray Lady" has gone dark.

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"President Obama “in fact” didn’t privately tell donors last Friday the party must soon come together to back Hillary Clinton, White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest tells reporters.

New York Times reported on Obama’s comments to donors

“I was there for the fundraiser, and I was there when the comments occurred”: Earnest

Obama said “that as Democrats move through this competitive primary process, we need to be mindful that our success in November in electing a Democratic president will depend on the commitment and ability of the Democratic Party to come together behind our nominee”: Earnest

Earnest declined to say whom Obama voted for in the Ill. primary

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2016-03-17/obama-didn-t-back-clinton-at-private-fundraiser-earnest

[nc4bo]

1. Night and day difference, not that any of it mattered except to prove that one camp

Will do and say anything to win.

Boo for more lies. ..eerr misspeak.

[jillan]

2. The entire MSM has turned into Faux News - "Some People Say"

I give President Obama more credit than that.

[TalkingDog]

3. Well, okay then.

That puts him back on the somewhat ethical side of the ledger.

[bullwinkle428]

4. I guess the BernieBros got to him!

[JackRiddler]

5. This needs kicking given how the false reports are dominating.

[JackRiddler]

6. and kick again!

[CoffeeCat]

7. Anyone else think that the White House

was caught in the crossfire of the usual Clinton power-play antics, and the White House was forced to stepped forward and say, "Oh no he di'nt!"

Seems like the Clinton machine sometimes gets away from itself. They've got The New York Times and the mucky mucky millionaire Dems in Texas all in line--they simply don't understand that it's uncool to make up shit that Obama says.

Seriously.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yes

But media is fully compromised. Oh and they want Trump. Let me correct, not reporters, board rooms

[CoffeeCat]

10. Got that right.

The New York Times is willing to take the word of a few Hillary supporters who insist on remaining anonymous, and then quote those anonymous sources and use them for the BASIS of an article.

RIP NYTimes.

Pretty sad that shit they NYTimes engages in antics that were disavowed as unethical and unprofessional at my college newspaper.

Now, the White House spokesperson comes out to say that those anonymous sources were full of crap.

Nice.

[kristopher]

16. Judith Miller ring a bell? That wasn't an anomaly. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Miller reminds me more of government

Infiltration of papers. Project Mockingbirg morphed after the Church Committee. This strikes far more as editors putting pressure on reporters because they are getting it from above.

Miller was slick.

This is way sloppy

[kristopher]

20. Moral of the story: The rot is at all levels. nt

[amborin]

41. Billionaire Carlos Slim, Huge Donor to Clinton; Huge INvestor in NY Times, keeping it afloat

[JackRiddler]

9. Oh man does this need kicking.

Multiple threads pushing the lie stay on top. Maybe you should rewrite the headline to put Obama's name first?

[CoffeeCat]

12. I saw someone using the NYTimes article to suggest that

it signals that the DOJ will be clearing Hillary of wrongdoing very soon. ...After all, why would Obama try to galvanize the party around a candidate who might be indicted?

SERIOUSLY.

Glad that the White House stepped forward to let us know that those anonymous sources were wrong and that The New York Times article was bunk.

[JackRiddler]

13. The indictment will be a political decision.

Sorry, it's just my intuition and observation speaking, but felonies of this kind are snacks to most of these people on the inside at the top. This one doesn't particularly impress me, next to the daily crimes of state. (I know that most of those are "legal," of course, and Bush Co. committed a lot more of them.)

If it's Trump for the Republicans, she will not be indicted before the election.

If it's Kasich, she may well be - FBI is pretty right-wing territory and for some reason Kasich is now considered the "safe" path to potential nuclear wars.

If Clinton loses to Sanders, you'll probably never hear about any of this again.

[CoffeeCat]

14. You bring up a good point

when you categorize felonies like these as "snacks." We all know that nearly all of the players are probably guilty of much, much worse. I'm sure "dirt" is the glue that holds this corrupt system together.

With that said, I'm shocked that there is an investigation. Given that they're all most likely corrupt, how did the email-server situation ever rise to the level that it has?

I will never believe that she will be held accountable. I just find the chain of events odd.

Why have this slow leak of information, as well? They want the public to know that her IT dude has been granted immunity. They want us to know that the hacker, who originally discovered the emails between Clinton/Blumenthal, has been extradited to the U.S.

This is an investigation. They don't have to release that info. But they are. Why?

Furthermore, Josh Earnest, during a press conference said that he had been in contact with DOJ officials who told him that Hillary Clinton was not a target of the investigation. Immediately, Lorreta issued a statement--saying that she was disappointed in the White House comments and that she would hope that they would refrain from commenting about an ongoing investigation. Two days later, Lynch does Colbert and reinforces the same message. Colbert flat out asked her if Hillary would be indicted and Lynch said that she could not comment. She said that her job was to keep the public safe and enforces the laws and that her office would be doing this, independently.

So. It's not NOTHING that is going on. So, what is going on?

[AzDar]

11. K & R

[Waiting For Everyman]

15. If true, then Hillary is even more desperate than I thought.

Good!

[BeanMusical]

17. Kick and R

[BeanMusical]

18. Kick for exposure!

[AtomicKitten]

21. k/r

[redwitch]

22. K and R

I think our President is a very decent man. He wouldn't do it.

[kgnu_fan]

23. OMG, how often Hillary team lie????

[UglyGreed]

24. Are they breathing????

then they are lying.......

[kgnu_fan]

26. I just cannot believe how corrupt they are. I want to believe they are decent ppl but when

you see this kind of behavior over and over and over again, finally you just lose respect.

[UglyGreed]

27. This GD P forum has really opened

my eyes..... SMH!

[kgnu_fan]

28. Do you mean this was here before this season? Operatives moving things around inside the Dem Party.

[UglyGreed]

29. I'm sorry I thought you were

referring to how many people here easily dismiss such actions.

[kgnu_fan]

31. Including that. I sometime feel ppl intentionally dismiss such actions, just for power.

[kgnu_fan]

32. I feel very disillusioned about the Party itself, because of the leadership.

[Impedimentus]

25. I wrote a comment to the NY Times article with the Bloomberg link refuting the claim. They ...

published it 12 hours later. Of course the article was still up with no change. I'm sure others complained. They don't listen.

FEEL THE BERN - 2016

[whatchamacallit]

30. Gee, what a surprise

Sad they have to do this shit.

[kgnu_fan]

33. Just wanting to know their motivation....

[Mad-in-Mo]

34. Kicking again

I never believed this had happened. It sure got a lot of media coverage, though.

[MaggieD]

35. LOL - it could not be more clear that he prefers Clinton

Do you think he would endorse the guy who called for a Primary on him? That is not a Democrat? That has dissed Dems for decades, and continues to do so in this campaign? A guy who is pro gun? Every politically sentient being in the United States knows Obama prefers Clinton.

You guys need to face reality at some point. It's also no surprise Warren has not endorsed Bernie.

[senz]

38. Bernie and Obama get along just fine.

They have campaigned for one another. Obama's not stupid enough to hold Bernie's Independent status against him. Nor is he stupid enough not to understand why Bernie discussed a primary challenge to make Obama back off on SS reductions. Nor is he stupid enough to consider Bernie, whom the NRA despises, "pro-gun."

Maggie, you really should credit Obama with his own fine intelligence.

[MaggieD]

43. Yeah, they get along so fine Bernie said Obama should be primaried

And they hadn't had a meeting in years, then had one that lasted 20 minutes (and was clearly for appearances sake only).

[senz]

44. for the purpose of moving Obama back to the left where he started

Bernie never advocated a different president. He said he thought a primary challenge from the left would get through to Obama so that he would begin pay attention to us again.

As I'm sure you know, Obama was getting a lot of pressure from the oligarchs to weaken and eventually privatize Social Security. The left (the real Democrats) had no such clout. The only clout we have is political. But money trumps politics, as I'm sure you know. This time, however, we got through because Obama backed off the reduction in SS payments.

Obama and Bernie have always gotten along. There is no bad blood between them, no matter how badly you may wish there were.

[MaggieD]

48. I don't think Obama needs Bernie's advice

Obama is 20 years younger, yet 100x more accomplished. He does not need the advice of a failed and ineffective politician like Bernie.

That's what is so fucking irritating about Bernie. He wants to lecture everyone else (while he rudely points his finger in our faces) even though he has never accomplished anything of note in his entire career and did not even have a real job or vote before he was 40.

Arrogance and failure are not a good combination.

[senz]

52. Advice? No: political pressure.

Where the hell do you get "advice" from?

As for experience, Bernie has been a U.S. legislator for 35 years, respected by his colleagues, loved by his constituents, and effective at his work. Before that he was a 4-term mayor of Burlington.

He has TONS of experience -- so try your very best to be more truthful.

Here is an overview of Bernie's advocacy for PoC and LGBTs: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511324268

[KoKo]

36. Recommend!

Dem:

[senz]

37. Thanks! I knew he wouldn't back her -- not after everything she's done to him

Not after her votes for the Iraq War and the Patriot Act.

Not after her racist attacks on him in 2008. (I am sure Michelle never forgave her, either.)

Not after her lies and horrible behavior in that campaign.

Not after her scorched earth refusal to support him after he won -- until later when she and Bill realized they had to if they ever hoped to try to seize the presidency again.

Not after all the insider rumors that she was getting ready to primary him in 2012.

Not after her recklessness as SOS -- her ruining Libya, her underhanded deals with weapons manufacturers and questionable countries.

Not after her private email server fiasco.

Not after her criticisms of his foreign policy.

They pretend to be friendly for the camera, but they are always brittle with one another, forced smiles. He has to be nice to her for political reasons, but it's obvious neither he nor his family actually like her.

[Uncle Joe]

39. It sounds like the New York Times needs more "chastizing."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1514451



Thanks for the thread, CoffeeCat.

[senz]

45. It makes me sad that your link is to a WillyT OP

a good one, too.

What they did was wrong. But so much is wrong, lately.

[Uncle Joe]

46. ..

I missed it, did something happen to WillyT?

[senz]

49. .

I envy you your innocence, and now I'm about to spoil it: he was banned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027693888

[Uncle Joe]

50. ...

I will miss him.

[senz]

54. You and me both.

I was stunned to see what a hateful lather they'd worked up against him. This place is not very healthy. At all.

[MerryBlooms]

40. Rec & Kick.

[pdsimdars]

42. But it served well for their lying smear of the day. It's all they've got.

[senz]

47. I am so sick of the lying smears.

It is all they've got -- but they've got a huge bullhorn to blast it out from.

[tabasco]

51. A lie makes it half way around the world

before the truth gets out of bed.

[slipslidingaway]

53. But the corporate media said it is true :( nt

[bbgrunt]

55. K and R!

[senz]

56. Kickitty!