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Showing Original Post only (View all)Clinton’s Claims on Auto Industry ‘Not True’....Bernie speaks out. [View all]
Clintons Claims on Auto Industry Not TrueWhat Hillary did last night was shameful. What those who refuse to listen to the real truth are doing is equally shameful.
When you care more about winning than telling the truth you hurt our country.
Clinton, who has struggled to downplay her support for job-killing trade deals, used a Sunday night debate in Flint, Michigan, to disingenuously mischaracterize Sanders record on the auto industry. In fact, Sanders voted for the carmaker bailout. He supported a $14 billion aid package which passed the House on Dec. 10, 2008. When that bill ran into a Senate Republican roadblock, the White House turned to a separate Wall Street bailout fund for loans to the auto industry.
In an interview on Monday with WOOD-TV, Sanders called Clintons claim not true and said it was part of a disingenuous attempt to deflect attention from her trade record. It is absolutely untrue to say I voted against helping the automobile industry and workers, Sanders told the Grand Rapids, Michigan, television station.
During a rally at a hockey rink here in Kalamazoo, Sanders also spoke to more than 3,200 supporters about Clintons record on trade and his support for workers in the auto industry. She has supported virtually every one of these disastrous trade agreements which have wreaked havoc, Sanders told the rally. The North American Free Trade Agreement and other business-backed trade deals contributed to the loss of more than 230,000 manufacturing jobs in Michigan since 1994.
To deflect attention from her own record, Sanders said, Clinton went out of her way to mischaracterize his record of support for auto workers. There was one vote in the United States Senate to support the automobile industry and, of course, I voted for it. To say otherwise is simply not telling the truth, he said. I understand that Secretary Clinton wants to deflect attention away from her record supporting trade agreements like NAFTA and normal trade relations with China but she shouldnt do that by mischaracterizing my record. What I did not vote for is the bailout of the crooks on Wall Street whose illegal behavior and greed brought this economy into the worst downturn since the 1930s.
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Clinton’s Claims on Auto Industry ‘Not True’....Bernie speaks out. [View all]
madfloridian
Mar 2016
OP
Is Hillary fooling the delegates? No. They will answer to her lies, in their vote.
DhhD
Mar 2016
#72
But even more people are not following this horse race until right before they vote.
Dustlawyer
Mar 2016
#78
Also, Octafish, what was with the fact that Hillary said she had attended the church
JDPriestly
Mar 2016
#77
people in my very blue area of southern calif will not vote for her; whereas a month ago they might
amborin
Mar 2016
#87
IMO there will be no unity or re-uniting. That was tried before after she lost the 1st time.
Ivan Kaputski
Mar 2016
#100
None this time; people are disgusted and appalled; and also cognizant of her endless regime change
amborin
Mar 2016
#105
Will go down in shameful campainging lies history - like the "Willy Horton" ad. n/t
Peregrine Took
Mar 2016
#29
Absolutely Willie Horton. It lied about Bernie, turning his life's work into its opposite.
Octafish
Mar 2016
#125
The lie gets printed on page A1 above the fold, and the retraction on page A19 in small print
Electric Monk
Mar 2016
#17
I lost my jury privileges for heartilly agreeing with a post that called an obvious liar a liar
Electric Monk
Mar 2016
#24
Then the liar lied Again immediately after the first lie (I screen capped it for your enjoyment)
Dragonfli
Mar 2016
#94
Bernie needs to go for the jugular just as she does but he's just too much of a nice person.
Peregrine Took
Mar 2016
#31
No, because she was right. But your suggestion implies that he can't defend himself against
ecstatic
Mar 2016
#67
And your belief that he's not "quick witted enough to deal with foreign heads of state"
C Moon
Mar 2016
#135
C'Mon Bernie campaign - get this out there, radio and all. If you need money - ask.
jillan
Mar 2016
#51
Seems to be half true, pretty much like the things said about Hillary and Wall Street.
Onlooker
Mar 2016
#61
A lot of lives also could have been saved if she had not voted to go to war, to use your logic.
FailureToCommunicate
Mar 2016
#76
Wrong. He voted No for the actual auto bailout that was part of the TARP bill.
SunSeeker
Mar 2016
#136
shameful how she shamelessly lies and uses dirty tricks; but it won't work for her: people here
amborin
Mar 2016
#71
Ghetto means cut off from society. Projecting sleaze and venom to a society cut off by NAFTA and
DhhD
Mar 2016
#95
Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia did live in ghettos. They called them tenements.
jillan
Mar 2016
#109
She parsed her words so carefully... "Against the money that ENDED UP saving the auto industry."
CdnExtraNational
Mar 2016
#122
If the people in MI are reading DU , and spread word of mouth this could kill her in her polling
PatrynXX
Mar 2016
#124
CBS Nightly News tonight, said an "expert" (unnamed) says job losses were negligible
SoapBox
Mar 2016
#128
No, that's the October 1 bill, before the election, not the bill that Obama was..
dougolat
Mar 2016
#137
I am so angry about all the lies that Hillary tells in these debates, that I can't speak out here.
Major Hogwash
Mar 2016
#134
Everybody here was calling their Congressmen and Senators to block the TARP
CdnExtraNational
Mar 2016
#152