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    puncha yo bunsBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 8:06pm

    I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me.

    Well if that isn’t the motherfucking pot calling the motherfucking kettle black.

    I guess this is the “tone” she’s talking about that is somehow preventing her from engaging in future debates with Sanders.

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      portland1puncha yo buns
      3/31/16 8:24pm

      I’m hoping that Clinton adopts a fighting tone with the Sanders campaign. It has to have been tiresome to have to put on a friendly face when dealing with someone who has fought against the Democratic party for decades and who has nothing but petulant holier-than-thou-ishness and bravado, seasoned with pie-in-the-sky dreams.

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      puncha yo bunsportland1
      3/31/16 8:29pm

      Fought against? Please. Sanders has caucused with Democrats time and time again. Maybe you don’t want the party to move in the direction Sanders does, but I do. Any “fighting” you see is a result of a man trying to stop the “left” in this country from moving back to the center.

      Let her adopt whatever tone she wants, that’s not a problem. Let her also drop the pretense of whatever “tone” preventing her from having debates or painting herself as the victim as if her campaign has never lied about Sanders (or as if campaign financing is not an issue).

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    SnagglepussBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 8:56pm

    Hey, Bernie said something shitty on Maddow last night were he hemmed and hawed over whether he’d help other Democrats in the election if he’s nominated. Kind of a big deal.

    But who cares about that when you clan slam Hillary for the hundredth time

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      flowerchildSnagglepuss
      3/31/16 9:31pm

      This is the best comment on this thread. For all his talk of Christmas stockings, his talk of a revolution is no different. Bernie’s supporters believe that he has spent the last 20 years doing nothing but promoting other democrats. Nothing could be further from the truth. The real question is, out of the millions he has raised how much beyond the initial thousand to kick off his campaign, how much has he given to the democratic party. The answer would be ZERO.

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      You might be wrong.Snagglepuss
      3/31/16 10:41pm

      Why should he be obligated to help other candidates purely due to party affiliation?

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    DamnRedfordBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 8:06pm

    Damn. Hill Dawg’s getting nervous!

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      centralaustiniteDamnRedford
      3/31/16 8:11pm

      I don’t think she’s getting nervous. Or if she is, she shouldn’t-she will be the nominee and most likely the next president. If I were in her shoes and some people were constantly talking shit about me and I had to smile and play tolerant, I would eventually snap and hit back too.

      Good for her to finally push back in a small way against these people.

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      Sonic Reducer 151centralaustinite
      3/31/16 8:17pm

      Yeah! She reall put that young woman with a valid question in her place!

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    PrettyLegitBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 9:57pm

    Maybe she should stop taking money from the oil industry if she wants people to stop pointing out that she’s taking money from the oil industry? Just a thought.

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      YoSup is in League with the Raccoon MenacePrettyLegit
      3/31/16 10:07pm

      What counts as “taking money from the oil industry”? Because apparently this article wants me to think it means something other than getting money from oil companies.

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      PrettyLegitYoSup is in League with the Raccoon Menace
      3/31/16 10:10pm

      Well, I would define it as “Receiving campaign donations from people involved in the oil industry, a sector that is and will continue to be moreso under political scrutiny for the massive damage it is doing to the planet, in exchange for favorable treatment from government officials when said sector comes under intense pressure in the coming years.

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    factorfictionBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 8:16pm

    According to Open Secrets, if we’re going by the standard of calling out that people who work in an industry are donating to a campaign, making the candidate beholden to that industry, Bernie Sanders has also received money from the fossil fuel industry, as well as the banking industry. But he has received less? So this is an absurd standard to abide by and demand purity on.

    Also, believe it or not, rich people give a lot of money to candidates because they can and are politically active. They host fundraisers for candidates they believe in, more often than not because they also have a right to be politically active. Yes, they can afford more access to candidates but it’s not like I can meet Bernie Sanders for dinner while Sarah Silverman can. All of this is apples to apples, with different types or bigger apples. To act holier than thou for one candidate versus another relative to these types of donations is fucking dumb.

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      carpetboxerfactorfiction
      3/31/16 8:26pm

      Greenpeace: Hillary Clinton’s Connection to the Oil and Gas Industry

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      AvalonsDadfactorfiction
      3/31/16 8:36pm

      Bernie is in the pocket of Big Bike.

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    BrooklynerBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 9:20pm

    What will Sanders’ backers do when HRC wins the nomination — as she will, thank Jebus — and St. Bernard urges his fans to support the Democratic candidate against a right-wing, xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, anti-choice abomination like Trump or Cruz? Will they sit on their hands and pout and not f#$%ing vote because their savior didn’t appeal to the majority of Democrats? (Sadly, and stupidly, most probably will.)

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      flowerchildBrooklyner
      3/31/16 9:36pm

      I am becoming less convinced he is going to quit. His ego is too big, and those donations are too sweet. I think he is going to switch to go back to what he really is, a independent, not a democrat. Of course, his cult of personality will just follow him, not seeing what a hypocrite he is for doing so.

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      You might be wrong.Brooklyner
      3/31/16 10:42pm

      Why should anyone be obligated to vote for someone just because they’re a Democrat?

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    toothpetardBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 8:05pm

    disregard the ground shifting.

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      clickSuckatoothpetard
      3/31/16 8:13pm

      Looks like Arkansas has something going on there...You know..the state that is not quite the “home state”...But Illinois, too....hmmm

      ETA: what’s a carpetbagger to do?

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      sleigherclickSucka
      3/31/16 8:20pm

      That’s the New Madrid Fault. Your point still stands though.

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    dragonhorseBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 11:39pm

    If you’re so tired of him lying, why don’t you point some of them out? And, for the record, Mme Secy, annoying =/= lying. You cannot imagine how tired I am of your lies to US.

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      Just Sayingdragonhorse
      4/03/16 1:53pm

      Well you canjust read the previous comment about how much he is lying:

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      According to the latest tallies from Center for Responsive Politics, Clinton’s campaign has received $307,561 from people who work for oil and gas companies so far in the presidential race. Sanders has received about six times fewer dollars — $53,760.

      For Clinton, that’s 0.2 percent of the more than $159.9 million her campaign committee, Hillary for America, has raised. (For Sanders, his total comes to 0.04 percent of $139.8 million).

      However, the Greenpeace report says that when you add in the bundlers’ donations (lobbyists with any alleged tie to the fossil fuel industry), Clinton’s total rises to nearly $1.8 million. The fossil fuel industry’s share of the Clinton coffers goes up to 0.8 percent.

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      Hmmm.

      So, if you include anyone who was ever a lobbyist that ever had any alleged tie to some company connected to oil and gas, then Clinton’s percentage goes allllllll the way up to 0.8%.

      WOW! That’s almost a whole percentage point of all the money she’s raised! I can see why people would be worried about her loyalties...

      [*eyeroll*]

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      p.s.:

      So far, 97.7 percent of donations from people connected the oil and gas industry have gone to Republicans.

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      In other words, 97.7 percent of the people in the oil and gas industry are putting their money on desperately trying to stop Hillary Clinton from being elected President.

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      dragonhorseJust Saying
      4/03/16 3:12pm

      Fair enough. But, comparing HRC to the batshit GOP is like comparing her to Godzilla—and there is no way Godzilla will ever get my vote. However, even if she’s not directly beholden to those interests, her policies still pale, for me, in comparison to Sanders’s—and that goes beyond, simply, voting record, to the reasoning behind their votes. Despite her disingenuous claims to the contrary, her support of the KXL, and her tentative, cagey stands on fracking, are troubling, to say the least. I wouldn’t accuse her, necessarily, of direct quid pro quo corruption (and neither has Bernie), but pointing to her own history as being in line with those same corporate interests is not a lie.

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    Bernie RubbleBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 11:00pm

    Bernie and his followers are some of the most obnoxious people in the United States. I’m sick of listening to the jerks myself, I can only imagine how Hillary feels after all the lies and bullshit shit talking those clowns do.

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      PrettyLegitBernie Rubble
      3/31/16 11:02pm

      And yet she fails to ever address any of their criticism. . . funny how that works. “Stop accusing me of things that I did and refuse to discuss!”

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      KittenMorningsBernie Rubble
      3/31/16 11:10pm

      You forgot that this was actually GREENPEACE and not Bernie Sanders. They are not endorsing the Sanders campaign, and they have had it in for her for a while. The two have nothing to do with one another.

      It’s pretty gross to blame this on Sanders telling “lies” when it was a polite question that was in direct response to a conversation she had with a union in Iowa about pledging not to accept money from oil and gas. It was either sneaky or paranoid on Clinton’s part. Either way, she was avoiding answering the question.

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    DissidentSocialistBrendan O'Connor
    3/31/16 8:15pm

    Politicians getting paid to destroy the Earth’s climate is generally bad, but when a woman does it confidently it’s SO BADASS!

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      K JDissidentSocialist
      3/31/16 8:25pm

      There’s also the hilarious assumption that Hilldog getting all butthurt and petulant is somehow out of character for her. Notice she doesn’t actually answer the question, and tries to make it about someone else. Slick Willie 2; coming soon!

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      pantalonesDissidentSocialist
      3/31/16 8:47pm

      I know, right???

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