Van Jones on CNN today argued that if Bernie thinks the kind of attacks he's been making against HRC lately will serve him well in tonight's Flint debate he may want to think again.
He's been asking rhetorically 'what could be in that speech that was worth $650,000.'
Bernie says he's a democratic socialist not a Marxist who wants to take over the means of production. If that is so surely he understands that there is a market for speeches by a successful former Secretary of State.
It's not like Bernie hasn't done his own paid speeches. Is it his position that no one is allowed to do paid speeches? Or is it that you aren't allowed to be paid more than a certain sum?
His questioning suggests he thinks they overpaid her. But it's not just what you say in a speech that might make someone pay you big bucks, it's who you are or what you have done.
Why is this suddenly shocking? Why is nobody but Hillary being giving this kind of third degree? Why is Bernie sounding more and more like Breitbart News?
What does he hope to learn if the speech were made public? It seems to me there's nothing except to use this as a political weapon to knock her about with.
But Van Jones thinks that this is the wrong tact to be taking tonight. The people of Flint want answers to their immediate problem of clean water to bathe and cook with for themselves and their families.
The other thing BS-he has great initials!-seems to think will help in Michigan is to claim that the struggle of the people of Detroit, etc. are on her for supporting trade deals in the past.
We will likely hear about NAFTA yet again, etc.
This is part of why he does so poor with black voters, I'm not sure the folks of Flint will find it reassuring either. It's not about solutions but just trying to play political gotcha.
There are a number of reasons for stagnant wages-far form solely about NAFTA. This is the same sort of one-dimensional attack he always fall back on, rather than looking at a comprehensive solution.
HRC is working on just that.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/04/hillary-clinton-detroit/81320376/
What Bernie might want to keep in mind tonight is twofold:
1. Flint wants action not just his usual stump speech, or one-dimensional political attacks. Remember what Karen Weaver said when it was pointed out that Bernie had called for Rick Snyder to step down.
She said 'A lot of people called for that.'
Of course, Bernie only said that after HRC had already brought the issue of Flint on her own at the end of a debate.
2. Flint really loves Hillary. If he spends a lot of time trying to bash her it might not help him as much as he hopes.
He's been asking rhetorically 'what could be in that speech that was worth $650,000.'
Bernie says he's a democratic socialist not a Marxist who wants to take over the means of production. If that is so surely he understands that there is a market for speeches by a successful former Secretary of State.
It's not like Bernie hasn't done his own paid speeches. Is it his position that no one is allowed to do paid speeches? Or is it that you aren't allowed to be paid more than a certain sum?
His questioning suggests he thinks they overpaid her. But it's not just what you say in a speech that might make someone pay you big bucks, it's who you are or what you have done.
Why is this suddenly shocking? Why is nobody but Hillary being giving this kind of third degree? Why is Bernie sounding more and more like Breitbart News?
What does he hope to learn if the speech were made public? It seems to me there's nothing except to use this as a political weapon to knock her about with.
But Van Jones thinks that this is the wrong tact to be taking tonight. The people of Flint want answers to their immediate problem of clean water to bathe and cook with for themselves and their families.
The other thing BS-he has great initials!-seems to think will help in Michigan is to claim that the struggle of the people of Detroit, etc. are on her for supporting trade deals in the past.
We will likely hear about NAFTA yet again, etc.
This is part of why he does so poor with black voters, I'm not sure the folks of Flint will find it reassuring either. It's not about solutions but just trying to play political gotcha.
There are a number of reasons for stagnant wages-far form solely about NAFTA. This is the same sort of one-dimensional attack he always fall back on, rather than looking at a comprehensive solution.
HRC is working on just that.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/04/hillary-clinton-detroit/81320376/
What Bernie might want to keep in mind tonight is twofold:
1. Flint wants action not just his usual stump speech, or one-dimensional political attacks. Remember what Karen Weaver said when it was pointed out that Bernie had called for Rick Snyder to step down.
She said 'A lot of people called for that.'
Of course, Bernie only said that after HRC had already brought the issue of Flint on her own at the end of a debate.
2. Flint really loves Hillary. If he spends a lot of time trying to bash her it might not help him as much as he hopes.
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