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13005228, Clinton looked angry at the crowd
Posted by Mansa Musa, Thu Apr-14-16 11:13 PM
Especially when they were chanting Bernie...Bernie...Bernie.

He clearly exposed her double-talk on the minimum wage, Social Security, and fracking. She looked as right-wing as Dick Cheney on Israel-Palestine.

Sanders could have been more detailed in some of his answers. But Hillary's NY Daily News interview was full of straight-up lies, not just vagueness, like his was. If anybody thinks she is telling the truth when she says she "stood up" to Wall Street, I don't know what to say.

Also, her claims about the Commodity Futures Modernization Act are utterly deceptive. One of the authors of the swaps deregulation component of the act, Gary Gensler, is an advisor to the Clinton campaign (and Bill's former Undersecretary of the Treasury, after he left Goldman Sachs). Sanders only voted for this--arguably his only "pro-Wall Street vote" in his entire career--because it was tucked into an omnibus spending bill, and doing so was necessary to prevent a government shutdown by Congressional Republicans.

Moreover, Wall Street lobbyists essentially snuck these provisions into the bill. As Robert Scheer points out:

"Sanders soon figured out that he and almost all other Congress members had been tricked into providing a blank check for the marketing of bogus collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps made legal by the legislation, of which a key author was Gary Gensler, the former Goldman Sachs partner recruited by Clinton to be undersecretary of the treasury."

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/19/hillary-blames-bernie-old-clintonite-hustle-and-thats-rotten-shame

Yet, while Ensler works for her campaign, Clinton professes to criticize him for supporting the provisions Ensler helped write (to prevent a government shutdown).

Anyway, I doubt the debate will change more than a few people's minds, but it will be hard for anyone to spin this as a Clinton win.