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Time Magazine Dispels Myth of a Positive Campaign by HRC and that Sanders has not been Vetted
Great read overall, but some interesting bits in there that dispel some good old DU stories from the usual suspects.
First off, the notion that Clinton handled Sanders with kid gloves and that her campaign was a very positive one (which I have read here frequently)
If Sanders had promised never to go negative, no Clinton had ever done so. The hammer fell during the first debate in October. When a moderator asked Clinton if Sanders had a tough enough record on guns, she pounced. “No, not at all,” Clinton said of her rival, who represents a mostly rural state. Months later, Sanders still smarts over the constant attacks about guns.“The idea that I am being called a tool of the NRA, a supporter of the NRA, is really quite outrageous,” he says.
Soon the hits from Clinton’s boosters were relentless. Sanders’ aides expected them, but the candidate’s shock at the Clintons’ hard-nosed politics was unmistakable. The tactics went against his hopes for a high-minded campaign fought on issues, not on microfiche or her email practices. And as Sanders’ crowds grew, so did his poll numbers and contributions from small donors. And so did the Clinton attacks
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Soon the hits from Clinton’s boosters were relentless. Sanders’ aides expected them, but the candidate’s shock at the Clintons’ hard-nosed politics was unmistakable. The tactics went against his hopes for a high-minded campaign fought on issues, not on microfiche or her email practices. And as Sanders’ crowds grew, so did his poll numbers and contributions from small donors. And so did the Clinton attacks
On the absurd notion that Sanders polls well and is generally popular because he has not been vetted and nobody has dug dirt up on him....
He had briefly forgotten the Clintons’ appetite for a political brawl.
In fact, the Clinton machine was just warming up. Clinton researchers had spent months digging into Sanders’ vulnerabilities—standard operating procedure for any modern campaign—and countless outside allies offered their binders of research too. There was plenty to go around: he was once ambivalent about South American socialist dictatorships, he honeymooned in the Soviet Union, he voted against the Wall Street bailout that ultimately helped U.S. autoworkers and he had been critical of Barack Obama’s first term. Clinton tagged Sanders for being AWOL during the fight for health care in 1993 and ’94, despite plenty of TV footage and photography to the contrary. Fair or not, the onslaught left Sanders upset; he had never faced this kind of scrutiny. “We know a lot of stuff has been leaked into the papers which are lies and distortions,” Sanders says. “Their response is, ‘Look, that’s the world we live in, that’s what you gotta do.’ I understand that. I don’t think that’s what you gotta do.”
In fact, the Clinton machine was just warming up. Clinton researchers had spent months digging into Sanders’ vulnerabilities—standard operating procedure for any modern campaign—and countless outside allies offered their binders of research too. There was plenty to go around: he was once ambivalent about South American socialist dictatorships, he honeymooned in the Soviet Union, he voted against the Wall Street bailout that ultimately helped U.S. autoworkers and he had been critical of Barack Obama’s first term. Clinton tagged Sanders for being AWOL during the fight for health care in 1993 and ’94, despite plenty of TV footage and photography to the contrary. Fair or not, the onslaught left Sanders upset; he had never faced this kind of scrutiny. “We know a lot of stuff has been leaked into the papers which are lies and distortions,” Sanders says. “Their response is, ‘Look, that’s the world we live in, that’s what you gotta do.’ I understand that. I don’t think that’s what you gotta do.”
The win at all costs team dug deep and found nothing that stuck. Interesting.
Oh, about inevitability? Sure sounds like some aides were in fact looking for a coronation
Clinton aides, who from the start expected their boss to be the nominee, found themselves starting to despise Sanders and his unwillingness to stand aside to let the first woman lead a major party’s ticket.
Again, all in all a really good look at the Sanders campaign as a whole. But some very good jabs at the negative campaign run by Clinton and the subsequent response from Sanders (who somehow got labeled the negative one)
http://time.com/bernie-sanders-2016-campaign/
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She ain't getting up on my bed.
I bet Bernie smells like peppermint 
http://www.wikihow.com/Control-Fleas-by-Using-Peppermint
and now they're learning she can't win crooked either. 
You say the article proves that the narrative of Bernie not being vetted was a myth, but then you quote this:
Fair or not, the onslaught left Sanders upset; he had never faced this kind of scrutiny.
Almost as if he'd never been vetted, you mean?
Losing the rest of them didn't help, either. 
