2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton Super PAC goes after Bernie, Linking Him To Hugo Chavez
If their best hit is that he bought some discounted heating oil for the people of Vermont from an elected country we are allowed to freely trade with, I guess they can smear everyone who buys gas from Citgo too..;..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn_55f73339e4b00e2cd5e79e11?utm_hp_ref=politics
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)Former congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) is mourning the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today, praising Chavez as someone who made a difference for poor people.
Kennedy told the AP that Chavez helped 2 million Americans through a heating assistance program that the two men worked on together through Kennedy's Citizen's Energy charity. Kennedy said Chavez donated 200 million gallons of heating oil over eight years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2013/03/06/ex-representative-joe-kennedy-praises-hugo-chavezs-charity/
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-gets-another-super-pac
The so-called Internet exemption was not intended to be used this way (it was created before the existence of super PACs), the Washington Post notes, but experts say Correct the Record is unlikely to face reprisal.
arcane1
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(8,760 posts)Luminous Animal
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arcane1
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(8,760 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)It's simple, like magnets.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Hillary Rodham Clinton and her supporters are the natural enemies of the socialist impetus that brought Chavez to power, and wow, do they hate Chavez!
They are totally unfeeling, in their hate.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Bonobo
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(8,760 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)there was hunger in the villages and they helped. Fuck these wankers. This is a giant f-you to the poor in this country if they do this and I can just HEAR bernie call them out for it. Tin ear, stone hearts, these people. No wonder they support her.
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restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)this is gonna backfire, and in a big way.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)We were hurting badly back in 2008 and Chavez was a hero out there.
You'd think Hillary would know that since she is supposedly an adopted New Yorker.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)but she is a big money corporatist first.
and you're right. I have family up in that region. The winters have been brutal, and people did literally freeze to death in their own homes. Chavez is somewhat of a folk hero in some regions.
it's just more evidence of how unplugged she truly is to the concerns of people who are not megarich.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)I would be be proud to be linked to that.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)are not running a negative and dirty campaign.....yet again!
Report1212
(661 posts)It really shows how Super PACs are a joke
KoKo
(84,711 posts)portlander23
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