Let’s first figure out what she’s complaining about. As near as I can tell, and I’ve read a lot about her book, she claims that Trump would never have called her Crooked Hillary had Bernie not hammered her for accepting obscene fees to speak before her corporate overlords. She makes that claim w/o any supporting evidence. Allow me to stipulate that neither Bernie nor Cheeto would have hammered her corporate ties had she not done what they accused her of doing. She accepted about $22 million in fees for speeches, most of the money coming from those who routinely lobby government. Here’s a pretty comprehensive rundown of what she got and from whom. Scroll down to that bottom graph and, if you have it, use a magnifying glass.
Bernie Sanders ran a campaign based largely on challenging the notion that those with the big coffers and powerful lobbyists should determine our country’s future. Is Hillary really saying that Sanders should not have made this a campaign issue? If so, she never learned anything about politics or about running for office. She made those speeches, she banked those big bucks, so it’s fair game.
Once Clinton won the nomination, Bernie Sanders and his staff worked to ensure that her coronation in Philadelphia was a huge success. Despite King Cheeto’s proclaiming that Bernie should resent Hillary and support him instead, Bernie did everything he could on Clinton’s behalf. First at the convention. More from the convention. And then on the campaign trail. He campaigned tirelessly for her, most notably in states that she didn’t bother to visit. States like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, among others. Also Colorado, North Carolina (with Clinton), Iowa, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. Check out this New Yorker article. An excerpt:
Since conceding defeat in the primaries, Sanders has been one of the real champions of this campaign. He let his supporters yell at him and deride him as a sellout in bleak delegate breakfasts at the Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia, as he endorsed Clinton and explained why they needed to do the same. He made getting support for her his priority, putting aside any subtle, undermining gestures that might have better preserved his rebel-rock-star status. He has kept doing so despite other revelations in the Podesta e-mails, ones that are not about him personally but about issues that he believes in—for example, about money in politics, as exemplified by the Clinton team’s nurturing of donors. And he has earned the right to negotiate hard on such issues in the future.
As Sanders finished his speech in Raleigh—“We have to do everything that we can to elect Secretary Clinton!”—Clinton and Pharrell were on their feet, cheering. “Wow!” Clinton said, when she took to the rostrum. “Whew! I gotta say, after hearing from these two extraordinary men, I feel all fired up and ready to go for the next five days!” She knew what it was like to run against Sanders. Having him on her side was “a lot more fun.” A few hours later, Sanders was off on his own to Iowa. Trump is ahead in that state, in the latest average of polls, by about two and a half points. Sanders had three events scheduled for Friday—Cedar Falls, Iowa City, Davenport. On Saturday, there would be more.
That was but a sample of what Bernie Sanders did on behalf of Hillary during the campaign.
Here’s what Hillary now has to say about Bernie:
I didn’t get anything like that respect from Sanders and his supporters. And it hurt, you know, to have basically captured the nomination, ending up with more than 4 million votes than he had. But he dragged it out, and he was so reluctant. But why would we be surprised? He’s not a Democrat. And that’s not a slam on him; that’s just a repetition of what he says about himself.
How much more fucking respect did she think she deserved? He went all in for her, pleaded with his supporters to vote for her, campaigned for and with her right up until Election Day, and this is how she responds?
As to this ‘he’s not a Democrat’ meme. He represents far more of what the Democratic Party has traditionally stood for than Shillary ever has. In Hillaryworld, being a Democrat means running interference for Goldman Sachs.
What Hillary is now engaged in is revisionist history. Sometimes revisionist history is worthwhile. When truth is on its side. Here’s what to remember: In this case, she is lying and the record PROVES she is lying.
Another instance where facts have a liberal bias. Remember this the next time some Third Way lackey tells us we have to fall in line for the next corporate enabler fresh off the Clinton/Carper assembly line.