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by RockyMcNuts 3834 days ago
There's extremely bad blood between the Hillary and Sanders campaigns, and the Sanders guys think the DNC fabricated a scandal by immediately going public, and possibly set them up.

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/the-sanders-campaign-is-takin...

There's a big difference between Obama and Hillary, where he's pretty saturnine about attacks on him even when they get pretty crazy, and she takes things more personally and circles the wagons and counterattacks.

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It's been pretty amicable but I think this incident is where they start putting iron into their gloves and spurs on their heels.
Sanders personally took a jab at Clinton during his apology, saying he wasn't sure that her campaign didn't do the same thing, but providing no evidence of that.
How can he when the company in question and the DNC are both for Hillary. How can they know if there is evidence with out the cooperation of those entities. Hence why they are suing to gain access to those records.
The characterization was that Sanders is "Saturnine" while Clinton is circling the wagons and counterattacking.

Clinton said that she was ready to move on from this, while Sanders is looking for an investigation.

Since there's nothing else to discover about the Sanders campaign, the public and repeated calls for investigation is presumably to find a smoking gun to prosecute the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the data company for collusion and worse.

Seems like a counter-attack to me.

Of course she was ready to move on. That would provide for maximum damage to the Sanders campaign and minimum investigation into hers.

I trust her less that I trust Trump, and that's not at all.

As if the public needs a smoking gun when the Clinton is surrounded by scandals from A to Z.

It amazes me that Sanders isn't going guns-a-blazing with all the Scandals and Corruption that emanates from the Clinton name brand.

Why look for the needle in a haystack when you have a stack of needles sitting next to the haystack?

Just look at how many vids exist, even from years ago, of Hillary caught in various lies:

https://www.google.com/search?q=video+of+hillary+lying&rlz=1...

The problem is our politicians have a nasty habit of overplaying their hand on every. single. "scandal." It starts to sound like the boy who cried wolf. Every time a new one pops up, it's hard to tell whether it is of substance or just another game of political football. It makes sense that after two decades of attacks on their name, the public is a little more hesitant to be riled up.
All the accusations of Scandals and Corruption that emanate from the Republican echo chamber.

There, ftfy.

She was ready to move on when someone else got attacked, yes. Why wouldn't she? She only stands to benefit from ignoring the issue, and she stands to suffer for engaging.
>The characterization was that Sanders is "Saturnine"

The characterization was of Obama, not Sanders. Or at least that's what the post says right now.

>There's a big difference between Obama and Hillary

Did you mean between Sanders and Hillary? Or are you referring to past election?

It seems to me you could make a case for either one.