Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton argued in an interview aired Sunday that rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was putting forth an “artful smear” to spin the donations she has received from Wall Street.
CBS News host John Dickerson asked Clinton to respond to a comment she made at the last debate where she said that financial interests weren’t giving her much money, which fact checkers later debunked.
“That’s just not the calculation that we’ve done but if that’s somebody’s analysis I’m not going to argue with it,” Clinton said.
Then, she turned the argument toward Sanders.
“What the Sanders campaign is trying to do is link donations to my
political campaign or really donations to anyone’s political campaign,
with undue influence with changing people’s views and votes. I’ve never
ever done that and I really do resent the implication or as I said the
other night the insinuation,” Clinton said. “You know this is a very artful smear and I’m not just going to sit and take it anymore.”
He is and she shouldn’t let him get away with it. He is not the nice little ol’ non-politician that he makes himself out to be. He sings one note and that’s all there is.
OK – please take my advice – stop repeating “artful” – falls as flat as “Change you can Xerox.” Just say what it is without the qualifier – a smear.
Somebody´s being pretty artful here.
Clinton summons Tom Hagen: “This committee owes an apology, this committee owes an apology. An apology, Senator!”
Sanders got 4.3 million dollars worth of help from GOPers in Iowa in the form of anti-Clinton ads. Why didn’t he get upset about the millionaires and billionaires who were trying to influence the Democratic Primary there? Is the oligarchy cash ok when it’s spent against your opponent?