Dear reader,
Today, I was shocked to find another article attacking our presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton.
A new accusation has been brought to light, and like some of you, I became dumbfounded at first. I questioned my own support for Hillary Clinton. Is she really a flip-flopper, I thought? Is she a typical politician, ready to say and do anything to get elected? Say it ain’t so!
First, CNN reported the story of a coal miner who confronted Mrs. Clinton in West Virginia. During the confrontation, Hillary responded:
"I don't know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context for what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time," Clinton said. "It was a misstatement because what I was saying is the way things are going now, they will continue to lose jobs. It didn't mean that we were going to do it. What I said is that is going to happen unless we take action to help and prevent it."
NPR, of course, did a fact-check and it turns out, Hillary was, once again, being honest:
Clinton did tell a town hall audience in Columbus, Ohio in March that "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." But that was part of a longer answer about the need to help blue-collar workers adjust. "We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people," Clinton said. "Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on. Read more: www.npr.org/...
To make matters worse for a Bernie supporter, if you recall a few weeks ago in December, Bernie Sanders stated the following:
Sanders would ban mountaintop coal mining, a common practice in Appalachian states, and would invest in the area’s communities. But his climate plan does not specify how much money it would invest in the region. Sanders is introducing legislation that would provide fossil fuel industry workers a benefits package, including educational opportunities, job training and healthcare, as the country transitions to clean energy.
Read more: www.rawstory.com/...
But today, Sanders promised to keep jobs in coal-mining areas and said,
“In my view, we have got to invest $41 billion rebuilding coal communities...” Read more: www.nytimes.com/...
A tactic of complete political opportunism in the wake of Hillary’s unfortunate circumstances, as he never detailed his proposals in the past. Yet, this goes unnoticed.
Please stop the attacks; it makes you look desperate.