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[65.55.90.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ri7si5559961oeb.103.2015.09.06.04.48.51 for <john.podesta@gmail.com> (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of brentbbi@webtv.net designates 65.55.90.93 as permitted sender) client-ip=65.55.90.93; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of brentbbi@webtv.net designates 65.55.90.93 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=brentbbi@webtv.net Received: from SNT404-EAS350 ([65.55.90.72]) by SNT004-OMC2S18.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 04:48:51 -0700 X-TMN: [1Xrwbx3hmYVrpAI8RlrbWS26YnigLj5X] X-Originating-Email: [brentbbi@webtv.net] Message-ID: <SNT404-EAS3508AC2F99E4A5F0641D124DF550@phx.gbl> Return-Path: brentbbi@webtv.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Brent Budowsky <brentbbi@webtv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 07:48:50 -0400 Subject: Hillary Clinton 2016: Bernie Sanders attack from her proxies To: John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com>, Roy Spence <roy.spence@gsdm.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Sep 2015 11:48:51.0254 (UTC) FILETIME=[FFC5D560:01D0E899] I would not discourage either or both of you from sharing this note directly= with Hillary Clinton because if she wants to become president she needs to unders= tand the point I am making her with crystal clarity. Someone sent me the story from Politico I link below suggesting that the Hil= lary Clinton campaign is telling surrogates to attack Bernie Sanders and is so as= hamed and embarrassed by their own talking points that they refuse to put in writi= ng what they are telling surrogates to say about why she should become president. I cannot think of anything more stupid and self-destructive for a campaign t= o do, especially for a candidate who has dangerously low levels of public trust, t= han writing surreptitious talking points to attack an opponent whose support is premised on cleaning up politics and whose supporters----unlike some who sur= round Hillary Clinton----are not in it for the money, or to get a job in her admin= istration that will not happen if this kind of thing continues, or to supplement their lobb= ying or consulting incomes. =20 I spent three hours yesterday at George Washington University's back to scho= ol engagement fair where 500 campus groups and clubs had booths to interact with incoming students. There were Democratic and Republican booths, but th= e only two candidates who had booths were Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders. There was no Hillary Clinton booth. The Bernie Sanders booth---I talked to them and kept an eye on them---spent t= he entire three hours getting names and contact information on a yellow pad for= students who want to actively support Bernie. This is happening at every major campu= s in America. And at a major university in Washington, D.C., where many of the kids come h= ere because of an interest in politics and are already working as interns, there= was not one student who gave enough of a damn for Hillary to open a booth, or even w= ear a Hillary button----I didn't see one and I was looking. If there are secret Clinton talking points to surrogates to attack Bernie---= and I now believe the story is true-----she is going to create ill-will that neither s= he nor her staff can even imagine. There are people entering politics for the first ti= me, especially but not only young people, who begin with some level of distrust towards Hil= lary, who will be disgusted by these attacks against him by Clinton through surrog= ates and many----who she will desperately need in November if she is nominated---= -will just stay home because they are not interested in a slightly better version o= f a system they believe is corrupt. Moreover, Bernie is a pro, and his inclination will be to play ball if Hilla= ry is nominated and urge his supporters to come around. What will happen if this continues is Bernie will get pissed off and lash back and I can write t= he words he will say if Clinton tactics anger him----FBI investigation and aide= s taking the Fifth will be among them---and it will not be pretty. The way to handle Bernie is to do what I have done in my columns---give high= praise to Hillary, emphasize the historic moment for women and her vast qualifications, counter-attack against the Republican inquisitions, make lov= e to Bernie and his idealistic supporters, and co-opt as many of his progressi= ve issues as possible, such as increasing social security benefits and paying f= or it through a transaction tax on Wall Street. The way NOT to handle Bernie is to telegraph how afraid the Clinton campaign= is of him, and then dispense covert talking points that cannot be put in wri= ting that embody the oldest politics that will only infuriate many liberal Democr= ats and give an already-biased media a legitimate story line to push. Read the Sunday NY Times story about all the tech wizards doing for Bernie f= or free what Hillary has to pay for, and imagine how they will feel when they r= ead the Politico story I link below....imagine what the college kids for Bernie will= feel when these surrogate attacks on Bernie become more visible....what the Hillary ca= mpaign should be doing is attracting her own student supports, especially women students, with a vision and inspiration in talking points that should be so powerful in everything good they say about Hillary that they should be leake= d with pride and not negative politics that can't be put in writing and have t= o be hidden like grand jury testimony because her well-paid consultants do not wa= nt anyone to know why they think she should become president..... Candidly, bluntly, with all of the verbal brutality I can muster the Clint= on campaign has some very big problems and the kind of politics in the Politico story I l= ink here are Exhibit A of why the problems exist, and Exhibit B of why they must be changed if she wants to be nominated and elected. If nobody else will do it, I will volunteer to take an hour to write the tal= king points about what surrogates should be saying, about why she should be president, that will make voters so proud that the campaign should call a press confere= nce to publicly release the talking points---and I would not accept a dime and I= damn well do not want a job now or ever and I won't plead for her to write an end= orsement of the consultant business I won't ever do..... Hillary Clinton needs to think seriously about these things while there is s= till time. =20 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-2016-proxies-attack-be= rnie-sanders-213359 Sent from my iPad=