Hillary Just Successfully Attacked Bernie Sanders for Supporting a Bill Her Husband Signed

-Clinton criticizes Bernie for voting to deregulate Wall Street in one instance.

-Clinton hires Gensler as CFO, the man who drafted the very same legislation that deregulated Wall Street in which Bernie voted to pass. This insinuates that Bernie does not want to actually take on Wall Street or is at least not as serious as Clinton about doing so.

-Clinton criticizes Bernie for his past record of this event all while having hired Gensler.

-You contend that its somehow not hypocritical that Hillary has hired Gensler as her own CFO, because "he's good at managing the finances of a campaign."

Wow. I guess the obvious response is that if you truly stand for something, you don't hire people who have completely gone against that value. It must be that Gensler is so good at his job that Clinton just absolutely had to have him on board. Absolutely no one could do the job like Gensler! I mean that explains why we have records of even Bernie himself propositioning Gensler for the job because Gensler is just so God damn good at what he does!. . . Except we don't. We have record of Bernie attempting to block Gensler's Obama nomination.

But even you know that's not the greatest argument, so you had to say this:

I can assure you, not every one working on Sanders's campaign agrees with hime 100% one every single policy he has. Would you honestly hold it against Sanders if you found out his campaign manager wasn't all that opposed to the death penalty?

Except, you're equating all political opinions with each other without acknowledging the fact that regulating Wall Street is 100% what Bernie Sanders stands for. And whether or not the people who work for Sanders (or vote for him for that matter) share 100% of his viewpoints is worlds different than having actually introduced legislation into the government to be put into effect. With your argument your essentially saying that Gensler is equivalent to any person off the street, which he is clearly not. I have not personally introduced legislation which deregulates Wall Street. I'm sure you haven't either. I'm sure no one on Bernie's team has.

Not sure why I wasted so much time replying to you. I've seen your post history and its pretty narrow minded on what should be an otherwise unarguable situation, even for adamant Clinton supporters.

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