Bill Clinton Launches Attack on Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire "Bill Clinton launched a sustained attack on Bernie Sanders at a New Hampshire campaign rally Sunday, tearing into the senator's rhetoric against Hillary Clinton and picking apart his spending plans. The former president appeared angry as he poured scorn on his wife's opponent, portraying the Sanders campaign as dishonest and his healthcare proposals as unrealistic. Bill Clinton said Sanders' message was "hermetically-sealed" from reality and ridiculed its implication that "anybody that doesn't agree... is a tool of the establishment.'" The remarks late Sunday in New Hampshire marked a significant escalation in the language Bill Clinton has used on the campaign trail and came as polls suggest Sanders could be headed for a clear victory in the state's upcoming primary." http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/08/bill-clinton-launches-attack-on-bernie-sanders-in-new-hampshire.html
How Bernie Sanders's Supporters Would Punish Wall Street Bankers "Back during the darkest days of the financial crisis, President Barack Obama summoned the heads of the big Wall Street banks to the White House and told them they had better get their act together. “My administration,” Obama said, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” Obama’s administration will soon come to an end, a prospect many bank executives anticipate with joy. But the pitchfork-wielding populists haven’t exactly gone away. Instead, many have rallied to the presidential candidacy of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. At a Feb. 7 rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sanders made it clear that unlike Obama, he would channel, rather than deflect, anti-Wall Street anger if elected president. To a throng of 1,500 voters packed into a community college gymnasium, Sanders vowed to crack down on Wall Street bankers. As he spoke, Sanders was continually interrupted by shouts from the audience of “Break ‘em up!” and “They should go to jail!” Interviews with rally-goers confirm that, nearly seven years after the end of the crisis and the ensuing recession, the desire to punish and reform the big banks has barely diminished. And many attendees were happy to share their own prescription for how the next president should handle Wall Street..." http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...s-supporters-would-punish-wall-street-bankers
Obama invited them to the white house and said: you own all of my party in Congress and half the republicans, at least. You have promised me 100 million or more in retirement benefits... what do the guys at the Federal Reserve want me to do next? Then we will put out a press release that makes it look like I was tough on you guys.