In 2008, Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have thought too much of Chelsea Clinton’s attacks Tuesday on Bernie Sanders’s health care plan.
American Crossroads, a Republican 527 organization, produced a video which artfully casts Hillary’s 2008 condemnation of Barack Obama over his attacks against her health care proposal against Chelsea’s Sanders attack this campaign.
“Since when do Democrats attack one another on universal health care,” Hillary said, waving mailed flyers at a Cincinnati press conference in 2008.
“Sen. Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare,” Chelsea told a Manchester, New Hampshire crowd Tuesday.
“This is wrong and every Democrat should be outraged,” Hillary said, as the video cuts to Chelsea continuing, “Dismantle the CHIP Program,” referring to the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
“Enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove’s playbook,” and irate Hillary yelled.
“Dismantle Medicare,” Chelsea calmly continued.
“It is not only wrong, but it is undermining core Democratic principles,” Hillary fumes as the video shows a photo of the rival candidates from the 1990s with a hand-written inscription from Hillary saying, “To Bernie Sanders with thanks for your commitment to real health care access for all Americans and best wishes – Hillary Clinton 1993.”
After Chelsea repeats that Sanders wants to dismantle the federal program, Hillary shouts, “Shame on you!”
After Tuesday’s attack, the Sanders campaign spokeswoman Arianna Jones disputed Chelsea’s assertions, saying, “It is time for the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide health care as a right to every man, woman and child,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
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