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In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartmann, Sanders should have kept her name out of his response. [View all]SunSeeker
(51,563 posts)44. Also, not everyone has been "shouting" about guns. The bullies are on the NRA side.
In fact, the people who support reasonable gun control have been effectively silenced by the NRA for far too long. Even if he didn't mean to be sexist, I found Sanders comment to be an offensive NRA talking point. The NRA loves to label gun control activists as "emotional" or merely "appealing to emotion." That downplays the merit of their arguments and belittles them, much like women are belittled as being "hystetical" when they speak up.
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Thom Hartmann, Sanders should have kept her name out of his response. [View all]
BlueCaliDem
Oct 2015
OP
Thanks, Thiningabout. After reading so many posts on how Hillary Clinton is "taking his words out of
BlueCaliDem
Oct 2015
#9
Oh, believe me, Hillary Clinton's thicker than any other candidate's running.
BlueCaliDem
Oct 2015
#80
Do you have a link to a statement by Bernie supporting the gun-show loophole?
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#110
Elections are popularity contests, first and foremost. You're a Sanders supporter so I understand
BlueCaliDem
Oct 2015
#12
I don't understand that, either. A simple apology, like the one in my OP, would have
BlueCaliDem
Oct 2015
#15
I just find all of this posturing to be hypocritical. What I am used to enduring in political speech
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2015
#5
I'm quoting the OP. The Bible speaks negatively about homosexuality and about women speaking
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2015
#20
Optics. Since he refuses to apologize, he's basically affirming Hillary's charge.
BlueCaliDem
Oct 2015
#17
Bernie defended her against the media and their email crap, in the same way, same tone he said
Autumn
Oct 2015
#39
No combing necessary. He said the same thing to O'Malley a couple minutes later.
Jim Lane
Oct 2015
#97
No he did not. He clearly was speaking about the shouting between the GC factions.
Autumn
Oct 2015
#84
He didn't. My OP was addressed to him since he admitted in his video that he visits DU
BlueCaliDem
Oct 2015
#32
Everyone has been shouting about guns. How was this interpreted as just Hillary anyway?
Vinca
Oct 2015
#35
Also, not everyone has been "shouting" about guns. The bullies are on the NRA side.
SunSeeker
Oct 2015
#44
The gun control proponents have not been "shouting." That is an unfair put down.
SunSeeker
Oct 2015
#48
The right wing and NRA showed ridiculous outrage over a reasonable package of regulations.
SunSeeker
Oct 2015
#52
They are semiautomatic centerfire rifles - the most popular rifles in America for 25 years.
hack89
Oct 2015
#63
Sanders supports an assault weapons ban. Do you think that makes him a "gun grabber"? nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2015
#65
No. Yet you call Hillary a gun grabber for supporting an assault weapons ban. Why?
SunSeeker
Oct 2015
#70
"As Senator from a rural State, what I can tell Secretary Clinton, "that all the shouting in the
Cha
Oct 2015
#94
Yup. A person that thin-skinned, as the president? That is frightening, actually.
djean111
Oct 2015
#108
She doesn't really need excuses to start wars, anyway, at least, not in the Middle East.
merrily
Oct 2015
#109