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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders's attack machine comes back to haunt him [View all]
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She also recalled that Sanders in 2016 claimed she was unqualified although she had a lot more experience than he did, and got a lot more done than he had, but that was his attack on me. She warned, I just think people need to pay attention because we want, hopefully, to elect a president whos going to try to bring us together, and not either turn a blind eye, or actually reward the kind of insulting, attacking, demeaning, degrading behavior that weve seen from this current administration..
This comes on the heels of another flap in which Sanders publicly apologized to former vice president Joe Biden for his campaign sending around an op-ed accusing Biden of corruption a rare moment of contrition for Sanders.
And in yet another blowup over Sanderss honesty, his attempt to insinuate that Biden favored Social Security cuts (taking a sarcastic comment out of context) was rated false by pundits and fact-checkers. Paul Krugman of the New York Times blasted Sanders for this move: The Sanders campaign has flat-out lied about things Biden said in 2018 about Social Security, and it has refused to admit the falsehood. This is bad; it is, indeed, almost Trumpian.....
Warren wants to fight while Buttigieg wants to bring people together. Sanders thinks capitalism is crooked and capitalists are crooks; Klobuchar wants to be the president not for half of America, but for all of America. To some extent, this contrast is the difference between leading a movement where getting things done and making deals are irrelevant (or even a sign of weakness!) and trying to govern in the messy world of real politics wherein the other party will never vanish and disagreements will divide even ones own party.
If Sanders is feeling the heat now, it is only because his critics and competitors are sick of giving him a free pass to present himself as an honest, pure idealist while playing Trumpian politics. Put differently, two women Warren and now Clinton have had enough of his thinly disguised misogyny.
This comes on the heels of another flap in which Sanders publicly apologized to former vice president Joe Biden for his campaign sending around an op-ed accusing Biden of corruption a rare moment of contrition for Sanders.
And in yet another blowup over Sanderss honesty, his attempt to insinuate that Biden favored Social Security cuts (taking a sarcastic comment out of context) was rated false by pundits and fact-checkers. Paul Krugman of the New York Times blasted Sanders for this move: The Sanders campaign has flat-out lied about things Biden said in 2018 about Social Security, and it has refused to admit the falsehood. This is bad; it is, indeed, almost Trumpian.....
Warren wants to fight while Buttigieg wants to bring people together. Sanders thinks capitalism is crooked and capitalists are crooks; Klobuchar wants to be the president not for half of America, but for all of America. To some extent, this contrast is the difference between leading a movement where getting things done and making deals are irrelevant (or even a sign of weakness!) and trying to govern in the messy world of real politics wherein the other party will never vanish and disagreements will divide even ones own party.
If Sanders is feeling the heat now, it is only because his critics and competitors are sick of giving him a free pass to present himself as an honest, pure idealist while playing Trumpian politics. Put differently, two women Warren and now Clinton have had enough of his thinly disguised misogyny.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Lacks the racism and misogyny of many of Cenk's screeds. But he's a Left Wing hero now.
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#84
i didn't bother to read it. why the hell would i. after trump she'll be calling dems socialist again
Kurt V.
Jan 2020
#20
How entitled does someone have to be to 'splain to someone else what they *really* think?
lapucelle
Jan 2020
#76
Certainly Cenk used to be a RWer....and very racist and misogynist. Expelled from Justice Dems even.
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#89
His comment came after he was asked about Hillary's people calling him unqualified.
aikoaiko
Jan 2020
#13
He isn't a dem..he's an independent. He's using the dem party to run his campaign as he did in 16
Thekaspervote
Jan 2020
#31
Again, there's more to the Clinton/Sanders "qualified to be President" dustup
TiberiusB
Jan 2020
#23
sanders was such a weak candidate that he has never been vetted and was treated with kid gloves
Gothmog
Jan 2020
#43
Her analysis is spot on. In doling out honest criticism of Sanders, she shows she is certainly
emmaverybo
Jan 2020
#45
Hillary Clinton was correct to be worried about sanders' bogus attacks and lies on real Democrats
Gothmog
Jan 2020
#46
sanders is such a weak general election candidate that trump will easily win 45+ states
Gothmog
Jan 2020
#57
Thank you!! Politics is a very messy business. It's not about purity and governing just the far left
Thekaspervote
Jan 2020
#64
Coming back to haunt him? Looks to me like it's propelling him to Number 1 position!
m-lekktor
Jan 2020
#95