Ok, it's not Lee Atwater GOP negative, to say the least, but he is directly attacking HRC now. He certainly did at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Saturday night where he took shots at her on Iraq, Bill Clinton's gay rights record in the 90s and Keystone.
My reactions:
1. It shows new respect for her as well. As Lincoln Chaffee explained when he pulled the plug on his Quioxtic campaign, 'It's been a very good week for the Secretary.'
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/obviously-its-good-week-for-secretary.html
Bernie also realizes this and so he feels he needs to draw a sharper contrast.
2. Despite his attacks, he was totally overshadowed by her speech at Jefferson-Jackson which was subsequent to Bernie and then O'Malley.
Just the reaction of the crowd. While certainly Bernie and O'Malley each got their own share of cheers during their respective speeches, during HRC's it felt like her acceptance speech at the convention.
3. I find it a little tiresome to rehash her 2002 Iraq vote again and again. I agree she was wrong. I like Bernie always opposed that war from the start. Another who opposed it was Barney Frank. I agree with the Congressman-former, but for me he will always be Congressman Frank.
Frank agrees she was wrong but is still giving his fullthroated support for her campaign.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/why-progressives-shouldnt-support-bernie-120484
Frank, like me, doesn't see a 2002 vote as some kind of litmus test. Good and decent people can make a mistake. At least she calls it a mistake which is more than we can say for Bernie's vote against the Brady bill.
It's understandable why Bernie is concerned. HRC's Benghazi testimony impressed many Bernie supporters as well. Here's what one said:
"As an active Democrat who has remained, thus far, undecided, her performance here and at the debate have gone a long way toward convincing me to support Clinton instead of Sanders; even though, politically, my ideals line up more closely with Sanders' democratic socialism than Clinton's quasi-third way centrism."
"If a Democrat wins the 2016 election, her or his main job as I see it will be defending the achievements of the Obama administration, which will surely be under even more sustained attack once he leaves office. Any major expansion to that legacy will need to be incremental given a hostile, partisan Congress that, at least in the House, is pretty much "locked in" by gerrymandering until the next redistricting cycle."
"In that light, I'm increasingly leaning toward Hillary, not so much based on what she believes but on her competence, both as a public official and as a politician who knows how to punch back."\
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sounded-presidential-at.html
While voting for Iraq, voting against the Brady bill was at least as big a mistake. Consider that the number of Americans dead to domestic gun violence dwarfs how many Americans who have died in Iraq by about 10 times.
My reactions:
1. It shows new respect for her as well. As Lincoln Chaffee explained when he pulled the plug on his Quioxtic campaign, 'It's been a very good week for the Secretary.'
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/obviously-its-good-week-for-secretary.html
Bernie also realizes this and so he feels he needs to draw a sharper contrast.
2. Despite his attacks, he was totally overshadowed by her speech at Jefferson-Jackson which was subsequent to Bernie and then O'Malley.
Just the reaction of the crowd. While certainly Bernie and O'Malley each got their own share of cheers during their respective speeches, during HRC's it felt like her acceptance speech at the convention.
3. I find it a little tiresome to rehash her 2002 Iraq vote again and again. I agree she was wrong. I like Bernie always opposed that war from the start. Another who opposed it was Barney Frank. I agree with the Congressman-former, but for me he will always be Congressman Frank.
Frank agrees she was wrong but is still giving his fullthroated support for her campaign.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/why-progressives-shouldnt-support-bernie-120484
Frank, like me, doesn't see a 2002 vote as some kind of litmus test. Good and decent people can make a mistake. At least she calls it a mistake which is more than we can say for Bernie's vote against the Brady bill.
It's understandable why Bernie is concerned. HRC's Benghazi testimony impressed many Bernie supporters as well. Here's what one said:
"As an active Democrat who has remained, thus far, undecided, her performance here and at the debate have gone a long way toward convincing me to support Clinton instead of Sanders; even though, politically, my ideals line up more closely with Sanders' democratic socialism than Clinton's quasi-third way centrism."
"If a Democrat wins the 2016 election, her or his main job as I see it will be defending the achievements of the Obama administration, which will surely be under even more sustained attack once he leaves office. Any major expansion to that legacy will need to be incremental given a hostile, partisan Congress that, at least in the House, is pretty much "locked in" by gerrymandering until the next redistricting cycle."
"In that light, I'm increasingly leaning toward Hillary, not so much based on what she believes but on her competence, both as a public official and as a politician who knows how to punch back."\
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sounded-presidential-at.html
While voting for Iraq, voting against the Brady bill was at least as big a mistake. Consider that the number of Americans dead to domestic gun violence dwarfs how many Americans who have died in Iraq by about 10 times.
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