He loves to condemn and throw spitballs over these litmus tests of his on who the True Progressive is.
'The Secretary has a Super PAC. I don not.'
'She supports corporate trade deals. I do not.'
'She got paid speeches. I do not.'
But when it's turned around on him as she did tonight, he's' not so happy.
http://diaryofarepublicanhaterblogspotcom.sharedby.co/share/a456Pz
It was a great comeback that she hadn't telegraphed at all. It took everyone by surprise, certainly Bernie was knocked on his heels.
"The former Secretary of State came ready to fight on Sunday night. She kept her hit on Sanders's opposition to the auto bailout well hidden in the run-up to the debate in order to get maximum impact when she dropped it on his head. Ditto her attack on him being the long Democrat to vote against the Export-Import bank. She is still not great when it comes to answering questions she doesn't want to answer. Her I'll-release-my-Wall-Street-speeches-when-everyone-else-does answer to a question on her high-paid speaking gigs was, still, not very good. And, she remains overly cautious as a candidate; when pressed whether people at the Environmental Protection Agency should lose their jobs over what happened in Flint, Clinton was unwilling to say they should -- a swing and a miss at a hanging curveball. Still, overall, this was a very solid showing by Clinton. On guns, on failing schools and on Flint, she was confident and effective."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/winners-and-losers-from-the-7th-democratic-presidential-debate/?postshare=2701457320146330&tid=ss_tw
He didn't take it well. I notice that when she's talking he's always very antsy and starts raising his hand like he's in class. But this is often after she's only been talking for 10 seconds.
"The Vermont Senator had effectively walked a fine line in the previous six debates when it came to attacking Clinton without coming across as either bullying or condescending. He tripped and fell while trying to execute that delicate dance on Sunday night. Sanders's "excuse me, I'm talking" rebuttal to Clinton hinted at the fact that he was losing his temper with her. His "can I finish please" retort ensured that his tone and his approach to someone trying to become the first female presidential nominee in either party would be THE story of the night."
He also again really stepped in it on race.
"Put aside the fact that Sanders misstepped on tone, he also did nothing to change the underlying dynamics of the race. If you think Wall Street is the problem for much of what ails the country, you were for Sanders before this debate and certainly for him after it too. But, as we know from the first 40 percent or so of states that have voted, there aren't enough of those people to make him the nominee. Sanders didn't knock Clinton off her game in any meaningful way, making the debate a loss for him. (Sidebar: His answer about white people not knowing what it is like to live in a ghetto or be poor would have been a massive gaffe if he was not as far behind in the delegate chase as he is.)"
He also again did something he does a lot of: made promises he can't keep. Deray McKesson, a major activist in Black Lives Matter, called him on this tonight.
"Bernie promised he would ensure that America does not have more folks in prisons than other counties. He's not being candid here. "
https://twitter.com/deray/status/706663199089688576
I've spoken in the past about an interesting 'trust gap' between whites and blacks on the candidates.
While the young white liberals who love him find him very trustworthy and don't trust her nearly so much, it's quite different among black voters.
One thing he does that may make many folks not trust him so much-and I would put myself among this group-is that making promises you can't keep makes me trust you less rather than more.
HRC's answers are more plausible as they deal with the world we live in today.
I know some may say we need to change this world. But I think you can make the case that even if your goal is to change the rules, it's better to have someone who understands them as well as she does the better to be able to navigate them and accomplish the things we Democrats want to see.
'The Secretary has a Super PAC. I don not.'
'She supports corporate trade deals. I do not.'
'She got paid speeches. I do not.'
But when it's turned around on him as she did tonight, he's' not so happy.
http://diaryofarepublicanhaterblogspotcom.sharedby.co/share/a456Pz
It was a great comeback that she hadn't telegraphed at all. It took everyone by surprise, certainly Bernie was knocked on his heels.
"The former Secretary of State came ready to fight on Sunday night. She kept her hit on Sanders's opposition to the auto bailout well hidden in the run-up to the debate in order to get maximum impact when she dropped it on his head. Ditto her attack on him being the long Democrat to vote against the Export-Import bank. She is still not great when it comes to answering questions she doesn't want to answer. Her I'll-release-my-Wall-Street-speeches-when-everyone-else-does answer to a question on her high-paid speaking gigs was, still, not very good. And, she remains overly cautious as a candidate; when pressed whether people at the Environmental Protection Agency should lose their jobs over what happened in Flint, Clinton was unwilling to say they should -- a swing and a miss at a hanging curveball. Still, overall, this was a very solid showing by Clinton. On guns, on failing schools and on Flint, she was confident and effective."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/winners-and-losers-from-the-7th-democratic-presidential-debate/?postshare=2701457320146330&tid=ss_tw
He didn't take it well. I notice that when she's talking he's always very antsy and starts raising his hand like he's in class. But this is often after she's only been talking for 10 seconds.
"The Vermont Senator had effectively walked a fine line in the previous six debates when it came to attacking Clinton without coming across as either bullying or condescending. He tripped and fell while trying to execute that delicate dance on Sunday night. Sanders's "excuse me, I'm talking" rebuttal to Clinton hinted at the fact that he was losing his temper with her. His "can I finish please" retort ensured that his tone and his approach to someone trying to become the first female presidential nominee in either party would be THE story of the night."
He also again really stepped in it on race.
"Put aside the fact that Sanders misstepped on tone, he also did nothing to change the underlying dynamics of the race. If you think Wall Street is the problem for much of what ails the country, you were for Sanders before this debate and certainly for him after it too. But, as we know from the first 40 percent or so of states that have voted, there aren't enough of those people to make him the nominee. Sanders didn't knock Clinton off her game in any meaningful way, making the debate a loss for him. (Sidebar: His answer about white people not knowing what it is like to live in a ghetto or be poor would have been a massive gaffe if he was not as far behind in the delegate chase as he is.)"
He also again did something he does a lot of: made promises he can't keep. Deray McKesson, a major activist in Black Lives Matter, called him on this tonight.
"Bernie promised he would ensure that America does not have more folks in prisons than other counties. He's not being candid here. "
https://twitter.com/deray/status/706663199089688576
I've spoken in the past about an interesting 'trust gap' between whites and blacks on the candidates.
While the young white liberals who love him find him very trustworthy and don't trust her nearly so much, it's quite different among black voters.
One thing he does that may make many folks not trust him so much-and I would put myself among this group-is that making promises you can't keep makes me trust you less rather than more.
HRC's answers are more plausible as they deal with the world we live in today.
I know some may say we need to change this world. But I think you can make the case that even if your goal is to change the rules, it's better to have someone who understands them as well as she does the better to be able to navigate them and accomplish the things we Democrats want to see.
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