Game on!

Sanders has apparently had enough and has decided to state the unvarnished truth: Hillary Clinton is in the pockets of the special interests, helped get us into a senseless and illegal war, and is therefor unqualified to be President of the United States. My thoughts exactly. A more specific case can be made against Clinton and I'm sure Sanders will be making it soon.

The media is surprised but they are an easily fooled lot. I'm sure they're all trying to figure out the appropriate spin (Sander is nuts---but they've always believed that). There is no turning back at this point but people who want half measures, if that, are in the Clinton camp.

Share
up
0 users have voted.

Comments

Miep's picture

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

Miep's picture

And righteously aggrieved.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

I couldn't find a short clip.

up
0 users have voted.
Miep's picture

This is yet another huge gaffe. How is Sanders not qualified? By only being in Congress for most of the last 25 years? What does that imply about what she thinks of that dern upstart Obama?

What does it take to be qualified, according to HRC? The narcissism, it burns.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

many times--that he is not really a Democrat. The insinuation is that he is not qualified. I am still looking to see if she actually said the words or if her response to a question implied it.

It may be time to bring up the Goldwater Girl stuff. Flood Twitterdom with it. How many times has she sided with R policies, etc.

On the bright side, the media mentioned him today. = )

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

Bunch of Communists, likely.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

they have more than two parties, health care, college, child care, higher wages, etc. Was it George Washington who said that the two party system would be the death of democracy?

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

When there is more than one sort of other.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

tug-of-war so much more interesting. = )

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

The Democrats have a long and inconsistent history, as do the Republicans. This party stuff is fluid and runs into sumps over time. Once they start considering themselves to be sacred, they stagnate.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

100 or so years ago, it was the Democrats, the Southern aristocracy, who succeeded from the Union and before that are the ones who fought for that whole militia thing, it would seem they are just trying to get back to their roots (so to speak).

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

Who are these people, anyway?

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

Daenerys's picture

I think her actual words have been--

many times--that he is not really a Democrat.

Yeah, well, neither is she. Pot, kettle, etc.

up
0 users have voted.

This shit is bananas.

Miep's picture

All about who is in and who is out.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

she didn't say the actual words, she is to accomplished a lawyer for that. She instead lets her media minions say it while she pretends they are attacking her to

up
0 users have voted.

You are not prepared-Illidan

I want Clinton so damaged she couldn't win a church cake raffle. I hope he starts talking about her carpetbagging into NY for the Senate seat. Start pointing out that she accomplished nothing while there - it was only a resume builder for her. He should start talking about the obscene privilege of paying 3 million bucks for a daughter's wedding.

up
0 users have voted.

If you don't know what you want, you deserve what you get.

WindDancer13's picture

No personal stuff. Her record says it all, so there is no need to go after her in ways that could be actual, real negative campaigning. Those with integrity and half a brain know the difference (which leaves out a whole lot of people, including the media).

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

His timing is impeccable. I'm enjoying watching a master politician who has been standing up for the same things for twenty-odd years.

His time has come, he chose the moment. He's a professional and he makes a lot of these other people look childish.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

much ammunition to work with that he probably could very well do it in his sleep. It has been one whole heck of a lot longer than 20 years that his message has not changed...closer to 50+.

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

But I can't imagine him holding different views earlier on. I will bow to your more detailed information Smile

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

Mayor 8 years
House 16 years
Senate 9 years

But actually, I was thinking along the lines of when he was in his early 20s and doing civil rights work which is in keeping with his policies today.

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

"Sanders' blunt assessment at a raucous rally here came at the end of a day of testy exchanges between the two White House contenders in a race that Sanders has prolonged by continuing to win nominating contests, despite Clinton's formidable lead in the delegate count."

Well, the nerve of him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-sanders-engaging-in-grow...

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

have to check with some New Yorkers on this--is if he is going all forceful on her because people in New York like that personality trait. If she is on the defensive (and whining) and him on the offensive wouldn't that give him a leg up with those people who like "tough"? Just a thought.

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Miep's picture

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

Miep's picture

And really it's relatively mild, but it looks harsh by contrast to what he's been doing. So if you take it out of context, it's hard to work it against him, because this is all kind of old hat; war war war, funding funding wealthy people. It's all stock footage, but it's a sudden change and that will get people's attention.

up
0 users have voted.

Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

WindDancer13's picture

If you Google *clinton says sanders not qualified,* you will see that all of the media have just realized that there is another candidate. LOL

He has also now tossed in the Panama Papers. = )

up
0 users have voted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

riverlover's picture

and I have no real sense whether the carpetbagger label will stick. I've never wandered around asking others. But I certainly recognized that then. Historically, that move was timed very nicely, a trailing spouse got to turn the tables on her former President husband and get a very cushy first political nod "on her own". Lol.

up
0 users have voted.

Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

Lookout's picture

At least not a turd way corporate democrat! I thought I was a democrat for the last 40-50 years. I was politically educated by FDR New Dealers and civil rights activists. And suddenly the head of the DNC is supporting pay day lenders, for profit prisons, and corporate interests. The democrats under Clintons leadership sold out to the banks and corporations and turned the party into republican lite. Obama offered hope and change, but was bought out too. Now he endorses DWS. So sad.

So I'm not a democrat either, at least in the current state of the party. Paraphrasing Bob Reich's line - Hillary is the best candidate in the current political system. Bernie is the best candidate for the political system that should exist. I think the party emerges very weak if Hillary is the nominee.

I'm hopeful we will win and change this damn crazy system.

up
0 users have voted.

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

not my party anymore.

up
0 users have voted.
NWIA's picture

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/06/clinton-...

“He’s a relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I’m not even sure he is one. He’s running as one. So I don’t know quite how to characterize him.”

Sounds like her assessment of Obama's religious beliefs in 2008.

up
0 users have voted.

Bernie is raising the bar on presidential qualifications. Now we need a President who is on the side of the 99 Percent. That narrows the field IMHO.

up
0 users have voted.

"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."