Sanders' hit on Clinton not the first, or likely the last

[Surya Gayatri]

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Source: AP News - Excite

Apr 8, 9:41 AM (ET) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders' claim that Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to be president landed with a boom this week. The blow was far from the first — and won't likely be the last — from the candidate who pledged to stay away from negative campaigning.

The Vermont senator kicked off his insurgent presidential bid last year with a pledge to focus on issues over character attacks and boasted often that he's never run a negative ad. But for months Sanders has sharply criticized Clinton, slamming her for supporting the war in Iraq, for her record on trade and most aggressively for her lucrative paid speeches before Wall Street bankers.

While his tone has shifted as the race has grown more combative on both sides, Sanders' campaign officials argue that he has kept his promise. They say he has focused his fire on policy and is simply fighting back against Clinton's own attacks.

"Bernie Sanders decided yesterday that he wasn't going to go into the New York primary and be run over by their campaign," said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Sanders' campaign. "He responded in kind."

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20160408/us-dem-2016-sanders-45e452d219.html

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations convention in Philadelphia, Thursday, April 7, 2016. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP) PHIX OUT; TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NEWARK OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT


It would appear that Mr. Sanders and his campaign surrogates plan to double or triple down on this angle of attack.

[dchill]

1. Gee, I hope you're right!

[liberal N proud]

2. This is Sanders MO

Pretend to take the high road while hitting your opponent at the knees.

HYPOCRITE!

[Surya Gayatri]

4. No, please say it ain't so...you mean "His Pureness" doesn't always live up to

his own lofty standards? I'm deeply disappointed.

[Plucketeer]

6. We did one of those "corkscrew" landings

We were instructed to run for our vehicles with our heads down and that's just what we did!

[katmondoo]

3. May not be a good idea

Remember when she ran for Senate seat in NY and her opponent treated her disrespectfully and it ended his career

[mac56]

5. "We liked it better when you didn't fight back."

[Surya Gayatri]

8. That wagging finger reminds me of someone...wait, wait, it'll

come to me. Oh, yeah, that's the Bern's favorite debate posture.

[mac56]

11. Hmm

[sadoldgirl]

7. It is an important issue to analyze the

judgement of a possible future leader,

and, yes that issue needs to be addressed, imo.

[pangaia]

9. He most certainly is commenting on the issues.

Clinton's disastrous decisions disqualify her from being president. Simple..

And don't tell me Clinton didn't start it. Her handlers knew just how to set this up and told Clinton what to say so it would LOOK like she was not saying Sanders is not qualified. But anyone with 2 eyes and 2 ears and a brain knows exactly what went down. It is CLASSIC Clinton tactics..

[pnwmom]

13. Nonsense. Her decisions weren't any more disastrous than Bernie's. They each

have strengths and weaknesses, but she at least can acknowledge hers. He's too busy pointing those fingers.

[Surya Gayatri]

14. Poor put upon Bern...Bwaahaaaa! Tricked into it, he was...

And, don't tell me Clinton didn't start it. Her handlers knew just how to set this up and told Clinton what to say so it would LOOK like she was not saying Sanders is not qualified.

BOOOHOOOOOOOO!

This isn't kindergarten we're talking about here.

[pangaia]

21. What the heck is tha matter with you?

Maybe you need to go work out, or go for a walk...

[LeFleur1]

18. :)

So her campaign 'handlers' are waaaay smarter? And he was sucked into something he didn't know he was doing? Hmmmm. Not a real good indication of how he would do with foreign leaders, is it? Bernie has been making smarmy comments for quite awhile. Passive agressive sh**. Veiled insults. He can dish it out but makes BIIIG mistakes when his opponent responds. Liberal Democrats are forgiving people but there comes a time when they just say 'the hell with it.'

[pnwmom]

10. His whole poor-little-me-from-Vt-thing is such a joke. Oh, "watch me act like a New Yorker.'

What garbage. Vermont politics is like politics everywhere, just on a smaller scale. And he's been in the thick of it for decades.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Talk about disingenuous hypocrisy. Every time he pulls that

"I'm just a POOR Senator from tiny little Vermont" schtick, it makes me cringe.

He embarrasses himself.

[mac56]

22. Um, really?

Someone was raised in Illinois, went to school in Massachusetts, was First Lady of Arkansas before becoming Senator from NY. People in glass houses and all that.

[blackspade]

12. Another stupid article about this bullshit.

Telling the truth is not 'negative' campaigning.
But there is no telling that to the supporters of her majesty.

Never mind that she is the one that manufactured this crap story and now plays the "who, me?" card.
That the M$M is carrying her water is not surprising given her association with their corporate owners.

[ciaobaby]

17. you're so right.

And all the news backed her up as usual. They all admitted her remarks "may have" implied Bernie was not qualified, but because she never said the word all is good in Hillary Land.

I call bull shit.

[riversedge]

19. NEWS FLASH. Bernie LIED and got 3 Pinochios for lunch.

..Telling the truth is not 'negative' campaigning.

[logosoco]

15. I don't know why any Democrat supported the bush/cheny war.

Trump seems happy to attack anyone, so he can't say anything about her vote on Iraq (unless he points out she supported the repubs there). Her record on trade...well, the NAFTA thing did not work out and I don't really trust the TPP because of that (seems like American workers get screwed, but businesses fare well, so that doesn't seem like a Democrat standing).

Maybe if someone wanted to pay me $250,000 for talking to them, I probably wouldn't turn it down. But surely at some point THEY are going to want to talk to ME!! Especially when I have some power. And if what i am saying is worth so much, why wouldn't I share it with my fellow American citizens?


Even though many say Bernie is not a Dem. it seems to me he is speaking out about the things that Clinton does that makes her not the type of person that is the reason I support the party.

[riversedge]

20. I do not know why a Dem would Lie about an intelligent, competent, women running for POTUS.

[mac56]

23. I'm all for an intelligent, competent, women running for POTUS

What's your point?

[hedgehog]

24. Ouchie!

[FailureToCommunicate]

25. Not LBN. This is an opinion by the authors -CATHERINE LUCEY and KEN THOMAS- not news.

And your comment is the opposite of what they say.

25 replies and zero recs should tell you something?

You might try a repost in GD-P

[Surya Gayatri]

26. And yet, it appeared at the top of the AP Breaking News site...wonder why?

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20160408/us-dem-2016-sanders-45e452d219.html

[FailureToCommunicate]

27. Oh that's easy. Because DU has guidelines for, you know, actual 'Latest Breaking News'

[azurnoir]

28. Locking campaign speculation please post in GDP