One Disarming Question Bernie Sanders whiffed in his big debate moment against Hillary Clinton.

[Fla Dem]

US NEWS and WORLD REPORTS
By Robert Schlesinger
April 14, 2016, at 11:35 p.m.

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But the most telling moment of the night came when CNN's Dana Bash drilled to the heart of Sanders' signature attack against Clinton. "Senator Sanders, you have consistently criticized Secretary Clinton for accepting money from Wall Street," she said.

"Can you name one decision that she made as senator that shows that she favored banks because of the money she received?"

Here's the long version of his answer:

Sure. Sure. The obvious decision is when the greed and recklessness and illegal behavior of Wall Street brought this country into the worst economic downturn since the Great Recession – the Great Depression of the '30s, when millions of people lost their jobs, and their homes, and their life savings, the obvious response to that is that you've got a bunch of fraudulent operators and that they have got to be broken up.

That was my view way back, and I introduced legislation to do that. Now, Secretary Clinton was busy giving speeches to Goldman Sachs for $225,000 a speech

So the problem response – the proper response in my view is we should break them up. And that's what my legislation does.

Here's the shorter version: No, he cannot name such a decision.

And honestly that's no surprise. Put aside the fact that if such an instance existed his campaign and its allies would have blasted it from the New York rooftops and all around the Twitterverse; if he knew of a single example then he couldn't in good conscience have answered the first question he got in the debate – whether she has the judgment to be president – in the way that he did: "Does Secretary Clinton have the experience and the intelligence to be president? Of course she does." He went on to question her judgment, but if she was in the pocket of Wall Street and big oil the way he insinuates then he couldn't actually say that she is qualified to be president.

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http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/articles/2016-04-14/bernie-sanders-whiffed-in-his-big-brooklyn-debate-moment-against-clinton

I know this is kind of "old news" but I'm still reading a lot of BS supporters citing this as to why Hillary is dishonest and in the pocket of the banks. When their own candidate cannot even mention one instance where banks influenced her in the 8 years she was in the senate, then they've got nothing.

[IamMab]

1. Bernie's greatest enemy isn't Wall Street or even billionaires. It's NUANCE! nt

[pandr32]

2. Yep--a dog whistle campain

...utilizing right-wing smears.

[anotherproletariat]

3. I love the long version of his answer! Seeing it in print brings back thoughts of Sarah Palin and

those SNL skits that used her own words verbatim.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. #FeelTheFacts

[ismnotwasm]

5. I rewatched that painful New York daily interview

He often has non-answers like that. He's not good at off the cuff answers, not good at real detail. I was looking at his record again, he passed the most roll call amendments in a certain 12 year time period--apparently, he's always trying to get roll call amendments--But no matter. His record isn't spectacular, but it's decent. So if he has the skill to do that, why can't he answer questions?

[livetohike]

6. Word salad. That's the answer to the question: What

do B.S. and Sarah Palin have in common?

[spooky3]

7. Journalists should have been pressing hard on that question.

[Lucinda]

8. KNR