as President you do not get to ignore national emergencies just because you're not prepared for them

[hill2016]

if you can't even handle talking about them in a debate, how can you handle them in an actual situation?

[72DejaVu]

1. Don't worry

If Bernie is elected, I am sure that Putin and Assad and the Chinese will never do anything he thinks is unfair.

[mmonk]

2. Neither do Senators.

[-none]

3. We have enough problems in this country for many debates.

Let's not get bogged down in current events that will be old news in a year. Many, if not most current domestic problems will still be with us with next November's elections

[NanceGreggs]

17. Ah, yes, of course.

An act of international terrorism is a one-off event, and will never have to be addressed by a US president in future - what with it being "old news" and all.

I mean, look at 9-11 - old news! And nothing has happened since then that an American president would need to address.

Jesus Hussein Christ.

[-none]

20. An act of international terrorism IS a one-off event.

And Presidents have advisers. Presidents are not sovereign and expected to think of everything themselves. That is why they have staffs and department heads with their own staffs. So I wouldn't worry too much about when Bernie becomes President.
And BTY, that is Barack Hussein Obama. That other guy died a long time ago.

[Hepburn]

21. Yeah, Hillary did soooooooooooo well when given time to study...

...the IWR. Scares me shitless to think of the mistakes she would make if not given any time to study a problem.

[Eric J in MN]

4. The American people deserve an in-depth debate

...on the candidates' domestic policies.

Bernie Sanders' has better domestic policies than the other candidates.

He's the only one who has promised that the US won't have the most prisoners when he's president.

The only one who wants to make marijuana federally legal.

The only one who wants public universities to be tuition-free.

[hill2016]

10. foreign policy and national security

are important too.

[NanceGreggs]

19. In other words ...

... the debates should be focused on BS's perceived strong points, and avoid any topics where he might falter or demonstrate his ill-preparedness to adequately respond.

Got it!

[polly7]

5. You do know there are already five threads on this? nt.

[hill2016]

7. one more

can't hurt

[polly7]

9. I suppose .......

[AgingAmerican]

6. We are not in a national emergency, for starters

And we shall see who handles who during the debate. America is sick and tired of war.

[hill2016]

8. right

and if Sanders can't even handle talking about an emergency that happened overseas what makes you think he can handle an actual emergency?

[Hortensis]

11. Sorry, but performing for the cameras in a debate,

where an entire election could hang on a single word, is NOT analogous to meeting in private with the security council. HRC, as former Secretary of State, has a real advantage in this switcheroo to foreign policy. Even if all candidates should have been studying foreign policy for a long time now, it's NOT "fair."

[hill2016]

12. yup

as we see, real actual experience counts.

It's not something you can learn from a book.

[Hortensis]

13. Umhm. Experience matters. IF this shows that off,

it may be "unfair," but it's likely to reveal a truth that a more controlled debate could obscure.

[bahrbearian]

22. Hillary has a ton of experience Bomb Iraq, Coop in Honduras ,Libya, Ukraine ...

Experience that people will die for.

[jeff47]

14. And the issues that will now get no airing in a debate at all?

Limiting us to so few debates and then ripping out the content of one debate means those issues will never be covered.

It's one of the big downsides to DWS's plan.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Bernie didn't say that

[hill2016]

16. his campaign did

what are they scared off?

[Hissyspit]

23. Who said they're scared?

Maybe they thought the change was biased or unfair or inappropriate. I don't know. All I've read so far is from ANOTHER CAMPAIGN'S STAFFER.

[bahrbearian]

25. Killing more Innocent people.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

18. My God, I had never thought of this.

Hillary 2016.

[Baitball Blogger]

24. How did we go from a DUer insisting that Bernie is a warhawk, to this?