Bernie Sanders: I like Hillary Clinton and I don't want to attack her. I'd rather debate the issues.

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88. No, Sanders is the one with experience on answering many questions weekly on Thom Hartmann's show...

... where often he answers town hall style questions even from Republicans. Yes they are screened to some degree, but it certainly isn't as "rehearsed" and planned as debate primaries are.

That is why Bernie does so much better than other politicians on the stump and will also do a lot better than many of these pundits will expect in the debates. Because he is adept on his feet in answering a whole variety of questions, and is honest when he provides answers too and doesn't try to "adjust" his answers the way so many pols do.

Americans of all stripes want honesty like that, and someone like Bernie, when they hear them will provide many of them a pleasant surprise.

There's a reason that "far left" ballot measures like raising the minimum wage PASSED in many red states this last elections, while so many Democrats that the public were wondering if they could be trusted spewing out the Third Way double speak got voted out.

People want honesty in politicians and someone they can trust doing things to help them. Not ones that don't want to take positions on issues that Americans care about, like raising the minimum wage, but the corporate controlled media try to frame as "far left" issues, much as they try to frame politicians like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as "far left" as well.