Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: Sanders Over the Edge.. by Paul Krugman~ Scorch! [View all]Cha
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There's another one titled "Beyond the Pale, Bernie" or..
Bernie Beyond the Pale
Bernie Sanders' comment that Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to be president didn't make for a proud campaign moment.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders went beyond the pale this week by saying outright he did not think former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was qualified to be president.
His reason? He took a CNN report that the Clinton campaign was going to go hard against him and used that to incorrectly assert that Clinton was stating that Sanders is not qualified to be president. Let's be very clear: Hillary Clinton has never said any such thing. But now Sanders has gone there. But he quickly realized that this was neither a smart nor a strategically effective move for him as he tried to, kinda, sorta, walk the comment back. But he needs to do more, and so does his staff, who have doubled down on his original comments. They should completely retract their unfortunate comments and here's why.
For starters, the argument makes no sense. No matter what you think of her, no one believes that a former successful attorney in her own right, a former first lady of both Arkansas and of the United States, a former two-term senator from the great state of New York and a former successful and highly popular secretary of state is not qualified to be president. Even some of Sanders' supporters have been turned off by this over-the-line comment.
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But this week, he hit below the belt, got personal and got nasty. Not even in the most intense days of the campaign between then-Senators Clinton and Barack Obama did either of them say the other was not qualified to be president.
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http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-04-08/sanders-questioning-clintons-qualifications-is-a-sign-of-desperation
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