In a statement announcing the agreement, Team Sanders took an unveiled swipe at Clinton, with spokesman Michael Briggs saying, “Fortunately, we were able to move a major New York City rally scheduled for April 14 to the night before. We hope the debate will be worth the inconvenience for thousands of New Yorkers who were planning to attend our rally on Thursday but will have to change their schedules to accommodate Secretary Clinton’s jam-packed, high-dollar, coast-to-coast schedule of fundraisers all over the country.”
A Clinton campaign official responded with a statement saying:
“We had thought the Sanders campaign would have accepted our offer for a Brooklyn debate on April 14 in a New York minute, but it ended up taking a few extra days for them to agree. We are glad they did.”
Jeez. Sanders comments about Hillary are witty and sharp.
Jeez. Sanders comments about Hillary are witty and sharp.
Witty and sharp are not the problem with BS. But his head is stuck in an old hat and he can't escape the dreamy and dreadfully outdated socialist theories that 1968 hippies loved so well.
That doesn't change the fact that when he talks about Hillary he's always owning her.
IKR? It's almost like he wanted to whup all the little fourth graders on the playground.
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders agree to Brooklyn debate ahead of N.Y. primary | MSNBC
Already the sniping has begun:
Get the popcorn ready, everyone. These two are not playing nice with each other any more!
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders agree to Brooklyn debate ahead of N.Y. primary | MSNBC
Already the sniping has begun:
Get the popcorn ready, everyone. These two are not playing nice with each other any more!
It's too bad, too. Bernie is so much better that that. I hope he doesn't let Hillary lead him down the sewer hole.
It's too bad, too. Bernie is so much better that that. I hope he doesn't let Hillary lead him down the sewer hole.
Frankly I think you're giving Bernie too much credit. He's starting to crack under the pressure.
Meanwhile, Hillary, like her or not, is more than used to the pressure.
The liar agreed to debate the honest man whom she called a liar. This will be good.
My guess is that Bernie will be much more gracious in his concession speech when he asks his supporters to channel their support to Hillary for a Democratic Party win in November.
So far Bernie has mostly played nice (this seems to be changing somewhat in recent weeks), and by comparison has played a much more respectable campaign than Shillary. She hasn't pulled many punches with him. Bernie has been slow to anger in this regard, probably for a variety of reasons, not wanting to hand things to the republicans and Shillary's gender combined with her ability to play the victim so well to name a few. But there comes a point where chivalry and civility make you look weak and cowardly. When you stoically endure attacks, at first it is noble. After a while you are expected to fight back. That time has come. Bernie wants to win, Shillary knows this is probably her last chance at POTUS, and even those still holding on to the slim hope of Bernie winning the nomination know that a loss or a tie in New York will be the final nail. He had to shame her into this debate, otherwise it wouldn't have happened, and without it he might as well close up shop. Personally I'd rather see him win or go down swinging. I don't see it damaging her chances in the general. She'll either beat Trump or Cruz or lose to Kasich, Bernie isn't going to change any of that.
Frankly I think you're giving Bernie too much credit. He's starting to crack under the pressure.
Meanwhile, Hillary, like her or not, is more than used to the pressure.
Per what?
Which is why her campaign demanded Bernie tone down his rhetoric against her during the debates as a condition of participating in them?
Debates are not supposed to be shouting matches or passion rallies. (Are you listening, Republicans?)
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders agree to Brooklyn debate ahead of N.Y. primary | MSNBC
Already the sniping has begun:
Get the popcorn ready, everyone. These two are not playing nice with each other any more!
I'm questioning the utility of debates at this point. There've been how many so far and it took a simple sit down with the New York Daily News editorial board to lay bare the fact that Bernie is clueless when it comes to talking about his own signature issue? If we've gone this far without debate moderators asking him basic questions like "do you know what Dodd Frank or the Federal Reserve do?" (no) or "do you even know what it means to break up a bank?" (no again), what's the point of these? Do we need yet another forum for Bernie to pivot back to his slogans and excerpts of his stump speeches while displaying no depth beyond them?
His spokesperson is right, that time would be better spent for him among his hordes of adoring undergrads.
What I want to see come out in the debate...
Did Bernie Sanders Predict the Panama Papers When He Opposed Clinton-Backed U.S.-Panama Trade Deal?
Back in 2011 while Hillary was supporting the free trade agreement with Panama this is what Senator Bernie Sanders was saying about it:
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Panama’s entire annual economic output is only $26.7 billion a year, or about two-tenths of 1 percent of the U.S. economy. No one can legitimately make the claim that approving this free trade agreement will significantly increase American jobs. Then, why would we be considering a stand-alone free trade agreement with Panama, tiny little country?
Well, it turns out that Panama is a world leader when it comes to allowing wealthy Americans and large corporations to evade U.S. taxes by stashing their cash in offshore tax havens. And the Panama free trade agreement will make this bad situation much worse. Each and every year, the wealthiest people in our country and the largest corporations evade about $100 billion in U.S. taxes through abusive and illegal offshore tax havens in Panama and in other countries. So, according to Citizens for Tax Justice—and I quote—"A tax haven ... has one of three characteristics: It has no income tax or a very low-rate income tax; it has bank secrecy laws; and it has a history of non-cooperation with other countries on exchanging information about tax matters. Panama has all three of those. ... They’re probably the worst."
And now what's happened? Oh yeah, Bernie was right yet again. This is the judgement that people like about Bernie. Proper foresight and judgement.
That's funny, I thought it was the Bernie crowd clamoring for MOAR DEBATZE. Now all of a sudden they want no more debates?
Now that I agree with.
Bernie does want more debates. the clinton campaign was putting out there dates that intentionally conflicted with Sander's scheduled rally's so they could claim Bernie was dodging the debates. And then they proposed to have the debate run opposite of the NCAA finals last night so they could bury it again.
In the end, Bernie rescheduled a big rally he had scheduled in New York just so the Clinton campaign would shut up with this lie.
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