Scarborough: Do you believe this morning that Bernie Sanders is qualified and ready to be President?

[Miles Archer]

When asked point-blank by host Joe Scarborough whether Sanders was ready for the Oval Office, Clinton raised the senator's recent interview with the New York Daily News.

"Well, I think the interview raised a lot of serious questions," Clinton said. "I think of it this way: The core of his campaign has been 'break up the banks,' and it it didn't seem in reading his answers that he understood exactly how that would work under Dodd-Frank."

Asked again whether Sanders is qualified, Clinton dodged. "Well, I think he hadn't done his homework, and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood, and that raises a lot of questions," she said.

Asked a third time, Clinton said she would "leave it to voters to decide who of us can do the job the country needs."

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/sanders-clinton-not-qualified-to-be-president-221666

[BeyondGeography]

1. And Scarborough just said this AM that Bernie fucked up

missLotus Andrys
Apr 07 · 07:25:02 AM

On Morning Joe this a.m., Joe Scarborough said exactly the same thing. He admitted he tried 4 times to get her to say Sanders was unqualified and she never would do it. The interviewer, for those who aren’t paying close attention, admitted he was trying to get a soundbite but Secretary Clinton never bit.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/6/1511708/-Timeout-Hillary-never-said-Bernie-is-not-qualified-to-be-President

[Mike Nelson]

2. Joe was trying to get her to sling mud...

...and she refused. Bernie's initial reply was juvenile. I wonder if Hillary led him to the mud-pile and watched him jump in? In any case, Bernie has "walked back" (hate that expression) his words and now joins Hillary in merely suggesting the other should be looked at carefully for qualifications.

[liberal N proud]

3. Nope, she didn't say that BS was not qualified

BS created that lie all by himself and then took it a step further and went neck deep in negativity.

So much for that campaign that wasn't going to be negative!!!!!

[IdaBriggs]

10. 3rd grade the concept of "inference" is taught.

Children are given several paragraphs to read, then INFER what the writer meant in those cases where it isn't flat out stated.

Most Americans are VERY clear on was being inferred. It was NOT a subtle insult.

And neither was the smack down that followed.

Bill played this game when he ran against Bush Senior. The fact he screwed around on his wife was floated by the Bush campaign, but they backed off it quickly when it was inferred that Bush Senior's mistress could also be outed.

I wonder how the country would have been different if those two had taken themselves out, and Perot had gotten it instead?

[merrily]

4. Good ole MSNBC, throwing Hillary the softball questions that give her an opening as wide as

a barn door.

Rachel Maddow asked her such hard hitting questions as "Do you think you can win?"

If they had any shame at all, they'd be ashamed of themselves, but, obviously, they have none at all.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Thanks for linking the interview from MJ, truth of what is said is not rewritten by

Those who wants interview results to be different. Sanders is the one who appears "nervous" by saying thing which is not true.

[EdwardBernays]

6. if lying made you look nervous

Hillary would be white as a sheet and hiding under a bed...

She certainly IMPLIED that she thought he wasn't qualified... if that's the interview that sanders was referencing then yes, he said something that wasn't true. HE doesn't have a history of doing that however, so I doubt anyone, but a few rabid Clintonites will care; Sanders supporters don't think he's perfect.

His larger statement though, that she's not qualified, because of her judgement and her corruption is true. She's not. She's also not qualified as in state after state a very large chunk of her party's voters don't think she's honest. Which is another reason why her claims and her supporters claims about Bernie's honesty are rebound back on her.

[riversedge]

7. Hillary did not take Joe S bait. good on her

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Then there is this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017351176

Bernie's own words ... and it is somehow a NYDN "hatchet job?"

And yet Hillary is pilloried by Bernie for what she didn't even say. Double standards much?

[Jitter65]

9. I believe I saw a very nasty side of Sanders that signals he does not have the temperament

to be President. He outright lied about what Hillary said and he was applauded for it. And she never blamed Bernie for what happened at Sandy Hook although Twitter is filled with that lie from BS supporters who will never search out the truth about Bernie. The media will not call him out on it either. They bring up an issue, Hillary responds, Hillary gets blamed for bringing up the subject. And they all just let the lie snowball as another one of their makeup "truths."

[frylock]

18. Of course, this is your idea of proper Presidential temperament..

[Augiedog]

11. Bernie is qualified, just not ready. To many promises that are in fact unfulfillable wishes.

[mopinko]

14. nobody is ready. that's the beauty of democracy.

everybody, except those seeking re-election to the job is all that ready. even hill will have some work to do if she gets it.

[Jemmons]

12. A lot of people are going to think "finally!" after hearing Bernie saying that she is not qualified!

I bet that there are many who think that it is about time that Bernie shine a light on what kind of president that Hillary Clinton would actually be if was elected.

[2pooped2pop]

15. Me, for one

And everyone I know.

[craigmatic]

13. I reject the question because nobody is really ready to be president. It's one of the few jobs

you have to learn while doing. That said, Sanders has the discipline and temperament to be president. Hillary too although I don't really trust her.

[Martin Eden]

16. "Qualified" is a relative term.

It's a sliding scale, and not just on a single axis.

Personal integrity and whose interests the candidate represents are one axis.

Competency, experience, intelligence are another.

Judgment for critically important decisions is perhaps the most important.

Both our candidates have the intelligence required for the office. Hillary may have an edge in terms of experience and competency in the White House, though I have little doubt Bernie would do as well as the current president who had very little experience going in.

Bernie Sanders has my vote because in my opinion he is head and shoulders above Hillary Clinton in personal integrity, whose interests he truly represents, and judgment for critically important decisions. His speeches before the IWR vote and Panama trade agreement clearly demonstrated his superior judgment as well as whose interests he represents.

[Renew Deal]

17. She was pretty good here

And she never said he wasn't qualified. She made a legitimate and provable point based on the NYDN interview that he doesn't know what he's talking about.