Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton Questioned Qualifications First

[Donkees]

[Trust Buster]

1. Sanders is lying. She said it was up to the people to decide. And she is right about that.

[revbones]

4. Sure, and she couldn't say Obama wasn't a Muslim either. nt

[Plucketeer]

8. +1000

[Plucketeer]

6. Well just think

you'll have bonafide crowing rights as to his fibbiness once he's in office.

[Trust Buster]

19. You missed the importance of today. Sanders lie about what Hillary said just sealed your fantasies

fate. Many Hillary supporters will now not consider voting for him. He screwed the pooch today.

[JDPriestly]

9. Here are the Washington Post headlines that set this controversy off.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280168169

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Degenerating to playground level

quickly. Also not true.

She said that he should perhaps have done his homework. She was correct.

[lame54]

7. You are wrong...

The interview with Sanders was taken out of context, pieces were put together that did not belong together, and crucial information was taken out. When reading the whole interview, Sanders is very informed on what he is talking about, he knows how to get things done and has taken the steps to do so.

http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/04/07/cnn-gets-confronted-live-on-air-over-faked-bernie-sanders-interview-and-it-doesnt-end-well/

[BlueMTexpat]

12. What exactly am I wrong about?

Rhetoric degenerating to playground level? Check.

That Bernie wasn't accurate when he said that Hillary called him unqualified? He wasn't. Check.

That she finally said that Bernie should perhaps have done his homework after Joe Scar asked her four times whether Bernie was qualified? Yes, she did - after being pushed four times to say something worse. Check.

That she was correct to say that he should have done his homework. Yes - what did he think the NYDN was going to ask him about if it wasn't one of his signature issues? Check.

Bernie is for the first time really getting to see what it is like on the hot seat that Hillary has so ably occupied for at least 24 years, Should there have been more nuance in reports about his performance? Probably.

But then his turning around and saying "Hillary started it" - LOL! That is WAY too much like an elementary school recess spat. Hillary didn't. If anyone did, it was the WaPo with its own incorrect headline.

Now, there is definitely room for some nuance there.

And no, I am not wrong. This episode is "patty cake" compared to what the GOP will do to him in a GE. The kitchen will become unbearably HOT - much hotter than he has ever before experienced. His behavior now does not bode well.

[lame54]

17. Homework was a reference to his knowledge of breaking up the banks...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511675389#post9

[BlueMTexpat]

18. So - she didn't say that

he was not qualified. There is a big difference.

[JDPriestly]

10. Here are the Washington Post headlines that started the argument.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280168169

[MrMickeysMom]

20. That means that you don't read the articles you quote when you say, "homework"...

Having read that long interview, he relays a CLEAR understanding regarding Wall Street reform.

ALSO.... I don't think anyone here just fell off the turnip truck when it comes to smear campaigns and feigning the other person's lack of credentials.

It's good to recognize and distinguish from factually-based understanding of the branches of government is playing out in front of you. Sanders understood that a body of government does not have an unlimited roll as to HOW Wall Street reforms, but what roll in reforming must be in place for these proper controls to return. We had this as a nation after the first Great Depression. If you read any of the piece, you'd see how these questions were posed, then once answered, the interview foisted some questions that would HAVE no answers.

[liberal N proud]

3. If true, the BS'ERS would have this posted all over DU

It would be repeated hourly in every group possible.

[JDPriestly]

11. It's true. Here you go: Washington Post said it was true, and Bernie responded.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280168169

[liberal N proud]

13. What a link to a graphic of a tweet

Something that could easily be faked.

No link to a WaPo article, no video of Hillary saying these things.

[JDPriestly]

16. Here you go.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/06/clinton-questions-whether-sanders-is-qualified-to-be-president/

[liberal N proud]

21. No where in that article does it quote Hillary saying BS is unqualified

That is what some reporter paraphrased he comments about him needing to his homework and Bernie didn't do his homework on this before he made a completely unsubstantiated claim to retaliate like a child. And the BSER'S have gone whole hog on the attack.

[Jack Rabbit]

23. "I think he hadn't done his homework"

I think a reasonable characterization of that remark is "unqualified." However, you are technically correct.

Given the journalistic standards of the Washington Post and much of the rest of establishment media nowadays, the Piost will probably give Bernie three Pinocchios and say nothing about its own part in causing the confusion. After all, establishmentarians never make mistakes.

[liberal N proud]

25. They didn't on this one

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

5. Can't quite blame the guy.

I'm FOREVER feeling the BERN!!!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

14. Huge K&R

[zebonaut]

15. "Qualifications and Judgement"

[Jack Rabbit]

22. Ethics and judgemnt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. To the media this IS a real issue....

In fact, it's the ONLY issue.

[liberal N proud]

27. One the Berinie Sanders created by only reading headlines.

[liberal N proud]

26. That is a flat out lie

Some reporter paraphrased her comments into a headline that said such and now Bernie is a victim.

Read all the article before making judgment next time Senator Sanders.

[Kalidurga]

28. I think he could have brought up a lot longer of a list

And I hope people are looking deep into this Panama Paper mess. There are only 11,000 documents to look at should have it wrapped up in about a month if they get split up properly.

[riversedge]

29. Bernie has no credibility anymore. His excuse for jumping the shark is 3rd grade school yard talk.

[salinsky]

30. If you don't delve in any deeper than the headline ...

... you're not doing your homework.

[dubyadiprecession]

31. That typical of BS...

He didn't read the article all the way through. She never said he was unqualified to be president.