Meet the Press blogpost on Sanders campaign and Hillary

[MBS]

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read-democratic-race-takes-nastier-turn-n552321?

The 2008 Barack Obama-vs.-Hillary Clinton presidential race was combative, competitive, and polarizing for Democratic voters. ("Shame on you, Barack Obama"; "You're likeable enough, Hillary.&quot But one thing that never happened was either Obama or Clinton directly saying that their rival wasn't qualified to be president. Yet that's exactly what happened last night at Bernie Sanders' event in Philadelphia. . .

But there are two important points to make in this dispute. One, Clinton never uttered the words "unqualified," as Sanders charged last night (even though she and her campaign have been much more aggressive toward Sanders after losing Wisconsin). In fact, she dodged the question. . .

And two, some of the things that he said makes Clinton unqualified to be president -- having a Super PAC, raising money from Wall Street, supporting trade agreements -- would also disqualify President Obama. There is no doubt that Sanders and his campaign have been facing extra scrutiny and heat, even after their big win in Wisconsin. But saying in response that Clinton is unqualified (for the same things that about 95% of Democratic politicians do) seems akin to a George Costanza moment when you realize that the insult you intended doesn't go over that well. . .

Given the escalation in the Democratic race, Sanders and his campaign have a question to ask themselves: What is their campaign about -- the ideas they want to push, or capturing the Democratic nomination? Because right now, they're not winning on either front. Sanders is significantly behind in the delegate race, and the ideas he might want to discuss are now getting buried in this war of words. As our colleague John Harwood puts it, "[It] seems as if Team Sanders has gotten itself stuck in no-man's land between message campaign and genuine threat for nomination." Both campaigns are clearly frustrated right now -- Team Clinton got blown out in Wisconsin; Team Sanders, even after their win, realizes the math isn't in its favor. And it's showing.

[liberal N proud]

1. She also went on to support him in the General Election

And later to SOS.

Something that BS has no plans to do.

[Cha]

2. Wow.. I'm shocked... truth from the MTP blog.

Thank you, MBS!

[Iliyah]

3. Finally some factual reporting?

[CrowCityDem]

4. That's true

By Bernie's own words, President Obama isn't qualified to be our leader. In fact, the only person who is would be Bernie Sanders. Hmm... funny how that works.

[livetohike]

5. The truth from MTP. Sanders is so desperate now

and he can't control his mouth. Should be interesting.