Annoying Bernie Tactic #1: His "They Asked Me About It" Defense Regarding His Negative Statements

[farmboy]

I've heard Bernie say, in numerous responses to direct debate, town hall, and reporters' questions about his negative statements aimed at Hillary, Bill, President Obama, etc. that he said such and such only in response to a question.

SO WHAT? You SAID it. Take responsibility and stop trying to obfuscate the fact that you did, indeed, say it. Own your negative attacks and stop trying to pretend they are unjustly forced out of you. If you had not answered the question (and his attacks haven't always been during answers) in the negative way you chose, you wouldn't be asked about this now.

[AtomicKitten]

1. Nope. He's doing it righr. He's answering honestly and directly.

[magical thyme]

2. he answers questions with facts.

And however inconvenient they may be, facts are not attacks.

[PatrickforO]

3. His point is that he is only saying those things in response to direct questions about

those people. Otherwise, the implication is that he would not, which I believe. Bernie's a 'high-road' kind of guy.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Negative statements like "Yes, getting a blowjob from an intern in the oval office was a dumb idea"?

Yeah, okay. Pillory the guy for stating the obvious.

Speaking of "just own up to what you did".

[Kalidurga]

5. I think cheating on a spouse is a worse thing than saying it's a bad thing to cheat on your spouse.

Of course that sounds terribly judgmental. But, I don't believe anything goes in a relationship so sue me.

[cali]

6. What desperate nonsense. Hilly has been running an ugly negative shit

campaign, not Bernie. And you give not one example for your claim. Here's a hill camp example: Slime merchant David Brock saying Bernie doesn't care about black people. It's bull for people to claim Bernie is the one running a negative campaign.

[beam me up scottie]

7. Defense Regarding Her Negative Statements: Clinton gets testy over gay marriage:

Clinton gets testy over gay marriage

Hillary Clinton had a tense exchange with an NPR host in an interview airing Thursday over whether she made “a calculus” against publicly supporting gay marriage before endorsing it last year.

It’s the first time Clinton, a potential candidate for president in 2016, has been extensively questioned about her support for gay marriage. She did not back it in her 2008 presidential campaign but she issued support for it by video in 2013, weeks after leaving the State Department.

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Pressed on whether she, or the public, have changed since then, Clinton replied, “I think I’m an American, and I think we have all evolved, and it’s been one of the fastest, most sweeping transformations I’m aware of.”

That’s something that “we ought to celebrate, instead of plowing old ground,” she said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/hillary-clinton-gay-marriage-npr-107788#ixzz40hld2jEv

To quote you, hey Hillary, SO WHAT? You SAID it. Take responsibility and stop trying to obfuscate the fact that you did, indeed, say it.

[libtodeath]

8. When has Hillary not obfuscated anything she has done "you mean with a cloth?"

OMG you Hillary supporters are funny.

[Betty Karlson]

9. The only annoying thing here is you scraping of the bottom of the barrel.

Please understand that you have already exhausted the sediment, and there is nothing negative left for you to use against Sanders. Also: you are projecting.

There is one candidate who uses Rovian tactics in the Democratic primaries, and that candidate is the one supported by the corronation committee, and by the superlemmings delegation running to the cliffs of November.