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flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 01:55 AM Apr 2016

Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president -Wapo headline added fuel to the fire

The headline was apparently quoted by Don Lemon on CNN and a few others. (seeing this on twitter)

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

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Wednesday questioned whether her rival in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), is qualified to be president.

"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," Clinton said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," just one day after losing the Wisconsin primary to Sanders, "and that does raise a lot of questions."

Clinton's comments follow a New York Daily News interview with Sanders that critics say revealed his inability to explain specifically how he would accomplish goals such as breaking up the biggest banks.

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Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president -Wapo headline added fuel to the fire (Original Post) flamingdem Apr 2016 OP
So it was the Hillary surrogates... Bohemianwriter Apr 2016 #1
Nice, I agree. Thanks, I don't think I could have said it so artfully. nt Joob Apr 2016 #2
You know us "Berniebros"... Bohemianwriter Apr 2016 #3
 

Bohemianwriter

(978 posts)
1. So it was the Hillary surrogates...
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 08:17 AM
Apr 2016

who emenated from her campaign, coming with false statements and then acting like victims when Bernie hits back, ignoring the context he said things in. If you and the media would have done your homework, you would have known that he has already introduced a bill that specifically deals with breaking up the banks.
The whole interview was an attempt of a mousetrap. Bernie did fine during the interview. Bernie never brought up the Feds and their ability to break up banks. The "journalistic" hitman did. So again, a tabloid and it's low information readers has it wrong again. Just like their leader, Hillary.

And no. Hillary is not qualified to be president.

Hillary track record disqualifies her from being president. Bot foreign and domestic.
Taking large donations from corrupt and criminal entities blurrs ones judgement. One shall be quite naive if tens of millions of dollars doesn't.
Using Karl Rovian tactics when whining about "artful smears" when your surrogates have been busy with that already does not make one qualified to be president.
Using victims of mass shootings for political props for a dishonest message disqualifies one to be president. Especially when overseeing millions of dollars in arms deals with one of the worst dictatorships in the world and pushing for wars that has killed millions of people.

May I remind that Machiavelli wrote The Prince as a warning against the Medicis who used the same tactics against their opponents. Machiavelli being one of them.

Today, politicians are using his writings as a playbook.
I am using Dante's Inferno as satire. (Sorry for the digression referring to Italian reneissance writers)

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