Did she Quote Unquote say it?

[inchhigh]

I think the Hillary side wants to rely on the absence of a recording of her saying that specific thing. But this is a winner for Bernie because it just highlights the perception that she says one thing in public and another in private.

Think about it. Does her spokesman go on TV with their strategy to disqualify him without talking to her? Does she refuse to deny she thinks that after being asked three times if she doesn't really think it.

It is common knowledge that she has been pushing the " Most Qualified" meme from the start which at least implies that he might be less qualified.

Outside the circle of her diehard supporters, most people believe she has said he isn't qualified at some point in small groups or with her staff and that is why the recent comments were leaked after Wisconsin.

This is win win win for Bernie. He gets to deminish her greatest strength, her assertion that she is the most qualified candidate. He gets to highlight specific decisions that a solid majority of Americans now believe to have been wrong. And he gets to draw attention the growing suspicion that she says one thing in public and another thing in private.

Win. Win. Win.

[virtualobserver]

1. Her refusal to say Bernie was qualified when asked three times....makes her look evasive

Bernie is direct.....he isn't playing games.

It makes her look like a politician.

[jfern]

3. Yes, she could have said "Yes, but nowhere as much as me"

But she's running too negative a campaign for that

[virtualobserver]

5. Reminds me of her "as far as I know" comment about Obama when asked if she believed he was a muslim

She always does it with that plastered on smile, too...

[jfern]

16. "As far as I know" would have been a lot better than what she did say

[DanTex]

2. No. Which is what makes "quote unquote" yet another Bernie lie.

[inchhigh]

8. It's not a lie if she said it in private

Just set aside the rhetoric for a second and tell me honestly if she doesn't at least think he's not qualified.

Oh she said it.

[DanTex]

10. LOL. So you're insisting that even though there's no record or evidence that she ever said it,

the fact that she might possibly have said it in private makes it not a lie? This is getting good!

You realize that by this logic, anyone can "quote, unquote" anyone else as saying anything they want, and it can never be a lie because, hey, you never know!

[inchhigh]

12. Yep. No record. No evidence.

This is exactly my point. Her surrogates don't go full speed ahead with this line if she doesn't tell them to. Either she isn't in control of her staff or she said it.

Nobody believes she isn't in control.

The most logical conclusion is that she said one thing in private to her staff and then another thing in public to the rest of us.

[timlot]

4. She said its up to the American People to decide...

Whats wrong with that? Bernie is becoming unhinged. Comparing soldiers in a war to 20 elementary kids getting gunned down at school in America. 72 maybe just be a little too old.

[peacebird]

7. Hillary using Sandy Hook childrens deaths for a political smear was sick.

[1monster]

15. I see the "unhinged" word is the meme of the day...

For maximum effectiveness, words like that should be used sparingly and supported with numerous, verifiable incidents unhingedness. Simply stating a belief that an opponet's decisions, practices, vision, etc., make her unqualified is not evidence of being "unhinged" ...

[BeyondGeography]

6. She elbowed him in the ribs and he threw a haymaker

Lose.

[beedle]

11. Nothing wrong with calling someone unqualified to be president

Hillary called Obama unqualified to be president.

The panic attacks coming from hillary supporters and establishment media is so amusing it's almost like it was a real story.

[morningfog]

13. Yes. Her campaign did. Own it.

[Matt_in_STL]

14. Hillary supporters do not understand nuance

Their world is black and white with no grey areas. It's a very simplistic view of politics and the world.

[basselope]

17. I guess it kinda depends on your definition of "is"

[Lucinda]

18. You must be getting really dizzy. n/t

[Gwhittey]

19. Truth is even Trump is Qualified to be POTUS

He will suck as one but he is Qualified. By her refusing to say yes she is trying to imply that Sanders is not a Natural Born Citizen. A tactic from 2008 Playbook.