2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhen will Hillary fire Christina Reynolds?
"The campaign's deputy communications director, Christina Reynolds, argued that Sanders is unqualified, sending a full transcript of a New York Daily News editorial board interview of Sanders."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-democrats-unity/index.html
If she does not question Bernie's qualifications, shouldn't this person apologize or be gone?
dogman
(6,073 posts)He said it's not worth splitting the Party.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)dogman
(6,073 posts)He was responding to either a loose cannon or an operative under orders, which is it?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)that was helpful to himself and the party.
if he can't handle this kind of tweaking--then he's really not general election material.
dogman
(6,073 posts)You are correct her doing that is not helpful to the Party. He handled it quite well. Her true self is being exposed. The slander that he was responsible for Sandy Hook deaths is beyond the pale.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Sanders handled it extremely poorly.
Everyone outside his backup choir gets this.
There's no one who wasn't in the tank that thinks he helped himself here.
dogman
(6,073 posts)The whole day was totally set up to counter the WI defeat. Claiming sexism? Too absurd.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)That NYDN interview was a real disaster for him. People can say that's not fair, but it doesn't change the fact that it fed all kinds of attacks on him (including ones that haven't hit yet) and led to this blunder on his part, whereby he's now prompted everyone from Barbara Boxer to John Dingell to Barack Obama to lend words of support to Hillary Clinton, and either explicitly or implicitly rebuke him.
dogman
(6,073 posts)The disaster is hers, the desperation is showing. People know Bernie killed no one.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)liberal from boston
(856 posts)I think that Bernie was reacting to Clinton Campaign comments to a reporter after Bernie's Wisconsin win. Here is the link: http://vid1168.photobucket.com/albums/r491/sillyjillies1/Hillary%20declares%20war_zpsxmxe4yqa.mp4
dogman
(6,073 posts)Don't be showing any proof otherwise or they wont like it.
timmymoff
(1,947 posts)I get a kick out of reading excuse after excuse.