Trump is already using Bernie's own words to attack Clinton.

[NuclearDem]

[Joe the Revelator]

1. So?

[SidDithers]

2. Wow. Who could have seen that coming?...nt

Sid

[TheBlackAdder]

63. Yeah, we've seen it before. When McCain used Clinton's words against Obama. nt

[bettyellen]

3. "the level of hatred" Yeah, that is unfortunate, even if he could nt back it up with a good quote

[Loudestlib]

4. He's a stealer.

He took the birther movement from Hillary.

[dchill]

53. +1 *snort*

[Jester Messiah]

5. Because it's a valid attack...?

This is who you chose for the general election. You must have known that this was coming. Don't blame her opponents for mining the rich veins of material that she makes available.

[NuclearDem]

9. Actually, it was your candidate that gave them the ammunition.

Wah wah.

[Jester Messiah]

11. ...really...

He made Hillary be a sleazed-up corporate tool and warmonger?

[NuclearDem]

12. Trump didn't call her that.

He quoted Sanders calling her unqualified.

Wah wah.

[Jester Messiah]

17. Be patient.

It'll come.

[woolldog]

37. The criticisms have a lot more force coming from a fellow Democrat.

Trump can argue that he's simply quoting Sanders. That is why Dems don't call other Dems running for President unqualified. Sanders is an idiot and he's hurt the country with the way hes run his campaign.

[Jester Messiah]

38. Hurting Hillary is not hurting the country.

The criticisms coming from Sanders are justified and valid. Don't blame him for pointing out the obvious flaws in his opponent.

[woolldog]

39. Since she is the inevitable nominee

and has been for a long time, yes it hurts the country. This is a zero sum game. Anything that hurts Hillary, helps Trump. And anything that helps Trump, hurts the country.

[Jester Messiah]

41. Nominating her was the greatest harm one could inflict on the country.

Since it gives Trump a viable shot at the presidency.

[woolldog]

43. That may very well be,

but its over. We have to play the hand we've been dealt.

[Jester Messiah]

44. No. "We" don't. n/t

[John Poet]

51. MAKING Hillary the nominee

hurts the country.

[bigdarryl]

50. YEAH!!! ok and I have some land to sell

[carburyme]

48. Sanders had no business calling out Hillary

Unqualified! He knew he went out of bounds and retracted his statement.

Trump can quote all Bernie's vile statement against HRC all he want but that doesn't make it true.

4 million American voters so far thinks she's more than qualified!!

[dchill]

57. But Clinton claims he's NOT a Democrat!

[Goblinmonger]

65. Did he also include the part where Sanders said

that she would be a better president than any Republican they could put up against her?

Because he said that, too. But keep piling on Sanders like every bad thing Clinton did is his fault.

[Shadowflash]

55. +1000

NT

[Armstead]

46. Um no, Trump has an arsenal stored away in his Tower

[JCanete]

49. wait, what? So Democrats should not be held accountable for their behavior

because republicans might use the line of attack? Is that really what you're saying, because from my perspective, our candidates should just be better, so that we could hammer Republicans on their quid pro quos, but since our side does the same shit, neither side ever touches the third rail of campaign finance in a serious, directed way. Trump is the only wildcard on that side of the aisle that would bring this up, and its still ridiculous for him to do so because he has absolutely been involved in buying politicians from the industry side. Its not going to win him the election anyway, but how are we ever going to be better if we're just supposed to be playing a team sport where our side is always right so long as we don't look too closely.

[bkkyosemite]

54. She offered the ammunition herself. Now we are gonna blame Bernie for what comes out of

Trump's mouth LOL..........

[Barack_America]

6. What? Words like "the" and "she"?

Why start an OP without a quote?

[NuclearDem]

8. Actually, the word was "unqualified."

Quoted Sanders during his press conference.

[virtualobserver]

16. Hillary's communication director started it by calling Bernie unqualified......

and Hillary would not refute it when asked.

That is what happens when you play dirty, Hillary......what comes around goes around.

[NuclearDem]

18. No, actually.

The Washington Post wrote the headline using that word.

Because Bernie Sanders doesn't do his homework, he didn't read any further than that and made an ass of himself.

[virtualobserver]

23. no, Hillary's communications director DID call him unqualified.....

then when Hillary was asked the next day about what her communication director said....she wouldn't say that he was qualified....then she listed what she considered to be Bernie's many shortcomings.

Did she disavow what her communication director had said? No she didn't...She reinforced it with criticisms of Bernie.

This is the way that an evasive politician communicates. The headline correctly expressed her sentiment, it wasn't quoting her.

So, she deserves what she gets.

[dreamnightwind]

24. Exactly, "unqualified" hitting Hillary from Trump is the boomerang effect

[Armstead]

47. She said close to that....

she said the equivalent...and if you think Trump would have made a distinction...

[uponit7771]

31. This is false on its face

[Seeinghope]

7. And? It obviously didn't work too well for Bernie Sanders so who cares?

[Skwmom]

10. He doesn't need Bernie's words. There is an AVALANCHE of facts they can use.

[HooptieWagon]

13. No worries. He'll get a fresh supply from the FBI report.

[NuclearDem]

14. Still hoping on the Indictment Fairy?

[Onlooker]

15. Well, the Dems will sure have the better hand in that game ...

... There are fare more Republican on Republican attacks than there are Democrat on Democrat attacks.

[Demsrule86]

19. I saw that.

Shame on Bernie.

[ismnotwasm]

20. Something must be wrong with my eyes

Am I seeing posts defending Trump?

[NuclearDem]

21. It must be your eyes.

There's no way Skinner is tolerating people using his website to talk up that fascist clown.

[ismnotwasm]

32. yeah, I guess you must be right.

What was I thinking?

[Matt_in_STL]

61. The fact that you think Skinner pays much attention to what goes on here is a laugh

He turned the site into a free for all of lit up transparency pages and sits back to count his fees from star members. It's great work if you can get it.

[Goblinmonger]

67. If you think Trump will only be as "nasty" as Sanders was

I have a bridge to sell you. I'm sure he has much worse yet to come.

[Autumn]

22. That's politics.

[SwampG8r]

69. Someone told me that recently

Suggested a thicker skin........
Bill had the advantage of the defense by everyday dems to get him through
I even defended him at the time....for 8 years.
I dont see myself managing a shrug in her defense....
Gonna be a long 4 years...for her fans.

[Autumn]

70. Some of her supporters will be in a constant uproar.

I defended her all though Bills administration as first lady, I defended her as a NY senator, I defended her till she conceded in 08 when I supported her last run for president. I defended her as SOS til her we came we saw he died shit, I won't waste another fucking second of my life defending her from anyone or anything.

[R B Garr]

25. I saw that! He's also encouraging Bernie to run 3rd party and saying he was

treated poorly by the Dem Party. YET, Trump didn't want to run 3rd party and fought for his spot as a legit GOP front-runner. What a phony.

[dreamnightwind]

26. Shame on Bernie for running against the party establishment's chosen one

[NuclearDem]

27. Apparently the party voters' chosen one as well.

[dreamnightwind]

28. What, the establishment had no influence?

[Broward]

29. Bernie, how could you?

[LyndaG]

30. .So

Think of all the stuff his Primary opponents have said about Trump. Very useful. And, that's only the beginning.

[AzDar]

33. Thought she was tough? Thought she was vetted?

[NuclearDem]

34. Yes, she is.

Though it doesn't help to have supposed progressives doing the Republicans' dirty work for them.

[AzDar]

36. By 'Republican's dirty work' you mean her RECORD, right? Because that's an apropos title...

Including Hit after Hit after HIT.

[frylock]

35. Oh, the humanity.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

40. OK. Does this carry significance for you? Your analysis and conclusion are missing.

[hellofromreddit]

42. Good

She's vetted, right? It'll just make him look stupid, right?

[Jim Lane]

45. You mean, the way McCain used Hillary's own words to attack Obama?

Well, not just her words, but her dramatic TV commercial painting Obama as too inexperienced and/or immature to handle a foreign crisis.

From "McCain ad returns to Clinton's 3 a.m. phone call":

Republican John McCain's latest TV spot is playing off Hillary Rodham Clinton's best-known ad against Barack Obama to heighten any concerns that Obama isn't ready to take a 3 a.m. phone call that could signal a crisis demanding judgment and experience.

The McCain ad debuted Tuesday, just hours before Clinton was to address the Democratic National Convention in Denver. While she was expected to repeat her post-primary support for Obama's candidacy in an effort to bring her supporters to his side, McCain's campaign didn't want voters to forget that she had once considered McCain to be more experienced.

Opening with a scene lifted from Clinton's old ad, the McCain spot then switches to scenes of war, missiles and hooded gunmen as an announcer says: "Uncertainty. Dangerous aggression. Rogue nations. Radicalism." Clinton herself is shown saying: "I know Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."

One difference, of course, is that Bernie merely made one comment. Naturally it was reported, but AFAIK Bernie hasn't spent millions of dollars blasting it at voters.

[HERVEPA]

52. Every election this happens of course. That's the system. Big fucking deal.

[sadoldgirl]

56. I don't know that her vote on Iraq or

her choosing a private server can be called
good judgement, and that was what the word
"unqualified" implied.

However, she is so strong, that she will
handle it in a great way, right?

[AZ Mike]

58. The idea that the GOP needs any insider help to attack Hillary....

....is the height of naivete.

They have a 25 year dossier on her. As a Bernie supporter, I recognize that that dossier is fluff, bullshit, and a coordinated strategy - a right wing smear campaign, nothing more. But I have strong policy differences with Hillary all on my own. There is no reason to go into "el shock-o dismay-o" mode over attacks on Hillary by the GOP. That's just absurd.

[JSup]

59. It's pretty much over...

...instead of blaming (even if true, not saying either way) we should be working on proving his words wrong.

[Autumn]

60. Of course Bernie is to blame for Hillary's' own actions in

Hillary land.

[Waiting For Everyman]

62. I don't think the blame game is going to defeat Trump.

You're going to need a bigger boat.

Wah wah.

[timmymoff]

64. Don't worry

she is tough and has been vetted. We know she is no longer for keystone , she's been vetted. And we know she is no longer for private prisons, she has been vetted, and we know she is no longer for TPP, she has been vetted. And we know she is for more war and regime change in the middle east her history and vetting showed us that. And we know she is anxious to lurch to the right, due to vetting we know her allegiance is with the 1% . She makes me lack pride in a once great party. Enjoy. I will get to tell you " I told you so" soon enough.

[Orsino]

66. Well, he doesn't actually know many. n/t

[riderinthestorm]

68. Oh my gosh, I'm sure Trump would never have used that word!!11!

Only Bernie showed Trump the way! !11!