Sanders outshone Clinton on foreign policy at the debate. But who watched?

[Matariki]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/20/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-debate-foreign-policy

For months Bernie Sanders has tried and failed – and sometimes not even tried – to distinguish himself from Hillary Clinton on foreign policy. On Saturday, he finally found his line in the sand.

The key distinction is this: in Syria, Clinton favors a focus on toppling Bashar al-Assad while simultaneously combating Isis. Sanders says overthrowing Isis must come first, and he also criticized her plans to go after Assad, calling her a “fan of regime change”.

Previously, Sanders had struggled to draw a substantive contrast between Hillary and himself beyond her vote to go to war with Iraq years ago. The monotonous attack made it look like he had no real foreign policy platform to speak of; finally, he has one.

He didn’t back down from his attacks on her vote on Iraq at Saturday night’s debate, but rather drew out its meaning, using it as a lens for the differing ways he and she see foreign policy.

“I worry Secretary Clinton is too much into regime change and too aggressive without knowing what the consequences will be,” he said, his clearest contrast with Clinton to date. “Yeah, regime change is easy, getting rid of regime change is easy, but … what happens the day after?”

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[PatrickforO]

1. Sanders is our guy.

[daleanime]

2. No question about that....

the only question is can we over come the party leadership and make it so.

[yeoman6987]

3. We had 6.71 million viewers

GOP had 18.56 million. Ours was better but least watched. Hopefully people will watch non traditional ways.

[progressoid]

4. Gee, on a Saturday night; the weekend before Xmas. I wonder why nobody watched?

I was at a Xmas party with a lot of Democrats. Most didn't even know there was a debate.

[barbtries]

5. I watched

The first one I have watched

[Matariki]

6. Me too.

but we're probably more 'political geeks' than most of the country.

[libdem4life]

7. My "live feed" died. :(

[Matariki]

8. Yeah, their connection really was bad.

mine didn't die but it choked up and froze often.

[Chitown Kev]

9. Clinton got a good one in on Sanders about Libya

but yeah, it really looked as if Sanders hit the briefing books on FP last night...I think "outshone" is an exaggeration but he was certainly able to go toe-to-toe with Hillary on the topic.

[bigdarryl]

10. What fucking debate did you watch Hillary was on her game

With foreign policy