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Bubzer

(4,211 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:26 AM Apr 2016

Sanders: Clinton's not qualified to be president

Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president, Bernie Sanders told a crowd of supporters packed into Temple University's arena, delivering his fiercest jab yet to the struggling Democratic front-runner.

"Now the other day, I think, Secretary Clinton appeared to be getting a little bit nervous," he began. "We have won, we have won seven out of eight of the recent primaries and caucuses. And she has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, quote unquote, not qualified to be president.

"Well let me, let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton: I don't believe that she is qualified if she is, if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds," he said. "I don't think you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC."

Sanders then pivoted to her record on foreign policy, saying, "I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don't think you are qualified if you've supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs. I don't think you are qualified if you supported the Panama free trade agreement, something I very strongly opposed and which, as all of you know, has allowed corporations and wealthy people all over the world to avoid paying their taxes to their countries."

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/sanders-clinton-not-qualified-to-be-president-221666
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Sanders: Clinton's not qualified to be president (Original Post) Bubzer Apr 2016 OP
Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president... DemocracyDirect Apr 2016 #1
No, that's just eligibility. She believes she is qualified because she was SoS and Senator and First thereismore Apr 2016 #3
I stand corrected. DemocracyDirect Apr 2016 #4
depends on what you mean by qualified... alterfurz Apr 2016 #5
Bernie is fighting back and they did not expect this. They got another thing coming! thereismore Apr 2016 #2
When visiting India in 2006 to foster foreign H1-B Visa workers, Hill said appalachiablue Apr 2016 #6
 

DemocracyDirect

(708 posts)
1. Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president...
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:34 AM
Apr 2016

... she is over 35 and she was born in the United States.

But in my opinion she would be a very bad president.

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
3. No, that's just eligibility. She believes she is qualified because she was SoS and Senator and First
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:36 AM
Apr 2016

Lady. She is qualified in about the same way Dick Cheney is qualified.

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
2. Bernie is fighting back and they did not expect this. They got another thing coming!
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:34 AM
Apr 2016

“If Secretary Clinton thinks that just because I’m from a small state in Vermont and we’re gonna come here to New York and go to Pennsylvania and they’re gonna beat us up and they’re gonna go after us in some kind of really uncalled for way, that we’re not gonna fight back, well we got another — you know, they can guess again because that’s not the case,” Sanders said. “This campaign will fight back.”

Bernie today to reporters

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