ABC's Raddatz Grills Bernie Sanders on Lack of Foreign Policy Positions

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/abcs-raddatz-grills-bernie-sanders-on-lack-of-foreign-policy-positions/

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She asked, “Don’t you feel these are issues a president should be very concerned about?”

“Absolutely, Martha, and in all fairness, we’ve only been in this race for three-and-a-half months, and we’ve been focusing on, quite correctly as you’ve indicated, on the economy, on the collapse of the American middle class, on massive income and wealth inequality,” the candidate explained. “But you’re absolutely right. Foreign policy is a huge issue.”

Sanders defended his anti-war record, not only voting against the Iraq War, but also opposing the 1991 Gulf War, even though Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait. “Do we need to go to war in every instance, or we can be bring pressure of sanctions and international pressure to resolve these conflicts?” he asked rhetorically.

The candidate denied that he favors force only when the U.S. is directly attacked, such as after 9/11 when he did vote to authorize military action in Afghanistan. “No, not at all, not at all,” he said. “I think using our military is an option, obviously, that we will always have under certain circumstances, but it is the last option.”


interview link
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/sen-bernie-sanders-2016-campaign-33413797

[GP6971]

1. I thought she

was rude and disrepectful in the way she conducted the interview.

[Enthusiast]

3. She certainly was rude and disrepectful.

She wanted to conduct a gotcha interview and tried her best. Bernie was just too prepared for her.

[merrily]

2. What's the mystery, Ms. Raddatz? He voted against invading Iraq and approves the Iran agreement.

He's been in Congress since 1991. That's 24 years of votes and impassioned, passionate speeches, including as to foreign policy. What on earth leads you to conclude he is not concerned about foreign policy?

Bullshit walks.

[Enthusiast]

4. She was trying to establish a (false) meme. The media sucks, clear to the bone.

Ms. Raddatz was awful. She wanted to trip Bernie up.

[SoapBox]

5. She was living in Iraq for her "reporting"...

I still think she was disappointed when it came to an end.

What was it that she and/or ABC got burned on? Was it something with NYT?

We were amazed how angry and arrogant she was after this, when she discussed it with someone...from that point forward, she seemed like a totally different person and had since been burning with anger.

We lost all respect and have never listened to her since.

[merrily]

6. Good luck with that. I haven't seen anyone trip him up yet.