Discussion: Clinton Open To Attending Unsanctioned Debate

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Meh.

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Translation if she’s still behind in NH after Iowa, she may want to debate.

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the six ‘official’ debates are over

the est. is getting desperate

but why refuse to speak into the mike?

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This is the hypocrisy of campaigns and debating. Back when Sanders was behind the meme was the DNC was in Hillary’s pocket because they had so few and so poorly scheduled debates. Now that Clinton is behind it’s better for her to have more debates, and Sanders won’t do any debates not approved by the DNC.

The one losing always wants more debates, and the one in front always wants more. The idea that any quality campaign always desires more debates is a fallacy, and the great outrage they show is always a lie.

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Except that it’s plenty reasonable to expect more trickery by DWS and the DNC, like Clinton says she’ll attend the unsanctioned debate but doesn’t show and then DWS bars Sanders from attending the remaining sanctioned debates.

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FFS.
It’s more debates. Period.

Tinfoil conspiracies aside?
More is better for everybody.

jw1

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My comment is less a critique of this DNC and these candidates than the constant playing around with debates and the faux outrage it generates. I agree that there was good reason to think the DNC was helping Clinton, andif Clinton was really OK with the DNC debates only she shouldn’t have indicated she would do more finally. But if Sanders really wanted more debates because it’s good for the voters to decide then he should jump at the chance for an unsanctioned debate.

And you can change the names to just about every primary or general election I’ve ever been a part of or seen.

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Aggregate of current polls:

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WS has to go!

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A spokeswoman for Clinton, told the Union-Leader that the former secretary of state would be “happy to participate in a debate in New Hampshire if the other candidates agree, which would allow the DNC to sanction the debate.”

That’s a rather odd translation. Seems to me she said she will gladly attend the debate, assuming Sanders and O’Malley attend the debate. Given that O’Malley is already in, its pretty much putting the ball in Sanders’ court.

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Good grief…how many hours earlier do you have to wake up to screw on that foil hat in the morning? This is definitely some of the most deluded, paranoid, conspiracy thinking I have seen on a left leaning site in quite some time.

Bernie is just trying to put the screws to the DNC to sanction the debate ahead of time. My guess is all three campaigns are already in on this, and are merely trying to provide an out for the DNC so they don’t lose quite as much face on the issue.

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The one losing always wants more debates, and the one in front always wants more…

I think you meant to say "the one in front always wants FEWER ( not more). No?

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Not sure if it was by design, but it seems that Hillary didn’t say she’d participate if the other candidates agreed until Sanders said he wouldn’t.

You and I have disagreed in the past over the DNC/debates/DWS stuff. God’s honest truth that I’m supporting Hillary over Bernie. But it does seem to me that the the DNC and DWS haven’t been fair brokers regarding the debates, and that Hillary’s artfulness often gives legs to her reputation for being inauthentic.

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I am not sure that is true. I saw this statement from the Hillary camp last night, and only head about Sanders statement this morning. Now, that may be to a delay in reporting, but I am somewhat skeptical of that.

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Debate fussing with dignity…

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The DNC has said it will bar candidates from participating in the six official debates if they participate in a debate not sanctioned by the party.

Way to bury this in the third-to-last paragraph.

Edit: I just noticed that TPM updated their headline. That was warranted, IMO.

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Sander’s is ducking.

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This nontroversy about debates has become tiresome, like so many of the other, mostly, in my opinion, trivial fauxtrages that give animus to Bernie and Hillary “believers”. Time to turn the debates back over to The League of Women’s Voters, air them on C-Span and PBS and take them away from the media-politico complex. Not possible? Perhaps. But until that happens, I regard them as “theatre”.

Also, Debbie Wasserman Schulz may indeed not be doing a good job. She would not have been my pick as Democratic Party Chair, but some of the invective and vitriol hurled at her borders on misogyny and is really off putting.

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DWS and DNC sanction the D@mn debate and move on.