Discussion: Debate Moderator Reacts To Sanders Talking Vietnam: 'Oh God' (AUDIO)

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I couldn’t hear the “Oh God”. But his point is so salient that it doesn’t matter.

Like most sentient Americans, I know that the days of controlling the world “willy-nilly … with its knowns and unknowns” are over. And it’s fucking time somebody says it.

Yea Bernie.

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Let the man talk. None of the moderators are going to be our President.

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Someone said, “Oh God.” I applauded. Bernie is right.

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Typical of the liberal biased media to…oh, wait.

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Right, a draft dodger potentially is.

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Oh God! He really is George McGovern.

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I’m no fan of Henry the K (and love his depiction in the opera ‘Nixon in China’) but Bernie seemed unhinged here…

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If there are people still fighting over the Civil War, then Vietnam is relevant. Some of us remember it.

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How does one then talk about an unrepentant unpunished genocidal maniac like Kissinger?

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I didn’t hear it on the clip or during the debate. Someone is hearing things or I need to go in and have my ears checked. A good possibility.

Still, Kissinger sucks. Some people like Rumsfeld, Cheney and Kissinger evoke that big FUCK YOU whenever their names are mentioned. Kissinger is still one of them.

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I concur. It seemed like a huge stretch to me. He was basically trying to hang Cambodia and Vietnam around Hillary’s neck. She was what, 20 at the time? And was staunchly against the war, leading many protests.

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Yeah, but I’d bet good money Sanders was a Pol Pot apologist back in the 70s just like Chomsky et al.

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Hey, I still cheer whenever Germany still finds some 94 year old Nazi to indict. Its never too late in my opinion.

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Bernie, a fan of Zsa Zsa? (The old girl’s still hanging in there!)

http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2010619/300.gabor.zsazsa.lc.071910.jpg

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You think he hung out with Saul Alinsky too?

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Then he needs to be asked when should a president use military force.

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It was strange. Bernie trying way too hard, flustery, Barney Fife-esque, unlike the man I’ve come to expect. HRC was cool and collected but God I hated that yellow color on her…there was a green tone in it that irked me and didn’t work with Mrs. C’s skin.

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Nonsense. I was pure pandering and an attempt to paint Hillary with an ancient pro-Vietnam brush. She was very anti war in the 60s and 70s, and Bernie knows it.

Meanwhile, he is condeming Kissinge, and by relation, Hillary for the massacres in South East Asia from 40+years ago, and saying he wants to normalize relations with Iran, who is committing atrocities today.

Some might wonder precisely which decade Bernie thinks it is.

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That’s funny if one of them said that.

But, I do think it is relevant who the candidates (Rep and Dem) look up to and who they consult with (whether reading about them, their work, or actually getting advice from them). I think Kissinger is despicable, but, I think it’s possible to learn something from him…not a what to do, but maybe a what not to do or what to look out for… I would like to know who both Bernie and Hillary consult about a wide range of issues, but I would also like to know who Trump, Rubio, Bush, Kasich and Cruz do as well…who informs them?

I remember early in Trump’s campaign, he brought some slimey Joe Pesci character out on stage…I think it was a casino guy he’d done business w/. And he said he’d have this guy negotiate w/ China. I’d like to know more.

Maybe the guy who produces Real Housewives could do a show w/ the candidates and their cronies…so we could get more of an idea of what their administrations would look like. It would be informative, but likely in many cases unintentionally entertaining.

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