I guess the blowback was too much and he finally states what he should have been saying all along.
Well, that was a fun day and a half. Let’s not do it again, OK?
“…on her worst day, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the Republican candidates.”
Damned with faint praise.
"Well, OK, you got me, I guess a ham sandwich ***IS*** better than a shit burger. You happy now? Geez..."All it takes is a few days of bad press and now it’s “of course”.
That’s what a walk-back looks like folks.
Bernie got played. He over-reacted and took it personal when his response to Clinton’s comments should have been either to ignore or mock the implication. You laugh it off, throw down some substance and move on. Clinton took some heat in 2008 when she implied Obama didn’t pass the C in C threshold like she and McCain had. Obama did not rise to the bait and HRC took the hit instead.
Good of him to walk this back. I prefer Hillary, but if Sanders wins he’ll get my vote.
It’s ironic and strange how much this primary parallels 2008 - Hillary is not Obama but there’s a lot of rhyming.
Very much like the awkward climb-downs many of his more tooth-gnashing supporters will be performing between the convention and election.
Excellent…now for Susan (trump is my man)Sarandon…
And on her worst day, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the Republican candidates."
This is such a condescending statement. On her worst days, Bernie, she would be an infinitely better president than you.
Shovel brigade duty is never fun, but he just did a pretty good job of getting the shit back in the horse.
“And on her worst day, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the Republican candidates.”
“She’s qualified?” Guthrie asked.
“Of course,” Sanders replied.
So tfick, this isn’t good enough for you? How 'bout “I’m not worthy.” Would that work?
Typical politician, speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
Except he didn’t throw down any substance. The actual lack of substance that Bernie displayed in the NYDN interview that was the root of all of this, still hasn’t been dealt with.
And Bernie wasn’t played, He was ill prepared to address reasonable questions about one of his major planks, and got angry when Hillary pointed that out. Nobody told him not to prepare some actual detail to what he has been railing about for over a year; nobody told him to go off the hook when he was called on it.
This was all self inflicted.
I have a bit of sympathy for him. Swallowing shit sandwiches is hard. He’s been swallowing for 36 hours now. Chew slowly.
Paul Krugman has a problem with Bernie’s qualifications.
Unfortunately, in the past few days the answer has become all too clear: Mr. Sanders is starting to sound like his worst followers.
Yet going on about big banks is pretty much all Mr. Sanders has done. On the rare occasions on which he was asked for more detail, he didn’t seem to have anything more to offer. And this absence of substance beyond the slogans seems to be true of his positions across the board.
Read this earlier this morning. Krugman’s a bit testy these days. In other news, dog bites man. 
Good read.
And Hillary said “I’ll take Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump and Ted Cruz any day.”
How is his statement “condescending?” Or is hers condescending also?
Seems to me that his statement is, if anything, the stronger of the two – says she’d not just be better, but “infinitely better.”
“Well, what I now know is that after we have won six out of the last seven caucuses and primaries and in national polls — couple of them — we are now in the lead, the Clinton campaign has changed its tone,” he said. “And I think they were pretty public about it. And that is when we come here to New York, they’re going to be a lot more negative. And that’s what you’re seeing from their surrogates and from the tone of their campaign.”
Not really an apology or walkback because Bern’s f**kup was not caused by what he said above.