Discussion: Sanders Says Hillary's Emails Are 'A Very Serious Issue'

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NO! They are not!

At the time Hillary was using her private email server, the State department rules did not prohibit it’s use.

Come on berns, stop lying. You are getting as bad as the gop/bags worrying about email servers for christ sakes.

Colin Powel, and Condi used private email servers, you as a senator didn’t give a shit about that.

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ā€˜No comment.’

Might have been the high-road you were looking for Sen Sanders.

jw1

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This isn’t exactly the same as Trump’s juvenile thing of saying ā€œI said I wasn’t going to say such and such about so and soā€ but it’s the same in principle. Disingenuous and not the kind of thing that burnishes your halo.

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Jesus H Christ, Bernie. No they are not. Issues, man!

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You are 100% correct. This is yet another right-wing wankfest that will amount to nothing. Hell, it might even boost Hillary Clinton’s approval rating after the GOP overreach, again.

Sanders appears to be selling out idealism for a chance at power.

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What a passive-aggressive reply.

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Looks like it, doesn’t it? It doesn’t look much like he believes he is winning, despite the hype–and the GOP salivating for him to be the nominee.

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That question annoys me, but I’ll answer anyway, but I’ll talk about issues…

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Yep, once he started to believe that he could actually win, he began his descent into the mud with the regular, compromised, politicians. It’s easier to stay pristine and above the frey when you’re not actually competing to win.

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I’ve seen numerous Sanders supporters claim that Team HRC is desperate. No, this is what desperate looks like. This is disgusting!

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i’ll leave the judgment to those who are actually former intelligence officers – who most certainly agree it was a serious abrogation; if not a display of an incredible lack of judgment/presumption that rules don’t apply to her.

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And those former intelligence people would be…?

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The emails on a private server were legal and there was precedence with other Sec of State. This was the best the repubs could do with Benghazi. There was no security breech. The emails were declared ā€œsecretā€ after the fact and the contents apparently were public knowledge. Bernie is playing the candidate game.

He is, without a doubt, the Republican choice for the Democratic nomination.

Sanders is 74, 5 years older than the previous oldest newly elected president (Ronnie) and we know something of Ronnie’s ability to think in his second term. If elected Bernie is at best a one termer. A president going on 80 is not electable. He’s a self proclaimed socialist. Obama isn’t but has been crucified for his progressive policies–which were not at all socialist. Their argument was that he is a socialist and as such unamerican. Bernie will face a tidal wave of similar accusations and his back history is as far to the left as many repubbies are to the right. He’s really unelectable and the republican choice for an opponent. Too bad for us if he is nominated.

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This is extremely disappointing to hear from Bernie. He just lost tons of respect from me as his comment undermines his ā€œfocus on the issues that matterā€ mantra. Bernie, it is not a ā€œvery serious matterā€ unless you are pandering to the GOP. Someone gave you extremely poor advice to say that. Of course now you have also pandered to the media who will gleefully talk about this instead of those issues that were supposedly so important to you. Epic failure by Bernie today. And won’t be forgotten.

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Jeb! of course, being the rare example of a candidate who is the worst of both worlds.

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Well Bernie, the fact that you stated, ā€œHillary’s emails are a very serious issueā€, made your statement in of itself a ā€œpoliticizingā€ statement…just saying!

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So, Bernie is just another politician? Color me shocked!

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And not to mention, when not actually in a position to govern.

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How difficult is it to comprehend the words ā€œThose emails were not confidential at the time.ā€? Wow, regurgitate GOP memes much?

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