What is lacking with Sanders is that his policy’s are only at headline level, with no details.
When asked to clarify, he squawked: Wall Street! Wall Street!
This entire pissing contest over who is “qualified” is asinine and juvenile,
How’s about both of you get back to telling us why we should vote for you?
Grump has gone from “walking it back” to “walking it back and forth.”
You know, I think I am beginning to question the judgment of that bird.
Bernie “Trump” Sanders…
So, Sanders judgement of coddling the NRA is all good because states rights.
Clinton’s judgement of speaking to Wall Street is much, much worse because “banksters.”
What a crock of sh*t.
Hey TPM,
If you are going to write about “judgment,” how about having your writers learn how to spell it correctly?
…a Y chromosome, right, Bernie?
Maybe if this guy were a more loyal and reliable Democrat and less of a Socialist or a Wobbly or whatever the hell he was, he wouldn’t spend so much time making commercials the GOP can use against the presumptive Democrat nominee.
It’s a pissing contest he’s having with himself. Clinton has never once said he wasn’t qualified. Not once. He is the only one making such claims and he continues to make it over and over again without any regard at all to how this will be played and replayed in the general election. Sanders couldn’t care less.
Again with the attempt implying Clinton is corrupt.
He has long ago gone past his sell-by date.
Hillary “Bush” Clinton
Yeah I know, this statement is also completely wrong. Neither is anywhere near as bad as their Republican counterparts.
Sanders is making it increasingly hard for Clinton to have much to do with him after the primary. She may necessarily be forced to distance herself. Blowing out candles just to curse the darkness.
Even his universal health care plan goes state by state, with each one making its rule with Federal guidelines. (worked out so well with expanding Medicaid didn’t that.) He is the one with outrageously bad judgment on the guns, and immigration reform, and protecting the armed Minutemen, not to mention that HE voted for the Clinton administration crime bill.
When he tries to tar Hillary, he also tars Obama. He has also accepted money from Wall Street, and gasp, rich people.
And most Democrats are very fond of this President. I think Sanders needs to be careful.
If you go over to DailyKos, Lord in Heaven!, they’re twisting themselves in knots to justify that vote. From what I could tell, he voted for the really good parts of the bill not the bad ones. Pres. Clinton takes the heat for a bad bill.
Or something.
I have serious doubts about Sanders intelligence. For example his major gripe is the bigness of the banks and the wealth of Wall Street. Nothing wrong there, but . . . . Back in mid-December when the Fed raised the prime rate a quarter percent from zero. Sanders immediately took to the microphone to denounce the rate hike and Yellen because it hurt workers he said since it hurt job creators who wouldn’t be able to hire workers. A good neo-liberal argument worthy of Mitt Romney, moreover the eight years of the zero percent prime rate funneled truck loads of money intoWall Street and the banks. Without the low rate neither banks nor Wall Street could have grown so much since the Recession. His inability to see the cause and effect of low prime rates and wealth is a sure sign of limited understanding.
That’s what a huge part of his fan base thinks, that’s for sure.
And it’s a shame because the things he was talking about in the beginning were important, and there’s obviously a whole wing of the party that would like him to have more of an ongoing voice in the discussion. But he’s just letting the air out of his own relevance. Frankly he seems like a throwback to the CPUSA people in the Thirties, the kind for whom the Soviet Union could do no wrong—one day the party members are violently antifascist, then comes the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and suddenly the fascists aren’t that bad and the Yanks Are Not Coming coming blah blah blah, then the pact is broken and it’s all Second Front Now. Bernie’s of a succeeding generation but the tradition of doctrinaire naiveté seems to be intact. The complexities of and moral shadings necessary in the actual real world seem too much for him to navigate.