Discussion: Voter Who Questioned Clinton's Honesty Says Sanders Got Him Into Politics

Trump is boycotting Fox debate. ha! What a crybaby! They hurt is feewings!

Quite the dilemma for the Faux Not Really News demographic. Who do they back, their hero or their favorite news source

holy crap. Now the rest of the field has to be Mr. Entertainer.

At the end, Trump will reappear and yell, ā€œYouā€™re firedā€?

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Hillary can take it. She has seen it all before.

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If Drumpf loses, heā€™ll blame Faux.

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Iā€™m surprised he wasnā€™t wearing his older brotherā€™s ā€œBros Before Hoesā€ shirt as this is the same bullshit I heard from young people 8 years ago.

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They persuaded him to it.

This kid reeks of such diabolical dishonesty with those twitchy eyesā€¦what a dark life lies ahead of him.

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I know Iā€™m going against the tide here, but I donā€™t get what the problem is. He wrote an op-ed in support of Bernie, and he was clearly identified as a Bernie supporter. I donā€™t think there was anything in his op-ed that should have disqualified him from asking a question at the town hall.

I think the premise of his question was right - a lot of people do think sheā€™s dishonest. Her answer was spot on - a lot of crap has been ginned up against her. Weā€™ve all seen numerous stories dedicated to pointing that out. His question was a bit acid-tongued, but so what? She got a lot worse than that from the jerkwads in howdy doody land for 11 hours straight.

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I think the problem is when he was introduced as leaning Sanders rather than supporting Sanders. Leaning Sanders would mean hasnā€™t made up mind yet.

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I agree. There seem to be a lot of people here who want to bash Bernie and his supporters.

If you read his op-ed, he claims to have become disenchanted with politics because:

ā€œI grew up seeing a presidential impeachment, a failed war, the Great Recession, and multiple natural disasters. I hated politics: the corruption, the money, the debacle.ā€

Hmmmā€¦ if he is 22 now, he would have been born in 1993 ā€“ and Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. This guy would have been around 5 years old. How many 5 years olds, would pay attention to, care or understand what impeachment is unless his parents were vocal Clinton haters? Is that where this guy developed his animosity and views about Hillary Clintonā€™s honesty?

So heā€™s found true love with Sanders ā€“ good ā€“ but I am kind of disgusted that Iā€™d given him the benefit of the doubt when I first saw the exchange this morning. The good news is that he didnā€™t rattle Hillary at all. She answered him respectfully and I think she comes off very favorably. Heā€™s the one who now, having been exposed, looks like the dishonest one.

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So, criticize one Sanders supporter and you are criticizing Bernie and his supporters, plural? You sound a bit like the Corbynistas in the UK. Say something about one, and the whole tribe takes offense, not only for themselves but also on behalf of dear leader.

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Talking with a couple friends over beer about our election candidates I observed that either Democratic candidate will face Congressional intransigence of the sort Obama has had to weather. My reaction was Bernie is too damn liberal, even though I personally agree with a good number of his positions and rhetoric, while Hillary had a trust gap and inspires Republicans to utter irrationality.

Thinking about it more, most of my Hillary trust thoughts have been from marinating in 20+ years of a literally constant drumbeat from Republicans. I canā€™t think of a single instance thatā€™s been substantiated. Unfortunately, I think young voters these days have only heard one constant message, that Hillary is a lying duplicitous schemer, but just has never been caught. I can think of no other American who has sustained such an ongoing character assassination campaign and she only seems to grow stronger from it, which speaks loads to me about her intelligence and ability.

Exactly.

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You are so right and balanced in your response, itā€™s no less cynically grave to see a young man, stand up in public with a foul pant-load of ā€œstraw-manā€ question.

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Trump probably thinks Fox will go crawling back to him. Itā€™ll be interesting to see if they do, hat in hand.

Itā€™s true!

Berniebro plant, Taylor Gipple, who claimed to be an ā€œundecidedā€ voter but was working for the campaign.

Part of ā€œMillenials for Bernieā€

Created this website: www.dowefeelthebern.com in September 2015.

https://www.facebook.com/youngberners/posts/811081895657396

Registered and became an avowed Bernie voter. Google Des Moines Register and Taylor Gipple.

And he is apparently lacking critical thinking skills in that he is simply regurgitating the ā€œdishonestā€ meme that originates from the GOPers while he obviously failed to check for facts. Quite a poor reflection on him actually.

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That website should have an epileptic seizure warning.

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ā€œā€¦seeing a presidential impeachment, a failed war, the Great Recessionā€¦ā€
All due to the GOP. The apparent fact that this guy failed to do basic homework about this speaks volumes about his background. Wow, what a failure.

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