Friday, April 15, 2016

Last nights' Democratic debate highlights.

The first thing I noticed last night is that Hillary came out fighting and things got real very fast.

For his part Sanders dinged Hillary for not releasing her speech transcripts, taking money from folks associated with fossil fuel companies, for poor judgement about the Iraq war, and her tepid support for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

On the flip side Hillary nailed Bernie for refusal to support some gun control measures, not releasing his taxes, and for accusing her of being in the pocket of big banks.

My personal take was that Hillary got a lot of good body blows in (The worst of which might have been asking Sanders to apologize to the Sandy Hook families, and his refusal to do so.), some of which left Sanders standing with his mouth agape and his hand up as if he was an elderly man asking for a glass of water in a busy restaurant.

Hillary had very little respect for the time limits, and would talk over both the moderators and Sanders when they tried to get a word in edgewise. She clearly had points she wanted to make, and damn if anybody was going to shut her up before she had made them.

I am not sure why the Sanders team pushed so hard to get this debate, because overall I think this helped Clinton in New York more than it did Sanders.

You can read more about the debate here, here, and here.

107 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:36 AM

    I think she won it, too; I love how he could not name ANYTHING that ever tied her to big banks & Wall Street. He worried me a lot because he was so red-faced--and constantly smirking. His grinning during the Sandy Hook portion was very disconcerting and inappropriate.

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    1. Anonymous10:16 AM

      I think he is too old and grumpy! Plus, being reactive and physical in motions when he shouldn't have been throughout the debate!

      Hillary Clinton outshined him throughout! She's a sharp cookie and he isn't!

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  2. Anonymous8:49 AM

    I am not pro-gun whatsoever, but Bernie is right on this. When guns are sold legally, how can the sellers be sued for what the buyer does? The answer is to ban the sale of these assault weapons, not to sue legal sellers. Make the selling illegal.

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    1. Anonymous9:35 AM

      The court ruled two days ago to allow the lawsuit. Doesn't mean they will win but they'll get their day in court.

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    2. Anonymous9:56 AM

      Exactly.

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    3. Anonymous10:50 AM

      Apparently the court system disagrees with both you and Bernard.

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    4. Anonymous1:48 PM

      One court has allowed the lawsuit to continue 10:50, this will eventually be tossed because it is without merit. Just like soulless liberals.

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    5. Anonymous2:26 PM

      Civil law suits serve to make products safer. That's why we have the safety features on cars that we do. No industry should be immune from civil law suits. Let a judge decide if the law suit has merit.

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    6. Anonymous5:46 PM

      "soulless liberals"
      Wow, you're an ass.

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  3. Anonymous8:56 AM

    Debate coach - Bad night for Bernie: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/15/opinions/debate-coach-democratic-debate-graham/index.html

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  4. Anonymous9:15 AM

    I didn't appreciate his finger wagging in her face and he demanded she answer a question...that she'd already answered. What a bully.

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    1. Anonymous3:02 PM

      Everyone should be wagging their fingers right up to her face. "bad Hillary, we don't want you- much like your husband, shoo, go away, you are awful and boring"

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    2. Anonymous3:11 PM

      3:02 - You must be a dog trainer. And CRAZY.

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    3. Anonymous3:02 AM

      3:02; you must be a Bernie Ho or a Bernie Bro. How dare you be so condescending and downright rude? Oh, yes, you're just emulating your idol, the deadbeat dad tax cheat who feels women's access to health care and bodily autonomy is "not important".

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  5. Anonymous9:17 AM

    Just when I start to think Sanders isn't all that bad, I watch another debate. When the moderator gives Hillary a question or gives her the opportunity to respond, she talks for maybe 5 seconds before Bernie raises his finger up (presumably to let the moderator know he wishes to respond). After that, he lets out a pouty, exasperated old man sigh and does it all again seconds later. This is all within her allotted time. It's like he's saying WHY Does This Bitch Keep Talking? Don't they know I want to say something?!? Very off-putting.

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    1. Anonymous9:39 AM

      Several debates ago Sanders interrupted Clinton during her time and, then, when she tried to resume her response, he said, 'Excuse me, I'm talking.'

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    2. Anonymous12:21 PM

      Anonymous 9:39 AM no, it was Hillary that was talking during bernie's time. He got a couple words in and then she interrupted him which prompted "excuse me, I'm talking". It wasn't her time to speak.

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    3. Anonymous1:55 PM

      Bernie is partially deaf and half of the time he butts in because he cannot hear.

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    4. Anonymous3:03 AM

      1:55 that's great; a presidential candidate who can't hear but is too vain to wear a hearing aid. Fantastic. If he were to be elected, he could just talk over and ignore world leaders and they'd be totally cool with that. @@

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  6. Anonymous9:30 AM

    She clearly won it. It was an obvious mistake of Bernie's campaign manager to put him head to head with her an extra time.
    And geez, can't someone train him not to flail his arms around?

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  7. Anonymous9:40 AM

    I think Sanders would be crushed in a debate with either Trump or Cruz.

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    1. Anonymous10:12 AM

      I think he's a one note phony pony.

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  8. Anonymous9:52 AM

    She blew him away with sound reasoning and facts. I can't believe the breadth of her knowledge, re foreign policy.

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    1. Anonymous10:30 AM

      I went all in for her a year or so ago when I caught her on PBS with Charlie Rose. There is no one on Earth who understands the geopolitical landscape better than she does. If she can hod her own against Sanders, who is no dummy, think what she will do to the egotistic blowhards on the GOP side. I still think one debate with her, and Trump will go crying to Mommy. And Cruz will be on his knees begging God to smite her.

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    2. Anonymous11:02 AM

      Bernie makes much more sense when it comes to the Palestinian conflict: We definitely need to be more impartial. Hillary sounded nearly as awful as Netanyahu last night.

      Are the neo-cons going to keep us flailing around in the Middle East till we're completely broke?

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    3. Anonymous11:32 AM

      No, she didn't. What? She spoke about compassionately Palestinians last night:
      "And I have been involved, both as First Lady with my husband's efforts, as a Senator supporting the efforts that even the Bush administration was undertaking, and as Secretary of State for President Obama, I'm the person who held the last three meetings between the president of the Palestinian Authority and the prime minister of Israel.

      There were only four of us in the room, Netanyahu, Abbas, George Mitchell, and me. Three long meetings. And I was absolutely focused on what was fair and right for the Palestinians.

      I was absolutely focused on what we needed to do to make sure that the Palestinian people had the right to self-government. And I believe that as president I will be able to continue to make progress and get an agreement that will be fair both to the Israelis and the Palestinians without ever, ever undermining Israel's security."

      Bernie refused to speak at AIPAC. She did. And she was criticized for her speech as being Anti-Israel by the RNC. Here's one example: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/articles/2016-03-21/hillary-clintons-aipac-speech-doesnt-prove-she-is-a-friend-to-israel

      She knows more about the issue than Bernie ever could; she's been very involved in it for over twenty years. Here's one comment she made last night about the challenge:
      "If you are from whatever perspective trying to seek peace, trying to create the conditions for peace when there is a terrorist group embedded in Gaza that does not want to see you exist, that is a very difficult challenge."

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    4. Anonymous1:59 PM

      I can't stand hyperbole like "Hillary sounded nearly as awful as Netanyahu last night."

      What a ridiculous exaggeration.

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    5. Anonymous2:59 PM

      She will be a prison leader, sweeping the minority vote in cell block D.

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    6. Anonymous3:10 PM

      2:59 - FOR WHAT? ON WHAT CHARGE? NAME IT. Because Rep. Trey Gowdy has found no charge, Rep. Darrell Issa before him found no charge, Ken Starr during Whitewater found no charge, etc.

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    7. Anonymous8:40 PM

      3:10, none of those investigations you are noting are related to the ongoing FBI investigation, which is obviously independent of the politics.

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    8. Anonymous9:01 PM

      8:40 - no. The FBI is reviewing it as a security measure, not for any charges. There is no evidence of hacks. What could they charge her with-- using a former President's server? There was no rule against it at the time!

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    9. Anonymous9:07 PM

      http://www.inquisitr.com/2991830/hillary-clinton-fbi-investigation-hillary-will-likely-avoid-indictment-and-obama-may-be-rigging-the-process-to-help-her-out/

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    10. Anonymous10:57 PM

      9:01 I keep hearing you repeat the same thing over and over about "using an ex-presidents server"... praytell, what is the special deal or immunity one gets if they are using an "ex-presidents " server?

      I don't believe it holds the same level of immunity you think it does. Basically ist means zero. Zero immunity, it doesn't mean shit, so you can stop saying it.

      You do realize that this server was set up privately and did not include government oversight don't you? Yeah probably not.

      Maybe since she was using his server (so you claim) they will both go to jail! Now that would be fitting. Although I'd be just as happy if Hillary went to jail and Bill just kept banging hookers.

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  9. Crystal Sage9:57 AM

    And for her performance, the Bernie Brats will call her shrill and untruthful. I was glad that Hillary spoke in support of women's reproductive rights and I do agree that the Sandy Hook parents should be able to sue the gun manufacturers. Whether there is merit to the lawsuit should be decided in the courts, not in Congress. Bernie could easily have avoided the whole argument if he had just stated that. Personally, I am in favor of strict gun control; an assault weapons ban; and background checks for all gun purchases, regardless of where they take place.

    I am getting tired of Bernie. He has built up a large and boisterous following of malcontents who are lapping up his every word like members of a cult. Can't wait until it is all over.

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    1. Anonymous10:13 AM

      I so agree with you, 9:57 AM. I find him absolutely boring these days! Hillary Clinton is far superior to him in knowledge and experience. And, I think she'll make a wonderful POTUS!

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    2. Anonymous11:13 AM

      Crystal Sage, as a weapons owner I agree with more gun control, an assault weapons ban, and background checks. On top of those things, I think gun fairs need to be regulated, the sale of private weapons needs to be regulated ( with fines for sellers skirting the issues, and my plan for that would be for any private sale to actually take place in local police depts where the background checks could be done and the change of ownership tracked)AND I also think buyers should be required to have a mental health check before allowing ownership. AND that f you are ever convicted of a violent crime, with or without a weapon involved, that you lose the right to own weapons. And that if you are charged with domestic violence, that your weapons are held by the local police until after your trial date and if not convicted then you can have them back.
      Most gun owners feel there needs to be controls ( though most not as radical as my views), so just know that not every weapons owner is a radical nutso NRA member.

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    3. Anonymous11:18 AM

      Mo we are tired of all the Clinton and 1% corruption. Hillary has lied over and over again. That you can over look that tells me you don't care about what kind of a world you leave your grandchildren. We do! Boring? Yeah 48,000 people coming to see him, you cant stand that, when Hillary can only get 500.

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    4. Anonymous11:44 AM

      11:18 - you are the liar. Even Bernie COULD NOT NAME ANY CORRUPTION OF HERS LAST NIGHT! Nor could he representatives afterwards! It's just all smears - rightwing smears. Why are millions more people voting for her than the shouty old man with no plan?

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    5. Anonymous1:56 PM

      Who cares when 48,000 people come to see him when so many more vote for Clinton. Sanders is a cult of personality. There are plenty of people who feel a genuine passion for him as a political figure, but so many of his fans are just on his bandwagon.

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    6. Anonymous3:37 PM

      Who needs plans that work or details when you've got someone yelling slogans you can easily make into a hashtag? Details are part of the establishment.

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    7. Anonymous3:54 PM

      @ 11:18 -- Agree with you, and saw this re the Daily News + Bernie's so-called lack of plans.


      http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/ny-newspaper-attacked-sanders-economic-agenda-also-claimed-fdr-had-no-concrete-plans?akid=14155.1075399.Qs6CFT&rd=1&src=newsletter1054292&t=12

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    8. Anonymous4:39 PM

      Um, 3:54 - that's a satirical article. Can you find anything that is real as a response?

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  10. Raz Lemons9:57 AM

    What was a 20 point lead last week is 2 today and in a few polls Bernie is winning : )

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    1. Anonymous10:05 AM

      National polls don't mean much. At one point McCain was ahead in national polls against Obama, but it's electoral votes that count. There is no US popular vote wins or loses.

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    2. Anonymous10:12 AM

      Please get back to us after Tuesday. Thanks!

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    3. Anonymous10:42 AM

      Links please!

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    4. Anonymous10:49 AM

      In my many decades of being involved in politics I have never been polled nor has anyone in my large extended family.

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    5. Anonymous1:53 PM

      She's up by at least 10 points in New York. He's down by hundreds of delegates. I'm not sure how you see that as winning, but don't let me disturb your delusion.

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    6. Anonymous2:58 PM

      She'll be indicted soon enough.

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    7. Anonymous3:08 PM

      2:58 - FOR WHAT? THERE ARE NO CHARGES. You're nuttier than a fruit cake.

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    8. Anonymous8:41 PM

      Thats right 3:08, there are no charges because she has yet to be charged. When she is charged, there will be charges. See that is how it works.

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    9. Anonymous8:59 PM

      8:41 - so you cannot answer the question, because no one thinks there will be any charges after 4 years. It's a security review.

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    10. Anonymous9:09 PM

      "There is other evidence suggesting that Hillary Clinton will not face FBI charges for her use of an unsecured email. In an extensive review of similar cases, Politico concluded that Clinton’s case did not meet the same level as other more egregious breeches of national security.

      “The relatively few cases that drew prosecution almost always involved a deliberate intent to violate classification rules as well as some add-on element: An FBI agent who took home highly sensitive agency records while having an affair with a Chinese agent; a Boeing engineer who brought home 2000 classified documents and whose travel to Israel raised suspicions; a National Security Agency official who removed boxes of classified documents and also lied on a job application form.”
      The report cited experts on national security law who agreed that intent is important for the FBI. While Hillary Clinton may have been careless in her use of an unsecured email server to send classified material, she lacked the intention to commit wrongdoing, they argued.

      “The law treats the intentional disclosure of one piece of classified information to someone not entitled to receive it far more seriously than the accidental communication of dozens of pieces of classified information to people who were not supposed to get it,” American University law professor Stephen Vladeck said."

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  11. Anonymous11:00 AM

    Dear Hillary, big banks and corporate ppl live in your ass.

    In other news. Florida just made great strides in helping mental health by making law enforcement and health care work together.

    Now we need to make sure Hillary "private prison " Clinton never gets to the White House.

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    1. Anonymous11:42 AM

      Why couldn't Bernie NAME ONE INSTANCE of her working for big banks or Wall Street last night? From CNN.com, "Debate Coach" link above:

      "So if you're keeping score at home, while Sanders could not provide a single piece of legislation that Clinton supported (or blocked) that offered proof of her being influenced by Wall Street, she slammed home an example of Sanders being influenced -- and changing his voting because of influence -- by the NRA. She noted that he's been a reliable supporter ever since that first election loss."

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  12. Anonymous11:01 AM

    A vote for Hillary is a vote for Cheney, and Nixon. Ironically.

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    1. Anonymous11:40 AM

      Since she worked on Watergate, you are historically wrong and metaphorically wrong at the same time. Neat trick! "7. In 1974, Clinton became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff during the Watergate scandal. President Richard Nixon resigned later that year."

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    2. Anonymous1:51 PM

      A vote for Hillary is also a vote for Hitler, Stalin, Jack the Ripper, Satan, Darth Vader, and Voldemort. You don't want to vote for those guys, do you?

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    3. Anonymous2:45 PM

      @1:51 - Oh, by the way, where are Bernie's tax returns? Last night, he said he'd release them today. It's almost 7 p.m. EDT on Friday night. Don't tell me Bernie LIES????

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    4. Anonymous3:35 PM

      I was kidding at 1:51. I though it would be obvious, but I guess it's too close to what a real Sanders supporter would say at this point.

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    5. Anonymous3:43 PM

      Okay - they released them as a Friday night dump. https://go.berniesanders.com/page/-/Bernie%20Taxes%20Full.pdf

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    6. 3:35 - Actually, it's not you, it's me. It was VERY FUNNY. :-)

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    7. Interestingly enough, The Leader of the Free World and his wife released their 2015 tax filing today also (Bernie and his wife released only their 2014 filing) -- POTUS/FLOTUS' adjusted gross income is barely over twice what the Sanderses reported for their previous year.

      Amazing that the difference is so little, considering the degree of difficulty for the job of POTUS.

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  13. Anonymous11:04 AM

    Many here at IM are all in for Hillary. Don't go over to dailykos or crooksandliars and read the comments if you don't want to have someone (or many) raining on your parade. Even the comments at fivethirtyeight last weekend were critical of
    Hillary.

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    1. Anonymous11:38 AM

      Ooooohhhhh, comments sections.....Oooooohhhhh. As if comments were votes.......Ooooohhhh.

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    2. Anonymous1:49 PM

      I skip over the Dailykos threat that are just a love fests for Sanders. There are plenty of Clinton supporters over there.

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  14. Anonymous11:30 AM

    Thanks for the debate highlights! That is the first debate action I've watched this entire election season. Just the right length for my attention span :-)

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  15. Anonymous11:46 AM

    DONALD TRUMP YOU'RE FIRED!


    Former 'Apprentice' contestants to America: Don't hire Trump

    Former contestants of “The Apprentice” on Friday repudiated Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, warning Americans of the danger of a country run by the former reality-show star.

    “Because our allegiance to our country supersedes our relationship with Donald, we see today as an act of patriotism and not disloyalty,” said Randal Pinkett, who won Season 4 of NBC's “The Apprentice.”

    The group of former contestants said they came together to speak out against Trump, not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans, insisting that their collective remarks were not a partisan statement. The news conference in New York comes four days before the state's primary, where Trump leads by significant double-digit margins in recent polls.

    “Today, we denounce Donald’s campaign of sexism, xenophobia, racism, violence and hate as a unified team, “ said Pinkett, who personally invited former contestants Kevin Allen, Tara Dowdell, Marshawn Evans Daniels, James Sun and Kwame Jackson to condemn Trump’s candidacy for the first time as a group...

    “Trump does not have the temperament to deal with the sensitivities and diplomacy required on the world stage with volatile regimes in Iran, North Korea and the threat of ISIS,” he said. “You don’t get into a fist-for-fist boxing match in 2016 global politics.”...

    “Trump is playing the old Dixiecrat southern strategy of yesteryear by playing to small-tent politics, assuming you can win an election with an all-white, male electorate that is shrinking, angry and tricked into voting against their own economic self-interest by a beguiling and shiny billionaire,” he said...

    In March, Trump encouraged his supporters to “knock the crap out” of protesters carrying tomatoes and offered to pay legal bills for supporters who are charged at his rallies. He later denied saying that.

    “I am truly concerned about what will happen if Donald Trump becomes the Republican presidential nominee, and I am deeply afraid of what could happen if he becomes president of the United States of America,” Dowdell said. ...

    Trump argued that no one would know who they were if not for him. “They just want to get back into the limelight like they had when they were with Trump. Total dishonesty and disloyalty,” he added. “They should be careful, or I’ll play hours of footage of them individually praising me.”

    Read entire post at
    http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/trump-apprentice-contestants-2016-222011

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    1. Anonymous12:01 PM

      There's a video posted at the above site which is different from the one below.

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  16. Anonymous11:53 AM

    Former 'Apprentice' contestants don't hold back in public denunciation of Donald Trump

    https://youtu.be/yJayIBfNXAY

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  17. Anonymous11:59 AM

    To the former Apprentice contestants turning on President Trump, paybacks a bitch
    -Lou Sarah

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  18. Anonymous12:18 PM

    "some of which left Sanders standing with his mouth agape and his hand up as if he was an elderly man asking for a glass of water in a busy restaurant."

    My mom who is 95 and has trouble remembering names calls him "angry old guy".

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    1. Anonymous3:06 PM

      Your last sentence made me laugh out loud because my 94 yr old Dad says Bernie acs very senile and should be in a locked ward.

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  19. Anonymous12:28 PM

    Bernie Sanders Delivers Stirring Message Of Hope And Opportunity At Vatican Conference

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/15/bernie-sanders-delivers-stirring-message-hope-opportunity-vatican-conference.html

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    1. Anonymous1:46 PM

      Did he take the Vatican to task for the sexism and homophobia perpetuated by the Catholic Church? That would be really stirring.

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    2. Anonymous1:57 PM

      No. He just went to the Vatican and delivered his stump speech. Since everyone else spoke Italian, no one cared.

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    3. Anonymous2:02 PM

      1:45 "SPOTLIGHT"
      Everything is about SEX!
      Always and forever...Makes me PUKE!!

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    4. Anonymous2:47 PM

      Bernie should have gone to Isreal if he was looking to garner votes rather than The Vatican. As a Catholic, his visit did nothing to inspire me to vote for him. As a Democrat, I will be voting for Hillary, the only real Democrat in the New York Primary. As much as I like Pope Francis, he has a long way to go to bring the Church to the point where I will attend. Let's just start with the treatment of women and go from there.

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    5. Anonymous3:26 PM

      Sex makes you puke, 2:02?

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    6. Anonymous3:30 PM

      It would be nice if the Cool Pope, who cares so much about economic equality, would recognize how important birth control and abortion is to the economic well-being of women. The Catholic Church says only abstinence or betting on the calendar are legitimate ways to not get pregnant (even for married women).

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    7. Anonymous3:33 PM

      That's great, but women still can't be priests and priest still can get away with molesting kids.

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    8. Anonymous3:44 PM

      And the Vatican is very involved with Wall Street!

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    9. Anonymous5:50 PM

      The Vatican is part of the 1%.

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  20. Anonymous1:59 PM

    So Proud! 22
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/04/15/army-oks-first-female-combat-officers.html

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    1. Great, now we'll have women with PMS and PTSD. The Military is creating a bunch of Sarah Palins.

      What a win for womankind.

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    2. Anonymous2:41 PM

      TD = Sexist much?

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    3. Anonymous3:04 PM

      Of course Bernie Bro twodux is a misogynistic pig.

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  21. Anonymous3:07 PM

    Interesting to those of us following the candidate's positions for months now, how Hillary tried to say she supports $15 as minimum wage, when she so clearly did NOT just a few months ago.

    It is this type of thing, without the FBI ever getting around to an indictment, that makes her untrustworthy to many of us voters.

    Let all informed voters beware before handing the power of the highest office to shapeshifting Clinton!

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    1. Anonymous3:45 PM

      On what charge would the FBI indict her? PLEASE LET US KNOW, because no one in the GOP has a clue, after years of investigations. Ole Bern Bern had no idea last night, either.

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    2. Anonymous4:04 PM

      I agree. Seen this?

      http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/ny-newspaper-attacked-sanders-economic-agenda-also-claimed-fdr-had-no-concrete-plans?akid=14155.1075399.Qs6CFT&rd=1&src=newsletter1054292&t=12

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    3. Anonymous4:37 PM

      Um, 4:04, that is satire.

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    4. Anonymous8:38 PM

      3:45, the GOP hearings have nothing to do with the FBI investigation, which is very real.

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    5. Anonymous8:57 PM

      8:38 - did you listen to what the President said about the FBI? He's not worried, and it's a "security review." again, no one can name a potential charge & nothing was hacked!

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    6. 3:07 PM, I guess you didn't know there's a very good reason Hillary Clinton favors a $12/hour federal minimum wage.

      http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/11/15/hillary_clinton_was_right_on_minimum_wage_and_her_rivals_were_wrong.html

      Nov 15, 2015: “You have no disposable income when you make 10, 12 bucks an hour,” Sanders argued on Saturday night. “When we put money into the hands of working people, they’re going to go out and buy goods, they’re going to buy services and they’re going to create jobs in doing that.”

      But that only works if people remain employed. That’s where Krueger comes back in. Last month, he published an op-ed in the New York Times saying an increase of the minimum wage to $15 an hour could “risk undesirable and unintended consequences.” The reason? There is, Krueger said, “no international comparison” for an increase of that magnitude. We would be sailing into the unknown. “Although some high-wage cities and states could probably absorb a $15 an hour minimum wage with little or no job loss, it is far from clear the same could be said for every state, city and town in the United States,” he added.

      Clinton said Krueger’s position is why she supports a $12 an hour minimum wage. “I do take what Alan Krueger said seriously,” she noted, adding that—like Krueger—she supported efforts by individual states and cities to raise their minimum wage.


      And Bernie Sanders hasn't been a proponent of the $15/hour minimum wage all that long himself. On his own campaign website, it's noted "In 2013, he proposed and argued for a budget amendment to raise the minimum wage to $10.10/hr"

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  22. Anonymous3:46 PM

    MSNBC reported the GENEROUS Bernie Sanders released his 2014 income taxes. Bernie & wife made $205,000 and DONATED more than $8,000 to charity. How much more than $8,000?

    $8,000.01? My that is GENEROUS

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    1. Anonymous6:49 PM

      My husband and I only made 189 together last year and we gave over 12,000 to charity. To be fair, if we didn't we'd have paid over $2800 more in tax, but I'd rather give it away than give it to Uncle Sam.

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  23. Anonymous3:55 PM

    Clinton Is Winning The States That Look Like The Democratic Party

    “Secretary Clinton cleaned our clock in the Deep South, no question about it,” Bernie Sanders said during Thursday night’s Democratic debate in Brooklyn. “That is the most conservative part of this great country,” he continued. “But you know what, we’re out of the Deep South now. And we’re moving up.”

    I have a few problems with this line of argument, which seems to imply that Democratic voters in the Deep South don’t reflect the larger Democratic electorate. (The remarks Thursday night echo previous comments made by Sanders and his campaign.) Consider Sanders’s reference to the term “Deep South,” which traditionally describes Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina: These are five of the only six states, along with Maryland, where at least a quarter of the population is black. Given the United States’ history of disenfranchising black voters — not to mention the importance of black voters to Democrats in November — it’s dicey for Sanders to diminish Clinton’s wins there.

    But the Deep South isn’t Sanders’s only issue. His problems in the rest of the South are what really dooms him. Clinton’s largest net delegate gains over Sanders came from Texas (+72) and Florida (+68), two states that are within the South as the Census Bureau (and most other people) define it. Clinton also cleaned Sanders’s clock in Virginia and North Carolina. Overall, Clinton gained a net of 155 delegates on Sanders in the five Deep South states, but she also added 211 delegates to her margin in the rest of the region.

    Read more at
    http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-is-winning-the-states-that-look-like-the-democratic-party/

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  24. Anonymous4:16 PM

    How much money did Bernie Sanders donate to charity in 2014?

    Let's see, 10% of $205,000 (Bernie Sanders’s income) = $20,500

    What? Bernie Sanders only gave a little bit over $8,000.

    My that Socialist Bernie Sanders is the champion of the underprivileged.

    Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is very generous and the poor better keep their grubby little fingers out of Bernie Sanders’s pockets.

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    1. Anonymous6:56 PM

      Bernie didn't bother to pay child support for his own child, the child that was never allowed to even call him Dad and was told to call him Bernard. Any fool that thinks a man that didn't support is own child is going to do something for them is dumber than a Palin.

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  25. Anonymous4:23 PM

    Bernie Sanders Delivers Stirring Message Of Hope And Opportunity At Vatican Conference

    Just don't ask Bernie Sanders to give hope to the poor.

    The cheap Socialist bastard couldn't give a rat's ass about the underprivileged, the hungry and the poor.

    But hey, giving hope sounds good on paper.

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    1. Anonymous5:23 PM

      Yeah, his campaign broke FEC rules with this trip, but what the heck.

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    2. Anonymous6:47 PM

      I just don't get it, every man or woman for his or herself, that tends to be the way America works; there are no free lunches.

      I can't really believe that anyone uses "giving poor people stuff and free money" as a criteria for deciding who to vote for.

      Trump or Hillary will keep Wall Street, the housing market and the banks strong. That's what we need to focus on.

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    3. Anonymous8:55 PM

      Bernie took his whole family to Italy & Tad Devine says the campaign paid for it.

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  26. Karl Rove4:35 PM

    Queen Sarah used Gmail and hid state emails from foia requests for years, Hillary pays a aide to set up a private server for state department emails in her NY homes basement and wipe the hdd to stop pesky foia requests, what are they hiding!

    It is obvious that they both did not want the public to know what they have done!

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    1. Anonymous5:23 PM

      What do you think is missing, Karl? Please, spell it out!

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  27. Anita Winecooler5:20 PM

    He asked for this???? And now he needs a few days in Rome to recover. I thought with age came wisdom, but apparently I'm mistaken.

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  28. Anonymous12:14 PM

    Internet:
    Bernie Sanders, 74, has forged a far-left political brand, siding with Jew-haters and Israel foes, which is redundant. I urge Jews and their supporters voting in New York’s Democratic presidential primary on April 19 to reject Bernie. He’s not good for the Jews, or anyone else. The rotten actor is certainly not good for the City of New York, home to more Jews than Jerusalem is.
    I would hope that 99 out of 100 editors would see this sentence and curl up in a fetal position on the ground: "Bernie Sanders is not quite Jewish. He’s Jew-ish — a non-practicing, anti-Israel, kinda, sorta Hebrew."

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