Posted on 04/08/2016 10:24:10 AM PDT by HomerBohn
NEW YORK — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders struck a more conciliatory tone Friday toward his rival Hillary Clinton, saying that “of course” she is qualified to be president and adding that he is eager to return to a discussion of “real issues.”
Sanders’s assessment came two days after a speech in which he ticked off ways in which he said Clinton is unqualified for the presidency, including her acceptance of special interest money, her support of free trade deals and her support of the Iraq war.
During an appearance at a “town hall” meeting broadcast live on NBC’s “Today” show on Friday, Sanders said, as he has repeatedly since Wednesday, that his comments were prompted by attacks from Clinton’s campaign following his win this week in the Wisconsin primary.
The senator from Vermont was asked by co-anchor Savannah Guthrie if he had overreacted to comments by Clinton earlier Wednesday suggesting he was unprepared for the presidency.
“Did you overreact because you thought she said something more than she did?” Guthrie asked.
“Here’s the truth,” Sanders said. “I’ve known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I respect Hillary Clinton. We were colleagues in the Senate, 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 said, “but the point is I would hope we get away from these attacks, which by the way, the media likes very much, and start focusing — maybe we can do that today — on the real issues.”
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He was late getting the “Memo” as his fax machine is jammed up.
Sanders was beginning to sound like he really wanted to win the D nomination. Now he’s back to “just having a great time on the Elect-Hillary campaign trail”
He was afraid of the severed horse head in his bed....
He must have read the article about the Panama Papers that proved Hillary is mobbed up with the Kremlin. It doesn’t matter that’s he’s a proven communist, he still needs to toe the line.
For maybe a day I had visions of the communist and Hillary in an ass kicking contest. Now that he’s assumed the supplicant position it’s obvious someone got to him.
Someone spoke to him last night... maybe a little more.
I have never and will never vote for a dim but I am to the point I won’t vote for anyone that walks back anything the say that is the truth. I am tired of people popping off then turning chicken shiite and walking things back.
Sanders needs to retire and open up a Waffle House franchise.
I think Bernie was introduced to Sen. Harry Reid’s exercise machine.
Grow some guts, Bernie!
I’ve believed since Day One that Bernie was a fake candidate, put in place to create the illusion that hitlery had real opposition for the democRAT nomination.
Yes many people share your view about Bernie. And his mostly complimentary , largely gentlemanly style of candidacy vis- a - vis Hillary definitely could lead to concluding he’s not in it to win. The fascinating thing is that Hillary is SOOO disliked and dis- respected that Bernie could win if he wants to go after it — of all the people we know, only one “might” vote for her and everyone else says they’ll stay home ? Or vote for mr trump if he’s On the ballot) — but definitely not for Hillary. Old Bernie the Red looks, at least, a lot more honest then Hillary ( also Red, of course, but such an obvious liar and crook that none of our D friends want her). I think Bernie can go the distance. He just needs to sound more like he really wants it ( and point out more of Hillary’s patent shortcomings). IMHO
Well, Bernie will certainly not open a Kosher restaurant. He doesn’t even know what the word Kosher means!
Look for Sanders to have a fatal accident on his treadmill.
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