Posted on 04/07/2016 6:37:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK — The contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders grew increasingly nasty with a series of testy exchanges that have prompted widespread concern among Democrats that their rivalry is doing lasting damage to the party and the eventual nominee.
With both candidates launching 10-day sprints here ahead of New York’s April 19 primary, the strain and resentment of a hard-fought and unexpectedly long contest boiled over repeatedly in interviews, speeches and other public appearances. The senator from Vermont refused to retract his assertion that Clinton is not qualified to be president. Clinton dismissed that claim as “silly” and countered that Sanders has repeatedly made promises he can’t keep.
In an interview with The Washington Post on Thursday, Sanders stood by his view that Clinton is not qualified — but he also pledged to support her if she is the nominee.
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NO ONE;
Has listened to nor watched any "debate"
has a clue when their convention is
knows WHERE it will be
It’s doing some damage, but let’s face it. There’s even more animosity and damage happening on our side. Even in this forum, we have a fair number of folks vowing to never vote GOP again if their nonpreferred candidate (Trump or Cruz) gets the nomination.
Not enough damage, unfortunately.
Neither one of them is qualified to run anything. But the GOPe is determined to hand the election to them anyway.
A question it’s high time somebody asked. But they’re too busy predicting the imminent demise of the Republican Party. The same way they’ve been predicting the imminent demise of the Republican Party for the last 50 years ...
One point for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, you never see her campaigning to destroy democrats.
The anger and factionalism is WORSE on the ‘Rat side:
They’re MUCH better and covering it up than are we.
When they steal it from Bernie, I don’t think even HALF of his people will vote for Hitlery.
GOOD..!
No kidding. Reince Priebus sucks nearly as much as his Democrat hag counterpart.
No permanent damage at all. Today’s Democrat Party is merely a collection of Special Interest groups. They only care about their own fiefdoms, rarely connecting the consequential dots.
The republicans will become the same way, but for different outcomes.
All else is a show to give us the impression we have a say.
The Democrats have the same problem Republicans do. Their party is in the hands of people who have nothing in common with their base.
We may actually see this come to a head in both parties this summer, if there are two open conventions, as it looks more likely every day there will be.
You’re going to see the National Guard called out in Philadelphia, Cleveland, or both.
As a result of the American people being obtunded enough to elect the likes of Barack Hussein Obama, not just once, but twice, both major political party bosses are getting what they deserve: the American public having become fed up with both parties and for putting up for election crony candidates instead of statesmen. The Democrats are left with the worst enemies of America (aside from the Islamic terrorists and their support group planted across America) and they are the Saul Alinskyite Communist duo, Shrillary and Bernie. Was there no other Democrat worthy of running? Ironically, neither of them can stop thinking about and worshipping money and all it can buy.
What upsets the Wash. Post is that two hardcore reds are fighting each other instead of the “system”.
Let’s face it. The WP would never expose the long communist/Communist Party USA/Cuban connections of Hillary since 1969. Not much on her being fired for unethical behavior on the Watergate investigating committee.
Cattle futures scandal? Well, just goes to show that she’s qualified to be both the Secy of Agriculture and Treasury at the same time. Made lots of money, didn’t she?
War on Women? She’s the best known woman who is PROTECTING a sexual predator and cigar connoisseur. Just ask yourself, would you let your daughter anywhere near the FGOUS (First Gentleman of the US)?
Obamacare predecessor “midwife”? Remember the fiasco in the early 1990’s with her “universal healthcare” proposal and task force? It was a con job from the very start, esp. if you saw their documents at the National Archives.
Don’t forget, that like Obama, she’s an ideological fan of Saul Alinsky, the Marxist class agitator and organizer from Chicago.
Now, regarding Bernie Sanders. He’s a more open Red than Hillary (The Red Closet Queen), but stupider. He just sounds exciting to the great uneducated college students. In fact, his supporters are a great example of just how great a failure our educational systems are regarding telling the truth about the “free enterprise/capitalist system” and the bloody tragic failures of “scientific socialism/Marxism/communism/progressivism”.
My granddaughter knows more about the greatness of American than do the major of high school and college students, and she’s only 10. She’s read some of the Rush Limbaugh childrens’ books on American history and has at her command my 500-1000 book/reports library on American and world history, science, arts and culture, and American/worldwide birds, flowers/trees, butterflies and moths.
She knows that her great grandfather fought and was wounded at Iwo Jima, that her other great grandfather served in the Chemical Warfare Service in WW2, that her grandfather, moi, was a pro-American journalist in So. Vietnam/Cambodia, and that her uncle Josh was one of the first American soldiers into Iraq in 2003, and was later a K9 federal police officer. Also that her grandmother, my wife, once worked in the Nixon/Agnew White House.
She knows more about politics than most adults, and that is the disgrace of the American educational system in that a very young child is more knowledgeable/learned than they are.
If you watch “Watters’ World” on the Bill O’Reilly Show and Watters’ own cable show, you will know what I mean.
This is why Trump is catching on with the average working American. Like him or not, he’s not a PC-mind warped Democrat automaton. And Sen. Cruz is too intelligent for anyone on the Left.
So we are LEFT with a shit-flinging fight between Commies for the Democrat Party nomination, seeking to succeed the most successful communist in American history, Barack Obama.
America is in deep doo-doo and I don’t see too many really strong Roto-Rooter men around to get the crap out of our minds, media society and politics.
One can only hope.
Sanders is too much of a wild card to make that reasonable. I’m not sure why Hillary has gone after him. The only thing that comes to mind is that he’s proven she’s vulnerable.
The fact he’s been raising more money lately than her each month has to be worrying someone.
Yup, Communist Party USA must be busy designing posters that will be carried by the people they’ll hire/pay to march, congregate, chant and riot outside the convention in Cleveland and Philadelphia. That’s who arranged all the other “spontaneous” riots designed and orchestrated for the complicit media and had the signs made. Revolution is what they’ve been aiming for for 100 years. With their getting their man Obama into the White House, they believe their dream of the Fall of the U.S, will come true in their day. Those that support Trump do so because they understand what’s at stake. Cruz attracts voters for the same reason. So did Rubio and other of the original set of candidates whom the media squashed in short order.
If the fact that their two best choices are a communist and a criminal doesn’t hurt the brand what possible difference, at this point, would the tenor of the race make?
As long as the gibsmedats gets their free stuff it’s all good.
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