Sanders dodges and minimizes on his harsh criticism of Obama and wanting him primaried.

[RBInMaine]

Yet again, in watching the town hall tonight, for a guy who presents with such "honesty," why does Sanders bend himself around like a pretzel over the fact that he harshly criticized Obama and called for him to primaried? Whether the hell he expressed his desire to have Obama primaried in response to a question doesn't matter a damn bit. He WENT THERE. He DID IT. He could have answered that question without being so harsh on Obama to the point of proactively advocating that Obama be primaried. He loses a LOT of credibility on this. He needs to just come clean. He WANTED OBAMA PRIMARIED in 2012, and that shows he's ideologically out of the mainstream and no real friend of the party he has now joined. Just admit it was a SHITTY thing to do.

[onehandle]

1. YELLING.

Always yelling.

What's that about?

[MohRokTah]

3. Every time I hear his voice, I keep waiting for "GET OFF MY LAWN!" eom

[cali]

2. Lol. Desperate.

[bunnies]

4. And pathetic. And typical. And expected.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Truly it is desperation

[LexVegas]

6. Hes getting blasted by blacks on Twitter. No one is fooled by his bullshit. nt

[AzDar]

13. "Blacks", huh?

[redstateblues]

7. Give him credit. He has a brilliant scheme

Targeting certain gullible segments of the electorate with promises he knows he could never keep. It might work.

[one_voice]

8. oh, I don't know...

look how well it worked out for Kennedy & Carter.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Carter was quickly losing popularity in 1980

The Iranian hostage situation which was in the news every night made him look weak, he caught a lot of flack for boycotting the Moscow Olympics, inflation was running at a high rate, and he had been getting bad foreign policy advice from the likes of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Kennedy and his backers thought we needed a different Democrat in the White House. But he wasn't the one, because he was tainted with the still-fresh memories of "Chappaquiddick" and "Mary Jo Kopechne". There's no way he could have won a national election. Even if Kennedy hadn't primaried Carter, though, Carter still would have lost because of the hostage crisis, especially after the failed rescue attempt and the pictures of wrecked American helicopters in the Iranian desert that were plastered all over the news. If the rescue attempt had been successful, Carter in all likelihood would have won.

[frylock]

9. Can you quote the "harsh" criticism?

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Waiting for that quote

is like waiting for Godot.

[frylock]

11. Bear in mind, these are the people that categorize "Sorry, I disagree with your support of Hillary"

as a vicious attack.

[AtomicKitten]

12. Ya know what's shitty? Obama putting Social Security on the table in negotiating the Grand Bargain

Bernie suggested a primary might nudge him back to keeping his promise to protect Social Security, and I couldn't agree with Bernie more on this. The cult of personality apparently is fine with the president playing Russian Roulette with our social safety net.

[tokenlib]

14. Obama needed to be pressured against a "grand bargain"--

Bernie was responding to the concerns of all of us who felt Obama was going to go in the Third Way wrong direction on Social Security. A lot of us were begging for a primary challenge.
Bernie said NOTHING wrong.

[AtomicKitten]

16. Obama's Social Security Reform: A Grand Bargain or Betrayal?

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