Bernie Sanders Defends Hillary and Attacks GOP Candidates on CBS “Face the Nation”

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On “Face the Nation” today, Bernie Sanders defended Hillary Clinton, but at the same time clearly stated their differences. He also bashed the current GOP candidates for their obvious warmongering, ineptitude, and inability to address real issues.

CBS host John Dickerson asked Bernie about people who say Hillary Clinton’s practice of using a private email server while secretary of state makes her untrustworthy. Rather than bite and attack, Bernie stated:

Hillary Clinton has been under all kinds of attack for many, many years. In fact, I can’t think of many personalities who have been attacked for more reasons than Hillary Clinton. And by the way, let me be frank and I’m running against her: Some of it is sexist. I don’t know that a man would be treated the same way that Hillary is.

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Apparently, most of the candidates up there do not remember the consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the kind of easy feeling, the kind of non-consequential talk about going to war or rejecting the president’s effort to negotiate an agreement with Iran disturbed me very much because I think these people do not know what the war in Iraq did to our people, did to the people in Iraq.

http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/08/bernie-sanders-defends-hillary-and-attacks-gop-candidates-on-cbs-face-the-nation/

For more on this story, click Bernie Sanders: Some of Clinton criticism is “sexist”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-some-of-clinton-criticism-is-sexist/

[JackInGreen]

1. That's our guy

AND why he'll win.

[Robbins]

2. Bernie has too much class

could you ever imagine hillary defending bernie against attacks? Of course not.she sends people to attack him or at very least takes blind eye to surrogates attacking him.

We have chance to elect an honest progressive guy for president.We need to take it.

[merrily]

3. Berniesofeminist.

I kid!

[artislife]

5. Heh

He is a better person than I am. I don't think I would be as charitable.

[merrily]

7. If someone told me to bow down, I am not sure what I would do.

[PatrickforO]

4. Bernie makes me proud to be a Democrat.

Or maybe a Democratic Socialist.

I like that.

I like what it means for all of us.

[merrily]

8. I AM Spartacus. Er, I mean I am a Democratic Socialist.

Before Bernie decided to run, I never knew that. I never knew what to call myself, because I am an FDR Democratic, but, without things like, you know, nuclear weapons and internment. I didn't want to call myself an FDR Democrat, though because I wasn't sure what FDR was, if you know what I mean. So, I just said "Traditional Democrat," but no one knew what the hell I meant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12806844 (one of the founders is a DUer and posted on this thread)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12779589

Given how much blood and treasure Europe and the US have spent fighting and discrediting socialism, I sure do wish the group had chosen another name, but "it is what it is." So, I am Spartacus. Er, I mean, I am a Democratic Socialist.

[ALBliberal]

6. A true statesman. So very classy. Love always wins.