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kentuck

(111,051 posts)
Fri May 8, 2015, 05:37 PM May 2015

Bernie challenges Hillary to say where she stands on the TPP?

It's a black and white issue and the voters deserve to know where every candidate, Democrat and Republican, stand? There is no room to soft-pedal the issue.

Thanks Bernie! You are helping our Party already!

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Divernan

(15,480 posts)
2. She's triangulating/focus grouping as fast as she can!
Fri May 8, 2015, 05:54 PM
May 2015

Sheesh! It's only been under discussion since 2005! What are you gonna do next? Call her at three in the morning!?!?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
3. If Bernie keeps this up, the DNC will eliminate all debates and make all Democratic candidates
Fri May 8, 2015, 06:06 PM
May 2015

pledge not to challenge H. Clinton's stands.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
4. I don't think she'll weigh in on anything controversial
Fri May 8, 2015, 06:13 PM
May 2015

"I believe in marriage equality" (So does Karl Rove)

"We need to end mass incarceration" (really? and how will that be accomplished?)

that will be as bold as she gets.

Keep it up Bernie, you're helping the dialog greatly.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. I love how marriage equality went from 'impossible wedge issue you must give up for the sake of
Fri May 8, 2015, 06:22 PM
May 2015

the Party' to 'not controversial' without actually becoming the law of the land. I love how straight folks declare it is not controversial even while other straight folks are putting up billboards to attack equality, calling for civil war over it, preaching sermons and running campaigns against it. I guess if it is not you being constantly denigrated in public it must sound different. To me, it sounds fucking controversial as hell.

What you are saying is not something Bernie would ever say. He helped marriage equality get rolling in the first place, he knows what we are dealing with and he knows that straight Democrats spent fucking years lecturing us that even asking for it would destroy the Party. Hell, some DUers still make that claim every election.
So whatever. You sneer at rights people spent their lifetimes prying out of the greedy hands of your majority community, and that's your choice as a free person.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
6. She must know that polls show that Democrats support it and repubicans oppose it so
Fri May 8, 2015, 06:28 PM
May 2015

I'm not sure why she is reluctant to say she supports it, if indeed she does.

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