IS this cool with you?

[yallerdawg]

[George II]

1. No. It's just plain rude to point at anyone, man or woman.

[DawgHouse]

2. I'd be smacking that hand out of my space.

Which, incidentally, is why I couldn't be a politician~

[BigBearJohn]

3. there are many ways to be rude besides pointing your finger

And Hillary knows them all

[EileenFB]

7. You are in the Hillary group

A protected group.

[LannyDeVaney]

13. Thanks for admitting your candidate is rude ...

now move along.

[giftedgirl77]

26. Rude, crass, grumpy.....

Pick one, they all fit BS perfectly.

[Cha]

30. this is all on bernie.. Hillary is Presidential.. BS not so much.

[EileenFB]

4. Picturing him having a news conference

with other world leaders and he starts that finger wagging and interrupting.

Wonder how that would go over with Merkel, Putin, etc.

[yallerdawg]

5. If I had been in that crowd...

I would have been offended!

It was irritating enough on television!

[pandr32]

9. Exactly! He has no composure to lose.

[LeFleur1]

10. Yes.

That's exactly what my husband said when he kept waving his finger when she was talking. He asked, "Can you imagine how he would go over with world leaders?"

[sweetloukillbot]

12. That's bothered me from the beginning...

I see the pictures of him scowling and pointing and he comes across like a scold. And it's EVERY picture of him.

[romana]

6. His expression

His expression when the crowd reacted negatively (though you can hear some applause) was interesting. He looked genuinely surprised by the audience reaction. He had that same look on his face after the crowd booed him for saying "You aren't president yet!" in another debate.

[EileenFB]

8. I remember that and was wanting

Hillary to chime in and have said "YET" with emphasis.

[UtahLib]

11. I'd love to know what Hillary is thinking when he repeatedly does that finger exercise.

[Thinkingabout]

14. Failure to take responsibility for his votes, the votes are still a part of the record,

just as he continues to repeat over and over about the IWR, Hillary took responsibility for that vote, give me incidences where Sanders takes responsibility for his five votes against the Brady Bill, the Crime Bill, it is his record.

[yallerdawg]

15. I know!

Every position Hillary took and every vote she cast was the direct causation of all the bad things to ever happened on this planet!

But Bernie can explain what each position and vote he made really meant.

Another double standard.

[Hekate]

17. And there you have it. In his mind he is always right and never wrong...

So convenient for his supporters who are Hillary haters, because she has one vote she can be hammered on until Doomsday, while Bernie is (mumblemumble) never wrong.

[Thinkingabout]

21. You can't change what you do not acknowledge, so therefore no change for him.

[romana]

18. Voting record

The folks I watched the debate with last night commented on how he tried to have it both ways on his record. He dinged Clinton for voting for compromised bills, but wouldn't admit that he'd done the same thing. Every politician is going to have strengths and weaknesses in their voting record, especially one who's been in Congress as long as he's been. But I think he's so caught up in his own ideological purity on Wall Street that that comeback about the auto industry bailout, which she'd clearly been saving, almost seemed to catch him by surprise.

I also noted that he pretty much handed the GOP soundbites against the Democratic party to use in the GE. I'm also not sure how I felt about his comment that he is the only presidential candidate with the civil rights movement on his resume. I think that would go down a little easier if it wasn't just a few years of activity 50 years ago. It just seemed disingenuous to me, but maybe it didn't bother anyone else.

He spends a lot of time in the past. That really stood out to me last night.

[Thinkingabout]

20. This one has done less wrong than George W.

[spooky3]

23. good points & how could he have been surprised that the auto industry came up in a discussion in MI?

The industry was in desperate straits in 2008-9, and the Michigan economy, jobs, etc., were highly dependent on it.

If he truly was surprised, he is showing himself to be even more narrow in his awareness than I realized. How can he not know what the critical issues are in each state in which he is running? Doesn't he have aides and advisers to help prepare him?

He should have been prepared to explain his reasoning calmly, and without anger--knowing that no matter what he said, many in the audience would disapprove because when the rubber hit the road, he did not vote to support something they wanted supported.

[Thinkingabout]

24. Looking out for the middle class, nope, not this one.

If it was Lockheed Martin he would just vote more corporate welfare.

[quickesst]

16. A timely quote

"Strong women don't play victim, don't make themselves look pitiful, & don't point fingers. They stand & they deal."
Mandy Hale

Not really familiar with her, but I do like the quote. Bernie could take a lesson.

[Stuckinthebush]

19. I'm very cool with it

Because it points out his sexism and white male privilege. As a white male, I can tell when other white males don't fully get it. I've known this for a while about Bernie. This gesture highlights his cluelessness.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Let the billionaires bail out Wall Street

Wall Street isn't just billionaires Bernie. If one has an IRA or a 401K they are invested in Wall Street. Are you suggesting seniors should eat dog food?

Understand I am not giving them a free pass. There needs to be regulation. Dodd/Frank was a good move. I'm just tired of Sanders laying every problem in this country at the feet of Wall Street. Things are more complex than that.

[Thinkingabout]

25. Playing to his OWS base.

[SunSeeker]

29. The thing is, the billionaires weren't ever going to bail out Detroit.

So who did he think would step in and save the U.S. auto industry?

[wysi]

27. Not cool with me at all

That was extremely rude of him.

[SunSeeker]

28. I hate the way he immediately interrupted her by saying "wohhhhh" as she cited his No vote.

Then he has the nerve to declare she interrupted him as she was trying to resume speaking. So rude!

[Cha]

31. Yes. Only bernie can interrupt. he made that clear.

[DesertRat]

32. I agree with the gasps from the audience

[Cha]

34. Great photo depicting the debate last night, yallerdawg..

EileenFBhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=66887

[oasis]

35. Hill's expression says it all, "Keep talking Senator, please keep talking"

[Cha]

36. Yes, Please Proceed Rick.. I mean Sen Sanders.

oasis~