Sanders did two things tonight that were pretty good strategically...

[TCJ70]

...

1. Wall Street Contributions: An old favorite of his. Calls out to younger voters tired of seeing what's going on in Washington and feeling screwed.

2. Kissinger: A new line. Speaks to older voters who will actually know who this is and why it matters. A knock on her obvious foreign policy advantage.

I'm a millennial. I had no idea who Kissinger was until I looked it up after the last debate. Bernie played this one well and definitely had messages out there in this debate for all types of voters for all types of concerns.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. At one time, I had respect for Kissinger

When he announced the end of American involvement in the Vietnam War, I was happy. Heck, I might have even voted for Nixon that year, for that alone, if I had been old enough.

It wasn't until several years later, when I had a professor who had a Chilean wife, that I learned the rest of the story. And he encouraged us to watch the movie "Missing", and that just sealed the deal.

[tk2kewl]

2. Add raising SS cap to the list of staking out future strategic ground

[TCJ70]

5. I decided this post should follow the KISS principle...

...Keep It Simple Stupid.

The post could be a lot longer and more convoluted if I outlined all the good ideas he had during the debate...heh

[Glamrock]

20. I concur with the KISS principle

It's cold gin time again.

[JudyM]

12. That was a highlight for me. He has concrete ideas and has figured out how to pay for them.

She raises generic dem talking points, nothing creative or worthy of her high intelligence and hourly fee. Bernie seems to be spending more time figuring out things that need to be done and tactically how to accomplish them.

[tk2kewl]

13. Awinning position for him since Hillary has already refused to raise any taxes on income < 250Gs

[Oilwellian]

18. I just borrowed your Sanders side glance photo

It is so cute!

K&R

[SamKnause]

3. Thank you for looking up Kissinger.

I think the point Bernie is trying to make, is that our past foreign policy

decisions still affect and influence the policy decisions of the day.

The U.S. has made some terrible choices !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bernie looks at the history of those choices before he makes his

decisions on today's policies.

He is a wise man.

I am 62 years old.

I love millennials.

You are our future.

FEEL THE BERN

[TCJ70]

4. I grew up during the "Information is power" age...

...looking things up on the internet (or in Encyclopedias, back when I was in school...yeah we still had 'em) is second nature. This is the advantage Bernie has with younger voters.

[SamKnause]

6. Indeed it is an advantage.

I also agree "Information is power".

That is why I love the internet !!!

It is a great educational tool.

I have only been online since 2008.

There is no way to calculate how much I have learned about the

history of this country and politics.

[slipslidingaway]

7. Thanks for looking it up, at least you did not need a ride to the library like my generation ...

did

Our son also learned who Kissinger was after the Clinton's brought up his name recently.

The younger generation is not listening to the corporate media channels, many do not even have cable, but they can quickly research an item of interest as they all have internet access!

[TCJ70]

8. Oh man...

...you just described me. I'm such a stereotype!

[slipslidingaway]

9. You might be like one of my kids ...

and I'll note quicker on the keyboard.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. Watch this if you want to know more.

https://m.

[JEB]

11. I fucking hate Kissinger. And I am not much of a hater. eom

[Human101948]

26. It seems obvious now that Kissinger got his job through leaking Vietnam peace talk secrets...

There is a trail that leads back to Kissinger in the Nixon effort to derail the Vietnam peace talks.

In the Price of Power (1983), Seymour Hersh revealed Henry Kissinger—then Johnson’s adviser on Vietnam peace talks—secretly alerted Nixon’s staff that a truce was imminent.

According to Hersh, Nixon “was able to get a series of messages to the Thieu government [of South Vietnam] making it clear that a Nixon presidency would have different views on peace negotiations.”

Johnson was livid. He even called the Republican Senate Minority Leader, Everett Dirksen, to complain that “they oughtn’t be doing this. This is treason.”

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason

[rufus dog]

15. Chris Matthews actually had a good comment on this

He did note Millennials haven't a clue about Kissinger, but it was a strange comment made by Hillary. Then he of all people actually insinuated that maybe it was because she is an insider. Thinking it is cool that she hangs around with Kissinger, that she is part of the club.

good for you for doing the research. One complaint I have about Bernie is his habit of going to the canned Wall Street speech, yet on other issues he needs to spend a bit more time educating and explaining to the potential voters.

[JDPriestly]

19. The "canned Wall Street speech" is about free trade, unfair competition, cheating by the

in-crowd, discontent about pensions and the lack of jobs, about jobs, about jobs, about opportunity, about debt.

It is a shorthand to people who are outside, who are not inside.

If you are inside, then it may seem to be a canned speech. But for the rest of us, it is a code for everything that ails the economy and foreign policy in our country.

For many, many Americans, it is becoming increasingly clear that Bernie's "canned Wall Street speech" says it all.

Foreign policy -- Wall Street's.

Trade policy -- Wall Steet's.

Jobs -- Wall Street.

No pay raises -- Wall Street.

Wall street stands for all the economic unfairness, peoples' sense that they are on a treadmill to nowhere when it comes to their economic futures.

[Pastiche423]

22. Excellent comment!

Bernie's "canned Wall Street speech" is what has awakened so many people that have given up on politics and has grabbed the ears of the millennials.

[Peace Patriot]

24. A lot of folks yet to tune in. It's going to come as a Bombshell to many...

...that a politician COULD be saying this. People are so used to utter bullshit and doubletalk from politicians, both D's and R's, that they've just turned it all off. Boy, are they about to get a nice surprise!

Yeah, we've heard it all, but we're better informed than most people, and certainly than people in all the states that have yet to hold their primary. They're just getting little blips from the corporate media right now, with Sanders largely black-holed. Iowa/New Hampshire woke some up, but I'd guess not that many. So many people will be hearing his views for the first time at the next debate. This is WHY the pro-Hillary DNC tried to limit debates, and not have one at all close to Super-Tuesday. (Gawd!) Once people hear Bernie, certain groups--young voters including young women voters, independents, working class people--flock to him (tell their friends and families, tell pollsters, send donations, volunteer), and others begin to doubt Clinton. For many, it's a first to hear a politician blasting "Wall Street."

[Arazi]

27. In Washington, Kissinger is not toxic. He's in that protected bubble

and is actually admired

For example, the new Johns Hopkins International Affairs center is named for Kissinger

http://hub.jhu.edu/2015/04/09/kissinger-global-affairs-institute

I don't think the elite understand how the plebes loath him

[elljay]

16. Kissinger is My Generation's Rumsfeld

Another loathsome creature who sent thousands of Americans and millions of SE Asians to their deaths.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Don't forget Chile and East Timor....

He also claimed population growth in "Lesser Developed Countries" was a threat to U.S. national security.

He listed 13 countries to be kept down through famine and war. I had to look them up again: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.

[elljay]

28. He was, and is, a

%^&* (expletive deleted)

[elmac]

17. With republicans rewriting history books these days

the younger generation may not know the evildoers deeds.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. "I had no idea who Kissinger was"

Kinda blows away a lot of the American Myth that we fight for freedom when you look into it.

[thereismore]

25. Kissinger's paranoid murderous doctrine lives on in Hillary. nt