2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAbout Bernie, the NYDN editorial board doesn't mince words.
Ouch.
Although Sanders has vowed a shock-and-awe bank-busting campaign that would risk global financial chaos, he was at a loss to show how he would execute the assault or to cite legal authority for such sweeping and unprecedented exercise of presidential power.
Although Sanders has repeatedly said, It is an outrage that not one major Wall Street executive has gone to jail for causing the near collapse of the economy, he was also at a loss to say what specific criminal statute the execs might have broken.
Similarly at sea on foreign affairs, Sanders asserted that Israel had killed 10,000 civilian Palestinians in a 2014 military operation more than five times the true number. Still more, he answered: Actually I havent thought about it a whole lot, when asked where a President Sanders would imprison or interrogate a captured ISIS terrorist.
Finally, Sanders ideological purity has found a boundary in political convenience. He roundly and repeatedly denounces corporate America for destroying the fabric of America, yet, representing a Second Amendment-friendly state, he voted to grant the gun industry near total immunity from lawsuits.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/vote-hillary-clinton-article-1.2598171
ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)w4rma
(31,700 posts)GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)The NYT debunked their banking lies.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Follow the money.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)The Editorial board asked question that where wrong because they are idiots. And it only works on other idiots to keep spreading the lies. They started talking about the Fed having powers over Big Banks. Which is wrong thing to talk about it should of been Dept. of Treasury. Then they ask untrue questions about Obama's drone policies and expect a answer. If you could not be bothered to read whole interview your are just willfully spreading lies based on your ignorance of the full interview. Don't be such a drone and spit up talking points with out thinking for yourself.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)I apologize for being so cynical. I'll go back to sleep now.
sketchy
(458 posts)from the article quoted in the OP:
"Although Sanders has repeatedly said, It is an outrage that not one major Wall Street executive has gone to jail for causing the near collapse of the economy, he was also at a loss to say what specific criminal statute the execs might have broken."
As though knowing what specific criminal statute might have been broken matters at all in the world most people live in. What they did was wrong, and no one went to jail.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Sanders correctly knew the process would involve legislation, they diverted mistakenly to the Fed as if he could just direct the Fed to do it on its own. He rightly doubted this was possible. They, and your talking points crew, blew that up into a slander.
In any case, several hundred thousand people a day see the Daily News front page - which today was excoriating Clinton and De Blasio for their stupid skit ("SKIT FOR BRAINS" . In 2016, several thousand might read and take seriously a Daily News editorial. And it's mostly your Clintonista talking points crew!
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)Rancid attack journalism posted from both "sides" in this primary battle isn't worth wasting my time on.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)Plus a very problematic error in their transcript (last link)
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Lets Dispel Once and for All With This Fiction That Sanders Doesnt Know How to Break Up Banks
04.05.16
Mike Konczal is a Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute
http://rooseveltinstitute.org/sanders-ending-tbtf/
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Why Bernie Sanders knows more about big banks than his critics are saying
By Max Ehrenfreund
April 7 at 1:50 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/07/bernie-sanders-has-a-plan-to-break-up-the-big-banks/
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Yes, Bernie Sanders Knows Something About Breaking Up Banks
By Peter Eavis
New York Times
APRIL 5, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/upshot/yes-bernie-sanders-knows-something-about-breaking-up-banks.html
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In addition, transcript error puts word in Bernie's mouth
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511676187
gabeana
(3,166 posts)they seem to just throw out talking points but when confronted with evidence all they do is move the goal post
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Clinton is by far the most qualified candidate
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)That's unusual for the NYDN... Their readership (for lack of a better word) prefers pictures.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Without disclosing the same to the investment consumers, while SIMULTANEOUSLY making extremely profitable bets for themselves against the very same economic indicators dependent upon the craptastic house of cards they were peddling to "the little people"----
If those execs had done something truly egregious - like, say, smoke a joint in the privacy of their own home to ease some chemo nausea - then, you know, we could put them in prison, because unlike crashing the economy and raiding peoples retirement savings for fun and profit, smoking pot is a menace to the societal fabric AND AN ACTUAL CRIME.
And gosh darnit, the DNC is determined to keep it that way!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Offering a rosy vision of a country already on the rise, Obama argues that he would lead a resurgence by staying the course. He posits that spending in areas such as education and clean energy would be beneficial, and he sees raising taxes on high-income earners as key to balanced deficit reduction. Each on its own is attractive, but the whole comes up short.
The presidential imperative of the times is to energize the economy and get deficits under control to empower the working and middle classes to again enjoy the fruits of an ascendant America.
So The News is compelled to stand with Romney.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/choice-america-future-mitt-romney-article-1.1196299
Just for perspective. Were they right about Mitt?