2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton Has 'Misstated' My Comments On Gun Control, Shouting
"The question is not shouting at each other."
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Friday said his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had "misstated" his statement that people should stop "shouting" about gun control.
Clinton recently portrayed Sanders' comments as sexist. "Ive been told to stop shouting about gun violence, Clinton first said at the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum in Washington. Well Im not shouting. Its just when women talk, people think were shouting.
Sanders has defended his comments, saying they weren't sexist. During MSNBC's Democratic Presidential Candidates Forum on Friday, he accused Clinton of "misstating" what he said.
"If we are going to make progress on this issue -- and I know Hillary Clinton has kind of misstated my view -- as a nation, we are going to have to stop shouting at each other and we're going to have to come together," Sanders said.
"The question is not shouting at each other. The question is bringing people together around proposals that I would guess 60 or 70 percent of the American people believe in," Sanders added.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-shouting_563d5010e4b0b24aee4a8049?section=india&adsSiteOverride=in
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)everyone already knew that Bernie, including Hillary
daleanime
(17,796 posts)she will never deny it.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)distort another candidat's position on any issue, is just not smart. Besides she has all those secret think tanks doing the dirty work so why get into the frey like that?
ejbr
(5,856 posts)Oh, you said "but" not "butt". Whew! That was a close one.
that was a close one for sure!!!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)is so hilarious, I wish they would keep going with it.
If you can't laugh about the drama they tried to make of it, you just have no sense of humor.
Hell, I hope they were laughing when they posted the assorted butt threads. It was nice to get some levity around here, because it has been in short supply.
ejbr
(5,856 posts)A Clinton supporter posted a diary about the picture portion of the Rachel interviews last night. He/She rightly pointed out that using a picture of Hillary and Bill instead of a picture of Hillary by herself doing one of her impressive things early in her life was demeaning to her (compared to Bernie and Martin's pictures which only involved them). Now THAT is a sexist concern I can wrap my head around.
And yes, I try to avoid the heated threads as I find them futile. Making each other laugh or even laughing at ourselves (which I can do daily) is a better use of time.
eridani
(51,907 posts)I just get audio now.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)I would be enormously relieved if somebody could come up with gun violence proposals that appealed to the majority of citizens. I assume he's talking about expanded background checks and a couple other things he mentioned before. But it's time to get specific about what is possible, what will work, and what will not work.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)Bernie IS an establishment candidate. I know he is trying to paint himself as an outsider, but he has been in politics for decades. He is confusing ineffectiveness with establishment.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)And that of course, would be Clinton.
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)But he is a political insider. With a mediocre record. He seems nice tho.
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)litlbilly
(2,227 posts)Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)Dodo
(39 posts)However, it is the other candidate that has the bad record that people are trying to shine over...
imthevicar
(811 posts)running with the same platform. Makes him a winner However HRC is fly shit on a window!
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eridani
(51,907 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)And every single time he's said in the House, in the Senate, to a television camera, to a reporter, etc., it's been sexist and he's meant "shouting" very literally. Don't even try to deny it.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)only a sexist would do that.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Even the most rabid liars!
erronis
(15,260 posts)Maybe with reason. But I think shrieks and rantings and hysteria are probabilistically associated with one group or another. Oh-roh - I'm in trouble again....
Vattel
(9,289 posts)and then he crudely suggests that he is going to do physical violence to her bottom. At this point, only a rabid Bernie supporter would deny that he is waging a sexist campaign.
(If this is not sarcasm, then I am dumb as a stump.)
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...hmmm, which one is it, I wonder...
eridani
(51,907 posts)In football, "kicking butt" might be violent, but in most other sports it isn't. The only time it ever applies to individuals actually fighting with each other is in bars.
demwing
(16,916 posts)When you're 100% confident that your post is fine w/out a sarcasm tag, it 100% isn't.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Dissect something someone said to find something to take out of context and twist it to it's worse possible interpretation.
It's how the intelligence got twisted to imply Saddam was responsible for 9/11.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)He's a lot more polite than me.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Just the tip of the dirty politicking from her and her supporters.
3AM phone call anyone?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)They were amazingly funny!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I will say it is not good. I believe Hillary knew exactly what Bernie was getting at. What does that make her?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)And on top of that, my post that I put in here disappeared!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)for playing semantics