Sanders: Clinton flip-flops a “character issue”

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-sanders-takes-gloves-off-against-hillary-clinton-in-interview-1446684586

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[I support Sanders]

Absolutely. I've been saying this all along. Go Bernie!

[Landslide Lyndon]

I don't think regurgitating Republican talking points (especially on Murdoch's Wall Street Journal) will sit well with most Democrats.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Never changing views, always having the same opinions... What a luxury.

Either way, give it your best crack Bernie.

[Lief 🗽]

His campaign is really getting sad and desperate.

[bobloblaw]

Well duh, she is also a flip flopper on the"war on women" as well. No one has waged more war on women than Bill Clinton

[Mehmentum]

Clinton has changed her positions not because of a lack of character, but because she's pragmatic.  Idealism is nice, but in order to make any progress, the president needs to be pragmatic.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I don't think regurgitating Republican talking points (especially on Murdoch's Wall Street Journal) will sit well with most Democrats.

Only someone exceedingly closed-minded would think that something is untrue just because a Republican says it.

[bobloblaw]

Clinton has changed her positions not because of a lack of character, but because she's pragmatic.  Idealism is nice, but in order to make any progress, the president needs to be pragmatic.

yeah, no one believes that.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

So Sanders has already flip-flopped from his position on October 13?

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Bernie just flip-flopped

His campaign is really getting sad and desperate.

Yeah he sees he's falling in the polls so he's changing his position on the emails thing in order to try and bring her numbers down. Bernie's brand of politics isn't cut out for a national campaign so he's becoming a #basicpolitician.

[Likely Voter]

Well the next Dem debate will be more interesting if Bernie has decided to go after Clinton more aggressively. Of course there is a danger in that she has high favorables so even some of his own supporters actually like Clinton. Dems rallied to her side after the Benghazi hearing, if he starts saying some of the same things those guys on the committee were saying he could end up hurting himself more.

[Mehmentum]

Well the next Dem debate will be more interesting if Bernie has decided to go after Clinton more aggressively. Of course there is a danger in that she has high favorables so even some of his own supporters actually like Clinton. Dems rallied to her side after the Benghazi hearing, if he starts saying some of the same things those guys on the committee were saying he could end up hurting himself more.

PPP's Iowa poll has Clinton's favorability at 49/30 with Sanders supporters.  In New Hampshire, she's at 61/19 with Sanders supporters.  Her favorables with all Democrats are exactly the same in the two polls so it looks like in NH Sanders has won over more people who like Clinton.

[eric82oslo]

That is one way to see the world, as 100% completely static and I respect Bernie for having that opinion. In my world view the world is quite dynamic, and with stuff like bin Laden & ISIS in fact so completely crazy that one could never ever ever have anticipated it 20 years prior. But if Sanders thinks he already has the answers to the bin Ladens and ISISes of 2035, I can just salute him and tell him that that's really sweet.

[eric82oslo]

I don't think regurgitating Republican talking points (especially on Murdoch's Wall Street Journal) will sit well with most Democrats.

There you said it. When you don't hate on me because of Carson (and for some inexplicable reason absolutely adore Trump lol), you're usually quite reasonable and likeable.

[Penelope]

Absolutely. I've been saying this all along. Go Bernie!

I thought everyone was so happy when Bernie stood up for what he thought was right and bravely told the American public that the news media needed to shut up about her "damn emails"? Oh, well.

[dudeabides]

I think changing one's mind on occasion is okay, but a pattern based on timing becomes troubling. Senator Sanders has changed his position on illegal immigration and now appears to have changed his views on the second amendment, but I think on most things, he has been consistent. Mrs. Clinton is a hack, an opportunist who will say or do anything to be elected. Democrats who are for Sanders are looking for authenticity, Democrats who are for Clinton only like her because of her last name or because she's a woman.

[Bull Moose Base]

Absolutely. I've been saying this all along. Go Bernie!

I thought everyone was so happy when Bernie stood up for what he thought was right and bravely told the American public that the news media needed to shut up about her "damn emails"? Oh, well.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/11/05/morning-plum-bernie-sanders-goes-hard-at-hillary-clinton/

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Clinton has changed her positions not because of a lack of character, but because she's pragmatic.  Idealism is nice, but in order to make any progress, the president needs to be pragmatic.

yeah, no one believes that.

I believe it in so far as telling voters whatever the hell they want to hear is pragmatic for someone running for president.

This won't stop her from winning the nomination but it might make it more awkward for her to reverse herself from campaign positions if she wins.

[SillyAmerican]

Bernie Sanders seems to have revised his opinion of Hillary Clinton's email server.

October 13th:  "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails."
November 4th: "You get 12 seconds to say these things. There’s an investigation going on right now. I did not say, 'End the investigation.' That’s silly."

Thoughts?

[Bull Moose Base]

Bernie Sanders seems to have revised his opinion of Hillary Clinton's email server.

October 13th:  "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails."
November 4th: "You get 12 seconds to say these things. There’s an investigation going on right now. I did not say, 'End the investigation.' That’s silly."

Thoughts?

Not a big flip-flip. Fine to investigate what was going on but the media should stop acting like it's the most important issue in the election.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Yawn, saying the FBI shouldn't end their investigation isn't a flip flop.

[DrScholl]

So now the "damn emails" matter? I guess the emails suddenly are a concern now that polling is not looking that good.

[Lief 🗽]

So now the "damn emails" matter? I guess the emails suddenly are a concern now that polling is not looking that good.

Really starting to look like Sanders will say anything to get power.

[I support Sanders]

He should never have made that "damn e-mails" comment, as this investigation was always relevant, as would any investigation of Jeb Bush's server. It was stupid for Bernie to not have been more aggressive from the get-go.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Sanders flip flops!