Debate coach: Bad night for Bernie

[book_worm]

Hillary Clinton: A-
She still interrupts too much. No improvement there.
She still has a terrible answer to the question of why she won't release her Wall Street speech transcripts. But Sanders won't release all his tax returns either. (They're both still ducking questions with answers that don't pass the smell test.)
However, Clinton did have a better debate in some significant ways. The first was in demanding Sanders produce examples of her being influenced by Wall Street, as he has so often charged. She asked for an example, and when he couldn't come up with one, she said, "This is a phony attack designed to raise questions with no evidence or support... he cannot come up with any example, because there is no example."

We needed a major burn unit for Sanders when he chuckled during Clinton's answer on the topic of gun control. Uh oh. Clinton immediately turned on the senator and forcefully said, "It's not a laughing matter...90 people on average a day are killed or commit suicide or die in accidents from guns, 33,000 people a year." I don't think he'll be laughing during any more answers in the future. Again, not even her best line.

Bernie Sanders: D
First, he had nothing new. By this point in the debate cycle, Sanders should have been ready with specifics on how he'd pay for his proposals without raising the debt, hurting businesses or crushing the middle class. But he was not prepared with this.
He couldn't specify how he'd break up the banks, which he said he'd let them do themselves somehow...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/opinions/debate-coach-democratic-debate-graham/index.html

[BlueMTexpat]

1. My favorite part:

But it was one hour and forty-nine minutes into the debate before Clinton delivered her best moment -- it was on the Supreme Court. Right after Sanders answered that he'd want to make sure the new justice would help overturn Citizens United, Clinton received a resounding ovation when she said that they'd had nine debates now, and nobody had questioned them about Roe v. Wade.

Clinton reminded the audience that Sanders characterized Donald Trump's statement on women needing to be punished if they obtained an abortion a "distraction." She emphatically said that Trump's statement "goes to the heart of who we are as women, our rights, our autonomy, our ability to make our own decisions."

Very strong moment in a very focused debate performance for Clinton.

Thanks for posting, b_w!

[shenmue]

3. Troooooo

[Hekate]

2. Love this. Thank you much.