Bernie Sanders’s Debate Strategy: Attack Hillary Clinton, if Asked

[Demeter]

REMEMBER, THIS IS THE NEW YORK TIMES, NOT EXACTLY AN UNBIASED SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN THIS CAMPAIGN...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-debate-strategy-attack-hillary-clinton-if-asked.html

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is preparing new lines of attack against Hillary Rodham Clinton on trade, gun control, and even the controversy over her State Department email to use on Saturday at their next televised presidential debate, which the Sanders team regards as — if not a do-or-die moment — perhaps his best chance to slow her political momentum this fall.

Mr. Sanders prepped into the night on Thursday with a Senate aide playing Mrs. Clinton at mock sessions in Burlington, Vt. Yet Democrats inside and outside his campaign said that Mr. Sanders may be limited — by his own moves and by hers — in stopping a resurgent Mrs. Clinton, who has built double-digit leads over him in many opinion polls. They noted that Mr. Sanders still does not want to go on the attack first against Mrs. Clinton at the debate, potentially depriving him of chances to raise doubts about her judgment of character.

Another obstacle for Mr. Sanders is that Mrs. Clinton has already co-opted many of the liberal positions that he once owned, like opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Mr. Sanders has vulnerabilities, too, like congressional votes against some gun control bills, and the fact that he is not a Democrat, despite seeking the party’s nomination, but a democratic socialist...

BUT APPARENTLY, THEY CAN NO LONGER IGNORE HIM! SO THEY ARE GETTING SOME OF THE SAME OLD, DEROGATORY REMARKS IN BEFORE THE NEXT DEBATE (AND THERE'S MUCH, MUCH MORE AT LINK!)

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1. Be wary of when the media picks a favorite for you. n/t

[Demeter]

2. and good morning to you! Happy Friday 13th!

It's the only day that ever goes well, for me.

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3. omg its friday the 13th?!

everyone always has to remind me. sheesh!

good luck to you today!

[Fawke Em]

4. I really hope he pivots off the term, "emails," because that's NOT what the FBI

investigation is about.

I know the media, incorrectly, calls the controversy "the email investigation," but that lessens the severity of what the Feds are actually investigating.

The only real connection to any "emails" is that her client could have served as the conduit for any classified or sensitive information to make its way onto her personal server. She and many on her staff obviously have the clearance to handle that information, so that it was in "emails" isn't the issue.

The FBI is looking into whether her server housed any classified or sensitive information and, if so, whether her server was protected well enough to house that information and/or whether her server was hacked.

And, if it is determined it was hacked, how does that both point to her lack of judgment and increase the chances that some malicious state actor has information about her and/or her family or staff that could be used to blackmail her if she becomes president.

Who wants a president that might make decisions about economic or foreign policy in an attempt to prevent some controversial private information about her or those close to her from becoming public?

THAT is the issue.

Not emails.