Bernie Sanders: I’d love Bill Clinton to debate my wife

[Playinghardball]

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Monday he’d love to have former President Bill Clinton, the spouse of Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, debate his wife, Jane.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell brought up a Washington Post report suggesting that Mr. Clinton does not plan to do campaign activities for Mrs. Clinton in 2015 and asked Mr. Sanders if that would be a relief for him or whether he’d like to see the former president out there.

“No, I’d love him to be debating my wife, Jane,” replied Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Clinton’s only rival on the Democratic side at the moment. “She’s pretty smart.”

Mr. Sanders also reiterated his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade deal between the United States and Pacific Rim countries that is pitting President Obama against some members of his own party.

“The TPP is, in my view, is a continuation of disastrous trade policies. Enough is enough — we need new approaches to trade which creates jobs in America and not in China,” he said.


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/11/bernie-sanders-id-love-bill-clinton-to-debate-my-w/#ixzz3ZriWKugU

[malthaussen]

1. Oh, that is very droll, Mr Sanders!

Ka-ZING!!!

-- Mal

[Terra Alta]

2. would love to see a debate between Bill and Mrs. Sanders!

Hope Bill takes them up on that!

[Vincardog]

5. To be fair it should be candidate vs candidate or spouse vs spouse

[cui bono]

7. That's what he's talking about.

His wife debating Bill Clinton.

[Vincardog]

9. You are correct. I had a brain fart.

[cui bono]

10. No problem. I've had many of them myself.

[JaneyVee]

3. Is this satire?

[immoderate]

4. Boy-nee! Boy-nee! Boy-nee! Boy-nee! Boy-nee!

--imm

[nolabear]

6. Well that's just weird.

What is he thinking?

[shenmue]

8. Yeah

It's not like they're going to be veeps or anything.

[wyldwolf]

12. It's just silly.

[colsohlibgal]

11. Bernie Is Quick Upstairs

He can be quite funny in a sharp way as he makes his points

[seabeyond]

13. he is running against clinton, not bill. so good point he made. was respectfu toward his wife, while

making the point he is running against clinton and not bill. and i am glad to hear clinton is not bringing bill into the race.

works al the way around from my point of view.

[JDPriestly]

14. Good for Jane Sanders.

[OilemFirchen]

15. How embarassing.

I expect bizarre non-sequitors from his fan base. But from the candidate himself, as others have noted above, this is just weird.

[Marrah_G]

16. I don't think it's wierd

[OilemFirchen]

17. I don't even know what wierd is.

Is that a wrod?

[Marrah_G]

25. Thank you for correcting my typo

[smiley]

18. doesn't seem wierd at all....

however, it did have a touch of sarcasm.

[Terra Alta]

20. Isn't weird to me. nt

[seabeyond]

23. he was asked about bill. sanders made it clear with his comment, he is not running against bill,

hillary is the opponent. i thought it was an excellent point.

bill is the spouse. nothing more, in this campaign.

as it seems hillary is doing iwth her campaign. which i think is excellent in her position of the run.

[lumberjack_jeff]

26. It's neither bizarre nor a non-sequitur.

The reporter was suggesting that his main opponent's spouse might be involved in the campaign. His response was perfectly on point: "Great idea!"

[OilemFirchen]

29. Perhaps this can serve as an answer to all of the thoughtful replies above.

Sen. Sanders was, apparently, responding to a comment that former President Clinton is not intending to be involved in his wife's campaign. There's your non-sequitor.

Perhaps there was a sardonic tone or a bit of levity that I missed which may have made the comment more appropriate. I wouldn't know, though, because I didn't watch the interview.

Mea culpa, I guess. OTOH, perhaps I would have clicked-through for more if the link hadn't been to The Washington Times.

Da fuq?

[lostnfound]

32. I believe he was responding to the question "would that be a relief for him"

As in, "No it is not a relief for me, because I would have loved to see my possible First Lady debate Hillary's possible First Man."

The question is actually contained in the OP, so no need to click through to WT.

[Thespian2]

19. I think Bernie's point is

that he is running against HRC and has no time to care about Willy...

I'm sure his wife could make a great showing against "First Husband"...


GO, BERNIE, GO

[Rafale]

21. How?

How could the Senator fear such farcical opponents?

[AzDar]

22. Bernie!!

[Hiraeth]

24. Good comeback, Bernie!!

[RiverLover]

30. He's sharp! Love it. /nt

[hootinholler]

27. Two questions

1: Would it be one of the "DNC Official Debates"

2: Has such a thing ever happened before?

3: Hah! Just testing

This would make a great SNL skit.

[hootinholler]

28. Nice interview

Takes on the TPP.

http://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/sanders-takes-firm-stance-against-trade-deal-443268675545

The quote is at the end of the segment.

[freshwest]

31. I'd enjoy it, except Clinton's voice is failing and I can see a storm of petty attacks arising.

Not so much because I think that Jane would be the same thing as HRC was in the White House, but I'd love to listen to Clinton's arguments. He could finesse the thorns off of a rose.