FULL | Bernie Sanders, Clinton & O'Malley Attend Caucus Dinner in Las Vegas 1/6/2016

[PADemD]

1:28 Hillary Clinton
1:56 Martin O'Malley
2:22 Bernie Sanders

[demwing]

1. O'Malley starting at about 2:05:25

"This is the hard truth we need to own and we need to acknowledge in order to fix it and have credibility with our neighbors - today, because of bad trickle down choices of the last 30 years before President Obama..."

Clearly, O'Malley thinks Dems are complicit in those bad trickle down choices - he's not just blaming Reagan and the Bushes.

There was only one Democrat in office in the last 30 years before President Obama, 8 of those 30 years of "bad trickle down choices" happened with a Clinton in the White House.

So when Hillary takes a stage and tells us that she already knows where the Oval Office is, and can hit the ground running on day #1, consider what she means by this, consider what kind of experience she had, and consider what it means to America.

[pnwmom]

2. O'Malley's wrong. The Clinton administration produced many more jobs than the Rethug

administrations before it or after it. The differences in the two parties are stark, and neither Clinton nor Obama are the exception.

This is from an essay by Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning liberal economist:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/opinion/25krugman.html?pagewanted=print


That should be an easy question to answer. Democrats can justly portray themselves as the party of economic security, the party that created Social Security and Medicare and defended those programs against Republican attacks — and the party that can bring assured health coverage to all Americans.

They can also portray themselves as the party of prosperity: the contrast between the Clinton economy and the Bush economy is the best free advertisement that Democrats have had since Herbert Hoover.

But the message that Democrats are ready to continue and build on a grand tradition doesn’t mesh well with claims to be bringing a “new politics” and rhetoric that places blame for our current state equally on both parties.

And unless Democrats can get past this self-inflicted state of confusion, there’s a very good chance that they’ll snatch defeat from the jaws of victory this fall.

[elleng]

3. 'Clearly, O'Malley thinks Dems are complicit in those bad trickle down choices

- he's not just blaming Reagan and the Bushes.'

Please don't put words in Governor O'Malley's mouth.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. I came back to compare the audience response...

I waited forever last evening, giving up, as it would appear the DNC moved this to start really late. So, you would expect the audience to be even more enthusiastic earlier with Clinton. But, they weren't... And, even though Bernie Sanders was another 2.5 hours into a late starting event, his connection was so evident and the response drawn blew everyone away.

No doubt... You can put him on last, you can make people on the East coast wait longer, but you cannot take the life out of Sander's message. Not even those joyous noisemakers could dilute that message.