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Related: About this forumThis comes as Clinton is backing off a little.
The small minded Sanders never learns. Shameful!
Dan Merica ?@danmericaCNN 5h5 hours ago
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This comes as Clinton is backing off a little. http://cnn.it/1SyQFgO
Clinton takes her foot off the gas on Sanders after New York win
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By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 10:41 PM ET, Thu April 21, 2016
Clinton didn't take any shots at Sanders during her first post-New York rally on Wednesday night
Hartford, Connecticut (CNN)Hillary Clinton is trading her direct attacks against Bernie Sanders ahead of this week's New York primary for a softer touch.
Clinton didn't take any shots at Sanders during her first post-New York rally on Wednesday night, instead delivering her standard stump speech and casting the April 26 primaries in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maryland as a "great opportunity to start us on the path to the White House."
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Clinton continued the hands-off approach toward Sanders on Thursday in Connecticut, when she headlined a roundtable on gun violence, a topic the former secretary of state has long used to discredit the Vermont senator, whose record on guns is more conservative than much of the Democratic electorate.
Clinton only mentioned Sanders once during the event, knocking him for voting in favor of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005, a bill that gave gun manufacturers and sellers protection from liability if their products are used in killings.
"We had a vote on it. I was in the Senate. I voted against it. My opponent, Sen. Sanders, voted for it and what that has done is to basically prevent anyone, like families from Sandy Hook, like families from the Aurora movie theater murders, from trying to inject some common-sense requirements that people who make and sell guns be held to," Clinton told the audience in Hartford. Sanders has said he does not think victims of gun violence should be able to sue manufacturers and sellers................
Bernie Sanders Renews Attacks on Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania
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By Peter Nicholas
Apr 21, 2016 6:33 pm ET
Is Bernie backing down after the drubbing he got in New York?
Not so much.
Two days after he lost the New York primary to Hillary Clinton, a feisty Bernie Sanders showed up in Pennsylvania and renewed his now-familiar attacks on the Democratic front-runner.
Mr. Sanders told an audience in Reading, Pa., that Mrs. Clinton is benefiting from super PACs raising millions of dollars from Wall Street firms and special interests. In a mocking tone, he took aim at her for delivering paid speeches to Wall Street at $225,000 a pop in some cases.
And he called on her to release the speech transcripts, sarcastically saying that she should be eager to let the public read texts so eloquent that they commanded such high fees.
Now, I kind of think if youre going to get $225,000 for a speech, it must be a brilliant, insightful, world-shattering speech, dont you think? Mr. Sanders said. It must be a speech that would probably solve all of the crises facing our planet and then some. And it was probably written in Shakespearean prose.
And I think a speech of that extraordinary magnitude should be shared with the American people.
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Mr. Sanderss address in Reading shows he is not ready to back off. The audience relished his critique, booing Mrs. Clintons name...............
He denounced a campaign finance system that relies on billionaires and Wall Street and big-money interests.
Im proud we have run a campaign without a super PAC and without their money, Mr. Sanders added. Secretary Clinton has chosen to raise money in a different way with several super PACs, he said.
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Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)She looks classy, Presidential and above the fray and he looks like a sore loser wining about wining by super delegates.
msongs
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Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Tuesday is gonna be rough for Bernie.
griffi94
(3,733 posts)She knows she has this.
Cha
(297,323 posts)whatever is going to lose.
BS should be proud of nothing.
Bernie thinks he can cry, piss, moan, and groan his way to the presidency. Not the best strategy, but one his supporters have clearly embraced.
Cha
(297,323 posts)Hey Bernie!!
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Once he states his pie in the sky wish list, what is there left for him to talk about? Sanders loves the audience reaction when he starts bashing Hillary--he just keeps stoking those boos. Much like Trump feeds off his audience booing Hillary.
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Haveadream
(1,630 posts)Using derision and sarcasm is an extremely bad approach for someone who is losing. It makes them look small, petty and vengeful.
Oh, wait...
He is.
Bernie has every opportunity to save his legacy and credibility for the remainder of the primary. I thought he might have been able to see the big picture when he took some time off in VT. Apparently not. For a guy short on details, not being able to see the best way to make things work out makes him doubly incompetent.
Fail, Bernie. Fail.
Setsuna1972
(332 posts)Since the Democrats don't want him and the GOP don't want Trump...
Treant
(1,968 posts)in PA reflect that as well; he's got one claiming he accepts no big money support (untrue, of course), and that anybody who is (implication: Clinton) is bought and paid for.
It's not resonating. Even though I've now heard it about 300 times...
oasis
(49,389 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)I guess that answers the question of whether he'll play nice now. WTF is he doing? It seems like his sole purpose is to try and damage the Dem party's chances in November. I've lost all my respect for him. Maybe he's surrounded by so many young adoring fans that he's lost sight of his original goal. He's turning out to be a YUGE hypocrite.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Sanders needs a larger percentage of votes and Hillary moves ever closer to the required delegate count.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)stamping his feet and bawling like a two-year-old inspires neither confidence nor respect.
He desperately needs more media-savvy advice. He's rapidly destroying whatever credibility he once had.
He's acting like a toddler...it's very Trump-like.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)I'm so sick of BS. He acts so entitled. Morning Joe were just talking about him and (surprise!) Joe Scarborough the Republican was defending him. He claims that Bernie has no reason to get out and stop attacking Hillary because he has nothing to lose. Mike Barnicle even said (I'm paraphrasing here), "He's a fully grown 74 year old Socialist male he's going to speak up because his goal is to change the way the party functions and he has nothing to lose at this point." What the hell does "he's a fully grown Socialist male" have to do with the price of beans?? They think Bernie's not doing damage to her because he's not saying anything the Repubs won't say. Only one sane person spoke up and said, "The notion that he's not doing damage to her is absolutely ridiculous." Trump's already quoting Bernie in his anti-Hillary attacks.
If it were the other way around, can you imagine how outraged people would be that Hillary not only refused to bow out, but continued to attack BS? Again, a double standard for women. People were enraged that she even wanted to run (how dare she?!) if she did what BS did, they'd be calling for her head. When there's no path to victory, what is his end goal? To do as much damage as possible before November??
sarae
(3,284 posts)I'm just going to call Bernie a Trump surrogate; that's the role he's playing. What's the difference? With no path to victory, he's just doing Trump's dirty work for him.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)Yup, that sounds about right. I think your have really hit on something. I will do the same going forward...Thanks!
no problem! It's true...I wonder if BS even cares who gets elected in November, if he's not a contender.
livetohike
(22,145 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)apcalc
(4,465 posts)Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Bernie can only become smaller and more bitter looking as the days and primaries go on.
I think he should stay in as I am sure he has hit his ceiling of popularity as far as actual voters are concerned and, if he isn't going to fall in line, he should be allowed the time to self implode.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)showing her class as the Adult in the Room and I believe that you have summed things up nicely.
If he continues as he has been, all he will end up doing is to hurt himself politically and personally. Scales are falling from many people's eyes with these tactics and Bernie's residual goodwill is heading towards negative territory.
His recent tactics are neither effective nor are they intelligent. They certainly do not reflect qualities that I want to see in a President.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)is going to take the shine off of him. He will go back to having nothing to offer and his followers will have to look elsewhere for empty promises.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)Perhaps after Tuesday when Hillary cleans his clock--again.
Maybe he will begin to realize that if he continues with his lies and smears it is he who will be hated. He has managed to convince a lot of young people that Hillary is a monster, but they will begin to see for themselves that she is a strong, competent leader and change their minds once she becomes POTUS. They will see, in retrospect, that they were deliberately lied to.
The others? A bunch of disgruntled losers--they will hardly be a base worth any effort at all and will go on blaming and believing in conspiracies and tin foil hat stuff and waiting for the next Nader, Ron Paul, or Sanders to come along and wake everyone else up to their views.
Sanders will go down in history as a loser.