what was the point of having Hillary watch Sanders' "America" commercial?

[Fast Walker 52]

that was weird, and awkward.

[Kalidurga]

1. lol

[HerbChestnut]

2. I don't know, but they made Bernie watch Hillary's most recent ad as well.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. ah, thanks-- didn't realize that

unfortunately I missed the Bernie part

[demwing]

12. What did O'Malley have to watch? /nt

[Duckhunter935]

3. same reason they made

Bernie watch Hillary's commercial

[Fast Walker 52]

4. ok-- I missed that, thanks

weird format-- I only got to see the last 30 min, which was all Hillary.

[SamKnause]

6. It is on You Tube.

You can watch the entire forum or it is broken down between

the 3 candidates.

You can watch Hillary, Bernie, or O'Malley separately.

[Fast Walker 52]

11. thanks!

[snagglepuss]

7. Because Bernie had to watch one of hers. I too don't see the point of

of doing this for either of them although it was free airtime .

[zazen]

8. I agree--she handled it extremely well and it reflected weird tone of forum overall IMO

This Bernie supporter thinks she responded very well, actually. Best move under the circumstances and by far the most admirable way she handled things all night. The poetry vs prose comment was spot on.

Bernie has been so much "all about substance" that the ad has always been unapologetically about invoking "poetry," as she put it, and that's fine, because he does it so little. Most politicians offer bad poetry and first grade prose. He offers undergraduate level prose non-stop.

On the one hand, asking him to respond to her ad, because it did put forth her current (and let's hope) final central argument, made sense, I guess.

But to ask someone to respond to his very artfully done, visionary ad was really weird. What's she going to say? I hate Simon and Garfunkel? Why did they play the chorus four times? The use of human profiles to form pixelated larger images is still fresh but has become more common in the past 10 years?

I will give her props for handling it well.

[Empowerer]

9. Nice response.

[Fast Walker 52]

10. I agree-- she did well.

Still, very awkward.