I knew she would call him a communist tonight

[DefenseLawyer]

She's nothing if not predictable, and depressing.

[TCJ70]

1. And desperate for him to...

...not be there. She's sliding back further towards 2008 quickly.

[7wo7rees]

2. What is left? nt

[bunnies]

5. Bernie is left.

[LittleBlue]

3. Bernie gave her an opening

Stop praising Cuba, Bernie. I don't care if it's true, it sounds bad.

[JDPriestly]

30. Bernie doesn't lie to make himself look good.

As someone pointed out, we trade with China, a totally Communist country insofar as its government is concerned.

Communism is a threat we can deal with.

Nowadays the big threat everyone is afraid of is terrorism, especially Muslim terrorism.

More Americans are killed in a year by our homegrown angry, crazy gun carriers than by terrorists.

But never mind.

As long as we have an enemy to unite against, I guess it makes people feel good.

I don't want Communism. But, why are we doing so much foreign trade with Communist countries?

Why do American multinationals invest so much in Communist China but we shouldn't trade with Cuba?

It makes no sense to me.
I'm not taking a stand on Communism, but rather I'm asking why saying something positive about Cuba is bad, but saying something positive about China and producing lots of stuff in China is OK.

Is Viet Nam no longer a Communist country? They are included in the TPP.

When is a Communist country that does not allow free speech bad? And when is it OK?

Does anyone know?

Is it really about Communism?

To your post. Bernie has integrity. That's why we trust him. Bernie is not going to lie to us just because it would make him look good to people with a special bone to pick with Cuba.

And I am not approving of Cuba's civil rights record. Nor is Bernie.

But we have to pick our enemies carefully. We can help Cubans more if we do business with them even if they are a repressive Communist country.

And they do train a lot of doctors and have good systems for medical care and education.

But the Cuban government stole a lot of property from Cuban middle class citizens. And that is also a fact.

But it was also a long time ago.

[JimDandy]

33. Good points. n/t

[Avalux]

4. Of course she did. She desperately needs those votes.

This has been quite a spectacle, listening to Hillary filibuster without any substance. I'm not upset she got more air time, she did herself in.

[Lizzie Poppet]

6. I'll bet Bernie's fighting to keep a "cat that got the canary" look off his face. (nm)

[Xipe Totec]

7. I missed it. Did she actually call him a commie?

Tell me honestly. There's another Bernie Sanders donation hanging in the balance.

If she called him a commie, I'll gladly drop another $100 into the Bernie donation box.

[senz]

11. She didn't use the word "commie." She did it by insinuation.

But it was clear.

[Xipe Totec]

19. Done. $100.00 No, I'm not kidding. nt

[senz]

21. One of the best investments we can make for our country's future.

So thank you, Xipe Totec!

[pkdu]

34. Done , double that one to HRC.

Thanks.

[Armstead]

12. She said he supports political tyranny based on a 1985 interview out of context

[Armstead]

17. Hopefully Tad Devine will have a chat with him about it

[Mika]

18. Never mind that the abhorrent activities are activities she enables, Honduras for example. Eom

[amborin]

8. did she?! i'm not watching or listening; my husband is in another room and has the door shut, per m

my request;

what a shameless monster

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Sanders should channel Gore Vidal, and return with a "Crypto-fascist" retort!

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I spect her to go lower

[EndElectoral]

13. Knew it was coming. Desperate.

[Gwhittey]

14. this was in 1985

If you look for a video tape of me in 1985, you would probably find me trying to light my farts and winding up burning my ballsac hair...So.

[kjones]

23. "Pfff, 1985, who cares, that was ages ago."

"What, Hillary was a Goldwater girl as a teenager in the early 60's? Burn her!!!"

[bravenak]

27. Yep

[JonLeibowitz]

31. This was, she claimed, after Dr. King had a profound impact on her worldview

Not sure what Goldwater and Dr. King could agree on, but I suppose she had her reasons.

[bravenak]

32. You cannot imagine what I was into between 15 and 22

I better not judge

[JonLeibowitz]

35. I too had different views when I was 12 vs. today.

Education has generally made me more liberal. But that is neither here nor there.

The point is we are talking about the same period of history; how can you meet Dr. King and be profoundly impacted, her words, and then turn around and support Goldwater the next year. That is inconsistent, and has nothing to do with her current worldview.

[bravenak]

36. It takes teenagers so long to get the stuff they think they already know

She lacked experience.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. I lost my virginity in 1985

it wasn't such a bad year.

[bravenak]

38. I waited until 98 or 99

Those years were awesome

[Warren DeMontague]

42. I'm like "99? damn, bravenak, that's really old!"

You know according to the late Mrs. Reagan, we were all supposed to be "just saying no" during the 80s.

It would appear.... some of us did not.

[bravenak]

43. It was no to DRUGs?

Shit! I missed so much..

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Me, I was too high to get hung up on the specifics at the time

but I believe sex was supposed to fall under that umbrella as well. It was implied, at least.

You didn't miss much. The 80s were mostly a cultural wasteland.

[bravenak]

46. She was crazy if she thought that had a chance of working

She said no, kids said, yeah right

[amborin]

15. husband says pandering to the older Cuban-American vote

[doc03]

20. Seems like he did that himself when he praised Castro

I was starting to think he may have a chance. I don't think a video of him standing up for Fidel Castro
will go over very well, it sure turned me back to Clinton.

[senz]

22. He did not "praise Castro." He was arguing against a U.S. invasion of Cuba.

He was talking to a specific decision process under debate in the U.S. at that time.

[bkkyosemite]

29. Don't know your age but crap was going on bad back then. Bernie was doing what the

other poster said.

[AtomicKitten]

24. Florida is up next, the red-baiting already in progress right on schedule.

[Mufaddal]

25. If your support for Hillary leads you to defend Batista or the Contras

Then it's time to rethink your entire life.

[Maedhros]

44. Remember, these are the people who think Kissinger isn't all that bad. [n/t]

[fun n serious]

26. No she didn't.

She did not say him specifically. She condemned Castro when they showed the video, Bernie did not.

[bravenak]

28. Yep

[lovemydog]

40. Yup.

[lovemydog]

39. She didn't call him a communist tonight.

[Warren DeMontague]

41. Refreshing that she supports freedom of speech for Cubans, despite making noises against it for us

This is, of course, the person who sponsored flag burning legislation directly contrary to the 1st Amendment, whose husband repeatedly tried to censor the internet with unconstitutional "communications decency" legislation, and who even recently treated "freedom of speech" as a cue-the-eyerolls line in a bit (echoed almost identically by Donald Trump) about censoring speech online.

[oasis]

47. It was more like "communist sympathizer". Not as bad.