Thu Nov 5, 2015, 11:28 PM

RandySF (36,447 posts)

Bernie zeros in on Hillary's 'butt'

CONCORD, N.H. — As he filed Thursday to run in New Hampshire’s Democratic contest for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) fielded a colorful question from someone crammed into the secretary of state’s office here: “You ready to kick some Republican butt, Bernie?”

“There’s some earlier butt we have to deal with,” the Vermont senator replied, in a less-than-graceful reference to the Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The remark, which prompted some nervous laughter in a room packed with reporters and supporters, comes as Clinton’s camp has already suggested that Sanders and his team are treating her in a sexist fashion — a notion Sanders has vigorously denied. Thursday’s comment seemed likely to provide additional fodder.

There had been controversy of another sort prior to Sanders’s filing Thursday, with some questioning whether the longest-serving independent in Congress would be eligible to run as a Democrat in the nation’s first primary state.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/05/sanders-says-theres-earlier-butt-to-kick-before-the-gops/

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182 replies	Author	Time	Post
Bernie zeros in on Hillary's 'butt' (Original post)	RandySF	Nov 2015	OP
Good	Kalidurga	Nov 2015	#1
You guys don't have any real issues to talk about, do you?	jfern	Nov 2015	#2
...	Arugula Latte	Nov 2015	#3
Yeah that's all I'm getting out of this too	HerbChestnut	Nov 2015	#5
Why discuss the issues?	Aerows	Nov 2015	#12
Seriously...but we know Bernie leads on all major progressive issues, so Hillary needs to distract...smart strategy actually.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#35
They don't want to talk about the issues!	Bernblu	Nov 2015	#49
....x10+	840high	Nov 2015	#80
+10000	peacebird	Nov 2015	#161
You nailed it	Doubledee	Nov 2015	#106
I'm trying to remember the last post that was actually a substantive discussion of issue differences	villager	Nov 2015	#157
At least Clinton supporters don't make up phony claims that Clinton called Sanders a:	George II	Nov 2015	#174
What the hell are you even talking about?	jfern	Nov 2015	#176
Kick ass Bernie!	azmom	Nov 2015	#4
OMG!!!	earthside	Nov 2015	#6
He probably SHOUTED it at her 'cuz she's a woman!	Arugula Latte	Nov 2015	#8
haha...good one! Hillary and her handlers need a thicker skin...	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#39
Hillary does?	VanillaRhapsody	Nov 2015	#101
Oh no he di'nt	frazzled	Nov 2015	#7
Uh-oh naughty words!!>!>!111!!!	Fearless	Nov 2015	#19
True: only 5 year olds call people butts.	frazzled	Nov 2015	#25
I'm juvenile	Aerows	Nov 2015	#27
Grasping at straws my dear.	Fearless	Nov 2015	#28
Nailed it	Aerows	Nov 2015	#32
Please tell me you're not bein serious.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#40
people who work in the Secretary of State's office	treestar	Nov 2015	#116
But, he's such a tough guy.. has to talk tough.	Cha	Nov 2015	#24
I assume you also object to President Obama's use of the term "kick ass" too	Armstead	Nov 2015	#71
#berniesoscary Hillary must be shaking by now	Cha	Nov 2015	#73
That's not what I said	Armstead	Nov 2015	#77
Oh poor delicate Hillary might get her feathers ruffled!	Bernblu	Nov 2015	#56
You're completely missing the point.	yardwork	Nov 2015	#97
That's my reaction too. This wasn't sexist. It was stupid.	yardwork	Nov 2015	#96
Did it give you the vapors?	ibegurpard	Nov 2015	#9
I am clutching	Aerows	Nov 2015	#13
LOL. I was abouot to say "Break out the fainting couch."	Armstead	Nov 2015	#63
Good Lord.	SusanCalvin	Nov 2015	#10
Hillary will end up being successful at one thing	Aerows	Nov 2015	#14
Dunno if it's Hillary herself,	SusanCalvin	Nov 2015	#16
More like an ant hill.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#50
With these guys, no molehill is so small	Art_from_Ark	Nov 2015	#15
Absolutely, Art	Aerows	Nov 2015	#22
Precisely! Why are people gettin all butt hurt?! Ooooops...sorry!	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#41
He's proving to be an ass...	Gloria	Nov 2015	#11
Who?	Aerows	Nov 2015	#17
Yep he is.	Cha	Nov 2015	#23
Very.	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#30
If you are eager	Aerows	Nov 2015	#33
I am not eager for another Bill Bennett, which a Republican would appoint.	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#36
I'm pretty sure	Aerows	Nov 2015	#43
He doesn't have a strong record on broadly advocating for educational issues.	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#47
Hillary Clinton has spoken up for charter schools.	Aerows	Nov 2015	#55
Bernie is a teacher's best friend.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#60
If Bernie had done anything of substance, he'd have won the confidence of the education unions.	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#86
Well, I'm sorry you don't have all of the information on his record	Aerows	Nov 2015	#91
Sorry you don't have all the info on HRCs	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#95
#berniesoscary	Cha	Nov 2015	#34
Maybe he needs to talk to a few people outside of his bubble.	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#38
LOL, you call that a gaffe? Now THAT'S funny!	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#44
The media does. They focus on that kind of inappropriate remark.	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#52
All the media accomplishes in focusing on a completely innocuous remark is make Bernie look more like the regular kinda guy he is.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#58
A guy you'd like to have a beer with?	okasha	Nov 2015	#142
But bernie's so scary.. he wanted to make sure everyone knew he was gonna kick Hillary's butt..	Cha	Nov 2015	#66
Yeah, like he's this big tough.. he's so ready to Hillary's butt. Good Grief.. #berniesoclassy	Cha	Nov 2015	#57
Classy.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#59
It seems the Hillary camp is trying to actually.	Fearless	Nov 2015	#18
Hey, we have a better candidate.	Aerows	Nov 2015	#26
kick ass	pinebox	Nov 2015	#20
Yeah, bernie.. you're such a big scary person. Talking about Hillary's butt.	Cha	Nov 2015	#21
Please see post 10. nt	SusanCalvin	Nov 2015	#29
It's no use trying to reason with these people.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#48
He made no mention at all about Hillary	Art_from_Ark	Nov 2015	#31
He wants to kick O'Malley's butt?	VanillaRhapsody	Nov 2015	#103
He didn't say anyone's butt	Art_from_Ark	Nov 2015	#109
who else is there before the election?	VanillaRhapsody	Nov 2015	#110
Oh for crying out loud	Art_from_Ark	Nov 2015	#112
First he has to "kick some butt"	VanillaRhapsody	Nov 2015	#113
Ummmm~	sheshe2	Nov 2015	#182
Why are you repeating yourself? Not	840high	Nov 2015	#82
#berniesoscary Hillary is shaking in her boots by now! Big scary bernie gonna kick Hillary's butt	Cha	Nov 2015	#83
Was Hills scared of your comments in 2007-8?	aspirant	Nov 2015	#100
So Cha, tell me, what changed about Hillary that made you stop hating her with a passion	cui bono	Nov 2015	#88
Was Hills scared of you in 2007-8?	aspirant	Nov 2015	#99
It's Bernie's butt that is going to get kicked	treestar	Nov 2015	#117
It was a sexist remark and I see his faithful are here in force to say BFD	Tommy2Tone	Nov 2015	#37
Is there anything these days Sanders can say about Clinton that isn't interpreted as sexist? Sheesh.	JonLeibowitz	Nov 2015	#42
You ued the word Sheesh....Alert!	Armstead	Nov 2015	#69
Go ahead...make my day! :-) n/t	JonLeibowitz	Nov 2015	#75
It wasn't interpreted, it was sexist.	Tommy2Tone	Nov 2015	#76
Absolutely: something offensive will do just fine. This obviously does not qualify. n/t	JonLeibowitz	Nov 2015	#78
Is there anything Sanders can say ...	TheFarS1de	Nov 2015	#94
In what way is it sexist? Are you capable of following a conversation?	CBGLuthier	Nov 2015	#70
+1	melman	Nov 2015	#84
This was so NOT sexist	Marrah_G	Nov 2015	#98
No it wasn't and you don't believe it was.	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#123
Bernie is really not good with that off the cuff thing. nt	SunSeeker	Nov 2015	#45
Actually, he's great at it...comfortable in his own skin, unlike other, pre-programmed candidates.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Nov 2015	#54
LOL. Almost as great as he is at kissing babies...	SunSeeker	Nov 2015	#74
OH dear.. #berniesoscary! poor little thing!	Cha	Nov 2015	#79
Oh dear!	Starry Messenger	Nov 2015	#87
Apparently so.. not good. #berniesoscary	Cha	Nov 2015	#64
Watch yourself Hillary...	MrWendel	Nov 2015	#46
OMG! MrWendel!	Cha	Nov 2015	#61
LOL	SunSeeker	Nov 2015	#81
LMAO	leftofcool	Nov 2015	#108
No matter how many times I see that	treestar	Nov 2015	#118
KnR	sheshe2	Nov 2015	#51
LOL@MrWendel, she	Cha	Nov 2015	#62
So Bernie is going negative	Gothmog	Nov 2015	#53
Well you know...	MrWendel	Nov 2015	#65
#berniescary.. give him a wide path, pardner!	Cha	Nov 2015	#89
So if they treat her like anyone else it is sexist?	CBGLuthier	Nov 2015	#67
Biased is right	Art_from_Ark	Nov 2015	#72
lol. Trying way too hard	melman	Nov 2015	#68
Thank you for this idiotic OP.	cui bono	Nov 2015	#85
That is my feeling too.	Vattel	Nov 2015	#177
Yeah yeah yeah.. bernie's wants to kick Hillary's butt.. but he wants the gop to do for him..	Cha	Nov 2015	#90
"Big tough" Hillary	aspirant	Nov 2015	#104
Big tough talkin' bernie.. get dealing with kicking Hillary's butt, bernie.. we're waiting.	Cha	Nov 2015	#105
You forget O'Malley is running too	aspirant	Nov 2015	#107
He can't kick her butt. He'd had to run into the sniper fire to get close enough to do it.	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#125
Get it? Republican candidates have male butts, so you can figuratively kick them.	mhatrw	Nov 2015	#92
Oh, for the love of Was kicking "Republican butt" misandrist and misogynistic?	merrily	Nov 2015	#93
Sanders really isn't ready for this. eom	MohRokTah	Nov 2015	#102
No, he isn't, and that's the real problem.	okasha	Nov 2015	#148
Sigh, another excuse for irrational outrage. Much ado about nothing	Vattel	Nov 2015	#111
I guess I have never taken sexism lightly.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#114
Asking for special protection for the female candidate is sexist. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#122
Okaaaaayyyy .... :-/	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#124
Nobody thinks "kicks some butt" is sexist. Nobody. So the pretense falls flat. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#126
I'm not sure where this is going. (Did you intend to reply to someone else?)	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#130
Nobody thinks "kicks some butt" is sexist. Nobody. So the pretense falls flat. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#131
So you said. Apparently somebody does, so the "nobody" defense falls flat.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#136
It's an obvious pretense. It's a charge looking for a place to hang its hat. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#138
Perhaps a misstep that a better candidate wouldn't have made. Or would have handled better…	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#141
You can't explain how it's "sexist", which speaks for itself. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#146
You can't explain how he didn't make a mis-step, which speaks for itself.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#149
The onus is on you to support your assertion of sexism. Not on others to disprove it. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#153
I didn't assert anything. Again, you're barking up the wrong tree.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#156
NurseJackie, post #114: "I guess I have never taken sexism lightly."	Romulox	Nov 2015	#159
That's not an assertion. Where's the assertion?	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#160
Too clever by half. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#162
It wasn't sexist and you don't think it was.	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#127
Oooo! A mind reader! (I'll bet you already know what I'm thinking now.)	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#129
Not a mind reader, just a bullshit detector.	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#132
That's it? It's difficult to take your demands seriously.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#134
After your allegations of sexism here...	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#137
As did you, with the mind reading trick.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#143
There was no mind reading trick	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#145
So you said. I don't believe you. I know better.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#147
No you really don't know better	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#150
No, not really. (But apparently I'm annoying you, so there's that.)	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#151
I'm not annoyed.	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#152
Work on your delivery.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#154
Work on your honesty	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#164
You're really in no position to lecture on that.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#165
Yes I am and I am exercising that position on you	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#168
I guess I have never taken sexism lightly.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#169
I don't know about that but you certainly don't take honesty very seriously	phleshdef	Nov 2015	#171
I guess I have never taken sexism lightly.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#172
If only there were some sexism to complain about.	Vattel	Nov 2015	#173
We see things differently.	NurseJackie	Nov 2015	#175
LOL. I don't think sexism is the cause of that	treestar	Nov 2015	#115
lol	Go Vols	Nov 2015	#119
I really hope Bernie gets more ready for the big leagues.	leftofcool	Nov 2015	#120
This is embarassing for the OP and those who recommended this. nt	Romulox	Nov 2015	#121
Words of wisdom by that great socialist thinker and the savior of us all	workinclasszero	Nov 2015	#128
Trying to make this statement a big issue is what is right out of the republican clown car.	BillZBubb	Nov 2015	#135
I think St Bernie is going to pull back a bloody stump...	workinclasszero	Nov 2015	#139
No one cares. It's a figure of speech.	Arkana	Nov 2015	#133
I'm not sure what your point is	tularetom	Nov 2015	#140
Thank god he didn't zoom in on Hillary's 'butt'	Autumn	Nov 2015	#144
As the article said-it was a less than graceful comment from Sanders.	riversedge	Nov 2015	#155
Yes, and he is still not President.	MoonRiver	Nov 2015	#158
This has to be one of the fucking dumbest ginned up 'controversies' yet.	blackspade	Nov 2015	#163
Is this what counts as hard-hitting journalism from the once mighty Washington Post?	WorseBeforeBetter	Nov 2015	#179
No doubt.	blackspade	Nov 2015	#180
He needs to zero in on it now. He is losing sight of it as it pulls away. nt.	NCTraveler	Nov 2015	#166
Tsk. Tsk.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Nov 2015	#167
Not nearly as much as Hillary's supporters zero in on it.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Nov 2015	#170
Conservatives have no sense of humor.	GeorgeGist	Nov 2015	#178
I see, NOW he's a Democrat. Isn't that special?	Beacool	Nov 2015	#181

Response to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Nov 5, 2015, 11:34 PM

Kalidurga (14,177 posts)

Bernie zeros in on Hillary's 'butt'

1. Good

2. You guys don't have any real issues to talk about, do you?

3. ...

5. Yeah that's all I'm getting out of this too

12. Why discuss the issues?

35. Seriously...but we know Bernie leads on all major progressive issues, so Hillary needs to distract...smart strategy actually.

49. They don't want to talk about the issues!

80. ....x10+

161. +10000

106. You nailed it

157. I'm trying to remember the last post that was actually a substantive discussion of issue differences

174. At least Clinton supporters don't make up phony claims that Clinton called Sanders a:

176. What the hell are you even talking about?

4. Kick ass Bernie!

6. OMG!!!

8. He probably SHOUTED it at her 'cuz she's a woman!

39. haha...good one! Hillary and her handlers need a thicker skin...

101. Hillary does?

7. Oh no he di'nt

19. Uh-oh naughty words!!>!>!111!!!

25. True: only 5 year olds call people butts.

27. I'm juvenile

28. Grasping at straws my dear.

32. Nailed it

40. Please tell me you're not bein serious.

116. people who work in the Secretary of State's office

24. But, he's such a tough guy.. has to talk tough.

71. I assume you also object to President Obama's use of the term "kick ass" too

73. #berniesoscary Hillary must be shaking by now

77. That's not what I said

56. Oh poor delicate Hillary might get her feathers ruffled!

97. You're completely missing the point.

96. That's my reaction too. This wasn't sexist. It was stupid.

9. Did it give you the vapors?

13. I am clutching

63. LOL. I was abouot to say "Break out the fainting couch."

10. Good Lord.

14. Hillary will end up being successful at one thing

16. Dunno if it's Hillary herself,

50. More like an ant hill.

15. With these guys, no molehill is so small

22. Absolutely, Art

41. Precisely! Why are people gettin all butt hurt?! Ooooops...sorry!

11. He's proving to be an ass...

17. Who?

23. Yep he is.

30. Very.

33. If you are eager

36. I am not eager for another Bill Bennett, which a Republican would appoint.

43. I'm pretty sure

47. He doesn't have a strong record on broadly advocating for educational issues.

55. Hillary Clinton has spoken up for charter schools.

60. Bernie is a teacher's best friend.

86. If Bernie had done anything of substance, he'd have won the confidence of the education unions.

91. Well, I'm sorry you don't have all of the information on his record

95. Sorry you don't have all the info on HRCs

34. #berniesoscary

38. Maybe he needs to talk to a few people outside of his bubble.

44. LOL, you call that a gaffe? Now THAT'S funny!

52. The media does. They focus on that kind of inappropriate remark.

58. All the media accomplishes in focusing on a completely innocuous remark is make Bernie look more like the regular kinda guy he is.

142. A guy you'd like to have a beer with?

66. But bernie's so scary.. he wanted to make sure everyone knew he was gonna kick Hillary's butt..

57. Yeah, like he's this big tough.. he's so ready to Hillary's butt. Good Grief.. #berniesoclassy

59. Classy.

18. It seems the Hillary camp is trying to actually.

26. Hey, we have a better candidate.

20. kick ass

21. Yeah, bernie.. you're such a big scary person. Talking about Hillary's butt.

29. Please see post 10. nt

48. It's no use trying to reason with these people.

31. He made no mention at all about Hillary

103. He wants to kick O'Malley's butt?

109. He didn't say anyone's butt

110. who else is there before the election?

112. Oh for crying out loud

113. First he has to "kick some butt"

182. Ummmm~

82. Why are you repeating yourself? Not

122. Asking for special protection for the female candidate is sexist. nt