Buckle up, Democrats! Here is our last chance to see O’Malley’s pomposity.
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20:25 – it’s impressive how well Bernie relates to young people.
I’m conflicted because I really like Bernie as a person. He’s like an old male version of me. But I know he won’t be nearly as effective as Hillary at winning the election or getting things done after.
20:32 – this is a great format for a debate because it allows candidates to look more human, show their sense of humor.
20:35 – Bernie has chosen a mistaken strategy. He’s enumerating the instances when he was right but failed to achieve anything. Which is precisely what his main weakness is.
20:44 – enough with the age thing!!! Age, schmage, life expectancy is not what it was 100 years before. Today’s 74 is yesterday’s 54.
20:51 – of course, they had to stick O’Malley in the middle or nobody would watch his part. It’s got to be humiliating for him.
21:08 – after Bernie’s sincerity, O’Malley sounds especially fake.
And Hillary has a chance of looking honest and authentic after O’Malley.
21:27 – I’d look phenomenal in Hillary’s beautiful jacket.
21:30 – Hillary gets a question from a rude, fat boy. They are preparing her for a debate with rude, fat Trump.
21:38 – Hillary is prepared for the general election. I can see how each statement of hers can be easily modified for the national stage.
21:41 – Hillary saved Gaza! Sorry, this is just not something I can bring myself to believe. Is this another “I’m in Belgrade under sniper fire” story?
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Love this format.
The debate moderator is wearing a jacket two sizes too short.
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Bernie is so lovable! Not a mean bone in his body which unfortunately is a liability in politics.
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Yes, he’s such an obviously decent, principled fellow. It’s really great to see.
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Now the questions are getting silly. How are Sanders’ youthful athletic skills at all relevant to his qualifications for President?
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They wonder if he’s healthy. Although the connection is not that straightforward.
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Putting O’Malley on before Hillary is a master stroke. If he were speaking last, most of the TV audience wouldn’t waste its time watching the end of the program.
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Whatever you think of O’Malley, he’d at least be potentially electable in the general Presidential race.
Bernie has ZERO chance of winning a nationwide general election in America — so I hope that the Democrats nominate the old socialist.
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I don’t know, I don’t like O’Malley. As much as Bernie is an old male version of me, O’Malley is a middle-aged male anti-me.
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Fifty-three isn’t really “middle-aged” — unless O’Malley is expected to live to 106. 🙂
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One kind thing I tried to say about him, and even that came out wrong.
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Obama unofficially — and inappropriately, with the primary still underway — endorsed Hillary because he knows that Bernie is unelectable.
A Hillary nomination is the Democrats’ only chance for a third straight term in the White House. Since much of Obama’s “legacy” has been accomplished by executive orders rather than legislation, a Republican President could easily undo much of that legacy by simply issuing contravening executive orders.
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Is it considered wrong for a sitting president openly to endorse a candidate?
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The President is expected to endorse his party’s nominee after the primary is over — not to try to influence an open primary election.
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You think O’Malley looks fake compared to Hillary’s incredible laugh and agitated shouting??
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Yes, the laugh is kind of strained.
Sincerity is highly overrated, anyway.
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Clinton sounds like such a bullshitter on the inequality question. ‘Homophobic inequality’ my ass. She was a big supporter of ‘Don’t ask don’t tell’ and until 2 years ago was unequivocally against gay marriage.
‘I’ve been fighting inequality for 40 years’. Just shut the fuck up.
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Awful first question. ‘You’re dishonest’. How the fuck do you answer that? Is that even a question?
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Bill Clinton “tackled income inequality” — with what programs, his welfare reform and his tax cuts? (I agreed with both programs, but come on!)
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Yeah, even I know that Bill Clinton sucked on welfare.
I never understood that guy’s popularity. Of course, compared to his successor, he was a genius and a great leader.
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Agree completely. Welfare ‘reform’ and mass incarceration, his two signature policies, which she completely supported.
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What she supported as a wife is irrelevant. She had no elected role.
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She supported those policies as a person, as a voter, as a citizen. I don’t care what hat she was wearing at the time.
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Her life at that point served the purposes of her husband’s career. There was no possibility for her to disagree with him.
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Good point.
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How many First Ladies have ever publically disagreed with their husbands’ political positions? Ever?
Either they supported their spouses’ positions or — like Mamie Eisenhower — they never said a political word in public.
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Exactly. She had to give up her last name against her will, give up her career, go on those pathetic cooking shows that people the world over laughed about – how can she be expected to throw all that over to start criticizing Bill in public?
That she came back from all this at all and created a career of her own is already an incredible achievement.
The discussion convinces me all over again that we urgently need a female president.
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Cruel but really spot on. 🙂
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I assume this comment is aimed at O’Malley — it’s MUCH too late for Bernie to get on that gravy train.
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The models in those commercials are much younger and fitter than the actual users of those drugs and their spouses.
Reason #2334543 you should avoid/manage your diabetes,arteriosclerosis and quit smoking: Your capillaries suffer first.
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At least Hillary is honest enough to name a REPUBLICAN as America’s best President ever! 🙂 🙂
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If you’re on the money, it’s a safe bet.
You know that HRC started out as a Goldwater Girl, right?
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There’s an old crude but accurate saying: “Every whore was a virgin once.”
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Sorry, Mr. Dreidel. I’m throwing a penalty flag on that one. Are you trying to be more rude, crude and socially unacceptable that donald trump?
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The realization that we will win is sinking in and creating a lot of panic.
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None of the above — I’m simply quoting a well-known saying that can accurately be applied to every human being (male and female) who started out with an innocent, impossible-to-maintain idealism, and was ultimately forced to succumb and adapt to the overwhelming forces of reality and life.
In my younger days, I was a civilian doctor known for his endless empathy and understanding, no matter how crazed or violently disturbed my severely mentally ill patients were. And my attitude wasn’t faked — it was the way I actually felt at the time. But apparently, one’s allotted cup of empathy isn’t infinite. My cup ran out about the time I outlived my conscience, and I decided to choose a second career path as a Air Force flight surgeon and military commander. Fortunately, I succeeded equally well on both career courses, until retiring completely 18 years ago.
You’ve stated that you have grandchildren, who with their non-judgemental total love keep refilling the empathy cups of old men which otherwise would have dried up like empty clay vessels decades earlier. That’s wonderful for you. I chose another path, and am I quite satisfied with where that has ultimately brought me.
Your candidate Bernie Sanders seems to share your later-age idealism, so it doesn’t surprise me that you truly believe he can win the general election.
I hope that he gets the Democratic nomination to face a sane Republican opponent, one still young enough to have an empathy cup at least half-full, and we’ll see who prevails.
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If Netanyahu listened to her at all — which is doubtful, since she was just an international mouthpiece for her boss Obama (which in all fairness was her job) — her advice simply preserved the horrific status quo of unending terrorism and retribution, kicking the problem down the road for a future administration to deal with.
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Two more Demo debates coming up, and neither one is on a weekend! Debbie Wasserman-Schultz must have figured that they’re coming too late to make any real difference in the race. (She didn’t have a choice with tonight’s forum.)
Since the last debate is after Super Tuesday in March, O’Malley may not be around for that one. If Hillary has faltered by then, maybe Biden will be in the running — one can only hope for such entertaining melodrama. 🙂
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People are still underestimating all three Democratic candidates. Which is fine with me. Let the Republicans be overconfident.
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I think Sanders, O’Malley, and Clinton were simply shown in reverse alphabetical order. There is nothing else to read into this.
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Or that’s the excuse they used to get O’malley in the middle (which would also have occurred in alphabetical order). 🙂
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