Posted on 02/07/2020 10:40:12 AM PST by karpov
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton furthered her comments discrediting Sen. Bernie Sanders as a viable presidential candidate on Thursday, insinuating that his potential failure to "deliver the moon" would detract from efforts to rebuild public trust.
When asked by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres if she wanted to address her prior remarks about the Vermont independent, Clinton noted that while she originally made them about a year and a half ago, "I have a pretty clear perspective about what it's going to take to win, and as I said earlier, that's what I think the key calculation for any voter has to be."
"You've got to be responsible for what you say, and what you say you're going to do," Clinton added. "We need to rebuild trust in our fellow Americans and in our institutions, and if you promise the moon and you can't deliver the moon, then that's going to be one more indicator of how, you know, we just can't trust each other."
Sanders' campaign declined to comment Thursday. When Clinton's previous remarks surfaced last month, Sanders said in a statement that his focus was President Donald Trump: "Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history."
Clinton's comments Thursday come as Sanders is in a near-tie with former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg in the Iowa caucuses. As of Thursday afternoon, with 97% of precincts reporting, Buttigieg remained the leader of the race, with 26.2% of state delegates, while Sanders closely trailed with 26.1%.
Clinton's prior comments about Sanders, her 2016 opponent in the Democratic primary, were aimed directly at his core campaign appeal -- that he's a political outsider pitching revolutionary change.
"He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him.
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When hillary is the “voice of reason”, all bets are off.
She’s running. Waiting for that brokered convention to deliver to Bernie the coup d’grace.
CNN has joined the “stop Bernie “ chorus.
The DNC has issued the directive to Jeff Zucker.
Well, ‘promising the moon’ is a whole lot better than ‘SHOWING THE MOON”.....................
Alligators, Rumsfeld style.
I’d like to show Sanders a moon....
The Clintons still control the DNC.
The country is more than broke. After 2020 President Trump will begin a scale down to reduce the government to 50% of current size.
The stalking horse named Hellary says & does stalky things!
Hillary owns the superdelegates. Who will vote for her if there’s a brokered convention.
The party will nominate her by acclamation.
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> She’s running <
Right. Hillary is attacking Bernie mainly because the old Bolshevik is now the favorite. If Liz Warren had won Iowa, she’d be Hillary’s target today.
Hillary: I was shocked, shocked to find out that Sen Warren falsely claimed to be a Cherokee!
Please, give hillz her props.
Former Democratic presidential nominee, ex-Secretary of State, ex-senator of NY, Sham Married to ex-President,ex-Governor of Arkansas and serial rapist, and corrupt as the day is long, Hillary Clinton .
Just sharpening the knife for the kill. Flying tackle from behind, choke hold, and one swift slash. Not painless but quick.
Nobody disses Herself.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money”
-Alexis De Tocqueville
It begs the question, what was she promising all the foreign governments she would give them as President in exchange for their bribes to the foundation? Once you give away - I mean sell - the nation’s uranium, about all that’s left is the moon.
Not saying it shouldn’t be done but it will have minimal effect on our spending problem.
The problem is entitlements!
You could zero out the federal discretionary budget and we still go off a financial cliff.
She wants to be President so bad she can taste it. If there’s a brokered convention, you think she’ll let any one else be nominated?
When pigs can fly.
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