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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 11:00 AM Oct 2015

In Serious Gaffe, Sanders Treats Opponent with Dignity and Respect: Borowitz was watching



LAS VEGAS (The Borowitz Report)—In a major slip that may prove fatal to his Presidential ambitions, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont treated his principal opponent for the Democratic nomination with dignity and respect on Tuesday night.

Calling it a gaffe of historic proportions, many political insiders were still scratching their heads Wednesday morning over Sanders’s bizarre decision to act toward his opponent as if she were a fellow human being.

“I chalk it up to pressure,” the political strategist Harland Dorrinson said. “Sanders has never been on such a big stage before, and in the heat of the moment he cracked and behaved with nobility.”
“It was one of those moments where everyone in politics was like, ‘What was he thinking?’ ” Dorrinson added.

Carol Foyler, a veteran political operative, said that Sanders has one more debate, “at the most,” to prove that his respect gaffe was just that—a regrettable but forgivable slip of the tongue, not to be repeated.

“Bernie Sanders’s behavior towards Hillary Clinton Tuesday night has raised some grave questions about him in voters’ minds,” Foyler said. “If he treats people with decency and civility now, what kind of President would he be?”

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In Serious Gaffe, Sanders Treats Opponent with Dignity and Respect: Borowitz was watching (Original Post) Mira Oct 2015 OP
Funny. :) I did actually hear a CNN CORPORATE OWNED talking head say, paraphrasing here in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #1
If Nomninated-Bernie Would Need Moderate Support Stallion Oct 2015 #2

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
1. Funny. :) I did actually hear a CNN CORPORATE OWNED talking head say, paraphrasing here
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 11:22 AM
Oct 2015

If Bernie Sanders expect to get anywhere in this campaign, he is going to have to get down in the dirt with them and start attacking his opponents.

Dumb ass. No he doesn't. He gets more respect from staying above the fray and out of their muck.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

Stallion

(6,474 posts)
2. If Nomninated-Bernie Would Need Moderate Support
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 11:44 AM
Oct 2015

...his "Damn E-Mails" comment picked up a lot of good will from moderates

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