Sanders Says It Was 'Inappropriate' For Staffer To Joke About Clinton As Veep

[Cali_Democrat]

The walking back has begun.

Looks like Clinton's camp was right to take offense......Bernie Sanders himself thinks those comments were inappropriate.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Thursday that it was "inappropriate" for his campaign manager to joke about considering his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate, MSNBC reported.

Earlier this week, Sanders' campaign manager had said that they were "willing to consider' Clinton as a running mate.

“Look, she'd make a great vice president. We're willing to give her more credit than Obama did," Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver had said. "We're willing to consider her for vice president. We'll give her serious consideration. We'll even interview her.”

But Sanders walked back the comment to MSNBC.

“You know, I think that every campaign has statements come out which are inappropriate. That was inappropriate,” Sanders said, adding that he had "a lot of respect" for Clinton.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-staffer-inappropriate-clinton

[Thinkingabout]

1. He is having to walk back several statements.

[upaloopa]

2. Bernie is a stand up guy

Let's learn from him

[bravenak]

3. It sure was!

Glad he said so!! Good job!

[BooScout]

4. Good for him!

[leftofcool]

5. Now that is a stand up man!

[72DejaVu]

6. OMG!

Bernie just threw Bernie under the bus!

[mcar]

10. ..

[Spazito]

14. LOL

[OKNancy]

7. Good for him

Sometimes surrogates mess up. It happens. I hope others remember this when the shoe is on the other foot.

[Andy823]

8. Good for Bernie

I just wish some of his supporters here on DU would follow his example and play nice.

[lunamagica]

9. Good for him. eom

[mcar]

11. Wonder if his DU supporters will agree

[SusanCalvin]

28. This one does.

Even though I heard it was a joke and was taken out of context, it was a stupid thing to say. The guy who said it, even assuming what I heard was correct, should have thought about how it would sound if taken out of context.

[mcar]

30. Well said!

This is a long slog of a campaign and misstatements will be made by everyone. Sanders did the right thing here so let's move on.

[KittyWampus]

12. good for him

[WillyT]

13. Stand Up Guy.

[Bread and Circus]

15. looks like some people above are feeling just a little bit of the Bern!

And I agree the statement was inappropriate. I am glad Sanders' disavowed it.

[CTyankee]

16. Good! I approve! I wondered about that statement. It didn't sound like Bernie to me.

He would not insult or try to demean a woman.

[retrowire]

19. *demean a person*

Fixed that for you. The statement was never about gender.

[CTyankee]

21. Yes, you are right. Hillary should not have interpreted it as being anti woman.

I think she was wrong to do. I never got that from him.

Thank you for the correction!

[riversedge]

17. Thank you. Sen. Sanders.

[retrowire]

18. I'll repeat it again...

Because all of Hillary's campaign managers are kneeling on their knees and praying "Oh lord Bernie is such a nice guy and we wish him the best and golly gee willikers!"

No. All campaign managers talk smack about their opponents.

They're all putting pins and needles into little voodoo dolls.

This hurt your feelings? You KNOW Hillary and her crew are saying the same shit.

And I bet Hillary can take this shit like it's nothing, so perhaps all you Hillary supporters should grow some thick skin and understand that a competitive ribbing like this is apart of the game. Hillary is the one actually IN the damn fight. This is nothing but a bit of competitive ribbing.

So calm down Hillary Supporters, I'm betting your candidate has thicker skin than any of you. Sheesh.

And yes, I, a Bernie supporter, just said that Hillary is a tough lady. IT'S TRUE!

All I'm saying is, the conquest for the presidency is a VERY HIGH STAKES COMPETITION. And thus, emotions are high. This kind of stuff, totally normal. Calm down.

And finally, Bernie isn't responsible for what his passionate campaign managers say. Is Hillary responsible for what her allies say? And she has many allies saying shit.

[Autumn]

20. Bernie has a lot of class. That's all I am going to say.

[Agschmid]

24. He certainly does.

[MineralMan]

22. Good for him.

He's a good guy.

[Matariki]

23. Oh no! "Scare" "quotes"!!!

[UglyGreed]

25. Stand up guy

stands up once again.

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. Thank you Senator for taking your campaign staff to the wood pile.

[Evergreen Emerald]

27. He has his lackeys do the dirty work, and stays above the fray

At least that is what Sanders' supporters said when a similar thing happened to Hillary.

[tammywammy]

29. Good job Senator Sanders. n/t.

[oberliner]

31. But what's really inappropriate is the fact that the top one tenth of one percent of Americans....

...has as much wealth as the bottom ninety percent.

[bullwinkle428]

32. Thanks for this, Bernie - sometime it's necessary to handle "poop-scooping"

duty when it comes to off-the-cuff statements by staff.

[TSIAS]

33. Not a good statement

I was more offended in 2008 when Clinton leaked she'd be interested in VP slot and tried to force Obama to choose her.

[TheKentuckian]

34. Correct, considering her for the ticket in any capacity is inappropriate considering the

scope and nature of the problems facing our nation and world when the ideology she represents and helped craft to no small degree played a tremendous role in sewing and nurturing them, her own dangerous instincts, as well as her casual even for a politician relationship with the truth.

No, I don't want the keys in or close to her hands. Inappropriate is correct. One person's experienced is another's bad track record.

[Cha]

35. Yeah, it was stupid from his campaign manager. I would hope so apologize and get your manager to

apologize, too.