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In reply to the discussion: Sanders 'saddened' by on-air shooting, but does not call for action on gun violence [View all]TeddyR
(2,493 posts)126. I didn't realize Hillary supported eating live kittens
That is a strike against her.
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Cali_Democrat
Aug 2015
OP
I think he will, at a proper time and in a proper place, respond to this with specificity.
HappyPlace
Aug 2015
#355
Just speaking about it is enough for Hillary but not good enough for Bernie, bunnies.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#5
Seemed pretty accurate to me. But I read up on his prior runs and how he won. nt
boston bean
Aug 2015
#49
Of course it did. Bullshit claims about Bernie always seem accurate to HC supporters.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#54
Keep up. They lied about him taking money from the NRA and not supporting gun control.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#295
No, you didn't address the lies or what I actually posted to refute them.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#302
Too bad you didn't have any to support your claim that the NRA bankrolled Bernie.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#321
The article proved Bernie voted to expand background checks for all gun sales -thanks
azurnoir
Aug 2015
#389
Bernie is soft on gun control...I said it, his record and current statements prove it.
Sancho
Aug 2015
#217
Hillary is pro-death penalty, Bernie is pro-gun control and never accepted money from the NRA.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#142
Another lie, he voted for gun control: Sanders Votes for Background Checks, Assault Weapons Ban
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#146
Oh, now you did it. My last irony meter just imploded. Thanks, Maggie.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#177
"It's odd that you can never seem to back up any of your claims with any evidence, don't you think?"
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#214
Bingo. But you're wasting your posts on staunch Bernie supporters. They'll excuse everything
BlueCaliDem
Aug 2015
#363
"Bernie Sanders' thinly veiled conservative stances on important Democratic issues"?
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#377
Key: "Sanders supported an assault weapons ban and never embraced a pro-gun message."
senz
Aug 2015
#360
you really are something. there is not one fucking word about the NRA donating to him,
cali
Aug 2015
#75
To the contrary..... I have continually said the puretopians will never find a perfect candidate
MaggieD
Aug 2015
#19
You mean like it's true that Hillary is in the pocket of the prison industry?
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#122
"Do you think if you keep repeating that it will come true?" This is rich.
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#317
I will agree, someone needs to stop making crap up. Cause the NRA did help him win an election. nt
boston bean
Aug 2015
#50
That wasn't the claim, this was "She was never bankrolled by the NRA - he was"
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#65
He also 100% backed Obama's gun control measure package after Sandy Hook
AgingAmerican
Aug 2015
#164
Have you seen the Republican ad one of them posted here, calling Bernie a pedophile protector?:
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#368
right and this has what to do with the 1990 election and his voting against the Brady Bill.
boston bean
Aug 2015
#168
Glad to have helped you in any way possible, no matter what it is you think I've said. nt
boston bean
Aug 2015
#184
I'll let others be the judge of what happened here. Your posts speak for themselves.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#186
Predictable. Moving the goal posts because you couldn't prove the lie.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#130
Stop telling me what I think. Either prove your accusations or stop making them.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#196
Well, now I'm confused as to what it is you think. Why don't you tell me. nt
boston bean
Aug 2015
#197
Really? You think I want to discuss anything with you after what you just did?
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#200
Ok, whatever you say. Either I was wrong when I said you didn't like super pacs because
boston bean
Aug 2015
#207
Skip the stawman arguments and admit you were wrong when you said this:
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#219
I don't waste my time searching for links that can be alerted on as stalking.
boston bean
Aug 2015
#228
What did I lie about? goodness. I just copped and apologized for everything you said I had wrong.
boston bean
Aug 2015
#258
An apology for lying about what I said, but keep digging and kicking this thread.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#265
I said you thought super pacs were bad and bank rolled elections... pretty much in a nutshell.
boston bean
Aug 2015
#267
If you're unconditionally apologizing for lying about what I said I accept.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#271
No, you just make stuff up about others, that's why you're getting called out.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#272
You made false claims about Bernie and about my posts and you got caught.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#278
No, what you are witnessing is my refusing to be ordered around by anybody
boston bean
Aug 2015
#290
Right now there's absolutely NOTHING on Google, Yahoo, Bing, or any of the search engines
short circuit
Aug 2015
#293
The only people acting like the NRA are the HC supporters using this tragedy for political gain.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#273
Bernie is not using today's tragedy for political gain, you are - just like the NRA.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#279
Bernie just uses the NRA to help get elected then votes against the Brady Bill.
boston bean
Aug 2015
#289
ah, ok, what conversation am I having here. I thought I answered something specific to you.
boston bean
Aug 2015
#210
They just ran ads for him against his opponent. Sort of like a super pac does now a day.
boston bean
Aug 2015
#112
Yes, I do, you're saying it's okay to lie about Bernie because others lie about Hillary.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#128
"His current position"? Hasn't his best trait been that he hasn't changed in 40 years?
George II
Aug 2015
#339
Still waiting and still very curious about this. I liked Clinton's statement today. If felt real.
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#329
Maybe cali has a problem with HC supporters exploiting a tragedy for political gain.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#352
Something actually true and backed up with the facts of the candidates own words
boston bean
Aug 2015
#51
They're like the GOP, they think if they keep repeating a lie it will become accepted as truth.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#296
Not even wanting to open a debate about the desperate need for gun control is an interesting
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#9
"Although at least the NRA waits the automatic 3 days after a gun tragedy before they do."
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#22
Gun laws are not at the heart of this situation, and trying to score political points is disgusting.
Skwmom
Aug 2015
#13
Some HC supporters use the same tactics, abusing the memories of victims to score points.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#25
Anyone in the know knows that the "do not take political advantage of this tragedy" is a patent
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#57
Taking advantage of a tragedy to promote your candidate is disgusting.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#69
Just like what that disgusting nation Australia did with gun control right after their last mass murder with a gun?
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#72
What specifically did HRC offer as a solution. Easy to talk about it, different when it comes to
monmouth4
Aug 2015
#18
She didn't "take advantage of a tragic act", she was asked a question and she answered it.
George II
Aug 2015
#345
Unlike her supporters here who couldn't even wait for the bodies to get cold.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#353
How long will you wait for actual action to stop gun violence before you realize..
aikoaiko
Aug 2015
#74
I would prefer the bodies stay warm at all times and not snuffed out and cold
boston bean
Aug 2015
#92
Hillary didn't vote for death penalty. Bernie voted against Brady bill and...
SonderWoman
Aug 2015
#141
22 years ago he did, however 2 years ago he voted to expand background checks for all gun sales
azurnoir
Aug 2015
#388
I wish hilly didn't gloat over killing or support the use of cluster bombs or support the
cali
Aug 2015
#133
Unless it's soldiers carrying the guns, then Bernie is not only stricter, he's downright
orpupilofnature57
Aug 2015
#106
LOL! "“We must act to stop gun violence" is a call for gun control? Good god, that's lame!
Bonobo
Aug 2015
#118
What am I to think if Hillary doesn't come out strongly against eating live kittens? She must be in
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#331
People who exploit tragedies for political gain are every bit as despicable as the NRA.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#255
Sanders has been a state senator from a state with the least gun murders per capita in the country
108vcd
Aug 2015
#266
First, Sanders is NOT a "state senator", and what happens in a United States Senator's HOME state...
George II
Aug 2015
#337
Bernie tried that same dog whistle. Vermont does not have the least per capita gun deaths.
SunSeeker
Aug 2015
#380
Nope, Obama is not saying "rural" people owning guns is less of a problem than city dwellers.
SunSeeker
Aug 2015
#383
Although a Senator should look after his own constituency, sitting in the United States Senate..
George II
Aug 2015
#399
Bernie Sanders seems like the kinda guy who'd at least let the bodies assume room temperature...
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#270
This isn't a conversation about gun control. It's a conversation about Hillary Clinton being the
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#280
You have some proof of the focus group being done before the bodies had been removed?
boston bean
Aug 2015
#284
Sanders is a politician. His views on gun control reflect the make-up of his constituency. Just as
Metric System
Aug 2015
#281
Race baiting on top of exploitation: "snow-white (in more ways than one) Vermont"
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#300
Yes, what would Bernie-whose family was wiped out in the Holocaust-know about personal tragedy?
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#307
No, you brought up 9/11 and implied he wasn't personally affected by it like Hillary.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#316
Yes, I saw the video of her in the middle of the firefighters who told her to not forget about them.
freshwest
Aug 2015
#319
Bernie rewarded NRA for their contribution of $18,000 to help defeat Bernie's opponent by
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#286
That is exactly what I said, read it again. Bernie gave a reward to the NRA by voting with the NRA
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#314
It merely shows the level of desperation. We must continue to focus on the issues.
rhett o rick
Aug 2015
#406