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Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Why Bernie should be very careful about O'Malley's proposal to hold Debates himself. [View all]winter is coming
(11,785 posts)50. "After a few debates" will carry us into December. If only one Dem candidate,
no matter who it is, is eligible for the DNC debate, you don't have a debate and the DNC looks silly. The joker in the deck is Biden. It would be a mistake for the four non-HRC candidates to agree to an extramural debate and then have Biden enter the race.
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Why Bernie should be very careful about O'Malley's proposal to hold Debates himself. [View all]
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
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I don't think that Bernie should have anything to do with the O'Malley debates
virtualobserver
Aug 2015
#30
I think the DNC would be only too happy to use any excuse to dump Bernie from the debates
djean111
Aug 2015
#14
Very clever of them to place a ban on anyone who decides to debate outside of their
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#5
I agree. And I am not so sure that we should be using the 6 debate idea to go after them. Better
jwirr
Aug 2015
#19
I know. I have been voting in every election since JFK and this is not the same party. We have
jwirr
Aug 2015
#28
Those are very good points and I agree completely that the focus should be on
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#29
Totally agree. Hillary has to be pressured about the O'Malley debate proposal because she has to
jwirr
Aug 2015
#33
I like O'Malley but he has nothing to lose by doing this, in fact, a lot to gain.
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#7
I edited to include Hillary btw. Why what Chafee and Webb do is so important is that
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#18
Ignore other debates, even if the DNC lifts the ban? NO to that, so I voted wrong.
merrily
Aug 2015
#34
I agree completely re focusing on that rule, which is happening. But O'Malley's proposal kind of
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#38
"After a few debates" will carry us into December. If only one Dem candidate,
winter is coming
Aug 2015
#50
Puhlease. Don't consider this an O'Malley ploy intended to hurt Bernie, or orchestrated
mikehiggins
Aug 2015
#52