And Here We Go Debate Blogging! Part #5

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10:25 PM: What’s Bernie Sanders’ endgame here exactly? Did Senator Sanders watch what the Obama administration did on the Israeli/Palestinian front during its first term when Hillary Clinton was Secretary Clinton? This primal scream phase of Sanders campaign reminds me of Barney Frank’s critique of Sanders as someone who spent all his time critiquing the inevitable compromises that go into actual passing laws rather than actually putting his shoulder on the back of the car and helping push.

10:34 PM: Sanders’ surrogate …

What’s the endgame here exactly?

10:36 PM: It’s notable that Sanders’ proposals for single payer and free college education at public universities have barely been mentioned here tonight. It’s now virtually all attacks on Clinton, in a lot of cases dumpster diving for phony issues.

10: 43 PM: Hillary now filibustering Bernie on his never-ending attempts to find an issue that he and Clinton disagree on.

10:51 PM: I will say that I find the question of who’s a ‘real Democrat’ pretty lame. Track record of raising money and campaigning for Democrats, that’s a bit different. But any thriving party is welcoming newcomers.

10:55 PM: Slaughtered in the Deep South, the most conservative part of the country, overwhelmingly with the votes of African American Democrats.

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