Debate Moderator Reacts To Sanders Talking Vietnam: ‘Oh God’ (AUDIO)

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, makes a point during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Once Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) started talking about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s policy in Vietnam during Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate, a moderator could be heard sighing “Oh God” into her microphone.

Sanders and his rival Hillary Clinton had been debating foreign policy when Sanders attacked her for taking advice from Kissinger. The senator didn’t stop the onslaught after Clinton said that she takes advice from a “wide variety of voices” with foreign policy expertise.

“It’s just a very different historical perspective here,” Sanders said. “Kissinger was one of those people during the Vietnam era—”

Then as Sanders took a breath, a moderator was caught on the microphone saying “Oh, God.”

Listen below:

h/t: Gawker

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  1. I couldn’t hear the “Oh God”. But his point is so salient that it doesn’t matter.

    Like most sentient Americans, I know that the days of controlling the world “willy-nilly … with its knowns and unknowns” are over. And it’s fucking time somebody says it.

    Yea Bernie.

  2. Let the man talk. None of the moderators are going to be our President.

  3. Someone said, “Oh God.” I applauded. Bernie is right.

  4. Typical of the liberal biased media to…oh, wait.

  5. Right, a draft dodger potentially is.

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