Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)’s campaign manager doused fuel on the fire Thursday when he said the campaign was correct in arguing rival Hillary Clinton was questioning Sanders’ qualifications to be president.
The comments from Sanders’ top aide, Jeff Weaver, came hours after Sanders referenced a Washington Post article saying as much and blamed the media for this latest tiff with the former secretary of state.
Weaver seemed to acknowledge in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that Clinton never said explicitly that Sanders was unqualified. He argued that Clinton had training in “how to say a lot of things without actually saying them.”
“You know, they’re playing a very sort of cute game in terms of language,” Weaver told Mitchell. “But you know the Washington Post got it right when they ran the headline that said Hillary Clinton was questioning Bernie Sanders’ qualifications.”
The Washington Post article aggregated reports of Clinton suggesting Sanders was ill-prepared for the presidency, although she did not say Sanders was “unqualified” to occupy the White House.
Sanders said Wednesday night that Clinton was the one who was “unqualified,” after she criticized Sanders’ New York Daily News editorial board interview earlier in the day and said he didn’t do his homework.
Clinton shot back Thursday morning in a press conference in the Bronx, saying said it was “kind of silly” for Sanders to say she wasn’t qualified to be president.
sigh. Jesus Christ on a crutch, would someone please make it stop!
What did Josh say? A malign influence?
To put it mildly
Alternate headline:
“Paid Candidate Hack Defends Hack Candidate”
Is the chicken sufficiently choked yet?
No, not yet. Oh, well…
So much here.
First of all, just shut up. Stop talking. Stop digging. It’s not helping.
Secondly, the size of the balls on this campaign, to spend how many months insinuating Hillary is bought and paid for by Wall Street, remember when Bernie actually said that a Goldman Sachs commercial was not an attack add because Hillary was not mentioned by name? And he’s going to say out loud that SHE has training in “how to say a lot of things without actually saying them.” I think we’re redefining hypocrisy here.