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CNN: Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can't win, Bernie denies(Update: NYT & Buzzfeed Confirming)
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That´s the whole point. I thought this was from Biden´s camp. If her campaign leaked this, it´s a horrible attempt to get ahead. She could have dismissed this, but instead she chose to use it by giving these comments. I think it´s another example of showing bad political instincts.
The point I'm making is that the point of the story is not whether Bernie Sanders is sexist; but whether he was daft enough to tell Warren to her face that he thought the Electoral college wouldn't elect a woman.
Aint it tho.
One comment does not a sexist make. This is clearly the juicy bait the debaters want tomorrow
Then she should absolutely clarify this! Her team worked on her statement for nearly six hours, and the one released definitely leaves the door open for Bernie's alleged sexism. That's why this seems so dishonest and dirty to me.
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Oh yes because rumor and innuendo is scintillating journalism...
Yeah that shit is gross, don't trivialize sexual assault trauma by using it to try and make a point about a political spat.
Is it even sexist to say a woman couldn't win right now? It's not a knock on women but rather the electorate. I don't know either way, I like to think of course a woman could win but I don't know because it's not all on the woman. Honestly I don't think a practicing Muslim could win the election right now, irregardless of how great they'd be or not, am I anti-Muslim now or just making a prediction as to how the populace would vote.
This is honestly the lamest campaign fight I've seen.
This is honestly the lamest campaign fight I've seen.
Maybe she didn't think it was important or didn't want to do Bernie like that. It might be a foreign concept to some, but just because someone says something bad about your or something you don't agree with, it doesn't mean you HAVE to retaliate or knock 'em down in an opportune time. I know, for people on the Internet, sometimes it's a "DOES NOT COMPUTE" moment, especially when everything someone disagrees with HAS to be met with the most epic of vitriol one can muster through their keyboards. Not a knock at you, personally, just people out there that may or may not be listening.
I know, right? Warren don't want people to dwell on this shit and everybody's, well, like the analogy I used in a previous post, are going all The Mist up in here."Bernie and I disagreed that a woman could be elected president but I'm focused on working with my friend Bernie to defeat Trump..."
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Then I feel like you're asking a question you already have an answer to but you just don't like the answer. In the response for comment the Sanders campaign directly said Bernie told Warren he thought Trump would prey on the nation's sexism in ways that also contributed to Hillary's loss, consequently that it would be harder for a woman to win, but not that they couldn't, or that none should ever run.
I never said I'd wait for Warren. I said the story is bullshit as framed regardless of what Warren says.
She didn't. This wasn't leaked by her directly. But now that it is out she isn't going to lie about it.
I don't think that "Bernie Sanders believes Americans are sexist" could be seen as any less of an attack than "Bernie Sanders said something sexist."
It's not her job to speak for Bernie. All she said was what she heard, no more no less.
What's embarrassing is not even acknowledging the kind of territory comments like these tend to be used in.
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