Here’s the full Sanders Q and answer about Bill Clinton’s scandals https://t.co/DcFo3ViTJT pic.twitter.com/H6r3NrxkbP
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 8, 2016
As the Washington Post reports it:
TOLEDO, Iowa — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told a passionate town hall questioner here that he would not use former President Bill Clinton’s sex scandals against presidential primary opponent Hillary Clinton, citing his refusal to run a negative, personal campaign…
That answer echoed what Sanders had always said about the scandals that dogged most of Clinton’s presidency. In 1998, as a re-elected congressman from Vermont, Sanders condemned Clinton’s behavior while chastising Republicans for investigating it.
“Forty-three millions of Americans have no health insurance, millions of senior citizens cannot afford their prescription drugs, and this House is going to send to the Senate for a trial, to go month, after month, after month, where Bill Clinton touched Monica Lewinsky?” Sanders asked rhetorically, as he announced his vote. “Bill Clinton acted deplorably in his personal behavior, but what the American people are saying loudly, and clearly, is ‘let’s get on with business.'”…
As a candidate, even as Clinton has moved ahead in the polls, Sanders has consistently refused to attack Clinton personally, focusing instead on their divergent approaches to taxes, education, banking, and economic fairness. For 18 years, Democrats have criticized Republicans for their pursuit of Clinton and obsession with his sex scandals. In the last few months, conservatives have resurrected the stories of women who accused Clinton of sexual assault, but were not found credible by the long-running independent counsel’s investigation.
But in Toledo, no one apart from the lone questioner wanted to make hay of that…
More at the link, including video. (And of course that “lone questioner” does not sound at all like a Republican ratfvcker, does he?)
Town hall Q tells Sanders about the Fox News segment asking if Obama faked his tears.
"They said what? Oh, my god."
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 8, 2016
Your occasional reminder: The most favorably viewed 2016 candidate in either party is the 74-year old democratic socialist.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 8, 2016
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