What do you think of Hillary's smack down of Sanders?

Based on this CNN article. Apparently Hillary did an interview with Howard Stern (I didn’t realize he was still enough of a thing to get the likes of Clinton to come on his show to do interviews) in which she either told it like it is or dissed on Sanders, depending on your thoughts. From the article:

For Clinton, always controlled, it’s a noteworthy smack down (IMHO). What do you 'dopers think? Or is this a meh, don’t care sort of thing since Clinton isn’t running and is pretty much done with running for office?

Frankly, I feel like she’s just saying what we all (or just me all) are thinking.

He threatens the establishment; she is among the most looming of establishment figures on her side of the aisle, or at least she was until she lost to Trump, of all people.

I wish she’d have the good grace to retire. I think the American people have made it quite clear that they don’t like her ideas. As Sanders keeps pointing out, his ideas do better and better each time they’re polled. That doesn’t mean that he’ll be our next president, but he definitely changed the conversation within the democratic party. This is another feeble attempt by the establishment to steer the party back. They might succeed, too, but if so – it will cost them the general election and we will get 4 more years of Trump.

IMHO, of course.

There are plenty of people who have room to criticize. Clinton isn’t one of them.

Authority figure asked if anti-authority figure should be more respectful of authority figures.

Because everyone absolutely fucking loathes Hillary Clinton, and just wishes she’d go away and take the memory of her historic electoral humiliation with her, I predict her comments will inspire a small, but noticeable bump in Sanders’ approval rating.

Change she and her to he and him and that’s how I feel about Bernie.

Fuck Sanders. He should have endorsed as soon as he was mathematically eliminated. That being said, he wasn’t the sole reason for Hillary’s defeat. I blame:

1- Jim Comey’s hamfisted announcement “SQUIRREL! EMAILS!”
2- The stupidity of the American public
3- Hillary ran a lousy campaign
4- Sanders being a dick

I mostly like his ideas. I just don’t like him. Mostly because he did play a small part in getting Trump elected thanks to his ego. There were other factors, but he sure didn’t help defeat Trump.

I’d say the proper order is 2, 3, 1, 4. But that’s just IMHO.

Uh, last time I checked, she *was *retired with no plans on doing anything else professionally for the rest of her life. I didn’t realize retired politicians appearing on a talk show was frowned upon.

Didn’t read past this because it’s nonsense.

From what I can tell, Hillary said Bernie’s actions in 2016 hurt her, not that his actions, and his actions alone, cost her the election. For all the analysis of what happened in 2016 we’ve done around here, I would suspect Hillary’s done ten times as much. I actually find her thoughts on the whole fucking nightmare to be pretty fascinating. I don’t get all the anger toward her talking about her experience and perspective of the whole thing.

Sanders is an Independent and not a Democrat. Running for the nomination in 2016 and 2020 he is at best a DINO and not even that when he’s not going for the nomination. I support the DNC (in 2016) and any Dem (even Hillary) that has an F him attitude.

I think she’s wrong about him costing her the election but I just throw that on the pile of all the reasons she’s wrong about why she lost. For example, in that interview she also said she lost because the EC is an unfair system but I think it’s clear she didn’t run her election as 51 individual elections. Don’t blame the rules of the game when you don’t follow them and lose. Bernie had nothing to do with that. Let’s be honest, how many voters listened to Sanders and said, “Hmmmm, I think I’ll vote for Stein.” Oh and Stein cost her the election too (according to Clinton).

I’m not the one who said that everyone loathes clinton, but your quote makes it look like I was.

Bolding mine. I’m not personally a fan of hers, but almost 3 million American people liked her ideas more than Trump’s in 2016.

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I disagree with 3 and would characterize it as a fairly standard campaign. And I think there’s a glaring oversight on your list:

5- The Russians.

This is what I just posted in the Pit. She showed her true character. She lost because her facade was thin and it wasn’t hard to turn people against her.

I blame the American voter primarily. It’s not just in 2016; we’ve screwed up a lot of other elections, too. The 2000 and 2004 elections, the elections in 1994 – those were some pretty serious fuck-ups that set the stage for 2016.

“Yah, okay, so maybe they did lie about WMD…but you cain’t quit on a president in the middle of a war! These colors never run! USA! USA! USA!”

I can’t disagree with that. We put these clowns in office, we let them strip away our rights, we let them make a mess of the economy and the environment and too much of the rest of the world. But candidates claim to be the most qualified person for the job and that means they should know what the political landscape is and how to deal with it. Nobody gets an out because the system is a mess, we all have to live with it.

That’s what he did do. Clinton thinks that wasn’t soon enough.

Hillary had a majority of delegates June 7. Sanders endorsed July 12.