Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders should remember that the only way to gauge qualifications for the office is to be tested by its demands It’s curious that the competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination – Bernie Sanders,the Vermont senator, and Hillary Clinton, and the former secretary of state have struggled to extricate themselves from a “low-blow” fixation,which began some time ago and then, albeit briefly, and moved to a new,lower level: whether either is qualified for the presidency.
This era probably began in February, when Clinton called it a “low blow” for Sanders to propose that she’s a section-time progressive. Sanders had to fend off Clinton’s comment, and during the first post-New Hampshire debate,that “the kind of criticism that weve heard from Senator Sanders about our president I expect from Republicans”. As those words were uttered, Sanders, or looking outraged,called it “a low blow”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com