Clinton Isn’t Qualified to be President?

Rick Klein: “This year’s Democratic primary race was a slow-developing affair, a friendly contest between three, and then two, candidates with enough mutual respect to not even register on the campaign Richter scale that’s been recalibrated by the Republican candidates just about every week. That has now changed, formally and officially, and all it took was one day of campaigning in the run-up to New York.”

“‘I don’t believe that she is qualified’ to be president, Bernie Sanders declared, ostensibly responding to a similar charge leveled by Hillary Clinton at Sanders. Clinton has said no such thing, and how careful she’s been in not saying it suggests that she has strongly not wanted to go there. But now that Sanders has gone there, with his campaign enumerating ways he believes her not to be qualified, there’s no going back.”

First Read: “Given the escalation in the Democratic race, Sanders and his campaign have a question to ask themselves: What is their campaign about — the ideas they want to push, or capturing the Democratic nomination? Because right now, they’re not winning on either front.”