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Bernie Sanders Jokes About Kitchen Sink (Original Post) Donkees Feb 2016 OP
As a side note, it's pretty cool to see a resurrected Eastern Airlines. NorthCarolina Feb 2016 #1
Go, Bernie GO!! AzDar Feb 2016 #2
That was great, thanks! appalachiablue Feb 2016 #3
Okay could someone explain to me about the Kitchen sink joke? yuiyoshida Feb 2016 #4
Kitchen sink... Donkees Feb 2016 #5
Thanks but.. yuiyoshida Feb 2016 #6
The candidate running a dirty campaign throws the 'kitchen sink'... Donkees Feb 2016 #7
The term originated from a Clinton aide in 2008. AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #8
Thanks!! yuiyoshida Feb 2016 #9
(助たすけになれて)よかった。 AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #10
 

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
1. As a side note, it's pretty cool to see a resurrected Eastern Airlines.
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 03:30 PM
Feb 2016

The old hockey stick logo is back apparently. Interesting, will have to do some checking to see when they started up operations again.

yuiyoshida

(41,835 posts)
4. Okay could someone explain to me about the Kitchen sink joke?
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 07:59 PM
Feb 2016

I am not sure whats being referred to. A little help, please

Donkees

(31,449 posts)
5. Kitchen sink...
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:35 PM
Feb 2016
“everything but the kitchen sink” is defined as “everything imaginable.” I define the kitchen-sink strategy as “a plan to accuse an opponent of policy flip-flops; previous bloopers; shady associations; pictures wearing costumes; and all shocks that political flesh is heir to, in hopes of provoking unseemly fury.”

But why the kitchen sink? Why not other heavy but available items like the office desk, the bedroom chifforobe, the bathroom tub? The lexicographer Eric Partridge thought it came from armed-forces slang, used about intense bombardment. He offered a 1948 citation in his unconventional dictionary: “They chucked everything at us except, or including, the kitchen sink.”



So Bernie pretended the sink was landing on him, but it was invisible...so he wasn't hurt by her accusations

yuiyoshida

(41,835 posts)
6. Thanks but..
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:49 PM
Feb 2016

Did Hillary mention the Kitchen sink first or...was this just an expression used by one of Bernie's staff?

Donkees

(31,449 posts)
7. The candidate running a dirty campaign throws the 'kitchen sink'...
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:43 AM
Feb 2016

"kitchen sink" is a popular expression.


"Bernie Sanders is doing best with voters who are looking for a candidate who cares and is honest."

 

AtomicKitten

(46,585 posts)
8. The term originated from a Clinton aide in 2008.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 04:54 PM
Feb 2016
Clinton Campaign Starts 5-Point Attack on Obama
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26clinton.html

After struggling for months to dent Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy, the campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now unleashing what one Clinton aide called a “kitchen sink” fusillade against Mr. Obama, pursuing five lines of attack since Saturday in hopes of stopping his political momentum.

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