Hillary said she would appoint someone who would overturn CU. Bernie said it would be one of the first decisions of his appointee to the SCOTUS....which is pretty much impossible.

Reading is fundamental.

Between the communism, sexism, racism and anti-Semitic talking points today it's definitely preferable to imply the man is a moron who doesn't know what he's doing based off one tweet which was already clarified.

Take the high road, HC supporters!

because he knew how foolish and uninformed it made him look

You proved the point of the OP.

So popular there were 9,340 results when I googled Bernie + walk back on DU.

So predictable, don't you guys have anything positive to post about your candidate?

Because all of this Brockian shit is backfiring.

Sanders said, "Any Supreme Court nominee of mine will make overturning Citizens United one of their first decisions." No one who has even a rudimentary understanding of how the Supreme Court works would ever say such a thing and he is being rightly criticized for the comment.

Justices have no say or control over the cases that come before them and therefore have absolutely no say in what their first decision will involve. Cases are appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court from the lower courts and, only then, can the justices decide whether to hear the case. No justice goes on the Court and says, "Let's see. What cases do I want to to decide? Ah, yes, I think I'll overrule Citizens United before I do anything else." Sanders' comment may have just been a matter of misspeaking, but it makes him sound clueless about how the Supreme Court gets its cases.

Had Sanders just said, "Any Supreme Court nominee of mine would overturn Citizens United," as Hillary Clinton has said, that would have been fine. But, unless he expects his appointees to recuse themselves from every case that comes before them until a case involving Citizens United is appealed to the Court so that can be one of their first case on the bench, Sanders' insistence that they would overturn Citizens United as their one of their first decisions makes him sound clueless.

Already been clarified, find something else to throw at the wall.

There are ways a court can "encourage" a case to be brought on a topic they want to address.

At any rate, awkard phrasing in a tweet is not going to change anyone's mind about a candidate, and I don't think anyone seriously believes that someone who has been in Congress as long as Sanders has, and who has sat through numerous nomination processes, actually has no understanding about it.

As others have pretty much said, if this is the kind of stuff that the other side has to use as ammunition, they must be desperate.

Try again.

Because it shows how utterly desperate and unhinged the Hillarians are becoming, to
accuse someone with Bernie's congressional experience and years in DC of being "uninformed"
about how SCOTUS works. It's about picking nominations, stupid. end of story.

If that's all you guys have, then by all means, please proceed. I can't wait to hear Bernie's
reply to this bizzare half-baked hit piece.

They have to know how this will look, don't they?

Otherwise it doesn't make any sense. At all.

Sanders supporters would be all over Hillary if her campaign had tweeted this.

that any nominee of his will have CU as a top priority, to over-turn it
at the first opportunity.

Tweets by their very nature are limited to very few words. This is a
Hillarian tempest in a teapot.

some will bite - sad

The problematic phrase is "one of their first decisions", because it is misleading about how the court works. Another over promise.

... but after 8 months of watching his campaign, I'm starting to think it's intentional.

This lame attack is reminiscent of the right wing's attack on President Obama for his comment that he had visited "57 States"...those right wing idiots decided that Obama was so stupid that he didn't know there are only 50 states...a very similar ridiculous and silly attack coming

It's pretty standard campaign hyperbole. This, of course, tells us nothing about what Sanders understands about the SCOTUS