This is the absolute best thing that could have happened to Bernie

(Editors note: I am not offering primary support to any of the current candidates, I will vote for the nominee but none of them get me excited)

In Reality Bernie and MOm should have been doing stuff like this from the jump off. It's been clear since the debate schedule (hell, it has honestly been clear since DWS was put in charge of the DNC) that the DNC was no longer an arm of the party, but an arm of the Clinton machine. It is off putting and disgusting and has been all season.

Now as far as Bernie goes, policies and issues are great and awesome, but after 8 months stump speeches (sadly) get stale. He couldn't/wouldn't attack Clinton, which doesn't get him media airplay, because issues don't drive ratings. We can pretend that isn't reality, but we'd not be practicing honesty with ourselves.

Now Bernie has a boogyman to fight, and one that entrenches him as the anti-establishment choice in an election cycle that has been infatuated with anti-establishment upstarts. Bernie has been trying to be a wonk, and for the vast majority of the voting uninterested, that is boring.

Now people have reason to watch a Saturday debate. They want fireworks. Now the chance lies that they will get them. This lets Bernie start to taking up oxygen again, which is good, because his campaign has gotten stagnant. This is his best last chance to take a crisis and turn it into opportunity.

Are you not entertained?