{"id":2610,"date":"2016-05-25T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:57:06","slug":"bernie-sanders-forgets-which-country-hes-campaigning-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/25\/bernie-sanders-forgets-which-country-hes-campaigning-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Forgets Which Country He&#8217;s Campaigning For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO&#8211; Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made a minor flub today while giving a speech in Santa Fe,\u00a0saying that although he can&#8217;t\u00a0remember which country he&#8217;s running for, he&#8217;ll still do a much better job than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>At a rally in front of over 30,000 supporters,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">the 74 year old Sanders promised to squash Clinton like a grape at the polls in his quest to lead a country that he couldn&#8217;t recall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m having a senior moment,&#8221; Sanders joked with the crowd after\u00a0forgetting where he was. &#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t matter, people. What matters is that you don&#8217;t vote for\u00a0that other girl who&#8217;s married to that other guy who used to be president of, uh, whatever country this is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once the boisterous applause ceased, Sanders drank an entire bottle of tonic water and went on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And lemme tell you, you nameless people,&#8221; he added as he braced himself against the podium, &#8220;that other girl married to that other guy who used to be president of whatever country this is won&#8217;t do whatever it is I&#8217;m gonna be doing for this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As to be expected, Sanders&#8217; verbal embarrassment was immediately pounced upon by rival Hillary Clinton. During\u00a0a fiery speech at the San Diego Zoo, Clinton used Sanders&#8217; gaffe against him by mocking him in front of a green monkey cage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this the guy you want running the most powerful country in the world?&#8221; Clinton asked the monkeys as they had intercourse in front of her. &#8220;I&#8217;ll make sure all monkeys here in the United States of America, whether they be green or brown or black, get transgender rights and stricter gun control laws and more support for Israel. The only thing Mr. Sanders promised you were bananas, toys, and grooming tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back at the Sanders rally, thousands of people showed their support for Sanders by chanting &#8220;I&#8217;d rather not remember come November!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO&#8211; Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made a minor flub today while giving a speech in Santa Fe,\u00a0saying that although he can&#8217;t\u00a0remember which country he&#8217;s running for, he&#8217;ll still do a much better job than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. At a rally in front of over 30,000 supporters,\u00a0the 74 year old Sanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[403,404,48,406,73,1113,405],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democrat","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-monkeys","tag-rally","tag-rated-g","tag-san-diego-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}