Sanders campaign cool to O’Malley’s more aggressive approach to forcing more debates.WaPo

[99th_Monkey]

5. It wouldn't help We the People to elect Hillary Clinton, instead of Bernie.

I get that O'Malley's perhaps got the most to lose, with so few debates,
but this hurts Bernie too. I'm on record with posts and OPs here applauding
O'Malley for his outspokenness on the debate issue. I actually think
-- short of totally going outside the DNC -- O'Malley and Sanders should
do a joint presser on this issue, to publicly shame DWS into releasing
them from the sorry-ass exclusionary rule that she put in place.

But what would be gained by a debate between only Bernie and O'Malley?
They agree pretty much on most issues, and the M$M would probably
relegate it to minimal coverage at best. It simply wouldn't be much of
a debate without Hillary involved, who's got huge differences in issues
with both Bernie and Martin.

The cost/benefit tradeoffs here, in the over-all, for We the People, to
me suggests Bernie & O'Malley should do EVERYTHING (just short of
having separate debates) they can together to make a very loud public
case for dropping the exclusionary rule.