Sanders is never going to carry Harlem. He should get his ass upstate – to Poughkeepsie and Utica and Buffalo.
Getting tired of Sanders demanding apologies while never doing so himself.
Whose hearts Hillary won as Senator. The man is really getting ugly. Remember when HIS response to BLM was “ALL lives matter”–then he had to do backflips to try to appease them?
And how about he apologize to the parents of the Sandy Hook children? or the Mexicans pursued by his darling armed Militiamen? or the “victims” of the very crime bill BLM was yelling at Bill about and that Bernie voted for? he really really thinks black people and the majority of Democrats are dumb as rocks.
He’s drunk with false hopes and fantasy power. Can’t wait to see him in the rear mirror.
I agree that there are some parts that he could carry hands down. Why he’s focusing on Kings County (i.e. Brooklyn) is beyond me.
Yes, he’s strange. He might carry the duckhunters upstate, but even then Hillary’s and Obama’s policies have made a pretty big economic difference to some of those places, too.
Someone wrote elsewhere that he has ‘white liberal voters’–in states like WY and AK and VT–the total number of which in the context of the general election is pretty miniscule.
when Senator Sanders apologizes to women for saying"he did not want to answer Trumps remarks about women being punished for getting abortions" “he wanted to talk about serious issues like Millionaires and billionaires” I watched him say that Apologize Senator women’s issues are Human Issues Millionaires and billionaires are not as important as women!
This is getting beyond tiresome.
How about an apology for voting for the law that they were protesting? Or did is your wife too busy to release a statement on that (like your tax returns), too?
I think Sanders is getting bad advice, in other words, making a strategic mistake.
He’s going to have his base of young voters and Clinton haters, but if he truly wants to win the nomination, he’s going to have to appeal to all Democrats, and this is exactly how not to do it.
Most Democrats still appreciate Hillary and Bill’s service and don’t like this type of patronizing attitude from a non-Democrat.
Yes indeed, or maybe lay low for the rest of the day.
He’s already said more than enough today.
Sanders doubling down on the stupid.
Sanders is playing very loose and dishonestly about the 1994 Crime bill which Bill Clinton was rightly calling out these protesters over the dishonest lack of context about the bill. A bill Sanders himself voted for it is worth remembering. And as I pointed out in another thread, did not vote for the bill because of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) nor the assault weapons ban — that’s the popular Sanders supporter rationale and falsehood, but it’s a falsehood nonetheless.
Bernie Sanders, voted for the bill in the House before the VAWA or the assault weapons ban were added into it. The provision which his supporters use to try and excuse Sanders was added in the Senate when Sanders was, at that time in House. Sanders voted for the earlier House Conference version.
In October 1993, Jack Brooks of Texas introduced the original Violent Crime and Control Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a bill which was originally written by Senator Joe Biden. This version didn’t include an assault weapons ban nor protections for women. Both of which Sanders and his apologists have tried to play off as why he voted for the Crime bill.
As others have noted in other threads (and some in this one) the bulk of the black and minority communities (including Congress members) pushed for and wanted this bill. Those who supported and voted for it were trying to address a wildfire of crime and violence that was disproportionally impacting black communities and killing black people. The bill had longer-term, unintended consequences which the Clinton’s (even though Hillary didn’t actually vote on the bill), most of the supporters of the legislation, as well as Sanders recognize and want to make changes to the law and policies to help mitigate those unintended consequences.
Well he really went all over Brooklyn Friday, and I think putting the campaign office in Gowanus was a good idea.
Also, the South Bronx was a great choice for a rally, as the crowd numbers showed. I’m not sure how many people are aware, but in the middle of New York City’s apparent affluence, the Bronx is the most economically depressed county in the State. It’s better for Sanders too as it’s more mixed race than Harlem.
But he needs to get upstate. That’s the really fertile ground for him. And he shouldn’t be doing just a pass through like both Buffalo and Utica in one day. Harlem’s a lost cause for him and he’s spent enough time in New York for now. He can come back for the big rally in NYU land next week.
We’re on different sides of this, I know. But the horse race aspect is fascinating.
At this point I’ve read enough by people who’ve followed his career to know that he’s really just an angry, rigid, unrealistic egotist and the working people of this country need a better, savvier advocate than that. The sooner he concedes and leaves the stage, the better off they’ll be.
Thank you. I think yours is the comment of the month. Bernie’s campaign seems to utterly fail to understand that he has to expand his appeal. If anything he is contracting it now. He must have some truly awful staffers/advisers since they fail to see the big picture. Just like they fail to understand that primaries are about winning delegates, not states. Thus Bernie’s false mantra “We have momentum!”.
Bernie should apologize for calling into question the qualifications of the person who, in all likelihood, is going to be the nominee of his party. Oh wait, that’s right, he’s not a Democrat.
It occurs to me that this is probably a good thing because Sanders’ increasingly wild, ridiculous, dishonest, and stupid attacks likely mean the internal polling looks really, really bad. This is what a losing campaign does in the last throes of the election. They keep throwing increasingly wilder and wilder punches in a desperate attempt to land a KO. When you’re winning, when you know you’ve got this, you do things like giggle and say, “that’s silly” when your opponent attacks your qualifications. You don’t punch down.
All you have to do is look at 538’s predictions for the next four states: New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and California. They’ve got Clinton in the 90s for all of them. Ouch.
Hey, Bernie, how about apologizing for your hypocrisy? In 2006, you took $10,000 from HILLPAC for your first Senate campaign and now you’re screaming that Hillary’s donations from Wall Street employees are corrupt. Why was that campaign cash good then but bad now?
I was wondering about that yesterday. Then again, the math has been quite clear for quite some time, and given that, you gotta wonder what the fuck they are thinking. I thought if they were rational they would think about how his campaign would have an impact on his remaining career in the Senate and his legacy after that – the latter of which depends a lot on how he could positively influence the Democratic platform and how Democrats see him as a result. His recent kabuki theater will do him no good – he is actively damaging himself in desperation as well as the presumptive nominee and the party.
Ultimately he has nobody but himself to blame, but I can’t help thinking about his advisors – and the fact his campaign is a lucrative business for them and it is their interest to push their guy to keep marching on.