Apology not accepted.
FYI: To overtake, Sanders must win remaining contests by 13. If NY is tie, rises to 15; if Clinton wins by current poll average, to 17.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 13, 2016
We’re to the point where scorched earth campaigning is detrimental. Let’s not blow this next election, people.
So Dr. Paul Song, a surrogate of Senator Sanders, just called the President of the United States, the father of the Affordable Care Act, a corporate Democratic w==== at a major Sanders rally. The transcript leaves little doubt about the people he was talking about, and the President would be at the top of the list, just after Secretary Clinton. This foul comment was greeted with applause by the attendees. It just gets worse and worse. Democrats are now w====s.
The problem, as I see it, is that the Sanders campaign has become so ugly that it is becoming less and less likely that he will be able to erase the damage he has done, or that he will even want to. He is now committed to this type of campaign and will only dig deeper and deeper.
I don’t see a way out for him.
(PS: He would NEVER unite the Democratic Party in the 1% chance of his being the nominee. NEVER!!! He would destroy it.)
(PPS: Hindsight is 20/20. We (the Democratic Party) should never have let him run as a Democrat. I believe that the choice was ours.)
Why? Dude gave a simple, but actual apology. It’s nice to see that for once, and we should encourage them to do that more often. Rejecting them when made is counterproductive.
Tweet was not from Sanders himself, but from his staff. He takes personal responsibility for NOTHING.
distanced himself from the remarks of a surrogate
Bernie Wars, The Force Turns Over, Mutters and Goes Back to Sleep…
We all know the far left thinks we’re Neoliberal, Third-Way, DLC, Democratic whores but we love them anyway, am I right?
His intent is clear. He only wants to damage Hillary Clinton for the general election now. It is clear he does not want Hillary Clinton to win in November. If she were to lose, the blame sits squarely with Sanders and his followers now. The only choice if she loses is to absolutely jettison the entire Sanders agenda from the Democratic party.
Apology not accepted.
As someone who has family members and loved ones who are now able to obtain comprehensive health insurance through closing of pre-existing condition loopholes, expansion of Medicare and finance supplements … Thank You Corporate Whores !!!
Rich white hipsters who can afford to live in Brooklyn and Manhattan may not appreciate what that means, but many disadvantaged people who aren’t as well off do.
I’m glad he resisted the urge to add a whataboutism in his tweet but I don’t think we’re out of the woods on that front just yet.
His staff apologized—more than 14 hours after the remark was made to a crowd of over 25,000 people.
Bernie should have taken Dr. Song to task the moment he took the stage to begin his stump speech.
He only had his staff tweet an apology because he started getting shredded by bad press because of the remark.
He should have also remonstrated the crowd for cheering at the slur.
The “apology” rings hollow.
At least it wasn’t the standard GOP response of “I’m sorry if anyone was offended by my totally appropriate words that you must be a moron to take offense to, you liberal communist”.
Too bad it came the next morning in a tweet and not the very moment he took the stage. He could have told his supporters at that moment that he won’t tolerate that kind of rhetoric. Think about how powerful it would have been if he told that crowd of 27,000 that Paul Song needed to apologize immediately. Once again he didn’t do that.
Uh, no.
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I disagree. Maybe it’s just a gut feeling, but I rather think there are a lot, maybe a majority, of younger liberals out there like me who like Sanders and his agenda and policy positions and would happily vote for him. He is flawed and so is Clinton, but that’s life. Clinging to any rancor between the campaigns would be nothing but foolishness.
I disagree here too. Debate and competition are healthy and the engine of progress. A Dem campaign that appeared to be nothing more than HRC’s partisan coronation would have been waaaaaay worse than one where she gets challenged from the left and is forced to answer to that side of the political spectrum. It would have been boring, flat, lacking in the necessary friction to generate enthusiasm and motivation and would have allowed her to drift off into centrist lala land.
People will get over the in-fighting I think, although I do think some of the Bernie folks will just not vote, because they’ve proven themselves that petulant so far. They were never going to vote for Clinton anyway, so meh, zero sum. They should still be judged for their spite though…fucking douchenozzles. I blame Disney. Team Unicorn thinks they’re the Mighty Ducks and are guaranteed to win in the end.
Bernie and Bernie supporters have said as much. This view is central to the Sanders campaign. Bernie just doesn’t use the word “whore”.
I will NEVER get over the rancor of Sanders and his followers. I will be donating to ANYBODY running against Sanders for his Senate seat.
Much like Trump merely voices what the other candidates dance around for the GOP, Dr. Song merely put a fine point on Bernie’s entire stump speech.