Not steroids… on whatever he was taking in Vermont for so long (and I don’t mean pot).
That’s what worries me. Even if Bernie’s people are behaved, there could be trouble coming from outside agitators.
When Roger Stone spoke of Days of Rage at the convention, I didn’t think to ask which convention.
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Wall Street Fat Cats and the Democrat (sic) party couldn’t be bothered trying to make BernieBots look bad. They’re already doing it themselves and once the old man accepts defeat, you’ll all be yesterday’s news.
Are you kitten me right meow? Take a look. Salon is all over the place for pro and con pieces on both Bernie and Hillary on the same page. At least there I get to pick and choose . Here at TPM (and in this HRC echo chamber) it’s now all Hillary all the time. The only time Bernie is mentioned is in a negative light.
Wait, you created your logon 18 hours . Are you one of those paid pro hillary operatives?
A lot of people here were supporters of Bernie, Elizabeth Warren or Biden, with some Hillary supporters.
In the past several weeks, more people have decided to support Hillary, either because they believe she is more likely to accomplish things, or they have become disappointed with Bernie’s campaign, which has increasingly become devoted to attacks on the Democratic Party and personal smears against Hillary.
Wish I had thought of this but it applies here I think:
Protestors"If you see the light at the end of the tunnel make sure it’s not a train "
Uniting the party will be the first test of leadership for whomever wins the Democratic nomination. Hopefully they are up to the task.
Hm… it’s wonderful of Sanders to have given so many young people a taste of the 60’s.
Please keep the Sanders supporters from plying them with alcohol beverages! It will only encourage their raunchy “Trump” style behavior!
“He’s over there.”
“SPLITTER!!!”
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I know. Need to be optimistic. Hope he will turn it around when bubble bursts. His followers will need some way to deal with heartbreak and anger.
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Many (most) of us are Democrats who’ve been active for years. Thus.
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“This is the Best. Candidate. EVERRRRRR.”
There are no words.
THIS. Of course emotions intensify at this stage of any campaigns. That’s a given. It doesn’t follow that therefore this primary cycle is similar to the one in 2008.
What to compare here is not such hard, intense feelings. What fundamentally separates this cycle from eight years ago is that one campaign is more than willing to delegitimize the entire rules and process of the party in the name of “democracy” and to delegitimize the nominee coming out of that process. It’s that his supporters follow the candidate’s lead and plan protest events to delegitimize the nomination.
That’s what separates this cycle from 2008. Technicality aside, we expect conventions to be a prime kick-off opportunity to unify behind the nominee and show it to a larger audience nationwide. And people from inside plan to protest it for full four days. Did that happen in 2008? I don’t remember.
And those protestors’ leader (a professional protestor himself) has put himself in a position where he couldn’t act to discourage such protests without delegitimizing himself, but not discouraging them also delegitimizes him in the eye of his Dem colleagues in the Senate where this guy will go back to. A nearly impossible task – and inevitably lotta double-talk follows. No doubt there will be a lot more zig-zags ahead than 2008.
“We are marching. If you’re planning on coming here with violence in mind, we don’t want you,” he said."
and how, exactly, does he plan to control them? get a bunch of very passionate people together, and some of them will not be able to control themselves, it’s how humans work. go, protest, exercise your 1A rights, but don’t be assholes about it.
This is the moment for Sanders to be a statesman and explain to his supporters how a democracy works. It is time for him to be magnanimous and offer Clinton his full support. Granted his supporters are young and passionate and that is a good thing. But, now they are bent on throwing a tantrum because things didn’t go their way. What is more important than anything is that there is never even a chance of a President Trump. He has a huge group of supporters. If he can work some backroom concessions out of the Clinton campaign, that’s politics, but what he doing now is inciting a disaster. He needs to pack up his ego and work for what is best for the election in November. He came close, but has lost. Will he be a man or a spoiler?
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If you believe that the Democrats are your enemy than your candidate should have run as a Independent and not run within the Democratic Party. He chose to run within the rules of the Democratic Party and then his people revolted when the rules were applied. That’s nothing but a bunch of inexperienced whiners that fell short. Do you want to see your country with Trump, the NO NOTHING BULLY?
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They don’t need any help looking bad.