Any sign of his tax returns?
Is it just me, or does Sanders looked a lot older than he did 1 year ago?
What he wants is obvious—he wants to be the nominee. Nothing else.
Damn, I can’t wait for the convention to be over. I am so very effing tired of seeing this man and hearing from this man. He won’t leave – yet he still has no intention of following through with his own promise to be honest with us and show us his full tax returns. He won’t endorse – and at this point, I find that a blessing. He wants to be heard. You have been heard, Senator. Can’t wait for us to relegate your ass to the back of the class.
First words from Bernie should be…" I don’t want Donald Trump President"…everything else is secondary…
I have been a Bernie supporter from the beginning, including financially. But now I’m disappointed in him. It’s time to endorse Hillary and campaign for her election.
And here we all thought that Donald J. Trump was the man-child in this race. Looks like we have two man-childs. Hillary is the only sensible adult. And, I, for one, do not put children in the driver’s seat.
“While we’re at it, we may as well transform the entire Democratic Party,”
Fuck you, Bernie…you’re not a Democrat. Go transform the Independent Party.
On a more serious note, Sanders is clearly going to go for broke at the Convention. He will once again have national attention, and he will make blackmailing demands that he knows will put him at odds with the Democrats–who he will then repudiate. He probably would prefer Trump in the White House to Clinton. That is the logic of his increasingly ridiculous campaign, and it is very serious. Never mind that he is clearly a charlatan. He represents an enormous threat to the party: hundreds of thousands, at a minimum, will follow his lead and turn away from the Democrats, in much bigger numbers than Nader. The problem is that Hillary, Obama, etc, by definition cannot criticize him, since that will only confirm his narrative. The one thing that will stop him in his tracks–as well as play to the national thirst for some kind radical move–is Elizabeth Warren.
I have ‘friended’ several relatives recently on FB, after being inactive for a few years.
I commented on the Berniac post of one of them that the elites did not choose Clinton—the voters did. Her response was that massive voter fraud seems to have occurred in several states. She is waiting for the proof.
Maybe it’s time for people who backed Sanders in the primary to make a petition or call his campaign and tell him they want him to suspend and endorse Clinton.
He wants a prime-time speaking slot.
A prime-time speaking slot that lays out His agenda for America, which the Democratic party will adopt in place of their platform.
And he wants the Super-D’s to vote for him instead of The Witch.
And he wants the Regular-D’s to vote for him too.
And all the primaries replaced with caucuses.
And all the caucuses opened to anyone who wants to vote.
And he wants a pony.
And if he doesn’t get all of it, he’s going to take the campaign all the way to Inauguration Day.
And he’ll pout.
And hold his breath.
I say we just let him hold his breath – but we should take him out on the veranda to let him pout, so he won’t ruin our party. Seriously, he needs to be told to go fuck himself … in a genteel but direct way, all the while smiling.
Yeah, how come he got a bye on that?
Ummm…I have read and heard so many people who have backpedalled (now regret) their support for Bernie after having knocked on doors for him, donated to him or voted for him in primaries and caucuses, that I really wonder how many of those 12 million are really left if you took the disappointed ones out…
I just can’t think of a dumber idea for the Democrats to adopt right now than the elimination of Superdelegates. We are looking at the hell the GOP has unleashed on itself because they don’t have Superdelegates and saying, “gee, why don’t we gouge out our eyeballs too? It seems to be working so well for them.” It’s arrogance, it’s stupidity to think Trump could never happen to us. “It”, whatever the “it” is, can always happen to you too.
Is it so impossible to imagine that another Obama-like figure could make a meteoric rise in politics, quickly shutdown the opposition, and a series of awful revelations come to light before the convention? It actually could have happened to us. Remember John Edwards? Superdelegates had no effect at all on Sanders winning or losing the nomination, they have never had any effect on the outcome of the nomination. They are simply there as a failsafe. The fact that Sanders continues to rail against them shows that he has no interest in solutions, only shouting at clouds.
What is it that Bernie wants? Everything, plus he also wants every one of the 47 million who live in poverty to drive a Tesla, fly in business class, and eat filet mignon every night…
Now, seriously…People are understandably getting tired of and cynical about Bernie’s now seemingly interminable “curtain call.” There is no doubt that he did much better than anyone, including himself, thought he would do against Clinton. However, by historical standards, the Clinton vs. Sanders contest was not really that close. Therefore, the incessant talk about what Bernie and his 12 million supporters want, coupled with the interminable dance on the stage, now seems way over the top, even too contrived.
Let’s put up some numbers, very recent ones:
Total votes in 2016 (RCP):
Clinton: 15,805,136 (57%)
Sanders: 12,029,699 (43%)
Difference: Clinton +3,775,437
Total votes in 2008 (Wikipedia [raw totals]):
Obama: 18,107,587 (50%)
Clinton: 18,045,829 (50%)
Difference: Obama +61,758
See what I mean? Sanders loss is quite substantial: by 14% percentage points or by 3.8M votes to Clinton, whereas Obama and Clinton where virtually tied in 2008 percentage-wise, with Obama winning just 0.06M more votes. In terms of “Revolution” the number of people who turned out to vote in Obama vs Clinton was 36million vs 28million in Clinton vs Sander’s “Revolution” – a difference of 8 million! There is not even evidence of a “Revolution” that he keeps talking about.
So, yes, Senator Sanders, you ran a great campaign and did much better than anyone expected, but not really that great in the scheme of things. The perception that someone did much better than they actually did is usually attributed to the “soft bigotry of low expectation”. That’s all.
You did much better than you were supposed to so be pleased, but it’s time to get off the stage!
Bernie Sanders never did learn the art of graciousness. It’s a genuinely nice tool to possess, Senator.
Well, it’s a small step:
Bernie Sanders says that he will vote for Hillary Clinton.
Asked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe whether he will vote for Clinton in November, Sanders responded “Yes.”
The Vermont senator, who has not yet formally ended his 2016 campaign, said that stopping Donald Trump from becoming president must be an overarching goal.
But Sanders also dismissed the idea that he should withdraw from the Democratic race now that Clinton has secured the nomination.
“Why would I want to do that when I want to fight to make sure that we have the best platform that we possibly can, that we win the most delegates that we can?” he said.
Sanders also insisted that his continuing presence in the race is not causing disunity in the Democratic Party.
“You talk about disunity. I talk about involving the American people in the political process,” he said.
Graciousness is not a tool which can be grasped or wielded with a finger pointed in the air, wagging its “bad voter–how could you vote for HER?!” imprecation into the air.
… Hey, great to see the Sander’s “undorsement” It’s a start.