Only an idiot-- gives an opponent-- ammunition-- to attack him.
Only an idiot-- thinks otherwise-- is just fine.
jw1
It appears that you hold a “certain” definition of qualified –
I, am going off of a dictionary definition — I will attach a link for you and you can contact them if you “feel” that it is in error — Good luck ! —
Apparently, he just said it again…
From Electoral Vote website to-day 9 April 2016
Republican Insiders: It Will Be A Contested Convention
Politico asked its panel of Republican insiders, and 90% think there will be a contested convention. Only 7% think Donald Trump will win on the first ballot.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Is it Jeff Weaver or Tad Devine who is Iago? I forget.
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Tad Devine was on four losing Democratic campaigns for president. Was he cheap to hire? Why would somebody serious hire him???
Spot-on, yes.
jw1
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Actually, in fairness, at one point he tried his hand at being a carpenter. Apparently, he was shitty at it.
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Building things is much harder-- than tearing things down.
He recognizes the limits of his skillset.
jw1
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So, “Fool me once, shame on me — fool me twice, fool me forever?”
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Wait, I thought Bernie Sanders was the insurgent candidate? But he hired someone who worked for Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry? In other words, Mr. Democratic Establishment?
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Sanders’ focus is so narrow. I don’t even want to hear him speak any more because it is the same old same old every time. Delivered by a grumpy old man. He really needs to expand his talking points and provide some enlightenment on how he is going to accomplish his lofty proposals. And there must be other problems both foreign and domestic that he could talk about.
The Sanders Master Plan for turning Hillary’s super delegates to his side and convincing more they should vote for him is really annoying considering he is only very recently a member of the Democratic party so has done little to support down-ballot democrats. The WSJ has a story about these obnoxious Berniebots harassing super delegates:
I do not understand why Bernie doesn’t tell his crazed supporters who seem to have no common sense to cease and desist this sort of harassment. It certainly won’t get him elected.
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POT: Actually, I have a lot of respect for the kettle. It’s a bright, shiny kettle — keeps itself in top shape, sparkling new. And it does a great job of cooking stew. Just as I’m good for heating sauces — we all have our strong points. I would say any good kitchen could use both a pot AND a kettle as sharp as us.
KETTLE: I agree with my friend the pot. And anyone who says it needs washing is just scurrilous. I’ve never met a pot as spiffy and sparkling as this one. Its sauces are truly delicious. Indeed, many of the things I can cook, it can cook just as well, if not better. Pots and kettles belong on the same team!
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I really don’t understand why he moved to a small town in Vermont. According to Wikipedia: “He has described himself as a mediocre college student because the classroom was “boring and irrelevant,” while the community provided his most significant learning.” He has a degree in Social Science and spent some time in graduate school at “The New School for Social Research.”
I would think staying in the big city and doing some sort of community organizing like Obama did would be enough to assuage his boredom. But that would have been hard. Much easier to be the big fish in a small pond.
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Exactly jw1. He has gotten the big head. No humility at all in the Bern. And it isn’t an attractive trait.
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From today’s Wall Street Journal front page:
Senior Sanders strategist Tad Devine said Thursday that, independent of the campaign’s courtship of superdelegates, some Sanders enthusiasts have launched their own “spontaneous” effort to help the cause.
“A lot of people are motivated to make the argument on behalf of Bernie,” Mr. Devine said. “We’re not encouraging them in that; we’re not organizing them,” he said, adding that “we’re not discouraging them except if we hear of someone pushing a little too hard.”
Considering the obnoxious behavior of these people towards Hillary’s super delegates I wonder what he considers "pushing too hard. BernieBots out of control.
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Well, to be clear about Bernie’s original argument — which he’s now walked back — he was saying that Hillary was morally unqualified to be president because a) she is on the take from Big Money and b) she made decisions that hurt people on trade and on the war in Iraq.
So that’s different from saying that someone like Obama wasn’t yet ready to be president because he needed more experience — because lack of experience can be fixed over time, but moral failures are a stain that can’t be washed out.
Hillary criticized Bernie for not “doing his homework” (again, something that can be fixed) but he responded by calling Hillary “unqualified” based on questions of character. Which calls into question not just her judgment, but that of her friends and political allies. Since then he’s walked it back — but really, that’s the sort of thing we should save for our enemies (if then!) and not a contest whose goal is to find a leader around which to unite our own party.
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He has added a couple of words to his impoverished vocabulary.
Right — our side got in one good one-liner, in a campaign that was otherwise a grinding bore and humiliation.
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