Reagan talking about “welfare queens” and “strapping young bucks” is not something the press just imagined.
The only thing that surprised me about this is that they waited until the last possible moment to call for it. Maybe they were trying to give the impression that it was a difficult decision.
Nor was his States Rights speech at the town where Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were killed.
Is there any actual video of welfare queens strapping young bucks?
Gotta be. Rule 34.
No, I got your point. You seemed to have missed Fuzzy_wuzzy’s point.
The truth remains that any wrongs by Democrats at their convention will be seized by Republicans as a sign of the apocalypse, and vice versa.
That doesn’t mean that the Democrats should hand the Republicans ammunition. I agree that Bernie’s actions are not good for the party. He’s stepped beyond advocating for more liberal progressive policies to criticizing the Democratic party as corrupt. I agree Bernie should do more to calm his supporters down, to tell them to knock off the obstructionism and get informed as they’re getting involved.
back to Bernie Sanders:
Here are some of his friend and DNC appointee Cornel West’s greatest hits:
[QUOTE=Cornel West]
“Let us not be deceived — Nixon, Bush, Obama, they’re war criminals,”
“(Obama is a) a Rockefeller Republican in Blackface”
“I would say the first black president has become the first n**gerized black president”
“Obama Is A Global George Zimmerman”
[/QUOTE]
I’m no huge Obama fan, but West went too far and is a loony toon.
It also actually looks like a good idea these days – even when we take Robespierre, Bonaparte, etc., into account.
Mike Lofgren: Andrew Sullivan is blind: It’s elitists who helped give rise to America’s neo-fascist movement.
The Bernmeister was on Bill Maher last night. Standing ovation, natch. It will be pretty funny if he actually wins CA.
Bernie’s team is crying foul again. He’s crying “Victim!” so much these days, it’s hard to differentiate between him and a Republican.
On the other hand, Hillary Clinton keeps giving both Bernie Sanders and Republicans ammunition. I’m obviously not a real Bernie Bro but you’d have to be delusional not to acknowledge that the last week has been a brutal one for Hillary.
The difference is, Hillary doesn’t cry “Wah, wah, wah, they’re being mean to me.” She soldiers on. Trump blames mean judges and Mexicans and everyone under the sun for his misfortunes, and then calls people names. Bernie blames everyone in the party who doesn’t fall in line behind him for his lack of votes and delegates. Both seem to be basing their campaigns on victimization, a perceived assault on their nobility.
And I’ve said this before, but I like Bernie. He was my candidate at first. We’re cut from the same cloth when it comes to policy. But enough already, he’s going to start doing more damage to both short-term and long-term prospects. It’s hard to respect a whiner.
I think he could do it. He was already closing in on Hillary before the State Department’s Inspector General report came out, and the release of its findings couldn’t have come at a worse time.
Bernie hasn’t won a diverse state yet and there’s no reason to think he’ll start now when he’s all but mathematically eliminated
Those unfair establishment types are at it again. Bernie wants to oust Barney Sanders from the rules committee and Dannel Malloy from the rules committee because they’re Hillary supporters (duh):
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-dnc-chairs-platform/index.html
I can’t wait to hear Barney’s response. The DNC and Hillary’s campaign will probably try to muzzle him, but I’m not sure he’s the type of guy to give in to that pressure.
You mean Barney Frank and I hope he lays into Sanders. Barney Frank hasn’t liked Bernie since Bernie first became a Representative.
It’s true that Sanders has struggled with African American voters and will probably continue to do so. However, he is increasingly competitive with other minority groups, including Latinos.
Hillary’s dominance on April 26th should have slammed the door shut on Sanders’ chances. However, he didn’t stop campaigning and competing for democratic votes, whereas Hillary pretty much did. That’s a decision might come back to haunt her. It’s even worse when you consider that she’s not dominating Trump in the polls the way that everyone had assumed that she would. And it’s even worse when that email scandal just keeps getting dragged out.
I’ve been as critical of Bernie as anyone, but I think that some of the questions about Hillary’s occasional lapses in judgment are probably fair.
Won’t do any good, though. The Sanders fans will dismiss whatever Frank might say as “the Establishment trying to derail the Revolution,” and Sanders himself has clearly joined the ranks of the Deluded Self-Righteous (of whom Ralph Nader is King).
At times I entertain an It’s a Wonderful Life-style fantasy, in which angel-in-training Eugene Debs takes Bernie by the hand and shows him the post-apocalyptic world created by President Trump–and brings home to him the fact that he is responsible for Trump’s election victory in November 2016.
But the reality, in all likelihood, is that Sanders is so deeply sunken into motivated reasoning and confirmation bias that even his hero Debs couldn’t get through to him.
Doh right…crossed wires. 
ETA: twice, actually; Bernie wants Malloy off the platform committee, not the rules committee.