I agree that Sanders isn’t hurting the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has fallen in behind Hillary Clinton and moved on.
What Sanders is hurting is the progressive movement he’s supposedly leading. Once it became clear that Sanders wasn’t going to get the nomination, he should have begun working with the person who was. He should have been making deals with Clinton back when he still had something to offer.
I think he’s got too much integrity to lie like that.
You mean too much ego.
Sanders will be like Jesse Jackson in 1988. He will endorse, with all ofthe enthusiasm of a kid forced to apologize to get out being grounded on a gorgeous summer day. He’ll look like the kid forced to eat his broccoli so he can have ice cream for dessert. He will continue to have an overinflated sense of himself and his ‘movement.’ He will probably insist that he’s consulted on Clinton’s VP choice and pout about the eventually choice, similar to Jackson in 88.
However, Sanders has a lot less leverage than Jackson did in 88. Dukakis needed every single black vote and it was easier to see black voters staying home in 1988 when the two choices were H.W. Bush and Dukakis.
Most of the former Bernie supporters have already come around to Clinton, especially the ones who reliably vote Democratic. The far left/Greens/anarchists are the most fickle of voters, with a 100 question purity test. They’re just not not enough of them located in states that matter to bother with. The Greens are running a useless nobody Jill Stein, who doesn’t have the name recognition of a Nader. Plus, this election isn’t going to be a snoozer like 2000, Trump and Clinton won’t be spending half the debates talking about a social security lock box.
Supposedly it will come next week, possibly Tuesday. It will come, but is not necessary for Hillary. Warren’s enthusiastic campaigning for Hillary will win over most of the Bernie voters and fear of CheetoFace will motivate most of the rest.
If Bernie said there were a few people who were booing, then there were a few people who were booing. He should know. Bernie would have been the best named source CNN could have used.
Instead, CNN quoted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra, the number two House Democrat, Rep Steny Hoyer, and Virginia Rep Gerry Connolly who said they did not hear any booing. Apparently, Becerra, Hoyer, and Connolly are lying, or were not present, when Bernie heard booing.
*House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra, who presided over the meeting, said he never heard any boos during the session, but downplayed the dissent, saying the discussion was “animated.” He said members did focus on the need to unify, and Sanders informed House Democrats that Clinton was announcing her support for his approach on college affordability.
The number two House Democrat, Rep Steny Hoyer, told reporters he was sitting in the front row during the meeting with Sanders and didn’t hear anyone booing.
Virginia Rep Gerry Connolly took issue with some descriptions of the meeting on Twitter, saying, “Bernie was respectfully received by Caucus. Some disagreements, yes, but a friendly venue” and “Sanders was reflective and thoughtful in responses. Expressions of disagreement are NOT booing.”*
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So you choose to ignore my cites of ABC, Politico and Huffington Post, not to mention **DSeid’s **citation of Bernie Sanders himself claiming that some people booed?
When you were a kid, did you ever hear the adults in the next room arguing? And when the adults came out of the room, did they ever say something like, “We weren’t arguing, we were discussing.”
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I must say, it’s absolutely lovely to see you using the correct adjective to describe the Democratic party and its apparatus. Well done, and congratulations!
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??? I quoted DSeid’s citation of Bernie’s statement. Bernie should know if he was boo’d.
The named Democrats who were quoted by CNN seem to either be full of horseshit, or were not present at the time Bernie was boo’d.
Bernie has a vested interest in hearing himself boo’d even if it wasn’t there. He believes he is being persecuted and being boo’d by Democrats plays into his story.
Which does not mean he wasn’t boo’d. It doesn’t mean he didn’t hear himself boo’d. It does however mean that I wouldn’t look at his word as truth without corroboration from others in the room.
I just got my answer. He has conceded and endorsed Hillary in today’s rally.