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book_worm

(15,951 posts)
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 09:57 AM Jun 2016

Politico: Sanders would oppose Sherrod Brown as HRC's VP

Politico: “Aides say Sanders thinks that progressives who picked Clinton are cynical, power-chasing chickens — like Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of his most consistent allies in the Senate before endorsing Clinton and campaigning hard for her ahead of the Ohio primary. Sanders is so bitter about it that he’d be ready to nix Brown as an acceptable VP choice, if Clinton ever asked his advice on who’d be a good progressive champion.”

https://politicalwire.com/2016/06/08/sanders-would-oppose-brown-as-clinton-veep/

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Response to book_worm (Original post)

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
12. For me as well, Cha. BS doesn't get to decide anything. He didn't win the majority of Democrats, but
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:58 AM
Jun 2016

rather, the majority of Independents - and still lost.

Losers don't get to dictate anything to winners. He may ask with civility and cordiality, or he can look at the meme you posted as his final answer.

Cha

(305,405 posts)
13. Yeah, he can look @ the meme I posted. lol
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 11:02 AM
Jun 2016

BS will never be civil and true.

If I'm wrong.. then Good.

He can take his ego back to Vermont where he may even be primaried in 2018.. he's pissed a lot of people off.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
3. Connie Schultz posted on her Facebook page this morning that Bernie called
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 09:58 AM
Jun 2016

Sherrod to assure him he never said that.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
5. This politico story is shit-stirring -
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:07 AM
Jun 2016
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/blogs/2016/06/08/politico-bernie-sanders-furious-sherrod-brown/85589252/

UPDATE 9:15 a.m. June 9, 2016

Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, said Bernie Sanders called Brown Wednesday to deny a Politico story that suggested Sanders felt betrayed by Brown and other progressive senators.

On Facebook, Schultz added: "Bernie always gives the best hugs." She said she didn't fault Politico for the story, and said she didn't doubt that some "embittered staffer" made those comments. "I just don't believe he or she speaks for Bernie," she wrote.

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
10. Looks like the angry has turned inward. This is what you get when you rile people up.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:47 AM
Jun 2016

Riled up people rarely - if ever - think with common sense.

Zambero

(9,762 posts)
8. Yes, and Bernie would campaign for Trump if Hillary stoops so low?
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:26 AM
Jun 2016

It sounds like this piece of crapola has now been debunked. And what was the source? Politico? There you go....

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
11. When you rile people up in order to win their support, there are going to be bad side-effects.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:55 AM
Jun 2016

You attract perpetually angry people who make up shiite hoping to "punish" those who have the temerity to support your rival. This is par for the course with the more passionate Sanders supporters who've gone after Hillary Clinton supporters and surrogates in ways that could only make Teapublicans proud.

I suspect more and more of these types of "rumors" will be floated as Bernie finally decides to concede to the winner of the Democratic Party nominee, and it will eventually turn on him for not fighting up to Election Day or to at least run as a third-party candidate. This is the price he'll have to pay for running such a negative campaign against Democrats and the Democratic Party.

And just so you know, this is the Hillary Clinton Group. Behave.

Zambero

(9,762 posts)
16. I support Hillary and party unity
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 12:53 PM
Jun 2016

As such, I should be using the sarcasm smilie when appropriate. As it stands, beyond my reply title, the post itself alluding to this bogus story would hopefully put things in better context. Sorry!

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