Just watched Bernie Sanders 6/7 speech

[caquillo]

There was a very telling moment when he said, "Tonight I had a very kind call from President Obama and I look forward to working with him to ensure that we move this country forward." [The emphasis was his, not mine.]

Misogyny, bitterness?



*Edited to remove second half, because it was a separate subject.

[LiberalFighter]

1. I think he wanted to use the White House as a stage for his press statement.

[CrowCityDem]

2. Plus, Hillary had to call him to get her congratulations.

[DURHAM D]

12. This

[displacedtexan]

3. I just posted elsewhere that BS said today that he "congratulated her campaign."

What an expletive of your choice.

[stopbush]

4. It's surreal. It's like Sanders is salivating at the idea that we're getting closer and closer

to the convention, when the super delegates will miraculously switch their support to him from Hillary.

Getting his ass kicked by every measurable standard doesn't seem to phase him. It's like his thinking is, "I'm going to flip Hillary's super delegates. But before I can do that, they first need to identify themselves as supporting her. THEN, I can flip them! It's all going according to plan, ooo-aaah!"

[Thinkingabout]

6. He moved the goal post to the candidate having pledged delegate majority, since Hillary has more

than a majority of pledged delegates then it is impossible for him to receive a majority.

[stopbush]

7. Worse, some of his surrogates have suggested that Hillary needed to hit 2383 counting only

pledged delegates!

That would mean that she needed to win 59% of the pledged delegates.

In other words, if Sanders got 42% of the pledged delegates, it's "Game On!" for a contested convention because "she didn't get enough pledged delegates."

Despicable.

[Cha]

10. Now he's lying about the vote count in California.. like that's going to make a differnce

whether he goes back to Vermont or goes back to Vermont.

[sarae]

11. what did he say about the vote count?

[DURHAM D]

13. that once all the votes are counted

the count will be closer...




So what - he is a loser.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Hopefully after next Tuesday he can move on to working on the GE, we have lots of work ahead and

having everyone working together will be wonderful. Defeating Trump is a goal we should all strive to complete.

[stopbush]

9. I don't trust him. I'd rather he just went back to the Senate and/or took the summer off.

He's a loose cannon who is overly impressed with himself. I can see every kind word he would say about Hillary couched in a mountain of disclaimers.

[Thinkingabout]

14. There is a need to negotiate, if he is unable to negotiate then his ideas will die in the meantime.

[stopbush]

16. I'd say that there's a need to maybe give the appearance of negotiating.

But one has to ask - what other loser has ever felt entitled to dictate terms to the winner, especially when that person lost badly?

I can see a negotiation where Sanders says, "the Dems need to start looking out for the middle class!" where the response is, "yeah, we've been doing that for decades. Next issue." "The Dems need to get serious about climate change!" "Yep, already doing that. Where have you been? Anything else?"

But it sets a very bad precedent to cave in to a person who - at best - achieved a minority of support in the party he couldn't be bothered to join until it was advantageous to his chances.

And I am not convinced that Hillary "needs" all of those Sanders voters to win. She won at least 55% of the primary vote. Of the 45% Sanders won, 85% of them say they'll vote for Hillary. That means that 93% of people who voted in the D primaries WILL vote for Hillary. Does she really need that final 5-7% of BoB Sanders zealots to win? With Trump as her opponent, Rs openly saying they'll vote for Hillary, and Trump facing massive shortfalls in the women and minority votes, does she really need to appease those die-hard Sanders voters? I don't think so.

[texstad79]

17. Spot on!

She already has all the Bernie supporters she will need.

The remainder won't vote for her no matter how much she compromises.

[Cha]

8. Don't you worry about a damn thing burnie.. Hillary's going to be moving this

country FORWARD.

President Is going to be helping Black kids in his retirement and you'll do what you've always done.

[2naSalit]

15. Did he and Jane

ever come with up their taxes for us to see?

The more I see and hear from him he seems more like spiteful old curmudgeon who is also a misogynist.

Where are the taxes he's promised to produce?