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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: All the sudden sanders wants obamacare saved. [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,210 posts)110. Yep.
Which is why Part D should not be referred to as "Single Payer." It isn't.
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Bernie's support for single-payer was never an ATTACK on the Democratic Party.
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#40
No, it was Bernie. It was also Bernie who refused to concede for a month after he was eliminated.
DanTex
Dec 2016
#74
Sanders also stated that he is willing to work with Trump for a $10 an hour minimum wage.
lapucelle
Dec 2016
#10
You mean like gay marriage and legal recreational pot were just "pipe dreams"?
LiberalLovinLug
Dec 2016
#58
Yep. And it sure doesn't help with Brock and the conservadems calling it freebies and pipe dreams.
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2016
#61
Well, right now, single payer is not an option. Bernie realizes that. Hillary realized that but
boston bean
Dec 2016
#100
Making one out to be a corrupt politiciam for apeaking the truth v pie in the sky
boston bean
Dec 2016
#27
No, you actually fucking try and if you are stopped you relentlessly, stridently, and clearly who
TheKentuckian
Dec 2016
#104
Read what I'm actually saying. It's not the trying I disagree with. It's the dishonest attacks.
kcr
Dec 2016
#105
The discussion was his categorization of her. To be beholden to health insurance companies.
boston bean
Dec 2016
#30
So, Bernie didn't want to tear down such a corrupt system, like many are saying????.. but
boston bean
Dec 2016
#84
No. I was talking about Sanders willingness to accept a $10 an hour minimum wage.
lapucelle
Dec 2016
#32
And yet when Hillary proposed a $12 minimum wage, some people on this board went ballistic
mcar
Dec 2016
#20
I damn sure remember it very well. You do too, you were a host of GD, so if you forgot
bravenak
Dec 2016
#114
So you are saying during the campaign people said 15 or no minimum wage at all?
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2016
#116
Neither Bernie or anyone in his campaign or anyone here said 15 or "nothing"
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2016
#124
I'm going to rec this thread for exposure. See if you can spot the logical fallacy...
PoliticAverse
Dec 2016
#16
The very cogent "I know you are, but what am I?" response from a master logician!
lapucelle
Dec 2016
#21
Is he working for the banks like Barney Frank? Is he working for big health care like Howard Dean?
aikoaiko
Dec 2016
#52
lol, this is just one small example of the divisive dishonesty that was allowed
R B Garr
Dec 2016
#41
It's obvious that Bernie didn't want to weaken Hillary in the fall, and that he and his supporters
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#43
You mean divisive and dishonest like when Chelsea claimed Bernie wants to take away your Medicare?
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2016
#64
Hillary's fight for health care was one of the main reasons I supported her since the 90s...
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2016
#88
Aw, this is more of the divisiveness that Bernie fostered. Defending herself against
R B Garr
Dec 2016
#91
You know perfectly well it was a lie to say Bernie wanted to just get rid of the ACA
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#111
Bernie is in Congress, not the VT legislature and had no role to play w healthcare there
Arazi
Dec 2016
#140
2008, Clinton won the popular vote by most calculations. Bernie never ever had a shot
R B Garr
Dec 2016
#72
Seriously? He couldn't even provide proof of Wall Street execs he would prosecute.
R B Garr
Dec 2016
#78
and he had no idea how he would break up big banks, it was in Dodd Frank he said.. another
boston bean
Dec 2016
#81
I started to reply to your foolishness but I realized my post would be removed.
Jim Lane
Dec 2016
#86
She ONLY won the popular vote because she actively campaigned in Florida and Michigan
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#112
This persistence on maligning her is a bit laughable considering in the real world
R B Garr
Dec 2016
#120
You do keep maligning her, and saying you know what her natural instincts are is
R B Garr
Dec 2016
#123
So True. Sanders has Become Clinton. Schumer co-opted by giving him a role in the Party.
delisen
Dec 2016
#44
very very principled. forget about single payer, because republicans... but those same ones would
boston bean
Dec 2016
#93
He lost WAY before she lost. And would again in a New York minute. No contest.
bravenak
Dec 2016
#126
Let's not rewrite history. Because you're doing a fine job of it yourself, right here.
kcr
Dec 2016
#95
This OP is just more of the same--so much waisted energy. Entering the stalker phase of relationship
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2016
#133