To Sanders supporters FROM a Sanders supporter: please stop saying Bernie should've got the nom.

[dionysus]

98. Well, some people as sure as hell being sore winners... i remember when Obama came in and

surprised everyone by soundly defeating hillary. OTT, but if we recall, hillary, stunned by Obama and unwilling to admit the inevitable defeat, stayed in the race long after it was certain she simply couldn't win.

https://www.newsweek.com/hillarys-math-problem-83777

I remember on DU at the time a picture constantly being posted was of two obama supporters who had come to a hillary rally and sat up in the back with a homemade placard that said "it's over, do the math", and the O in the sign was the obama logo. It caused either great laughter or furious anger, depending on who you supported. So it's funny now to see the shoe on the other foot, and this time hillary supporters calling for her opponent to leave the race, when they were staying in to influence the party platform.

Anyhow, i digress. After she lost, a large contingent here all but declared they were holding their votes hostage. They demanded "more time to grieve" before jumping behind our candidate, demanding a ridiculous amount of coddling and preferential treatment. Any analysis of why she lost or talk of what she could or should have done differently was met with the same outrage we see today; it you don't treat us this way or that way hey, it's not our fault, we just simply cannot vote for obama. We can't help it. Let's just say that the PUMA era was well documented and bitterly fought over.

I've never seen anything close to that coming from the bernie crew, so people might want to relax before going on about "sore losers"; because believe me, the shoe was on the other foot not too long ago.

Also, another thing you just didn't see back then was the winning side continue to obsess over her and bitterly tear her apart long after she was defeated and the primary contest was in the books.

So it's quite hypocritical to be slinging around the "sore loser" moniker today, when far worse behavior was exhibited by the same group last time.

While I didn't see much in the way of crybabies around this cycle, i find it rich that the people who virtually wrote the sore losers manual last time are slinging the label around now without a trace of irony.

Finally, while I didn't see a lot of sore losers around this time, no demands for mollycoddling and kid glove treatment, i did see, and continue to see, long after the primary was over, a lot of sore winners.