Bernie Continues To Trash Democrat Party In Effort To Win Them Over

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Via HuffPo

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders cranked up his fight with party leaders on Sunday, backing a challenger to the Democratic National Committee’s chairwoman and accusing the party’s establishment of trying to anoint Hillary Clinton as the nominee for president.

In a series of television interviews, Sanders remained defiant despite what he acknowledged was an uphill fight to overtake front-runner Clinton.

Sanders told ABC’s “This Week” program that Americans should not have to choose between “the lesser of two evils” in the Nov. 8 election.

Sanders said that if he won the White House, he would not reappoint U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chairwoman. He also endorsed law professor Tim Canova, who is challenging the Florida congresswoman in the August Democratic primary.

“Do I think she is the kind of chair that the Democratic Party needs? No, I don’t,” Sanders told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“Frankly, what the Democratic Party is about is running around to rich people’s homes and raising obscene sums of money from wealthy people. What we need to do is to say to working-class people – we are on your side,” he said.

Clinton painted Trump as a risk of the sort voters had not seen before in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired on Sunday.

“I do not want Americans, and, you know, good-thinking Republicans, as well as Democrats and independents, to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy,” she said. “It isn’t.”

Trump has gained ground in opinion polls as Republicans begin to rally around his candidacy. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Sunday showed Trump with a 2-point lead over Clinton, within the margin of error. In early March, Clinton led Trump by 9 points in the same poll.

But Sanders has ignored growing Democratic calls to step aside and repeated his vow to stay in the race until the party’s July 25-28 nominating convention in Philadelphia despite Clinton’s nearly insurmountable lead in pledged convention delegates who will choose the nominee.

He said he wanted to do away with superdelegates - party leaders who are free to support any candidate. Their rush to back Clinton even before votes had been cast amounted to “an anointment process,” Sanders said.

“I don’t want to see the American people voting for the lesser of two evils. I want the American people to be voting for a vision of economic justice, of social justice, of environmental justice, of racial justice,” he said on ABC.

After Sanders’ endorsement of her opponent, Wasserman Schultz said in a statement that she would remain neutral in the Democratic presidential race. (Giiirl lol   )

Democratic worries about party unity were exacerbated by last weekend’s state party convention in Nevada, where unhappy Sanders supporters disrupted the proceedings in a dispute over rules.

That raised fears about possible chaos at the national convention in Philadelphia. But Sanders disputed media reports describing the Nevada incident as violent.

“What happened is people were rude, that’s not good, they were booing, that’s not good, they behaved in some ways that were a little bit boorish, not good, but let’s not talk about that as violence,” he said on ABC.

Sanders said he was not encouraging protests at the Philadelphia convention, “but of course people have the right to peacefully assemble and make their views heard.”

Clinton said in the NBC interview that she would talk to Sanders about his policy demands and take them into account “when he’s ready to talk.

[Redstreak 6,653]

The title

The irony

The lack of self-awareness  

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Yeah she's being anointed because she's the clear winner you sore loser  

Uphill fight is an understatement. It's more like a vertical cliff you have to climb.

"Lesser of two evils". When your supposed colleague calls you a lesser evil  

Trashing the DNC's bias as if that effects primaries and caucuses which are hosted by the state

Belligerently staying in the race. It's fine to stay til the last primary to let people vote but to stay all the way

Why is he implying that violence is only physical? The verbal violence was beyond the pale 

Yeah Bernie people have already made their voices heard through the election. Thanks for ignoring that

Bernie stop before you destroy your legacy  

[brendablethyn 536]

Go Bernie! Give 'em hell

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

5 minutes ago, Redstreak said:

The title

The irony

The lack of self-awareness  

Do you ever make any comments of substance?

Last I checked I'm not running for the presidency nor am I part of the Democratic leadership. I don't need to win him over. He can go  himself for all I care.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Just now, brendablethyn said:

Go Bernie! Give 'em hell

Accurate description of a Trump presidency.

[brendablethyn 536]

Just now, LebaneseDude said:

Accurate description of a Trump presidency.

Until Hillary shows she is listening to Bernie and his voters, he will keep going. 

[Seeka 12,372]

He's very intent on throwing the baby out with the bathwater, is he not?

Or would a better idiom be he was thrown under the bus so he's taking everyone with him?

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

2 minutes ago, Seeka said:

He's very intent on throwing the baby out with the bathwater, is he not?

Or would a better idiom be he was thrown under the bus so he's taking everyone with him?

It's so sad. He's such a sore loser  

I'm totally fine with him staying til the last primary so that people can get to vote. That's a commendable attitude.

Why is he insistent on trashing the Democrat party, Hillary, and anything that is against him while doing so?

Like LOL he knows he can't win but he wants to take everyone down with him.

I cackled when he called Hillary a lesser evil . He continues to trash her while she ignores him.

[Redstreak 6,653]

2 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

Do you ever make any comments of substance?

Last I checked I'm not running for the presidency. I don't need to win him over.

I would if I felt there'd be any point. I have made comments of substance, so have plenty of other people, but then you ignore, twist, misinterpret, and reject any ounce of conversation that isn't a post shoved firmly up Hillary Clinton's ass. So there's really no point. If substance will just be met with a brick wall, why put in the effort?

[Whiskey Mouth 322]

at least he's honest 

[Seeka 12,372]

Just now, LebaneseDude said:

It's so sad. He's such a sore loser  

I'm totally fine with him staying til the last primary so that people can get to vote. That's a commendable attitude.

Why is he insistent on trashing the Democrat party, Hillary, and anything that is against him while doing so?

I kind of feel sorta bad for him.

Then I realize this is a pity party/tantrum thrown on a worldwide scale, then I kind of wish he would go be sad in a little hole by himself.

I think this is totally ruining his chances of being Hillary's VP.

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9 minutes ago, Redstreak said:

I would if I felt there'd be any point. I have made comments of substance, so have plenty of other people, but then you ignore, twist, misinterpret, and reject any ounce of conversation that isn't a post shoved firmly up Hillary Clinton's ass. So there's really no point. If substance will just be met with a brick wall, why put in the effort?

Dinner has been served TBH

Spot on sis, spot on.

[PartySick 172,522]

13 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

After Sanders’ endorsement of her opponent, Wasserman Schultz said in a statement that she would remain neutral in the Democratic presidential race. (Giiirl lol   )

Democratic worries about party unity were exacerbated by last weekend’s state party convention in Nevada, where unhappy Sanders supporters disrupted the proceedings in a dispute over rules.

I'll say it again, bipartisan thinking will be the death of this country.

I'm a bit with Bernie on this one  not sure why he and other Democrats (or non-Trump supporters) are just expected to fall in line or get with the program. You want their votes? Win them. He's well within his right to stay in the race until the very last second regardless of how bleak his chance looks (which is virtually nonexistant at this point...but I still like the idea that some of him will rub off on Hillary). Besides, come November people will make the "right" choice. There's nothing to worry about.

Spoiler

"Right" as in left.

He really should've condemned the violence though. I can't at him shrugging it off like it's nothing

I so wish he would've ran as an Independent and that people didn't consider Democrats and Republicans to be the only electable people. People take their party labels way too seriously. Your morals, what you stand for, that should define you. Not what color you vote for...*sigh* oh well. That's a fantasy land and the reality is harsh and ridiculous. Still voting blue in November. I'll be damned if I'm going to be part of what helps Trump get into one of the most powerful positions in the world and as it stands, Hillary is our only shot at that.

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I just want this to end already tbh  

I kinda feel sorry for him because he's still so into it but the reality is different from what he keeps saying. 

Good for him trashing that party and its leaders though. This election keeps pushing me away from calling myself a Democrat. I'm a happy independent