In his victory speech, Bernie was nice and gracious towards Hillary. It’s really good to see opponents behave with dignity and not lose face during an electoral contest. I don’t know about you, but I find all this “my opponent is a pussy” and stuff like that to be undignified and disrespectful of the office people are running for. We deserve better than to be exposed to this kind of thing.
Putin, by the way, loves using toilet-level language, and the voters adore him for it. Which tells us all we need to know about those voters. Let’s not be like them and allow ourselves to be treated this way.
P.S. And by the way, even though I support Hillary, I feel no compulsion to say stupid things like it’s not a real victory for Bernie because New Hampshire is close to Vermont or whatever or that something is wrong with him or his supporters. It’s a big victory that testifies to a vigorous, valuable campaign. Only total nutjobs can deny that.
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I don’t know about you, but I find all this “my opponent is a pussy” and stuff like that to be undignified and disrespectful of the office people are running for. We deserve better than to be exposed to this kind of thing.
Every time I hear something like this it reminds me that I’m an adult and not some whiny braggart of a child or the hanger-on to such a person. And then I want to chase the menopausal and the senile off my non-existent lawn. :-p
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I forgot about the andropausals.
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Great comment about the lawn. 🙂 🙂
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Surely you aren’t referring to the two Democratic candidates?
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No, the Democratic candidates are spring chicken in comparison with the Rubiobot who can’t learn a new trick to save his life.
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Well, there are TWO more debates this week — one tomorrow and one Saturday night. We’ll see what shakes out…
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Two more debates? Wow, this is getting intense!
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I wasn’t referring to the candidates. 🙂
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http://forward.com/news/333208/after-bernie-sanders-landslide-in-new-hampshire-team-hillary-plans-fightbac/
“For the Clinton campaign it was a night that made clear that it is time to increase pressure on the Vermont socialist — including a harsher message to Jewish American voters.
“Hillary Clinton has been a very strong friend of Israel and that is something that should not be lost on the American Jewish community,” said Paul Hodes, a former New Hampshire congressman who came to rally for Clinton at her post-primary event. Hodes, who is Jewish and from New Hampshire, told the Forward: “Senator Sanders hasn’t showed himself to be the kind of friend of Israel that Secretary Clinton is.”
I don’t think this’ll work out well.
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Sanders is, of course, the first Jewish candidate to ever win a state primary on a major party ticket.
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American Jews tend to be very anti-Israel. It’s the guilt at play.
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Yes, but she’s in a unique position to know what’s best for Jewish Americans because…reasons.
I wonder if this message from her is really meant for jewish american voters (increasingly secular, don’t give a shit about ethnic purity, starting to not give a shit about Israel) or for the donor class.
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That was a reply to Dreidel, btw.
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The message is aimed at the general election. As for American Jews, as I said, their relationship with Istarl is not one of indifference, it’s one of profound guilt. No politician can change that because it happens on a different plane of existence, so to speak.
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“The message is aimed at the general election.”
Possible, but aiming your message for the general election is a luxury you can only afford if your nomination is a foregone conclusion, which it was a few months ago. She’s still the overwhelming favorite but she’s got a real fight on her hands now.
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I’m afraid that we are all way too fixated on the minutiae of this fight and making it so much easier for some crazed GOP candidate to win. Bernie haters and Hillary haters direct a lot more vitriol at each other than at the actual opponents. And that’s disturbing.
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I think that’s just the dynamic of the primaries. Do you remember how acerbic the primaries in 2008 got? Clinton supporters got so mad they vowed to vote for McCain. That PUMA nonsense, oh god.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_United_Means_Action
“PUMA began as an effort of supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who believed that Clinton should have been the Democratic nominee.[2][3] According to PUMA, “We [were] protesting the 2008 Presidential election because we refuse to support a nominee who was selected by the leadership rather than elected by the voters.”
Come election time, all was forgotten.
In fact, I would say Sanders and Clinton are so much civil to each other than Obama and Clinton were.
“You’re likable enough, Hillary.”
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That’s precisely what worries me. We only won back in 2008 because McCain selected Palin as the running mate. This time, the stakes are much much higher, and I see Democrats piss away a great opportunity. Back in spring, the election was impossible to lose for Democrats. And now it no longer is. And all for what?
Hillary and Bernie are trying to set a good example for their followers but it’s not working. The voters are being unreasonable and unhinged, poisoning the field.
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To add to the above, there was personal animosity between Obama and Clinton (Clinton campaign circulating rumors that he was a secret muslim, Bill Clinton calling him a lightweight like Jesse Jackson who’d fade away later in the primaries, etc).
Compared to that, Clinton and Sanders act like they’re BEST FRIENDS FOREVER! No personal attacks, no mean shit, just debating policy. Which is how it should be.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates has now said that he will vote for Sanders, and is casting shade on Hillary’s record as Bill’s First Lady:
“I think it’s awesome,” Coates said of Sanders’ New Hampshire win. “I think it’s great,” Coates, a vocal critic of Sanders’ opposition to reparations, said.
“I’m very, very concerned about Sen. Clinton’s record,” Coates told host Amy Goodman, noting her husband’s “disgusting” criminal justice policy. “I’m very concerned about where her positions were in the the 1990s,” he said. (Source: Salon.com)
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It’s not like anybody expected anything different from the fellow. I’m a huge fan but he never even pretended to have any affinity for women’s rights. I wish I were more surprised by these sexist statements but I’m not.
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The Democratic race for the black primary vote is now in full swing. Sanders is keeping some very unsavory company (Al Sharpton), and TheNation.com is running an article entitled “Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote”:
http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/
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