As for how well Bernie could do in the general election, this question was answered yesterday when he made his “white people don’t know what it’s like to be living in poverty” comment. We all know he didn’t mean it the way it sounds but imagine the comment being brought up in the general election. That will be the end of the election right there because those resentful white folks who still haven’t gravitated towards Trump or Cruz will do that forthwith.
In the meanwhile, the comment managed to antagonize black voters just as badly.
I don’t believe for a second that Bernie is in the least racist. But he hasn’t had any national or international exposure. He lacks the experience of speaking to anybody but people who are exactly like him.
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The last 24 hours have been disastrous for his campaign. One gaffe after another.
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It’s just lack of experience but the result is bad.
Still, let’s remember that Bernie raised hugely important issues in this campaign and that was very crucial.
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This is the exact statement you’d expect from someone who has exactly zero black people around him in any capacity. He is not an inexperienced politician.
He could bounce back from his gaffes like Biden has, and Biden is a gaffe machine. If HRC said this, she’d be toast.
Meh. The Republicans are running Godwin’s Rule candidates, so who knows?
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White people are not going to like the statement either. The idea that whites don’t experience poverty will not be popular at this point in time.
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It was an astonishingly stupid remark among other reasons because the word ghetto originally meant the place where the Jews had to live (in Italian cities). And since he’s so proud of being Jewish he might have known that.
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I fear Trump will be president and might make Putin look like an amateur fuck up.
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The comparison with Putin is very apt. Both are vulgar, aggressive, mean, narcissistic and stupid. No wonder they like each other so much.
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Maybe I’m naive but I just don’t see Trump being president. I can see Cruz or Rubio squeaking by. But Trump? I think that if he wins the primary, he will be toast in the national election. (Which is why I want him to win the primary!)
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Same here. Trump will be demolished in the general election. When he starts talking about things like healthcare, etc , he shows himself to be laughably incompetent.
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You can see more of the Bern-and-Hil show this evening. They’re appearing in a Democratic town hall at 6 pm eastern time on Fox News.
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Oh, that’s right! I really wanted to see that one. Thank you for the reminder.
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OT:
More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump
I want to vote so Donald Trump won’t win,” said Ms. Villegas, 32, one of several hundred legal residents, mostly Mexicans, who crowded one recent Saturday into a Denver union hall. Volunteers helped them fill out applications for citizenship, which this year are taking about five months for federal officials to approve. “He doesn’t like us,” she said….
Among 8.8 million legal residents eligible to naturalize, about 2.7 million are Mexicans, the largest national group, federal figures show. But after decades of low naturalization rates, only 36 percent of eligible Mexicans have become citizens, while 68 percent of all other immigrants have done so, according to the Pew Research Center.
For those of you who don’t know: Naturalization is expensive and a pain in the ass. Also 1/3 native born Americans would flunk the naturalization test
85 percent could not define “the rule of law.”
75 percent did not know function of the judicial branch.
71 percent were unable to identify the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.”
63 percent could not name one of their state’s Senators.
62 percent did not know the name the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
62 percent could not identify the Governor of their state.
57 percent could not define an “amendment.”
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God, citizens are so bad at civics. Every year, I discover that students are not even marginally aware that the president does not represent the legislative or the judiciary branch.
Hell, I keep shocking them with the news that ours is a state university.
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“Hell, I keep shocking them with the news that ours is a state university.”
I’m sure that news would shock a lot of people, starting with the governor…..
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Hell, I keep shocking them with the news that ours is a state university.
Surely that figured into many of their decisions to attend an in state public university? They can hardly fail to notice that in-state tuition is a third of out of state tuition and that private school tuition is even more expensive to start, assuming they 1)are taking out loans and 2)don’t qualify for tons of scholarships.
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There’s a lot of selective vision here. People know our tuition is much cheaper than anywhere else in the state. But they don’t connect that with it being a public university. In short, it’s a case of “get the government out of my medicare.”
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