Sanders delegates fault Bernie for DNC chaos

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A handful of Bernie Sanders’ delegates are placing part of the blame for Monday night’s revolt on the Vermont senator, saying his campaign did not properly communicate with the legions of politically inexperienced delegates who went into the convention with unrealistic expectations.

The first night of the Democratic National Convention was a raucous scene in which boos overwhelmed speakers at seemingly every mention of Hillary Clinton’s name, creating the image of a party in chaos.

The discord was partially fueled by the leak of a trove of emails showing that the Democratic National Committee actively tried to undermine Sanders during the primary — evidence that vindicated seething Sanders supporters convinced the system was rigged against them.

But it was also the result of some dumbfounded delegates who went into the convention thinking Clinton didn’t have the nomination sewn up, and that there was still a path for Sanders.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/bernie-sanders-delegates-dnc-chaos-226456#ixzz4FqUcDQhR

Maybe if they'd read something other than JPR

[leftofcool]

1. So, now they are blaming Bernie because they protested and booed?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. I know

Guess the poor dears never heard of person responsibility.

[BainsBane]

10. No, that they were supposed to be on board for Hillary

They believed his rhetoric from a month or so ago.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. What did they think would happen when high profile surrogates kept saying..."we're taking this....

all the way to the convention"? Many heard that as a dogwhistle for the kind of behavior we witnessed. I'm just glad it wasn't worse than it was. Booing John Lewis seems to be a pattern for some of these folks. They did it at OWS, and I have a feeling these were the same type of privileged disruptors.

[BainsBane]

11. Exactly.

[Cha]

12. I know.. they believed them. It's hard to cut it off at the drop of a hat.. but they should

know better intrinsically not to boo Civil Rights Heroes.

[stopbush]

15. Many were political naifs. To them, Sanders and Sanders alone

was the only progressive in the race. The sun rose and set with him.

To us on the outside, it looked silly. On the inside, material was being picked out for the new curtains in the Oval Offfice.

[Cha]

16. mitt and co had the same shock in 2012 because

they believed their own poll numbers.. what I understand anyway.

[Tarheel_Dem]

18. You would think they would know better, but you can't buy good manners. n/t

[still_one]

4. Actually Bernie sent email and texts out for his supporters not to disrupt within the

Convention Hall as I understand it

[stopbush]

8. On the day of, after the disruptions had already started.

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Too little, too late.

[Cha]

13. Really.. how do you put that back in bottle so quickly?

[stopbush]

14. Exactly. These were people who truly believed Sanders

would wrest the nomination from Hillary at the convention.

[beachbumbob]

5. Becomes difficult to accept responsibility...so it's always some one else's fault...

Didn't understand each state has their own primary rules.....it's everyone else's fault....it's DNC fault....it's Hillary fault....

Sanders lost...It's everyone else's fault...

[yallerdawg]

6. I agree.

When did he ever ramp 'em down?

[Thinkingabout]

7. Some actions are not acceptable, the DNC Convention is a serious event, it should

Respected as such.

[glennward]

9. Then there is this: Nina Turner said in TV interview that she was not ALLOWED to place Bernie's

name into nomination as she had been told she and Tulsi would do it together. She didn't say directly but inferred that the DNC had not allowed her to do so. BUT she said that the "senator" meaning Bernie had called her and told her very nicely that she would not be allowed to join Tulsi in putting his name forward for the nomination.
I thought it all sounded so strange. The DNC had given Bernie just about everything he wanted for this convention. Why would they deny him this one last gesture? Was it actually the DNC that kept Nina from doing that or Bernie himself? No answer forthcoming but Nina looked crushed in that interview. Had it been the DNC that did that, I think she would have been very vocal about it.

[BobbyDrake]

19. The DNC makes a convenient scapegoat for people who clearly don't have their shit together. nt

[Historic NY]

17. The was a great photo of the hecklers in their glow in the dark shirts...

it showed just how many of them their were. Sad, and then there was Fox Business News a$$holes that let Stein in. Reminder to Democrats put FOX NEWs in a pen where then belong and lock it. She was there selling her shit. Too bad they don't have their own convention,