HuffPo: Sanders Fans Think He'll Lose SC Because of Bill Clinton

[ucrdem]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA -- On the eve of South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke in a mostly empty gymnasium at the historically black Claflin University in Orangeburg. It was an unusual sight for those accustomed to massive rallies for Sanders packed with thousands upon thousands of screaming supporters.

Sanders, as candidates tend to do, spun the appearance as an auditorium-half-full, rather than half-empty, moment.

“When we first came here, we knew very few people,” he said. “But in the last nine months, we have come a very long way, and that’s because of your support.”

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“All of our parents grew up with President Clinton,” Bradley said. “We don’t really know (the Clintons) the way they know them, we just know what we hear on social media.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-south-carolina-bill-clinton_us_56d1d0b8e4b0871f60eb9d9e
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moral: you can buy a tweet but you can't buy truth.

[zappaman]

3. You got to post this everywhere on DU today.

No agenda with you is there?

[PonyUp]

4. And you don't have an agenda here?

back atcha!

[zappaman]

6. Yes, my agenda is calling out RW nonsense.

You?

949 posts in 3 weeks and 949 all anti-Clinton.
Nope, no agenda there.

[zappaman]

16. Looks like your buddy left the building.

[vdogg]

2. Funny how a Sanders loss

Is everyone else's fault but Sanders.

[ucrdem]

7. Yep.

Evil BillBarackHillary stole that slam-dunk victory from Bernie

[RobertEarl]

17. Slam dunk?

It was never a slam dunk for Bernie.

See, your totally false and completely made up statement is why some of us view pro-Hillary posters with a very suspicious eye. I mean, c'mon, do you really have to utter such false claims?

[NurseJackie]

12. Thank you! (Apparently that needed to be said.)

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. So Hillary Clinton can only win because she is Bill Clinton's wife?

There is a word for that.

[ucrdem]

8. Schandefreude?

I'd like to think we're above that here

[Agnosticsherbet]

9. Wrong answer, of course.

[ucrdem]

10. AmericanCrossroads, perhaps?

I know, that's really two words, but that's how Karl Rove spells it.

[Agnosticsherbet]

11. Come on, saying a strong woman can succeed without her husband?

Is what?

[ucrdem]

13. Okay I give up.

Honestly, I have no clue what word you're thinking of, sorry.

[ucrdem]

14. Okay my best guess is that you're thinking of sexism?

That follows from your original comment, which I might have misread, sorry if that's the case.

Anyway, I'd agree. It sounds like a pre-emptive "she only won because she's Bill's wife" argument, which I expect we'll be hearing shortly. In any case thanks for the comment.

[Agnosticsherbet]

15. I will take my bow...

And bow out.

Late on some other thread.