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First Quote From Donald Trump In A New NBC Interview Is From Bernie Sanders (Original Post) onehandle May 2016 OP
I agree brucefan May 2016 #1
I believe Mr. Sanders has overstayed his welcome visiting/ using the Democratic Party. FarPoint May 2016 #29
believe 25 years of third way policy has done enough damage. timmymoff May 2016 #37
Have big corporations and Wall Street overstayed their welcome and use of the Democratic Party? imagine2015 May 2016 #43
That's not your fucking call pal. He'll get out when he ThePhilosopher04 May 2016 #46
He plans to remain a Democrat after the election. JonLeibowitz May 2016 #76
Does one mean other than ones candidate's weakness? longship May 2016 #2
Thanks Sanders. Time to drop out now Senator Sanders. hrmjustin May 2016 #3
Do I need to say how Hillary sided with McCain over Obama, McCain used HRC's attacks against him? TheBlackAdder May 2016 #70
She needs to resign MsFlorida May 2016 #4
Her family: NewImproved Deal May 2016 #66
If she did'nt have so much baggage they would'nt have points of contention . TheFarS1de May 2016 #5
.+1 840high May 2016 #11
Yep, they should get used to it. This is just a taste. vintx May 2016 #13
Agree. Trump has no imagination benny05 May 2016 #15
Nice mcar May 2016 #6
Concede? TrueDemVA May 2016 #7
How would a concession from Bernie make Trump stop attacking Hillary? hellofromreddit May 2016 #8
Bernie is attacking her...he and trump are double teaming her Demsrule86 May 2016 #31
Not even close. Sanders is going after her on policy and after the DNC on corruption. hellofromreddit May 2016 #35
LOL! Rosa Luxemburg May 2016 #36
She's tough she has been vetted. It's math, Enjoy. timmymoff May 2016 #38
A tweet from trump today:I would rather run against Crooked Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders insta8er May 2016 #9
And you believe every word Trump has ever said. CajunBlazer May 2016 #21
Eh where did I say that? insta8er May 2016 #30
You didn't, but.... CajunBlazer May 2016 #48
So now you are saying I'm gullible? Who the are you? Or better yet who do you insta8er May 2016 #49
I am the one who thinks someone is gullible if they believe one word Trump says CajunBlazer May 2016 #54
Coming from a Clinton cheerleader, talking about gullible.. insta8er May 2016 #55
Btw I don't have to believe anything he says, but you would like to try to make that insta8er May 2016 #56
Oh never mind, you are one of those "I got more posts" then you insta8er May 2016 #50
Nope, I don't think that was me CajunBlazer May 2016 #53
Bernie needs 612 of the remaining 933 pledged delegates LuvLoogie May 2016 #10
He needs a ficking miracle CajunBlazer May 2016 #18
Why why Demsrule86 May 2016 #32
You ain't got nothing on me, I know of a person who ambushed the Pope in a hotel lobby CajunBlazer May 2016 #45
Seriously? AgingAmerican May 2016 #59
Apparently you haven't read the article you linked CajunBlazer May 2016 #62
It's a petty non issue AgingAmerican May 2016 #63
A non issue CajunBlazer May 2016 #67
Whatever keeps you up nights... AgingAmerican May 2016 #68
Wrong. Biden has it right. vintx May 2016 #12
It's over dude CajunBlazer May 2016 #19
While yours is a scintillating argument, I think I'll stick with Biden. nt vintx May 2016 #25
Mine is the only argument that counts dude CajunBlazer May 2016 #26
An oly argument? tonedevil May 2016 #69
I drink only one glass of wine each weekend CajunBlazer May 2016 #72
I really only wrote that... tonedevil May 2016 #73
Sorry, you didn't get me "wound up" CajunBlazer May 2016 #74
You told me your... tonedevil May 2016 #75
Maybe Sanders can be Trump's running mate KingFlorez May 2016 #14
Need another beer? benny05 May 2016 #16
No thank you, I don't drink KingFlorez May 2016 #17
Not even TPP Kool-aid? AgingAmerican May 2016 #23
anti trade? Or anti free trade that destroys american wages. timmymoff May 2016 #39
Yep, "free" trade is a total con job eggman67 May 2016 #41
Plus Trump seems to have a man crush on Bernie. eom MoonRiver May 2016 #40
Time for Clinton to drop basselope May 2016 #20
Awwww, poor Hillarite babies... AgingAmerican May 2016 #22
Don't pity us, we didn't back the beaten candidate CajunBlazer May 2016 #27
Then why the constant state of panic? AgingAmerican May 2016 #28
Hillary supporters Demsrule86 May 2016 #33
Dangerous and unqualified...sure sounds like every other Republican for decades TheKentuckian May 2016 #42
I'm glad you know the psyche of millions and millions of people Armstead May 2016 #44
There is nothing wrong with that CajunBlazer May 2016 #52
Oh please, there is nothing Bernie could say that Trump doesn't already know concerning the Clintons NorthCarolina May 2016 #24
wehhhh frylock May 2016 #34
It's time for Hillary to concede pinebox May 2016 #47
Here ya go Joe the Revelator May 2016 #51
If Trump attacked Bernie with Hillary comments would you call bjo59 May 2016 #57
I thought Clinton was a fighter TM99 May 2016 #58
Feel The Bern! 6chars May 2016 #60
Posts like this crack me up rufus dog May 2016 #61
What words were those? pat_k May 2016 #64
And in 2008, John McCain attacked Barack Obama using Hillary Clinton's words Jim Lane May 2016 #65
No, no. He's vying for the Ralph Nader Egotism above Public Service award! Bill USA May 2016 #71
Rediculous. Do you hold politicians responsible for eachother's actions? Of course not. Hillary haikugal May 2016 #77
Yeah, blame Bernie. I am sure Trump is perfectly capable of coming up with zingers. dinkytron May 2016 #78

FarPoint

(12,366 posts)
29. I believe Mr. Sanders has overstayed his welcome visiting/ using the Democratic Party.
Wed May 4, 2016, 08:40 PM
May 2016

"Guards, show the squatter to the nearest exit please."

 

timmymoff

(1,947 posts)
37. believe 25 years of third way policy has done enough damage.
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:09 PM
May 2016

Please continue on Senator Sanders. She is supposed to be tough and vetted, so stop with the poutrage.

TheBlackAdder

(28,194 posts)
70. Do I need to say how Hillary sided with McCain over Obama, McCain used HRC's attacks against him?
Thu May 5, 2016, 04:47 PM
May 2016

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This is just another shitty OP that ignores history.


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TheFarS1de

(1,017 posts)
5. If she did'nt have so much baggage they would'nt have points of contention .
Wed May 4, 2016, 07:06 PM
May 2016

Get used to her negatives being attacked , as this will happen all the way to the voting box . Time for Clinton to step aside ....if she cares about the actual outcome and not just her own personal ambitions .

TrueDemVA

(250 posts)
7. Concede?
Wed May 4, 2016, 07:11 PM
May 2016

Come on, now. Do you think only Bernie knows how much baggage Hillary brings with her. This is hilarious.

Oh no, Hillary's secret record was unveiled during a primary. She has an awful record and provides so much material for the othe party and the worst part, it's her own doing.

Demsrule86

(68,565 posts)
31. Bernie is attacking her...he and trump are double teaming her
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:57 PM
May 2016

disgusting...I really dislike Bernie Sanders now...I did not used to...I voted for him in Ohio...ah well at least he lost. He could never win Ohio.

 

insta8er

(960 posts)
9. A tweet from trump today:I would rather run against Crooked Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders
Wed May 4, 2016, 07:23 PM
May 2016

And that will happen because the books are cooked against Bernie!

While we are quoting that douchebag, why not include this one.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/727796025247846400

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
48. You didn't, but....
Thu May 5, 2016, 12:31 AM
May 2016

... I always figured that anyone who believes one word coming out of Trump's mouth is gullible enough to believe anything that he might say.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
54. I am the one who thinks someone is gullible if they believe one word Trump says
Thu May 5, 2016, 12:45 AM
May 2016

and I think I have a lot of company in that regard.

 

insta8er

(960 posts)
56. Btw I don't have to believe anything he says, but you would like to try to make that
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:06 AM
May 2016

That Point although you already said that I never said that...nice approach. You should try to find a gig at a circus. You'll be great as a clown.

 

insta8er

(960 posts)
50. Oh never mind, you are one of those "I got more posts" then you
Thu May 5, 2016, 12:35 AM
May 2016

Therefore I feign intellectual superiority. Never mind, continue on living in dreamland. Ignorance must be bliss.

LuvLoogie

(7,003 posts)
10. Bernie needs 612 of the remaining 933 pledged delegates
Wed May 4, 2016, 07:34 PM
May 2016

in order to get to 2026 pledged delegates. That's 50%plus 1.

Here is what he needs frome here on out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1895203

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
59. Seriously?
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:19 AM
May 2016
Sanders was with his wife, Jane, who said Pope Francis was joined by Argentine Bishop and Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo. A spokesman for the Vatican confirmed the meeting and said they spoke about foreign policy and climate change before the pontiff headed to the Greek island of Lesbos to see a refugee camp.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-met-pope-francis/story?id=38444250

Can't believe you are still sore about that foolish nonsense.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
62. Apparently you haven't read the article you linked
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:10 AM
May 2016

The "meeting" didn't make a big impression on the Pope:

Even the article you linked indicated:

Pope Francis downplayed the meeting, saying he saw Sanders outside Santa Marta, his residence, and they exchanged hellos.

"When I came out he was there, he was staying at Santa Marta and knew at what time I would be leaving. I greeted him and his wife, a handshake and nothing more. It’s called courtesy," the pope said while returning to Italy from his trip to Lesbos. "If someone thinks that greeting someone is meddling in politics it's time to look for a psychiatrist."


From a much more detailed report from the New York Times:

Aware that his every statement is parsed for deeper meaning, Francis said he was simply being polite, not political.

“I shook his hand and nothing more,” he said. “If someone thinks that greeting someone means getting involved in politics,” he added, laughing, “I recommend that he find a psychiatrist!”


New York Times article on the meeting

Anyone who believes that 5 minute chat in the middle of a hotel lobby consisting of little more a hello and a handshake is a serious meeting also believes in leprechauns and unicorns, but then again....

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
67. A non issue
Thu May 5, 2016, 10:15 AM
May 2016
I remember the excitement on DG-P when Bernie announced that he had been invited to Vatican. Now it's a non issue. Good one.
 

vintx

(1,748 posts)
12. Wrong. Biden has it right.
Wed May 4, 2016, 08:01 PM
May 2016
Joe Biden understands something about the Democratic Party and its future that his fellow partisans would do well to consider. “I don’t think any Democrat’s ever won saying, ‘We can’t think that big—we ought to really downsize here because it’s not realistic,’” the vice president told The New York Times in April. “C’mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I’m not part of the party that says, ‘Well, we can’t do it.’” Mocking Hillary Clinton’s criticism of Bernie Sanders for proposing bold reforms, Biden dismissed the politics of lowered expectations. “I like the idea of saying, ‘We can do much more,’ because we can,” he declared, leading the Times to observe that, while Biden wasn’t making an endorsement, “He’ll take Mr. Sanders’s aspirational approach over Mrs. Clinton’s caution any day.”

Unwittingly or not, Biden made an even better case than Sanders has for taking his insurgent campaign all the way to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. If the party is going to run in 2016 on a “do much more” agenda—as opposed to triangulating around the center—the Vermont senator’s supporters and like-minded Democrats, including Clinton’s progressive backers, will have to force the issue. Taking the Sanders insurgency to the convention is the paramount vehicle for placing demands that are ideological and, as Biden’s comments suggest, also strategic. That’s one reason why Sanders promised in a statement on April 26 to go to the convention with “as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform”—despite the fact that Clinton’s delegate advantage now all but guarantees that she will win the nomination.

(More at link)

http://www.thenation.com/article/bernies-philadelphia-challenge/
 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
69. An oly argument?
Thu May 5, 2016, 04:46 PM
May 2016

Is that when you are arguing after you have been drinking copious amounts of Olympia Beer? With that in mind the content of your comments is much more understandable.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
72. I drink only one glass of wine each weekend
Thu May 5, 2016, 06:35 PM
May 2016

In that was written on a weekday. I would have thought a person as smart as you would have been able to understood from context that the word should have been "only", but guess I was wrong in my assumptions about your abilities. (Corrected just for you.)

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
74. Sorry, you didn't get me "wound up"
Thu May 5, 2016, 07:46 PM
May 2016

I love these kinds of discussion - and winning them. It keeps the mind sharp and gives me a lot of pleasure.

 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
75. You told me your...
Thu May 5, 2016, 08:05 PM
May 2016

drinking habits, took a dig at my not understanding you made a typo(FWIW I did recognize your mistake), and now you are breaking your arm patting yourself on the back over your "victory". I've seen folks get far more wound up than you, but you've been fun so far.

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
14. Maybe Sanders can be Trump's running mate
Wed May 4, 2016, 08:02 PM
May 2016

Both of them are anti-trade, so it could work out between them.

 

timmymoff

(1,947 posts)
39. anti trade? Or anti free trade that destroys american wages.
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:13 PM
May 2016

Trump actually profits from it, so in reality, you say little and know even less. Which Hillary is running this week?

eggman67

(837 posts)
41. Yep, "free" trade is a total con job
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:26 PM
May 2016

Screwing the working people of this country since the corporatist takeover of both parties.

Demsrule86

(68,565 posts)
33. Hillary supporters
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:00 PM
May 2016

care about the general and the election...Trump is dangerous and unqualified...I understand that most of you don't care, but that is why we are upset with Sander and some of you. How can you not recognize the threat?

TheKentuckian

(25,026 posts)
42. Dangerous and unqualified...sure sounds like every other Republican for decades
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:43 PM
May 2016

I don't get the special fear and upset over the Hammy Yam, there are plenty of them even more crazy and evil.

Hell, Cruz makes him seem like Mike Dukakis or something.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
44. I'm glad you know the psyche of millions and millions of people
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:59 PM
May 2016

I would venture to say that the vast majority of people who support Sanders know how awful Trump is, and when push comes to shove will vote for Clinton if they have to.

In the meantime they are fighting to try and avoid having their choice limited to that however,

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
52. There is nothing wrong with that
Thu May 5, 2016, 12:40 AM
May 2016

Hillary fought to the end in 2008 when Obama had a much smaller lead at this point in the nomination process. She won the last 12 contests but still couldn't close the gap. That doesn't bode well for Sanders's chances, but what the hell, nothing wrong with taking a shot.

The only people who bother me are the folks who are only here to support Sanders and care nothing about the Democratic Party or the country for that matter. However, if the process plays out as I think it will, there will be plenty of time to separate the wheat from the chaff after the nomination is won.

 

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
24. Oh please, there is nothing Bernie could say that Trump doesn't already know concerning the Clintons
Wed May 4, 2016, 08:32 PM
May 2016

Give the faux outrage a rest, the sophomoric efforts to discourage and disillusion Bernie supporters is quite trite.

 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
47. It's time for Hillary to concede
Thu May 5, 2016, 12:17 AM
May 2016

and let the guy who crushes Trump in a general win the presidency!

bjo59

(1,166 posts)
57. If Trump attacked Bernie with Hillary comments would you call
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:08 AM
May 2016

for her to drop out of the race? How bizarre.

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
58. I thought Clinton was a fighter
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:09 AM
May 2016

and had been properly vetted.

She withstood 11 hours of Benghazi so she can handle a little Trump right?

What, you think if Sanders leaves, Trump will stop using his or anyone's words to attack her?!

My aren't you precious with your magical thinking!

 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
61. Posts like this crack me up
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:49 AM
May 2016

Hillary is supposed to be battle tested and tough, yet her supporters can't allow her to take any criticism or political heat. It truly boggles the mind.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
65. And in 2008, John McCain attacked Barack Obama using Hillary Clinton's words
Thu May 5, 2016, 03:43 AM
May 2016

Each party would probably prefer to conduct its nomination fight completely in private, but that's not how it works. Candidates for the nomination will, quite reasonably, in addition to touting their own virtues, sometimes attack their opponents. If one of those opponents becomes the nominee, the other party has some material it can use.

Reagan was hit with Bush's "voodoo economics" quotation. Obama was hit with Clinton's "3:00 a.m. phone call" ad. Reagan and Obama both managed to win anyway.

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
77. Rediculous. Do you hold politicians responsible for eachother's actions? Of course not. Hillary
Thu May 5, 2016, 08:08 PM
May 2016

either is or isn't responsible for her own actions.

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