Bernie's flagrant hypocrisy. Let's count the ways:

[RBInMaine]

1) Rants against "the establishment" but JOINED "the establishment" because as an Indy he wouldn't have had a snowball's chance in hell. (And has also been in public office himself for decades.)

2) Claims the party that damn well welcomed him in and has done as much for him as any candidate with data support, etc., even after years of bad mouthing the party and having never been in the party, needs to "open its doors." (What a load of steaming bullshit that one is.)

3) Rants about "rigged" this and "rigged" that, but then wanted to "RIG" Nevada when he damn well never won the caucuses and didn't get enough delegates to the convention.

4) Rants about "rigged" elections EXCEPT the elections HE wins under the very same rules and systems.

5) Says the super delegate system is "corrupt" but wants those very same "terrible" super delegates to switch to him even though he will have won fewer states, many fewer votes, and many fewer pledged delegates.

6) Has attended posh summer political retreats with fine accommodations, dinners, etc. himself.

7) Rants about bad millionaires but has made Devine and Weaver millionaires with his $27 a piece campaign donations.

8) Rants about corruption but won't release his own tax returns and is under scrutiny now for possibly having used his influence to help his wife get the bad loan which later led to the ruining of the college in Burlington.


The list probably goes on, but I will leave it for others to add to it.

The moral of the story, Bernie fans, is that your white knight just isn't as white you think.

[panader0]

1. RBI's flagrant hypocrisy:

You sang a different tune in 2008:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=98874&mesg_id=99107

[annavictorious]

7. There's no hypocisy

The OP is about Sanders.The 8 year old post you linked to doesn't say a word about Sanders.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Haha. Bus-ted.

Maybe he's a born-again H-bot.

[annavictorious]

11. Busted for what?

The OP is about what an entitled phony Sanders is.
The 8 year old post that was linked to has nothing to do with Sanders and what an entitled phony he is.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. For being HRC's biggest cheerleader this year.

He had no use for her back then.

Do try to follow along.

[annavictorious]

17. Well he prefers Hillary to Sanders this time around

as do millions of voters, and
it still doesn't change the fact that the OP is about what a phony hypocrite Sanders is.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. ....and the O-Poster as well.

Lol. Whut hoppened?

[Aerows]

41. I would have put that particular person on ignore

but it's entertaining to watch them fail. It's rather spectacular. It has to be on purpose.

[QC]

22. That one's really good, but check this one out

for another DUer's radical change of heart:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6106026&mesg_id=6106553

[panader0]

23. Good Grief! That zero is such a cheerleader now......

[QC]

24. I just posted that in his thread and he denounced me as a sexist!

High comedy!

[Aerows]

42. It's outstanding if they are reaching for

street comedy.

I can't imagine anything better outside of a ren-fest, and I've been to many of them.

[bobbobbins01]

37. Remember, Hillary hired most of Obama's campaign staff.

Maybe that included a few DU accounts.

[CrowCityDem]

2. The taxes are especially funny. You'd think he wants to prove how poor he is.

[pangaia]

3. Oh, go back to bed.

[dchill]

4. "flagrant hypocrisy." = This OP.

[annavictorious]

9. How so?

The OP is about what a phony Sanders is.

[dchill]

14. I presume that you can read, and have read the OP.

The OP implies that his/her candidate has no such issues, when in fact, she does - in spades. THAT is hypocrisy. Not to mention that most of the points are a matter of bad opinion, or outright prevarication.

[TwilightZone]

20. So, you didn't actually read it.

Clinton has done few, if any, of those things.

She certainly hasn't run around for the past two months whining that everything is rigged.

Or ranted against the establishment.

Or callled the SD system corrupt.

Or withheld her tax returns.

What was your point again?

[Fumesucker]

5. Swiftboating, it's not just for Republicans any more

[baldguy]

35. Yes, Hillary has had to deal with it for 30 yrs or more

now from supposed progressives ostensibly in her own party.

[Aerows]

40. here is the life of the party

chiming in.

[beachbumbob]

6. $200 million dollar campaign that loses BIG to Hillary and yet

They blame every one else....wtf..Don't even know how to google each states primary rules...And blames the system is rig....spend $200 million and can't hire competent staff.blames blames..plays victim every chance...stand up a be a man..accept responsibility that you lost by your own incompetence...

Be a man

[99Forever]

10. Good to see the Party Unity boosters hard at work!

This REALLY makes me likely change my mind and vote for that candidate being investigated by the FBI.

[annavictorious]

13. I thought it was great last night on Hardball

when Barney Frank told the story about Sanders asking Frank to appear at a fundraiser for his senate campaign. What a phony hypocrite Sanders is.

[bettyellen]

16. At the very same event? WTF?

[bettyellen]

15. Wasn't he for 11 minimum wage about 18 months ago?

[geek tragedy]

18. Bernie who? nt

[Logical]

21. Classy as usual

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. The campaign is over...We won... I don't see the need to further trash Bernie Sanders.

Let us look to the fine example of Ulysses Grant when he allowed General Lee to keep his horse and sidearm after he surrendered at Appomattox.

[Nonhlanhla]

38. But in this case Lee wants to go on fighting... nt.

[KingFlorez]

26. He's an opportunist

I have no doubt that he will end up writing books and possibly go on paid speaking tours if he decides to not run for re-election to the Senate in 2018.

[Scootaloo]

27. This is what you do with your afternoons?

[Aerows]

33. I know.

That was my thought, as well. Anti-depressants needed on aisle four, STAT.

[NanceGreggs]

28. Well, right off the top ...

"It would be hypocritical of me to run as a Democrat because of the things I have said about the party." - Bernie Sanders

By his own words, Bernie proved himself to be a hypocrite the minute he decided to run on the Dem ticket.

"Mr. Transparency" won't disclose his full and complete tax returns. He also won't discuss anything he did before entering politics in his forties.

Claims he is well-liked by his colleagues - but can't get them to endorse him.

Claims he is an "outsider" - while he has been a politician for decades.

Designates anyone who doesn't support HIM - group, individual, union, organization - as "The Establishment" that must be fought against.

My pet peeve when it comes to Bernie's hypocrisy is his claim that he's brought new young voters to the Party. He hasn't. He's brought out new younger voters to vote for HIM, while telling them how corrupt the Democratic Party is. It was set up as a self-fulfilling prophesy: "If you vote for me and I win, the Democratic Party can be saved by ME. If I lose, it proves that the Democratic Party is a corrupt part of the evil Establishment that can't be trusted."

Bernie's BIGGEST hypocrisy is that he has presented himself throughout as being For The People. Since day one, it's been All About Bernie, while "The People" who don't support him - AAs, PoCs, women, etc. - have been dismissed as "Confederate/red-staters", low-info voters, 1%ers, status-quo adherents, and/or part of the evil Establishment who are conspiring against him.

I will be SOOOOO happy to see this man slink back to Vermont, defeated once and for all.

[Lucinda]

43. +1

[BainsBane]

29. Many, many more

particularly in regard to campaign finance. See my journal for examples.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. K & R

[Warren DeMontague]

31. He CLAIMS to be for the environment, however he was once spotted putting a plastic bottle into the

Glass pickup bin on recycling day!

[Aerows]

32. Have you ever had a positive thought in your life?

Because I assure you, when you look at the world with a more positive view point, it doesn't seem so dark and full of disdain.

[jack_krass]

36. {Yawn}

[surrealAmerican]

39. If hypocrisy bothers you ...

... why would you support a candidate who rails against the influence of corporate money in politics while personally soliciting such funds? ... or one who claims to be for transparency in government, but goes to great lengths to hide her public records?

My candidate is not perfect, but he's better than the alternatives.