What kind of reception is Bernie going to get at the convention? Given he said that he will not

[upaloopa]

accept that Hillary wins the primary with the majority of the pledged delegates and the popular vote?

What source of power is there going to be for him there? Where will his leverage come from if there is any?

Here is what I am thinking Bernie is planning on. Between the end of the primary voting and the convention he and his campaign will try to stir up anger in his supporters by claiming he was cheated out of the nomination and try to get a "1968 Chicago riot" style of demonstration going on outside the convention.

While that is going on outside he will give a speech denouncing the "establishment" and put on a demonstration of moral superiority.

Scenes of Mayor Daily blathering while shouts of "the whole world is watching" must be playing in his head right now only DWS plays the part of Mayor Daily and his supporters do the shouting.

"Bernie alienates his natural allies," then-Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told the Los Angeles Times just months after Sanders first took federal office. "His holier-than-thou attitude — saying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone else — really undercuts his effectiveness."

[GreatGazoo]

1. that is seven weeks away

a lot can happen in 7 weeks

[bravenak]

2. Polite and cool

[grossproffit]

3. Polite golf clap.

[grasswire]

4. you really don't know much about him, do you?

You would have benefited by attending a rally.

[Feathery Scout]

5. The same as Hillary was given...

...because I believe he will follow her gracious pattern and concede and support her.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. You should worry about that full time until then, give yourself something to do.

nt

[Gothmog]

7. It will be interesting to see what happens

I am running to be a Clinton delegate in part because I expect the convention to be messy and want to be there to fight for Clinton

[msongs]

8. he did warn us it would be messy, which will be his doing btw nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. Good grief. You know less than nothing about Chicago, 1968.

Find a book about it or something, ferkrissakes.

In the first place, the mayor's name was Daley. That's D-A-L-E-Y.

In the second place, the "1968 Chicago riot" was investigated by a federal commission and determined to have been a "POLICE RIOT".

That's P-O-L-I-C-E riot.

Here:
>>>A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; a riot that the police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation; an event characterized by widespread police brutality; a mass police action that is violently undertaken against civilians for the purpose of political repression. The term "police riot" was popularized after its use in the Walker Report, which investigated the events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to describe the "unrestrained and indiscriminate" violence that the police "inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no threat."[1] In this sense a police riot refers to rioting carried out by the police (or those acting in a police capacity) rather than a riot carried out by people who may be motivated to a greater or lesser degree by grievances with the police (see the 1981 Toxteth riots or the 1992 Los Angeles Riots for examples of riots over policing rather than police riots).>>> wiki

Let me guess: you're supporting Clinton. What a surprise!

[Surya Gayatri]

10. K & R. Thanks for posting.

[joshcryer]

11. I still think he backs down.

He needs to get away from Weaver.

[Fumesucker]

12. Pelted with rotten vegetables, forced to leave and take his sexist racist supporters with him?

One can hope, yes?

The Democratic party will be much better off without a bunch of young privileged malcontents whose only aim is free stuff.

Leave the thinking to the older, wiser heads who know that this is the best of all possible worlds.