2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumProfessional Left throws Bernie under bus
Stunned at how fast that was. But knew it was coming.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/bernie_blew_it_he_sold_out_instead_of_confronting_clinton_20151016
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Note: I am not a member of the "professional" Left. Whatever that is.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)All they do is attack Bernie and his supporters.
Instead of building up their candidate, they attack others. They don't care about party unity.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)MuseRider
(34,060 posts)Posters making such *amazing* points. Nice, cool shut down.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Not a shred of nuance in Bernie or Hillary's favor.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)aidbo
(2,328 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)aidbo
(2,328 posts)I hear these people saying hes like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested, Gibbs said. I mean, its crazy.
The press secretary dismissed the professional left in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and weve eliminated the Pentagon. Thats not reality.
Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: They wouldnt be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.
The White House, constantly under fire from expected enemies on the right, has been frustrated by nightly attacks on cable news shows catering to the left, where Obama and top lieutenants like Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have been excoriated for abandoning the public option in healthcare reform; for not moving faster to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay; and for failing, so far, to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)Just assholes using extreme leftism to promote their "career"...
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Nonsense. Bernie's obvious point was to steer the debate back onto the issues and not the salacious MSM navel-gazing on something the FBI is handling. This was not forgiveness, it was redirection.
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)More of this will be coming, I'm sure Bernie didn't really think he was going to get a pass from the left.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)edgineered
(2,101 posts)or at least that's what we're lead to believe, does anyone truly believe that he does not have both a short and long range plan? Think back to the second(?) Obama debate where everyone thought he looked weak. The effect of a performance in an early debate is not as strongly reflected in the voting booths. What many may see as a lackluster effort on his part may be viewed as a failed attempt to assail him with meaningless issues. He will play his hand skillfully and from a position in which he has power.
It is not as if a Senator shows up for work with no idea of what is going to happen that day. The work they're doing is generally for long term projects, not like a mechanic who gets what comes in the door. To discredit him at this point means little.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Bernie won't be as nice in the future.