The mood is so bad at the U.S. Capitol that.....

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86. Well, full disclosure here, I'm no Bernie fan, and I've been open about that here.

I don’t like him either so I’m not going to find a Hillary statement like that to be off-putting.

And I remain firmly convinced that his foot-dragging hurt her election prospects. I won’t - and CAN’T - ever forget how she clinched the nomination in June of 2016, and he made her wait for a gesture of support til AFTER nomination night (when she gave over a big chunk of HER nomination speech to reaching out to Bernie and thanking him and complimenting him and acknowledging him as a bigtime player - while he sat and pouted on the sidelines and didn’t even wave or smile at her or give her a thumbs-up or ANY return-acknowledgment on HER big night). And then he gave her a mere 16 days’ worth of campaigning between end-of-convention to Election Week in November. There were MANY more than 16 days between those two dates - and his slow and half-hearted response only validated the disappointment we heard openly from many of his supporters - who otherwise might have gotten behind her more enthusiastically if he’d been more enthusiastic about leading them there.

Let’s just say if I HAD been a Bernie fan at that time, that glaring and childish display of poor sportsmanship and refusal to unify would have deep-sixed it for me. But I was already there. My distaste for Senator Sanders is already on record here. And remains unchanged.

That said, I can and do appreciate that he has MANY fans. Here as well as outside DU. And I recognize that there were Hillary-haters aplenty among them and still are. And so be it. “Live long and prosper,” as Mr. Spock would say. I just won’t ever be one of them - either against her or for him.