I hope we have a lot of trolls here at DU.

[MADem]

63. Look, I just have been around for a long time.

I've lived for many years now, and I've been involved in politics, and when I couldn't touch politics with a ten foot pole owing to my work, I was still in the thick of the political scene (in DC) for part of that time, and I have always followed politics closely.

You don't have to be a genius to see which way this is playing out, anymore than you have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.

Sanders has plateaued, he has demonstrated an inability to 'pivot' readily, he is a one-issue, one-note guy, and his "plans" are not really plans--they are hopes and dreams. We understand that he has brought an important subset of (principally economic) concerns to the fore, but he hasn't demonstrated that he's the guy to FIX those concerns. He just isn't. He means well, but he's not ready for prime time.

I am not the only one, I know, who has close to zero confidence in his ability to manage international issues--I think he'd be chewed up and spit out, but he could do a lot of damage in four years (he'd never be re-elected, though I doubt he'll be elected, either).

He just doesn't have it, and he hasn't demonstrated, to my mind, a facility that suggests he intends to "get it," either. He is uninterested in issues outside his economic wheelhouse, and it shows. His rather minescule super delegate total tells the tale.

I think he'll be a great Labor Secretary, and I think he would do a lot of good in that job. I hope it is offered to him and I hope he takes it.