NBC: Bernie Sanders Muddles Ally's Message in DNC Race

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20. They did not say the 'same exact things'

John Lewis never attacked Perez as 'status quo' or anything like that. See there? That's the problem. We live with different facts. Show me JL saying that. You cannot.

Now, the only group I remember smearing John Lewis was certainly not the group supporting Perez. I know why John Lewis supports Ellison and I RESPECT that. Why am I not allowed to have a preference. Honestly, I would have supported Ellison.. But not now. I feel positively status quo at this point.

My reason for opposing Ellison has everything to do with his own actions, his own words, and his own defense of certain people who were obviously not people who needed to be defended. He spent too long in that ideology, it took him too long to realize he was wrong and many of the Jewish members of our coalition are not comfortable with him. I am willing to listen to their concerns and support them in this. Now, everyone makes mistakes, myself included, but I refuse to tell my allies that I do not care about them, and I would hope they would do the same for me if someone with a history of defending racism against blacks were running. I'm not selfish. A segment of our coalition is very uncomfortable with him. It is what it is, he took too long to apologize or recognize what he was doing. He is very intelligent. Took too long.

Now, i have no idea why this is so angering to you, but i do me and you do you.