LOL@BS.. Now he's tellling SL that he has a "friendly relationship with PBO"..

[Lucinda]

15. I cannot believe how slow I was to connect the dots between

that jacket blurb for the Bill Press book, and the fact that Press urged Bernie to run and had hosted that big meeting talked about in this article:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-2016-inside-213692

This is the last of the veryinteresting article:
"...If Sanders doesn’t win the nomination, that’ll be it. That’s what they decided at Bill Press’s house two years ago, and they’re sticking to it.
“My first question was, 'Is he running as a Democrat?'” said Ben Tulchin, the pollster that Sanders resisted hiring until Devine forced a meeting on him last fall, when Sanders was traveling through San Francisco.
“Tad said, 'Absolutely. We're not going to be Nader.’”
They’re already prepping the fallback plan: 10 areas, including killing Obama’s trade deals and changing the super-delegate process that they’re going to organize around and try forcing into the Democratic platform.
“Worst case, we’re going to Philadelphia with 1,500 delegates. Best case, we’re going to win,” Cohen said. “Either way, we’re going to change things.”