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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What this says about Sanders speaks volumes [View all]RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)36. Yup. I guess Harry Belafonte gets thrown in that fire, too.
Not to mention that self-loathing Congressman Keith Ellison.
I can only guess how the staff of Black Agenda Report would be received.
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Sanders saves Hillary's butt in the general, and her supporters are apoplectic with rage!
AgingAmerican
May 2016
#2
Equal rights for all! Except black women. They matter but let's not make a big thing about it.
Ed Suspicious
May 2016
#129
You used a professed lack of knowledge in the subject you started a thread on.
Gore1FL
May 2016
#137
I actually think it's a pretty funny choice. I mean, I fully expect West to complain long and loud
msanthrope
May 2016
#5
Hell, maybe he would have gotten tickets if he had contibuted to the campaign
CajunBlazer
May 2016
#12
Many/most? people who post in the AA forum, including many of the moderators
jack_krass
May 2016
#61
Yeah, your over the top, spittle flecked posts about the AA forum when most us don't know
Number23
May 2016
#139
The ONE AA poster that has been banned in the AA forum was every bit as hateful and disruptive
Number23
May 2016
#144
With his history of disparaging remarks about President I doubt his ability to make
Thinkingabout
May 2016
#10
Fox News chooses Bernie. way to go Bernie, get your followers wherever you can nt
msongs
May 2016
#16
They used to talk a little stupid shit about Belafonte too but I think maybe they
TheKentuckian
May 2016
#55
That means my day had some measure of success and my Marley's ghostly chain a link shorter.
TheKentuckian
May 2016
#60
He also picked Bill McKibben - Wow!! Plus a Muslim, an Arab, and a Native American.
jillan
May 2016
#32
Cornel West is a bad surrogate for Sanders and a horrible choice for platform committee
Gothmog
May 2016
#33
Suck ups usually despise those who speak truth to power. Not surprised at your poor attitude.
ThePhilosopher04
May 2016
#69
True progressives don't view progressives as the enemy. You can a lesson from that.
ThePhilosopher04
May 2016
#99
Bernie's intentional sliming of the Obama Coalition has been widely acknowledged for months and is
Number23
May 2016
#72
BS' fans can try to deflect from this forever but it's not going to work. There's no way
Cha
May 2016
#75
Perhaps you're just a lot more Conservative than Cornel West or Bernie Sanders. Cornel West has a
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#78
A lot of people with heartfelt passion, good intent, and a lifetime of support and action in the
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#123
He's disrespectful of the one person so admired by the AA community and for that reason
underthematrix
May 2016
#125
I personally would have liked another choice, because I feel the pain and the hatred due to his
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#128
I understand but you just don't do what he did. There's no compromising on this
underthematrix
May 2016
#130
Cornel West would be a great choice if the only alternative was an ax murderer
CajunBlazer
May 2016
#98
Funny stuff from Camp Weathervane who waited with bated breath for the "whitey tape" to surface.
AtomicKitten
May 2016
#120
Wow, Bernie's pants must be tied up in an awfully big wad to make that move.
kstewart33
May 2016
#138
Hillary is associated with DWS, who supports sending medical marijuana users to prison.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#140
Sanders thinks he knows it all. If anyone opposes him they are on his floppy disk list.
LiberalFighter
May 2016
#146