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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Leonard Pitts: Bernie Sanders looking more like a sore loser [View all]GreatGazoo
(4,390 posts)27. Both of them are running against Hillary. That isn't a conspiracy, it's just democracy.
Sanders contrasted his style and his platform with hers. He mentioned repeatedly and pointedly that Hillary gets $225K per visit to Wall St. It is a matter of public record that she does and she can explain it or laugh or do whatever.
There is zero overlap between the kid gloves contrast highlighting that Sanders has done and Trump calling Bill Clinton the R word and tweeting that Hillary should be you know whated. Completely different. Zero in common. Reasonable people can easily see the difference.
Sanders should be thanked for running a positive campaign, getting people to register Democrat and for helping set Hillary up as a centrist.
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I don;'t care who you support. But I am pointing out that the claim that "pragmatism" belongs....
Armstead
May 2016
#24
Both of them are running against Hillary. That isn't a conspiracy, it's just democracy.
GreatGazoo
May 2016
#27
Maybe because he is a sore loser? When you're already an angry old man, adding bad loser
anotherproletariat
May 2016
#14
"beginning with Sanders supporters in Las Vegas tearing open the Nevada Democratic convention...
Lil Missy
May 2016
#30
I have been reading political writing for 30 years and never heard of him before
Fast Walker 52
May 2016
#55
what papers? I read the Times, WaPo, my local is run by Gannet/USA Today
Fast Walker 52
May 2016
#114
No more so than Hillary did in 2008 when she refused to concede after all states had voted.
AtomicKitten
May 2016
#38
After four days and securing the job as SOS and help paying off her $20 million campaign debt.
AtomicKitten
May 2016
#46
Not even close to the same. HRC was not trying to sabatage the nominee or the Democratic Party.
Lil Missy
May 2016
#109
Doctor_J: Hillary Clinton looking more and more like a defendant in a criminal court
Doctor_J
May 2016
#75
Who cares about the OP-Ed this person wrote? I don't and I sincerely doubt many people even read it.
jillan
May 2016
#97
Hilarious... I actually went ahead and read the piece and the last is pretty damning for Hillary
Fast Walker 52
May 2016
#116