So I guess Clinton and the DNC contributed nothing to this loss.

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86. That comment was made in response to Obama's openness to cutting social security & other

social programs. It had absolutely NOTHING to do with Obama's race.

Representative John Conyers was also upset with Obama's willingness to cut these programs.

In fact he was so pissed that he even threatened a massive march on the White House to keep the president from putting social security and medicare up for cuts:

Conyers Has “Had It” With Obama

Published July 28, 2011

Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) is fed up with both President Obama, in part because of his alleged willingness during debt ceiling negotiations to make entitlement cuts, and Congress, because of what he calls its inaction on job creation. The 24-term lawmaker on Wednesday called for a protest in front of the White House.


“We’ve got to educate the American people at the same time we educate the president of the United States. The Republicans, Speaker Boehner or Majority Leader Cantor, did not call for Social Security cuts in the budget deal. The president of the United States called for that,” Conyers said at a news conference held by the Out of Poverty Caucus, which he co-chairs. “ And my response to him is to mass thousands of people in front of the White House to protest this,” Conyers said.

Read more:
http://www.bet.com/news/politics/2011/07/28/conyers-has-had-it-with-obama.html

Thankfully Obama did not pursue such foolishness.

Obama Wanted to Cut Social Security. Then Bernie Sanders Happened.

Zaid Jilani - June 2 2016, 1:36 p.m.

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This was a far cry from Obama’s position on the program in late 2012, when his administration argued for reducing Social Security benefits by recalculating the way cost of living adjustments are made.

“President Obama’s evolution on Social Security, from at one time being open to cuts to calling for an expansion of benefits … is certainly welcome news, but not at all surprising,” said Alex Lawson, the executive director of Social Security Works, a nonprofit group that advocates for protecting and expanding the program.

Lawson’s organization has worked with lawmakers and other nonprofit organizations to oppose Obama’s proposed Social Security cuts and shift the conversation towards expansion. By the summer of 2014, a small group of Democratic caucus senators, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, started advocating for lifting Social Security’s payroll tax cap so wealthier people paid more into the system, and then increasing benefits to seniors. Polling by advocacy groups found broad support for expansion.

This idea became a central theme in Sanders’s presidential campaign. In the speech announcing his candidacy, the senator said that “instead of cutting Social Security, we’re going to expand Social Security benefits.”...

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/02/obama-wanted-to-cut-social-security-then-bernie-sanders-happened/

By cheating Bernie Sanders the DNC also cheated millions of Democrats who voted for Bernie. Those Democrats were not amused and many have left and many will never return because of what the DNC did. The DNC violated the trust of Democratic voters. The party suffers because of that.

Debbie Wasserman Schult'z blatant favoritism of Hillary hurt all the other Democratic contenders as well not just Bernie.

She is ultimately responsible for this entire fiasco at the DNC under her watch. Her actions were harmful to the party and millions of Democrats not just Bernie Sanders....