2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Let me know how this "harass Black people into voting for Sanders" campaign is working for y'all [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)... has attacked Obama endlessly since the day he took office.
... who predicted Obama would cut Social Security, predicted double dip recessions every summer of this first term, predicted he'd make the Bush tax cuts permanent, predicted the ACA would be a disaster, predicted he'd never end DADT, or support ending DOMA, that he'd stay in Iraq forever, that he'd invade Iran, Syria, Eqypt, Libya ...
... they called for a Primary opponent to run against Obama in 2012 ...
... they've screamed about how evil Hillary is ... and defend those who called her a "whore" ...
... and they think saying that you aren't sure Bernie can win the general election is a smear attack of the first order.
I think many of them support Bernie only because of how much they hate Obama and Hillary. They are in search of a new Messiah, to replace the one that has disappointed them ...
... and so now, if you don't immediately adopt Bernie, or God forbid you dare question him in any manner, you have committed a Heresy.
And what they can't see, is that their idiocy reflects back on their candidate.
If THESE are the kind of people who support Bernie ... then maybe Bernie is just like them. And I don't want that.
This entire thing is something Bernie is more than capible of handling ... and his loudest/angriest supporters on DU, and those like them outside DU, are making his campaign look as if it is dismissing a very legitimate concern in the African American community.
But let's be honest here ... these folks aren't the sharpest political strategists. They are wrong over and over, so it not surprising that this is where we find them now.