2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]still_one
(91,807 posts)However, I agree my recent posts are more defensive of Hillary than Bernie.
However, I have also been supportive of Bernie when I have seen unfair attacks, such as accusations that "Bernie is just a spoiler", which is BS, not the least of which is Bernie is running as a Democrat, not a third party. When Bernie was unfairly being piled on as being insensitive to POC, I called BS on that also. There are other examples to, but I can understand why my recent posts would lead you to the conclusion that I am bias for Hillary.
Perhaps the best way to express where I am coming from the following thread where I was arguing there was no evidence:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=486087
"Just looks bad. Tone deaf. "Bad optics". It has the appearance of impropriety, at the least.
Looks like a clear case of corporate cronyism.
In this case UBS is the corporation and the Clintons are the cronies.
A crony would be like the spouse of a government official who takes money from corporations and the official just happens to help them out.
But there's no evidence that UBS paid Bill $1.5 million because they want influence in government, or because Hillary stepped in to protect them from a major problem when they were shielding tax cheats from the IRS .
Maybe they paid him $1.5 million because he's just a nice guy that talks good.
This article isn't making any "allegations". It's just telling us these facts about what happened. There is no email or anything that says the money is specifically payment for helping them with the IRS. You are right there is no specific evidence like that. "
and my response was the following:
"Appreciate that you responded to each one of my responses. This last one makes the most sense in my view"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=486088
There are other posts where I have had good discussions with both Bernie and Hillary supporters. I haven't spent too much time analyzing O'Malley on the issues, but am starting to to do that now.
What I am saying is I am still analyzing the candidates on the issues