Why would Hillary try to kneecap Bernie now?

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118. Again: They are coworkers, staff and colleagues talking about incidents going back decades

Every candidate has people who comment on them after they nominate.

If you assume that every comment that came out after Sanders declared that vets him in a way that is not flattering is an attack, then you must also apply the same metric to any comment that flatter him as being equally suspicious in their accuracy.

Are you doing that?

Doesn't look like it.

When they declare for public office, lots of people claim things about candidates that are not true.

Disregarding any vetting that you don't like as being false or an attack isn't applying critical thought. One also needs to be aware of the silence of lots of people who have worked directly with the candidate when it comes time for endorsing them, yes?

Some of them cloak their political disagreements with attacks on a persons character.

Are you saying that about the comments of those who worked FOR him? Did you even read the articles? Those people say that he has good ideas. They are referring to how he is to work with. Barney Frank said these things years ago, when he and Sanders started working together.... Did Bernie tell he him he was going to declare someday?

Does that seem familiar with respect to candidates you support?

False equivalency aside, the opinions that I posted are from people who have worked with Bernie. And yes, I take endorsements into account.

If someone's coworkers, en masse, don't recommend them for a promotion, one doesn't assume all those coworkers are lying.

Just as one doesn't assume when the vast majority of another's coworkers strongly recommend them as a qualified and pleasant candidate for the promotion, that they have 'threatened' all those people to praise them...

Does that seem familiar with respect to candidates you support?

Lack of endorsements from one's colleagues and coworkers indicates that one has alienated one's colleagues and coworkers them, or they don't think that person is qualified. Do you recall any articles coming out with statements from co-workers and colleagues about Hillary being difficult to work with or abusive to staff over the years? No? If there had been, it would have been immediately posted on DU. And, of course the sheer numbers of people who have worked with her that endorsed her would have disproved that immediately. Perhaps that's why no one tried to promote that lie. Lies about other things were spread right here about her, such as "she publicly went after the women who accused Bill" and if one did state the fact that this smear was based on a private conversation where she was expressing frustration about her marriage and was leaked," one was called "naive," and a "correct the record shill."

So does that answer your question?

Interestingly, now Sanders is attempting to make being personally disagreeable into a plus. How do you square that with your assumption that only those who have political disagreements with him are saying this about him?

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You've "been reading my posts for years" should I be flattered? Or intimidated into silence thinking you are going to find something contradictory in my previous posts, especially concerning Hillary or Warren?