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Sanders Candidacy Devolving into an Arrogant Insufferable Self-serving DisasterPeter D. Rosenstein non-profit consultant, public speaker and political activist
Many including me have consistently given Bernie Sanders the credit for fighting for what he believes in and suggesting he should decide on his own when to leave the race. We gave him credit for beginning his campaign with grace and purpose as I did in a recent column. Unfortunately he is choosing to end it as a boor more concerned with boosting his own ego than with moving forward the issues he espoused.
Bernie if Donald Trump wins and gets to appoint a Supreme Court Justice and negates all the progress Barack Obama has fought for in the past eight years, you become the 2016 Ralph Nader. The same Nader who now at age 84 walks around Dupont Circle in Washington, DC with his head down afraid people will recognize him and say Thanks Ralph for electing George W. Bush. You dont want to be that person in a couple of years with people saying Thanks Bernie for electing Donald Trump.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-d-rosenstein/sanders-candidacy-devolvi_b_10168566.html
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Seth Abramson and HA Goodman must be shitting a brick in outrage today.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Its a good piece.
HA Goodman must be fuming right about now!
so true...
stopbush
(24,396 posts)and I cannot recall another instance where people sympathetic to a candidate have turned on that candidate and expressed the kind of concern about and disgust for a candidate as we are seeing directed at Sanders these days.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)without giving it a critical thought!
stopbush
(24,396 posts)the Sanders followers are elated when he regurgitates his stump speech. All they need hear are the same old tired bromides they've heard on TV. The excitement is that they're now part of the crowd at a rally.
"He said the system is rigged, just like on TV!"
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts).....he still loses and nothing will change that outcome...
Koinos
(2,792 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)is that people are looking at his actions. Which are reprehensible, as we all know.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Was the plan all along to destroy the party and its candidate if he couldn't get the nod?
What a POS if that's true. He could have been a real power in the party but he made himself a pariah instead. Weird.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)in losing campaigns. Look at his past history with the obvious contempt with which he holds both parties. So, I'm thinking temper tantrum in the form of if you don't give me what I want, I'll destroy it.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Reading what he said about Kunin and his other female opponents, there's no other way to slice it than to assume that he ahs a huge problem losing to women.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)caquillo
(521 posts)When they released that video of him arriving at the Vatican conference (or whatever it was), and they were introducing him to the people there, he refused to shake the hand of the woman. Well, it was more like, he gave her the cold shoulder. When she extended her hand, he turned the other way and shook another man's hand. Later, I learned that this was the woman that had corrected the media, when Sanders campaign incorrectly stated that they'd been personally invited by the Pope to meet him.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)Now everyone in the world is on to him....except his "avid" Followers!
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Yep, pretty much and aha!
eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)savalez
(3,517 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)savalez
(3,517 posts)That's my favorite part.