I just watched the DNC speeches. It cracks me up that Sanders suggests he is an outsider

[Evergreen Emerald]

He is pretending to be an outsider. He has been in government for decades, and in the do nothing Senate for years--and done nothing. He is pretending to be the newbie who will shake things up. Seriously.

His speech was an attempt to distance himself from the democrats to appease his independent followers. He is all politics. The rumblings we have been hearing from democrats are true: he has disdain for democrats and voiced it in the senate often.

He is a mediocre senator who will do the same for the Presidency that he has for the Senate.

[BooScout]

1. Yep....

Mostly he's what he appears to be, an angry old white guy with not much to offer but bitter rhetoric......and of course rainbows and pixie dust to make everything all better.

I'll stick with Clinton. She's pragmatic, is known for being able to reach across the aisle when necessity calls for it and she never, ever walks away from a fight. She occaisionally gets knocked around, but she always dusts herself off and comes back swinging.

[MelissaB]

2. Ya know...

some of us are trying to play nice when it comes to mud slinging/divisive threads as you can see from the newest threads on the greatest and up pops a thread like this one. I'm about to give up.

[MADem]

6. To what are you objecting? That Sanders is characterizing himself as an outsider after he's

been in Washington over a quarter century?

What, we should "play nice" and not mention that the guy who is playing the "I'm the newbie" card has been in our tent for decades?


This is the HRC group, where honest discussions are still permitted. I haven't seen anyone calling Sanders a "doody head" or better still, a MURDERER (you can find a candidate being called that right on this board, gee, wonder who?).

What's untrue about this OP?

[Cha]

17. Exactly MADem.. the rest of the board isn't enough for them.. they have to come in here and

complain that we're not "playing nice" enough.

[BooScout]

7. You are in the Hillary Rodham Clinton Group

This is our safe haven..

[MelissaB]

8. Yes, I know that, but

it IS a Bernie thread and topic. Isn't it more suited for GDP?

[BooScout]

9. In this group we can post what we want to discuss ....

...regarding the primaries. Not what others want us to discuss.

[Cha]

15. Yes, We Can, Boo! The reason we have so many Blocks in Hillary's Group is because certain

supporters of another candidate can't mind their own business.

[Cha]

14. This is Hillary's Group for HILLARY's Supporters. We actually can handle our own Group without

BS Supporters coming in and trying to run it for us.

Thank you.

[sheshe2]

30. Your privilege is showing.

No, bernie supporter MB, you are not allowed here. Loved your alert in our group. To funny.

[Cha]

16. Actually there are BS supporters who are NICE.. they're not playing.. and they especially don't come

in here and tell us how to conduct our business in Hillary's Group.

[Gothmog]

3. Sanders has no endorsements and no legislative accomplishments

He is not a viable candidate

[ismnotwasm]

4. Of course he isn't

Anyone who spends that much time in congress is the ultimate insider. Which isn't even a bad thing, except he apparently hasn't built up enough of a coalition to gander support from Dems.

[MADem]

5. Spending over a quarter century in the tent is a long time to play the "poor me the newbie" card.

He caucuses with the Dems in exchange for committee clout. He is only pledged to vote with our crew on PROCEDURAL (housekeeping/administrative) matters; there is no whipping his vote when it comes to bills--he is his own agent in that regard.

He has run for executive office before--he ran to be governor of VT. He lost. FOUR times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Bernie_Sanders

The fact that he is not terribly helpful when it comes to issues even slightly outside his personal wheelhouse explains why those in the House or Senate are reluctant to reach out with a super delegate endorsement. One hand washes the other....

[William769]

10. To all concerned. This OP is acceptable in this Group.

Our SOP is for Hilary Clinton Supporters & what they feel the need to discuss on any given day.

I have said this time & time again and I will say it once again. Stop reading this Group if you do not like what's being posted. We are NOT I repeat NOT going to change because you don't like what's being posted. The Hillary Clinton Hosts monitor this Group 24/7 and we know who's been naughty and we know who's been nice.

That is all.

[BooScout]

12. Thank you William!

[juajen]

32. Yea, we are all here. How comfortable!

[Cha]

21. Well said, William.. Mahalo~

[William769]

22. They must think we have a cap.

Boy are they wrong!

[Cha]

26. No, no "cap".. we can block however many intruders choose to come into Hillary's Group

and disrupt! And, unfortunately there have been too many.

[sheshe2]

31. Well done!

Wait a sec....at work til 10pm. You survived the storm???? You are good? You are safe?

Hugs William.

[Thinkingabout]

11. I look at the endorsements Hillary has received from Congressional members and I see many who are

Ready to work with her as president, a relationship which will not have to be established.

I would have thought in the years Bernie has been in Congress some relationships would have been established. The other thought is those who have endorsed Hillary knows her record and experience is better.

[FloridaBlues]

13. One would think this 30yr insider would have pulled a lot of support of his colleagues

His long time reteric hasn't changed much he totally lost my support along time ago when he wanted President Obama to have a primary opponent.
To the writer who criticized what we write on the HRC site They need to stick with the Bern site there's plenty of nasty below the belt comments against who we support.
We don't need to read it here.

[Cha]

18. "Pretending" is right, Evergreen. He talks a lot but what has he actually accomplished in the House

and Senate that he finds so distasteful?

[RufusTFirefly]

19. Totally. Sanders is like that do-nothing Senator from Illinois almost a decade ago

Had a funny-sounding name. I wish I could remember...

[Cha]

20. Actually President Obama is nothing like BS.. He actually had accomplished a lot and has continued

that in the Office of the Presidency these last 7 years.

All Sanders did was call for Obama to be primaried in 2012.. and diss the Dem Party.. and now he wants to be the leader?!

No.

[William769]

23. And they wonder why the party elite is so against him.

[Cha]

24. Exaclty.. Dems who worked so hard to get a Democratic President Elected do not take

it lightly when some DS comes along and tries to undo that.. and raging on their Party the whole time.

BS is right about some things but I've heard too much demagoguery from him to take him seriously. I saw it in his reasons he wanted Obama primaried. Pure Demogoguery.

[William769]

25. The more he speaks, the more confidant I am he will not get the nomination.

And for good reason.

[Iliyah]

27. Yes

[ericson00]

29. DWS should have answered Chris Matthews when he asked about Socialist vs. Democrat

then this Sanders business would be history.

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. "Outsider" my Aunt Fannie. It's funny the things some people will fall for. Thank goodness, actual

Democrats know differently. There ain't enough Liberals/Libertarians to get BS the Democratic nomination. They'll try though, especially in states where so-called "independents" get to screw around in either party's primary process.

[Cha]

34. It says something about BS that he's trying to push this. running as an outsider who supports Drones

.. and running on the Democratic Platform that he's always using demagoguery against.

Tarheel!

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. The main question is what is it he's going to do that he hasn't been able to in all the decades...

he's been loafing around DC. It's already pretty clear that he's not into consensus building, if he were, he wouldn't still be complaining about the same shit he's been complaining about since he got there.

[Cha]

36. In my view.. he's the kind who complains and wanted Pres Obama to be primaried while Obama

does all the actual work.

I don't think he's going to have to worry about getting anything done in D.C. that will be Hillary's job

[Tarheel_Dem]

37. "that will be Hillary's job"

[sheshe2]

38. OMG!

Great answer Cha!

[Cha]

39. Mahalo, she!