David Plouffe: "Sanders running around acting like Santa Claus...

[grasswire]

....and no one wants to be told they can't have things."

Really.

Is that what Obama's campaign manager really thinks of Democratic voters? And particularly voters of color, who are the ones always blamed by the right for wanting free stuff from Democrats?

Plouffe supports Hillary.

[libtodeath]

1. It is telling that Hillary defenders have to sound like the gop.

[Vattel]

2. Plouffe the Grinch

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Third way David.

[randys1]

4. Expect this to get real ugly before it is all over, power does that.

I think the only reason the Sander's camp hasnt gotten ugly is Bernie himself.

Bet your last dollar everybody around him is begging him to go negative.

[libtodeath]

10. That is the thing,he doesnt have to do that

his message and policies are positive for all but the 1%.

[myrna minx]

5. That's funny, because that's what Republicans say about Democrats.

[HooptieWagon]

6. The smell of desperation....

...it smells like bullshit.

[shraby]

7. Plouffe's 15 minutes have come and gone.

[grasswire]

8. note: he said it on MSNBC this afternoon

On the Halperin-Heileman show.

[Autumn]

9. Bless David Plouffe's heart. I'm betting he's gonna be really disappointed

when the voters decided to tell him he can't have what he wants.

[KMOD]

11. lol

David is spot on!

[Csainvestor]

12. Sorry, you have to live in poverty - no money for you

Now, lets double the military budget.

[grasswire]

16. Bernie as Santa...LOL

I'm surprised we haven't seen cartoons to that effect.

And if it helps people decide to vote for Bernie because they really, really, really need someone to lend a helping hand, that's okay too.

The reality is the Bernie simply promises that fewer American sons and daughters will spill their blood in the interest of empire or oil, and that fewer children will go to bed hungry, and that those who graduate from high school will be able to go farther and those who graduate college will be able to find work, and that each American will have an equal voice on election day.....among other "gifts" that really are not gifts but birthrights as Americans.

[Enrique]

13. how many people is he talking about

is it somewhere around, say, 47%?

[KMOD]

19. I think you took a wrong turn,

somewhere.

[grasswire]

21. wow

That one was so good that I copied it!!

[MisterP]

17. so the candidate will promise pie in the sky and then sit on everything he said

for 8 years? Plouffe should know

[grasswire]

22. excellent point, thanks nt

[Cali_Democrat]

18. He's right

Thank you, David Plouffe, for speaking the truth about Bernie Sanders.

Now...RIP your facebook page.

[MisterP]

23. that's how Wannski took over the GOP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski#The_Two_Santa_Claus_Theory

[jillan]

24. Funny - Bernie is promising many of the same things Obama promised.

[cascadiance]

25. Better being Santa Claus for the 99% than the 1%

The 1% have had the government officials they've bought for so many years be Santa Claus for them with tax policy, our military industrial complex, our prison industrial complex, and so many other ways that they've gotten that Santa Claus to gift them wealth redistributed from the masses to themselves.

That Santa Claus wasn't really about rewarding good and those that need to be given back what has been stolen from them for so many years. Times are changing, and the real spirit of a more traditional Santa Claus with a more traditional Democratic Party is thankfully returning to this country!

[global1]

30. It's Christmas Every Day For The 1%.....nt

[Arazi]

26. Dear Virginia (David), yes there really is a Santa Claus

and his name is Bernie Sanders



And we like it

[berniepdx420]

27. How come Bernie detractors when talking about "free stuff" never discuss or ignore how Bernie

intends to pay for them

Health care... no more individual premiums from private insurance..very expensive...
increase taxes at a much lower level than we paid for premiums

Free College... transaction fee on Wall street speculation and a modest increase in the top tax brackets

How else do we get the money and wealth that the Trickle down economic plan and the Third way economic plan has redistributed to the top couple percent of our country

[Warren Stupidity]

28. Fuck that. For the last 40 years corporate america has looted the national treasury

to make themselves wealthy beyond comprehension. All Sanders is doing is saying "Enough! Stop!, We are going to redirect our government to invest in our people." Just go fuck yourself Plouffe.

[UglyGreed]

29. Wonder who is playing the

Grinch???

[Art_from_Ark]

39. I hear lots of people have auditioned for that part

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. I wonder how Canadians can have these things

[scscholar]

32. What's wrong with providing for the people?

Providing for the people?

[grasswire]

33. NO WE CAN'T

That's his message, and Hillary's

[grasswire]

34. this remark reminds of Barbara Bush on Katrina

Dissing the people of New Orleans.

[tokenlib]

35. Plouffe drops his New Dem trousers and exposes himself as a Third Way tool..

Pulling out a stock anti-liberal attack from the GOP arsenal....

[grasswire]

36. yes, it IS a GOP attack.

I guess that tells us something about his core beliefs.

[matt819]

37. With respect

With some variations, sanders' msg is comparable to obama's. Sure, Bernie is more strident and perhaps less refined, but they were/are selling hope. Will Bernie achieve all his claims? Of course not. But neither has Obama and he's on my list as provably the best president in my lifetime.

[Nanjeanne]

38. Amazing. The Democratic "elite" have now become tried and true Republicans

even using Republican lingo to diss a Democratic opponent.

Every time I think they can't be worse - they prove me wrong.

[DemocraticWing]

41. Plouffe is an advisor for a union-busting corporation, so of course he hates progressives.

[eridani]

42. Great. Another Democrat insisting that public goods are bad

It is the nature of public goods that everyone pays for them, and those who need particular ones get them, free only at the point of service.