2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Hillary people got over it in '08 and voted for Obama.
I fully expect they will do the same for Bernie.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I mean I wasn't here, but I'll bet Skinner wouldn't have let people stick around if they used Stormfront to attack Obama back then.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)But let me drop a divisive message as if I were. lol. Comedy club stuff here.
You weren't here, drop something about Stormfront, yet look at what is recommended here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251687330
Do you see how transparent you are?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)But I do see Stormfront posted here. And a Hitler apologist site here. And white supremacist right-wing sites here. And barenaked antisemitism here. I see a spirited defense of Louis Farrakhan in this subthread.
All from clinton supporters. all in an effort to smear bernie sanders - a jewish senator running for president.
Now why is that d'ya suppose?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Just used the same tactic since you respect it.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)All of them still posting happily, despite the TOS:
Do not post bigotry based on someone's race or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or lack thereof, disability, or other comparable personal characteristic. To be clear: This includes any post which states opposition to full equal rights for gays and lesbians; it also includes any post asserting disloyalty by Jewish Americans, claiming nefarious influence by Jews/Zionists/Israel, advocating the destruction of the state of Israel, or arguing that Holocaust deniers are just misunderstood. In determining what constitutes bigotry, please be aware that we cannot know what is in anyone's heart, and we will give members the benefit of the doubt, when and only when such doubt exists.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Just have to bounce with it Scoot.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)That's not what I'm laughing at but you already know it.
Merry Christmas Scoot.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Here's a summary.
me: "Clinton supporters seem even more hateful than 2008, they've even used Stormfront to attack Sanders!"
you: "Nuh uh! lol!"
me: "here's links to prove it."
You: "lol"
me; "you think it's funny?"
you; "lol"
Y'know, I can call out my compatriots when they fuck up and say stupid shit. You, at the very least, seem incapable of that much.
It's Yule, but thanks.
artislife
(9,497 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Happy Holidays to you.
George II
(67,782 posts)....say what you claim they say.
For example, the reference to Farrakhan was introduced by a Sanders supporter, not a Clinton supporter. And just where is he now?
And another, which you claim used a reference from "Hitler apologist" site, but you completely missed the point of why he linked to that site, even though HE EXPLAINED IT! He explained that he believes none of it, but is just pointing out what Sanders should expect to see from the right wing (and growing up in Brooklyn, like I did during that same era, probably HAS seen/heard, as I saw/heard stuff like that!)"
"I am not writing this to smear Bernie - I believe non of it - I am just pointing out the political sewage which will be directed at Sanders if he wins the nomination."
How you interpret that to being "anti-Semitic" is beyond me.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1) Yup, it was brought up that Marissa jenae Jonson is a big fan of Farrakhan (and she is, at least to judge from her Facebook page.) The response to this reality. "LOL Y CONSERVATIVE ALL HAET FARRAKHAN?!" - As if there is no liberal criticism of a gross antisemite who calls for race war.
2) Maybe Hillary supporters will want to wait for the right to actually use Hitler-defending sources to attack sanders, and then talk about that, rather than jumping right to using hitler-defending sources to attack sadners, and claiming it's what the right would do.
3) The same effort to fig leaf is made wit hthe gateway pundit / progressives today links, "lol I was just messin with you" - that don't work, sorry.
4) The link to stormfront is, well, a link to stormfront. The poster perused, browsed, and found a thread they wanted to use to smear Bernie with. The hilarious thing is that their claim - that stromfront has lots of Sanders fans - is grotesquely false.
5) Dunno how you're gonna play the whole "what race of people calls black people schwartz" thing. I'd love to see it.
The point is, these are all coming from Hillary supporters. These are all being defended by Hillary supporters, as you are demonstrating. And even though all are blatant ToS violations, their posters persist in their presence on DU.
I find it fascinating that not only is antisemitism okay with Clinton supporters - and it clearly is, judging from some of the shit your fellows at clinton Cave have posted - but that our own admin are willing ot give it a pass too.
George II
(67,782 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Just because you're okay with what's being said doesn't change what is being said.
George II
(67,782 posts)....with what they said.
Again, unfortunately, you miss the point of several of those posts, which is completely opposite from what you would like them to be saying.
Too bad you make up the rules and meanings as you go along.
Have a pleasant evening.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....avoided that question more than once.
Where did a Clinton supporter use "Stormfront" to attack anyone?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Post #20. Plus some.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)Again, this history is not forgotten and she just threw a slime bucket and called on the media world to watch. The blowback is severe, and she deserved it, along with DWS.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251939938
in case you missed this.
looking for
News & Politics
In Iowa, New Hampshire and now Nevada, the Clinton campaign has sought to suppress the vote of her rivals' supporters.
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
January 14, 2008
The headlines say the latest schism among the top Democratic presidential candidates is over gender and race. But on the ground in the presidential season's opening states, there is a darker narrative: that Hillary Clinton will not just fight hard, but fight dirty, to win. And her tactic of choice is attempting to suppress the votes of her rival's supporters.
The latest example is from Nevada, where the Nevada State Education Association is widely seen as filing a suit on Clinton's behalf to stop Las Vegas' most powerful union, Culinary Workers Local 226, from caucusing inside downtown casinos after the union endorsed Barack Obama. The tactic foments a split along racial and class lines in arguably the strongest union city in America.
"It's horrible," said one longtime Nevada activist, who didn't want his name used. "It will cause fights and damage that will last for years."
But the Clinton campaign has made similar moves in New Hampshire and Iowa.
In the first primary state, her supporters -- backed by New Hampshire Democratic Party officials -- pressured poll workers to remove observers stationed by the Obama campaign. These volunteers had intended to track voters as part of their get-out-the-vote effort. That tactic came after the Clinton campaign sent a mailing targeting women that said Obama would not "stand up and protect" a women's right to choose because he had voted "present" -- but not yes -- on a few abortion-related bills in the Illinois legislature.
"I've kept most mailers I got from every presidential candidate this year, and that mailer was the absolute worst," wrote New Hampshire blogger Peter Glenshaw. "Never mind that Obama has a 100 percent approval rating from Planned Parenthood in Illinois. Never mind that Planned Parenthood asked him to vote 'present' on those bills."
And in Iowa, the Clinton campaign -- with the help of the state's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, which endorsed her -- was discouraging students from returning from winter break to vote, even though their right to do so was legal, said Rick Hasen, who writes a respected election law blog. "Indeed such voting could help to compensate for the otherwise anti-democratic nature of Iowa's role in the presidential election process," he said.
As the nomination process has unfolded and Clinton has encountered resistance in every state so far -- including Obama's Friday endorsement by the 60,000-member Las Vegas Culinary Workers Union -- her campaign's increasingly critical rhetoric has been accompanied by voter suppression tactics aimed at her rival's core voters.
While Clinton campaign surrogates have verbally accused Obama of many things, from "fairy tale" answers on Iraq to being a drug user while they served the country more nobly, intentionally suppressing voters -- especially under-represented, low-income minority union members -- stands out in 2008's Democratic presidential campaign.
After all, the Democratic National Committee moved Nevada's caucuses to the top of the primary lineup so minority voices could be heard -- and no organization is more aligned with those voters in Nevada than the Culinary Union, whose training materials for its members are printed in four languages. In contrast, the state teachers, whose suit seeks to stop those workers from caucusing in nine "at-large" precincts in big downtown casinos, have a statewide base because its members work throughout Nevada.
The NSEA suit claims the at-large casino caucuses are not fair to the state's other voters because they will likely be overrun with voters, thereby skewing the proportional representation of Clark County delegates to the state party convention.
Neither NSEA officials nor their Las Vegas lawyers returned calls on Monday. However their suit states that "by packing as much as 10 percent or more delegates into the county convention, the at-large precinct caucus system (created for the casinos) substantially diminishes the voting power of delegates from other county precinct caucuses."
In other words, a strong turnout from the tens of thousands of Culinary Workers Union members in Las Vegas, where 70 percent of Nevada voters live, could swing the state's early foray into presidential politics. In 2000, fewer than 1,000 people participated in Nevada's caucuses. In 2004, that number was about 9,000. This year, estimates are in the tens of thousands.
Nevada political insiders say the NSEA lawsuit is designed to suppress Obama's voters.
"That's the common narrative at this point," said Pilar Weiss, the Culinary Workers Union's political director, when asked if there was any other way to interpret the suit. "A caucus system is all proportional representation. It's not unfair in any way. They (the state Democratic Party) made an accommodation for Clark County."
Another Nevada activist who has worked for years in the state was even blunter.
"This (caucus) plan was created by some of the same people who are plaintiffs in the suit against it," he said. "It's not that they didn't like the plan when Clinton was ahead."
Steven Rosenfeld is a senior fellow at Alternet.org and co-author of What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election, with Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman (The New Press, 2006).
http://www.alternet.org/story/73782/hillary_clinton's_dirty_campaign_tactics
draa
(975 posts)Love your name by the way. ViseGrip brings me back to my mechanic days. Or decades if you will.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)which means she has no problem with excessive force because she will tell you that her motives are pure.
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)Can we please stick to issues and records? Much more productive, and Bernie easily wins there.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, KamaAina.
randys1
(16,286 posts)So hard to keep up
This would be simple if people would do what I do
Support the party no matter who is running, not because you give a shit about the party, I sure dont, but because you fear the death and destruction of the other assholes.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Some even believe we should let Republicans win to "teach those (add any negative adjective against Democrats here) Dems a lesson". Of course, if they had a good longterm memory, they'd know we tried that in 2000 (got Roberts and Scalito) and 2010 (got Teabaggers to take the House until 2020). How'd that work out? Not so good.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)Scalia's been around since Reagan. But I admire the name combo.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)That's why I used it.
draa
(975 posts)While I agree in principle with what you said, having Roberts on the court has been somewhat of a blessing. He sucks but we likely wouldn't have won Marriage Equality, wouldn't have the ACA, nor the Fair Housing Act without him. Face it, GWB was going to be President because he cheated. At least we got some protection and progression from the appointment of Roberts.
That's not to say the court isn't conservative, it damn well is, but just to point out that with the current conservative SC, Progressives have actually made more progress than we have in decades. People no longer die from lack of insurance, and people are free to marry whom they choose. Either of those 2 alone would be monumental, together they're a once in a life time thing. You can thank Roberts (seriously).
It also shows that the SC argument is on shaky ground. You can't fear the unknown. You just can't. It doesn't make sense here especially, at least not with what we've seen historically from that court.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)I believe you should take your own advice and rethink your supportive Roberts/Scalito argument.
Do you seriously think that any of President Gore appointees would've gutted the Voting Rights Act that's now going to suppress voters this coming election?
Do you seriously think that any of President Gore appointees would have stood on the side of Scalia and Thomas to sit there and say with a straight face that money equals freedom of speech??
Do you seriously believe that high-paid Republican lawyers would dare challenge the PPACA with President Gore appointed SCOTUS justices??
Do you seriously believe that the lawsuit to overturn Prop H8 and thus make same-sex marriages constitutional nationwide would've had even the slightest chance of being rejected with President Al Gore's SCOTUS appointees?
And do you seriously believe that Roberts and Alito are assets to American democracy??
And this coming from a poster who claims to be a Bernie Sanders supporter. I'm not convinced at all.
draa
(975 posts)Gore couldn't win the election. Period. Nothing else you said is even possible because of that. The fact that the election was rigged meant Gore would never be President. Ever. No amount of wishing and hoping or italics will ever change that. Just like 2004 was rigged in Ohio, 2000 was rigged in Florida. Unless your name was George W Bush you would never be President those 2 elections. So asking if Gore had won is pointless because he didn't win. And he never could.
edit: BlueCaliDem, I should have told you I live in Florida and voted for Gore in 2000. I followed that election pretty closely, including the recounts and the "hanging chads" fiasco. It was clearly stolen in 2000. It's now looking like what we suspected in Ohio 2004 also occurred (saw an article a few days ago somewhere detailing what was found). Anyway, Happy Holidays.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Thanks for that.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Still LMAO.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)There are primaries to complete.
And in the event that Hillary wins, will the Bernie supporters get over it?
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)and "evil Socialist" though; they Hate Socialism.
For instance, when they think of his plans for Free College tuition they can't get past the thought that THEY will be FORCED to PAY to send Donald Trumps kids to Piedmont Community College, or maybe even the University of North Dakota!
I'm sure we all recall these exact claims being posted a few weeks back by Hillary folk. That's the important take away for them, the thing they despise. Forget the benefit to our society as a whole through such a program because, to them, it does not outweight the mental anguish of knowing their tax dollars may get Jamie Diamonds kids a free Associates Degree from the community college of their choice.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)They didn't hate Obama in '08 because he was slightly to the left of Clinton. They hated him for a much more... visible reason.
ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)Millions upon millions of democrats? More democratic voters than those who voted for Obama?
I was more for Obama then than I am now, but that statement right there shows just how nutcase so many DU Sandersistas have always been.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)And I think it's only gotten worse, frankly. See my posts above. I doubt the sort of shit we see from clinton supporters today would have been tolerated seven years ago.
ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)It's the old "proof in your own mind" trick.
Meanwhile, actual Democratic minority voters strongly support Hillary. Much of the Clinton Foundation charity is dedicated to helping people suffering historic racial oppression, and the Sandersistas attacks against the Foundation and the work is does have not gone unnoticed. Further, there has been a systematic attack through misuse of the alert system against minority posters on the DU.
That's the actual reality of this.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
DFW
(54,408 posts)It turned out to be from the Sanders board, and it was citing that Wasserman-Schultz, whose record has indeed been far less than stellar as DNC chair, had been a failure in 2014, 2012, 2010 and 2008.
In 2008, Howard was DNC chair--a rather spectacularly successful one, too. In 2010, it was Tm Kaine. BUT, I guess there's no reason to let facts get in your way...........
ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)Don't get me wrong, Dean did a great job as chair. But everyone who knows anything about politics knew that 2008 was going to be a high-water mark for Democrats. That we managed to hold on to the Senate for so long, especially in the Reid and Coons races, shows how effective the DNC and DSCC have been.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
DFW
(54,408 posts)Rove and Cheney had Citizens United in their sights when they nominated Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court. We just didn't see it coming. Cheney had to have known that there was no way a Democrat would lose the presidency in 2008. That's why they finally let McCain have his nomination, and let him sink with Palin--something they never would have done had they seen a chance to keep the White House. Angle and O'Donnell were just testing to see how deep the cesspool was, and the answer was pretty deep, though not THAT deep.
On here, no matter HOW many good points Sanders brings up, his positives get obscured in anger-filled barrages of clichés containing obligatory Fox-like numbing repetition of "corporate, oligarch, 1%, warmongering, annointed one" etc. etc. Remind me again--repeating that stuff 250 times a day makes Bernie the better candidate..how? When Roger Ailes first started Fox "News," and was asked if he would provide objective reporting, he answered, maybe more candidly than he intended, "we have an agenda." In other words, NO. I want to hear what Bernie has got going for him. I know the domestic agenda, sorta, but as an ex-pat, there are other issues he has not addressed. Hillary and O'Malley haven't addressed them either, which is why you can still color me undecided. There are some of us who think the world does not end at Cape Hatteras or the western shore of Kaua'i. "I won't ever vote for Hillary because, #875" comes no closer to addressing that matter than does a chart of last month's regional championship matches of 43 Man Squamish.
ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)He's not my first preference because of a few issues I disagree with him on (and also because he will be very easily smeared by billions of dollars of Republican lies), but I've always been clear that I'm okay with Sanders himself.
His supporters through. Man do they seem to hate the Democratic party. And how the hell are we going to win an election with Sanders, with people like them attacking anyone who isn't 150% feeling a Bern?
But I've told fellow Hillary supporters time and time again, don't hold the extremists who like a candidate against the candidate himself. (By the way, this goes both ways, there are some more moderate Wall Street types who want Hillary, and that's not a terrible thing, because there are reasonable financiers who don't deserved to be demonized just as there are reasonable Muslims who don't deserve that either.)
I will be very glad when this primary season is over. However it turns out.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)at the convention.
Cal33
(7,018 posts)in the GE, should she win the Primaries. I can't see myself not voting or voting
for a Republican.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)Voted For PBO-twice.
I am voting for Bernie in 2016.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)I'll give him Vermont.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)After he takes that, the M$M will have to acknowledge his existence. After that, all bets are off.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)Find a State where people know you and try to build a national campaign from there?
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)And, I look forward to it.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)No need to will any states.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)I've seen a bunch of the bragging that they not only voted Nader in 2000 and 2004, but also third party against Obama at least one (if not both) time(s).
ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)Among the general Democratic electorate, the vast majority of Bernie supporters like what Hillary is saying, and vice versa.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)She is faaaaaaaar out in right field on most issues, domestic and foreign.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)I was mostly focused on some of the stuff I've seen on DU, which is frankly pretty terrifying. Some of the "my way or the highway" nonsense and railing against the "oligarchy" isn't much different from what you see from the Paul weirdos on the other side. The only difference is the identity of the bogeyman.
Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)That's a no-brainer.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)be happy in 2018 when we all unite to support a real Democrat against him for US senate.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)in the Senate in his place.
Cynical Sam
(35 posts)...when FACTS become more important than hype and name-recognition.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)And welcome to DU!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)He showed good judgment in opposing the Iraq War. He had a good record.
That is, in my opinion, not the case with Hillary. She has shown terrible judgment in situation after situation. She has changed her mind -- mostly because she didn't make up her mind based on moral principles in the first place.
She doesn't seem to even think about the principles of things and then decide based on those principles what stance to take on issues. She is "pragmatic" to a fault which means she just kind of puts up her pinky, feels the direction of the wind and allows herself to be swept with it.
Not a person of principle. Although she does try to appear and act like she has a backbone. In reality people with a backbone consult principles before they decide what they think about things.
So I for one cannot in good conscience vote for Hillary even if she wins the nomination. I will vote for all the other Democrats on the ballot. I know many of them personally although not well. I know their records. If they change their minds on issues, it is not to please the current opinion polls, it is based on their consciences and their principles.
Hillary -- I do not trust her. I do not respect her. I cannot in good conscience vote for her.
Listen to the interview with Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now. Hillary may have "experience" and know all the right words to say when it comes to foreign policy, but she does not have the judgment that is needed to manage foreign policy or our military power.
And I am a 72-year-old woman who would love to have a woman be president. It is embarrassing for our country that we claim to stand for women's rights and have so few women in high places in our government. But Hillary is not the right woman.
And because she is not the right woman, I don't think she can be elected.
I'm for Bernie and no one else. I will vote for all other Democrats on my ballot, but not for Hillary.
Gman
(24,780 posts)If the unlikely happens
Tarc
(10,476 posts)By and large it is not Hillary supporters screaming their allegiance to her and her only, it is a tiny, shrill subset of Sanders suppporters doing do for him.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)Approximately 25% polled declared they vote for McCain right after Hillary's concession speech. Maybe they cooled down.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)We still remember that Obama pic in a turban they shopped around. They lost because of stuff like that and deserve to lose again. Stop worrying about how people vote.
Todays_Illusion
(1,209 posts)continued to be a bigger enemy and nastier opposition, than the entire Republican/conservative population of the nation for the entirety of both terms.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Win the nomination so it will be Sanders voters getting over it and voting for Hillary.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The keynote speech at the DNC Convention and at this point in time it is not possible for Sanders to give the keynote speech at the prior DNC Convention. Go figure.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Sanders is not Obama, he's actually a progressive who resonates with the people despite being virtually locked out of the dialogue.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)he's polling better in the GE than HRC. Somebody's listening.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)to Hill's 7.
But OK that must be the new math you're workin' there.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)where I get the numbers, not new math just fact on the presidential elections has a primary process to go through before the General Election.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)when a Hillary supporter said "We don't have a nominee, yet".
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)About it, though. You might want to have a conversation with Sanders supporters. Not be redundant with Clinton supporters.
aikoaiko
(34,172 posts)It depends on the candidate.
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)Senator Sanders will have my full support