Here’s what Hillary Clinton can and can’t give Bernie Sanders in exchange for his support

[Iamaartist]

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/heres-the-very-short-list-of-things-hillary-can-give-bernie-in-exchange-for-his-support/24583/


We’ve reached the point in the democratic primary race where Bernie Sanders has figured out that he’s not going to come back from a nearly three million vote deficit, and instead he’s now trying to figure out what he can get from Hillary Clinton in exchange for throwing his support behind her. He’s publicly floating the idea of forcing her to adopt his entire economic platform, which is not how things work when you’ve just finished losing in a blowout. But there are a handful of things Hillary can give him. In fact she appears to have been laying the groundwork for it for awhile now.

It shouldn’t be this complicated. What Bernie Sanders doesn’t get is that by taking these incredibly complex economic issues and trying to reduce them into something black and white, he’s forcing reality-based politicians like Hillary Clinton to make things even more complicated in the name of working around his unrealistic abstinence. But it can be done, and she’s already shown she’s capable of doing it in a way that will leave Bernie and his fans feeling that they got their way.

She knows how to handle it very well.......I trust our country in her hands......without any fear.
Hillary 2016

[stonecutter357]

1. Time to primary BS.

[Iamaartist]

2. Agree,Its time ...they know it....

[pandr32]

3. "Go get me a bill passed like that, and I'll sign it!"

Let Bernie put his actual efforts where his idealistic mouth is. Good plan!

[Cha]

7. Perfect answer to the BS demands!

I like it! pandr~

[pandr32]

16. Me too!

We have a big day ahead of us, Cha! It will be wonderful

[Cha]

17. Yes and interesting! Check out Haveadream's OP..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107115802

[SharonClark]

18. Excellent suggestion - Hillary should really say that

Sanders should continue the revolution and help organize his supporters to actually do something, like vote out the repugs.

[pandr32]

21. Absolutely agreed!

[Thinkingabout]

4. The big problem with Sanders agenda it is unrealistic and it did not provide Sanders

Winning enough delegates to get the nomination. Why should Hillary adopt a losing agenda?

[Iamaartist]

5. That's also right....his agenda is unrealistic

But then Hillary is giving person she knows how to deal with it....

[creon]

6. Let him make his demands.

First, let him talk and talk and talk.
And wag his finger. And, listen to me. Make sure he knows that you are listening.
keep him there all night if you have to.
Treat him like a foreign dignitary who needs a deal ;
Force him into particulars/details; and force him into negotiating on those particulars.

Force him to leave, if anyone leaves.

[Cha]

8. Yep, that's all he does is "talk".

[NurseJackie]

11. This is great!

[Cha]

13. It is.. and eeek I forgot to

BlueCaliDem from whom I poached it!

[Surya Gayatri]

12. All hat, no cattle. Like SO many self-styled revolutionaries.

[Cha]

14. Empty angry rhetoric

but has them believing every word.. and smearing civil rights icons in the name of BS.

[creon]

15. Sanders never

Sanders never fleshed out his points.
There are points to be made; problems that need addressing.
But, he did not get past the topic sentence.
He needed to.

In the negotiations, I advocate Clinton pushing for detail; going beyond the topic sentence.

We are talking about Congress passing laws.

[Cha]

9. “Go get me a bill passed like that, and I’ll sign it.”

Despite having spent decades in Congress, Bernie doesn’t appear to know that this is how things work. He thinks he can go back to the Senate and get $15 simply by demanding it. Hillary seems content in allowing him to hang onto that fantasy: “Go get me a bill passed like that, and I’ll sign it.” So she’s handing him what he views as a victory right now on the issue, by giving him a pathway to go chase after $15, even though she knows it won’t end up being nearly that high when it eventually lands on her desk.

Thank you, Iaaa~

[Lucinda]

10. That made some very good points! Thanks for the article.

[Lil Missy]

19. Bernie supporters want her to grovel for their support, so they can refuse to give it.

Why on earth would Hillary want to work hard to get votes from people who hate her and say they won't vote for her no matter what? Who call her dirty names, promote right wing claptrap from the Republican sewers, and want her to get indicted just to comfort their sad? It just shows how unrealistic these Sanders supporters are.

My advice for people like that is to tell them they can go piss up a rope!

[sarae]

20. One thing I don't understand

is why, if she's winning by a substantial amount (which she thankfully is!), she should be expected to adopt the loser's platform?

Almost 3 million people prefer HRC; presumably this means they also support her platforms. Wouldn't it be doing these voters a disservice to switch platforms when that's not what they voted for?

I'm tired of hearing the media talk about how Bernie holds the cards. Since when does the losing candidate hold all the cards??