I'm done with Bernie Sanders Salon piece written by a 2008 Clinton Campaign staffer

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

http://www.rimaregas.com/2016/04/salon-anti-berniesanders-piece-written-by-08-clinton-staffer-chrissosa-msm-on-blog42/

Chris Sosa wrote a piece for Salon entitled “I’m done with Bernie Sanders: Why this democratic socialist is voting for Hillary Clinton.” There is nothing unusual about people changing their political bents, especially in their youth. The problem? Its author, Chris Sosa, is a Clinton 08 campaign alum.

From Chris Sosa’s LinkedIn profile:

Area Leader
Hillary Clinton Campaign
July 2007 – February 2008 (8 months)
Participated in organizational campaign conference calls led by Hillary Clinton. Utilized the campaign’s online call-center/database to contact individual voters regarding voter needs and awareness.

Now, it is possible that he might have become a Democratic Socialist after leaving the Clinton campaign’s employ, but… he posted this on Twitter in 2015:



Sosa’s Twitter timeline is full of tweets in which he complains about Sanders supporters harassing him. But, in the words of a former boss, Bernie Bros are like unicorns, we all know what they look like, but no one has actually seen one.

How likely is it he was ever a Democratic Socialist who switched allegiance to Hillary Clinton? You decide.

[PowerToThePeople]

1. Chris Sosa is a liar.

What else do you expect from a Hillary supporter?

[lewebley3]

10. If she supports Hillary she will be helping everyone: Sanders is about himself

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[PowerToThePeople]

13. ..

[Lizzie Poppet]

14. Give my regards to the goatee universe people...when you get home.

[artislife]

51. ...and up is down in this little section of the universe. nt

[Fumesucker]

2. ...

[Arugula Latte]

3. Well, golly! Who could have guessed?!

[Skwmom]

38. Another dirty trick. Wow, what a surprise.

[99Forever]

4. Why would anyone care what that fucking nobody thinks?

[nichomachus]

5. Who gives a crap what this douche thinks?

Talk about self importance.

[Bodych]

6. I've Never Trusted That Site

In fact, I don't trust a lot of "progressive" sites. But I did see the original piece when it appeared...how could he "be done" with Sanders?

And now this latest news, which I wouldn't have seen you not referenced it here.

Chris Sosa is a disingenuous dirt-bag. Hell, with people like that on one's side, I wonder how they face the mirror each new day.

Thanks for posting this. I'm sickened by it, but now more informed.

[beam me up scottie]

7. Figures, we've seen fake supporters here too.

Pretty sad when you think about it.

[bettyellen]

17. I think I have seen tons of fake supporters here - trying to make you look like

pedantic narrow minded and hateful people. I don;t know any SBS supporters in real life like that.

[beam me up scottie]

19. You mean the ones who pretended to support Bernie but lied about him?

I especially love the one who "switched" to Hillary three times!

So authentic!

[bettyellen]

20. those, but more numerous are the ones who personally insult other voters.

I firmly believe that those using terms like "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Low info voters" are nothing but rat fuckers.
The progressive people I know in real life are not that stupid or mean.

[beam me up scottie]

21. Or anti-Semitic or pretend to support one candidate so they can troll others.

Yes I know exactly what you mean.

[bettyellen]

23. I have not seen nearly as much of that. Did see someone compare Clinton supporters to "good

germans" and think anyone bringing in Nazi references is obviously a shit stirrer of the worst kind.

[beam me up scottie]

24. I saw one person link to Stormfront so they could smear Bernie.

More than one has compared him to Hitler, I saw another post a rabidly anti-Semitic article from a Holocaust denier's website, yet another post the Yiddish n-word, one accused Bernie of being funded by Israel, another called him Israel's #1 shill, one went off on Jews using hate speech at another website, and one super awesome Hillary supporter called him "an old crusty Jew". Then there are the ones who question the race of PoC and the gender of women who support Bernie.

And if you go elsewhere you'll see even worse from her supporters.

Glad you asked.

[bettyellen]

25. that is disgusting!! I hope they banned that poster. All that shit is beneath contempt.

It is one thing to discuss demographics, but some people take it to a horrible place. None of us needs to see that shit here.

[beam me up scottie]

26. No, they didn't. One of the others was banned but only for using a sock while on a time out.

And thanks for saying that, I agree, both sides are guilty of over the top rhetoric and it needs to be called out by everyone. Juries need to step up and hide the worst of the crap.

[bettyellen]

30. I truly wish they would. Some people seem to just want to stir shit and bait others and I think it

is incredibly unproductive. I think shit like that turns off good people.

[CoffeeCat]

31. Do you ever get the feeling that

Some of the more crazy, wild threads are just paid trolls fighting with paid trolls?

Talk about spinning your wheels in the most laughable waste of time EVER!

[bettyellen]

32. That is an interesting idea! HA! I know some people have always been here just to fuck around....

and say outrageous shit. I think more of them want to discredit DU and Dems in general. (So maybe paid?!?!)
Or they are just miserable and bored as heck.

[Bluenorthwest]

61. I agree that those are rat fuckers, but so are the antisemitic posters and the homophobes....

The Jew baiting has been allowed to go uncontested and those who have openly used slurs were welcomed back by Skinner to continue their work. It's just a fact.
Stockholm thread was aimed at LGBT as well, and I sure let that rat fucker know what I thought in great detail. So did BMUS. I never, ever see a Clinton supporter stand up to the rat fuckers posing as Hillary supporters.
We have had more than one poster who spent months bashing at Bernie relentlessly who was then found to be bigoted against Jews. So they come to bash the minority candidate because they hold bias against that minority and that is allowed by DU and protected by basher's cohort and that is very and fully wrong.

[CoffeeCat]

8. Well, the Clinton camp did announce their new all-powerful

super-duper amazing strategy to finally beat Bernie, "Disqualify, Defeat and then Unify."

This must be part of the "Disqualify" portion of the show, I'm guessing.

It's riveting and so effective!

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Basically all of her mouthpieces are like that, either they present themselves or their household

as unrelated to the Clinton campaign when there is very strong relation. It very unethical.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. like i said on an earlier thread.. we know how to find your history on the internets

No more re-writing it without consequences

[Trenzalore]

12. I was pretty active in the 2008 primary for Obama

Amazed at the number of people that were against Clinton in 08 that are for her this year...including myself.

[BuelahWitch]

15. Phony baloney piece of shit!

Do they think we can't look this stuff up? Dear lord!

[reformist2]

16. Was he ever for Sanders???

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

18. No that is the point of the article...

Be wary of all the articles that say someone changed their mind on Bernie... investigate their history. Chris Sosa was going to Clinton events during 2015, so he would to have had to change support twice.

[reformist2]

22. Wow. The dishonesty is amazing.

[djean111]

27. Of course he was full of shit.

I think the pathetic aim was to have us read that and go oh, gee, me too!

Never, because she will always be fond of war and fracking and those trade gouges and is a Third Way Neoliberal war hawk. So nothing about Bernie could persuade me to support that stuff. ISSUES.

[cantbeserious]

28. HRC - HRC Campaign - Some HRC Supporters - Duplicity Is As Duplicity Does

eom

[CoffeeCat]

29. Apparently

He was done before he was really done.

But he's always been a tool bag.

[TheFarS1de]

33. Good to see they are removing comments .

One must keep up appearances apparently , can't have the common people muddying the propaganda .

[mhatrw]

34. LYING LIARS AND THE LIES THEY TELL!

[CharlotteVale]

35. I'm shocked....shocked!

[noiretextatique]

36. This meme seems to overtaking pope-gate

There is a similar post in the HRC group. If you recall, there were another spate of these "I used to support Bernie..." posts a month or so ago.

[Skwmom]

37. What a surprise! NOT. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[bvar22]

39. Chris Sosa....

[font size=4]Liar,Liar
Pants on Fire!!![/font]

[cui bono]

40. Yet another fake Bernie supporter pretending to switch from him to Hillary.

*yawn* Such an old and tired ploy. I mean really, this was done on DU starting MONTHS ago. Although I don't think they've all come out of hiding quite yet.

.

[delrem]

44. But this person didn't even set up fake credentials.

Big money made it so easy that even morons can do it.
How come you aren't cashing in?

[cui bono]

45. What? I have no idea what you are trying to say. n/t

[delrem]

48. I'm saying that this person who wrote the "I'm done with Bernie" piece

didn't even bother to set up some kind of base.

So I'm agreeing with the OP. To quote from the source:
"Chris Sosa wrote a piece for Salon entitled “I’m done with Bernie Sanders: Why this democratic socialist is voting for Hillary Clinton.” There is nothing unusual about people changing their political bents, especially in their youth. The problem? Its author, Chris Sosa, is a Clinton 08 campaign alum."

As a frequenter of DU and esp. so of DU discussion of issues related to Sanders, you know that most "I'm done with Bernie" and "I'm a Bernie supporter, but..." OPs are preceded by some kind of commitment statement to the Sanders group at DU. There's some attempt to make a front, first. Then there's the "but I'm ready for Hillary now!" OP. Like MM. This Salon guy didn't see a need for even that, and Salon agreed publishing that kind ofr purest bullshit, not even supported by a pretense, is OK.

That's part of what I'm saying.

(eta: OH! I just realized that you might be most confused about my direct question "How come you aren't cashing in?".
That's a question I would ask ANYONE. I think money in US politics is so unleashed that I wonder how anyone could resist.
I don't mean how can anyone resist until they're offered the opportunity, I mean how can anyone resist after they've been offered the opportunity. Although the question was addressed to you, I didn't mean it "personally", as some kind of accusation. I meant it generally.)

[cui bono]

49. Okay, I agree with that.

I honestly don't see how it is possible for anyone to switch their support from a movement candidate who is about breaking up the banks and getting money out of politics - real change - to someone who is beholden to that very thing. It's inconceivable.

.

[delrem]

50. Oh, they can't.

They don't even speak the same language.

[delrem]

41. Well they look happy in the pic. Do you have something against happiness?

But the young woman in the pic, did she have something tattooed under her eyes, mimicking exaggerated lashes?
What the fuck is it with that?

Maybe it's "edgy".

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

43. Lol, you do know that is Chelsea Clinton right...

[delrem]

46. Nope. I saw the resemblance, but I didn't know it.

Hey, expect to see a lot more of Chelea Clinton after her mom is anointed.
Prepare to like it, because you couldn't be a Dem if you didn't.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. Berniebutters.

"I like Bernie, But..."

[reddread]

56. now there is a product worth handing out to vascillators

different seasonings and themes.
Garlic and Herb Freedomization Butter
Black Olives Matter Spread
oh the possibilities!

[Warren DeMontague]

57. The delectable electabilty

"I cant believe I'm not inevitable!"

[reddread]

58. hahhahah

[CobaltBlue]

47. Early b.s. detection

There was an early response in the Comments section, from that Salon.com article, that called out the fraud Chris Sosa.

(Its title gave him away.)

[k8conant]

52. I'm disgusted

but not astonished

[DisgustipatedinCA]

53. Another Clinton surrogate, another lying pile of shit. It's who they are.

[Nyan]

54. I've lost count of all the lies, manipulation, and dirty tricks

By the Clinton campaign and their minions this election cycle.
So this is the "Clinton machine" they keep talking about. The machine runs on lies.

[blue neen]

55. Yeah, it seems like people do change their minds.

For instance, like this guy:


"I’m a Liberal Democrat. I’m Voting for Rand Paul in 2016. Here Is Why."
11/17/2014 03:31 am ET | Updated Jan 17, 2015

H. A. Goodman

<snip>

"Rand Paul is my candidate in 2016, even though the Tea Party would consider me Joseph Stalin’s love child. I’m for immigration reform and believe that illegal immigrants benefit this country. I’ve written many articles criticizing Tea Party paranoia. I’m against demagoguery from people like Paul Ryan who unfairly target inner city citizens and I’m for the federal legalization of gay marriage and marijuana. I think Ted Cruz is a buffoon and that we should listen to Stephen Hawking over Senator “Green Eggs and Ham” on climate change. Finally, I’ve also written two novels about the evils of religious fundamentalism and political demagoguery."

<snip>

"I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life, but in 2016, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul will be my choice for president. On issues that affect the long-term survival of this country; grandiose concerns like perpetual war that could send generations of Americans fighting and dying in the Middle East, domestic spying that could eventually lead to a police state, and numerous other topics, Rand Paul has shown that he bucks both the Republican and Democratic penchant for succumbing to public opinion, an overreaction to the terror threat, and a gross indifference to an egregious assault on our rights as citizens."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/im-a-liberal-democrat-im_b_6169542.html


It then seems that Mr. H. A. Goodman had a major change of heart.


September 25, 2015, 07:30 am
"If the pope could endorse a candidate, he'd pick Bernie Sanders"

By H.A. Goodman, contributor

<snip>

"If he could, Pope Francis would endorse Bernie Sanders for president. I don't mean to speak on behalf of the world's most recognizable religious leader, but when you compare the political philosophy of both Sanders and Francis, theres only one conclusion: Sanders best fits his view of the world."

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/254897-if-the-pope-could-endorse-a-candidate-hed-pick

[Bonobo]

59. He didn't blame it on Sanders supporters like the fake Bernie people on DU though. nt

[Babel_17]

62. It was a thought experiment, maybe, a "what if"

Either that or it was a case of something else, like if he was lacking in integrity, and/or an ethical code for his journalism.