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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJane Sanders Says Her Husband Is Not 'Friends' with Biden
It bothers Jane Sanders when people say her husband is friends with Joe Biden. To be clear, she said, he isnt, they arent, etc. Not even in the Washington sense of the word. The characterization is one she regards as false and in need of correction, which she issued at multiple points in the course of a phone call last month from Burlington, Vermont.
Said Sanders: We dont go out together. We dont get dinner together. We work together, all of us, whether its Jill and me, or Joe and Bernie. Its built on work and there are differences.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/15/jane-sanders-says-her-husband-is-not-friends-with-biden/
Lars39
(26,117 posts)Both of them actually.
This is the most important election of our lifetimes and what would it kill her?
You too, Bernie. If you are not going to help, just sit this out. OKAY?
samnsara
(17,650 posts)...he reminds me of the cranky guy in UP
get off my lawn!
agingdem
(7,863 posts)then allow me to clarify "can't stand".. go away, shut the hell up, no one gives a damn, you're not a Democrat...
Kahuna
(27,312 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)Shes a bit arrogant.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)moonscape
(4,674 posts)in 2016, I had superficial and positive thoughts. She's earthy! Not pretentious! How refreshing! Then ....
Yeah, me too.
Spazito
(50,495 posts)trying in vain to keep herself and her husband in the news.
November 8 2016
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Now here we are 2020 with just shy of 200K dead Americans. Tell 200K dead Americans 'how we vote doesn't matter'.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Biden? I mean, I really have little to no expectations from Sanders. I doubt I am the only one.
renate
(13,776 posts)I'm glad they work together. I'd rather they worked together than partied together. But what is this little tidbit in aid of, Jane? The idea that Joe and Bernie are friends IRL is not important enough to be "in need of correction" at all.
Hekate
(90,848 posts)Hm? Because the majority chose Joe, and then Joe bent over backwards to get Bernies pet projects into the Dem platform. But its never enough with you, is it?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I hate her.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)samnsara
(17,650 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Yeehah
(4,595 posts)Just some folks getting in a good 10-minute hate.
Cha
(297,774 posts)she hadn't come up with this.. Why Did she think it was "important"?
"It bothers Jane Sanders when people say her husband is friends with Joe Biden."
MustLoveBeagles
(11,641 posts)Cha
(297,774 posts)Hey Aloha, Beagles!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,641 posts)Yeehah
(4,595 posts)It is bizarre that people get their underwear wadded up about it.
Cha
(297,774 posts)she be denied her 15 minutes?
Cha
(297,774 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)But I have no interest in calling up Jane to ask her about it.
On the other hand, I might be curious to know why the OP thought it would be useful to post it.
-Laelth
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Cha
(297,774 posts)News! Or any other kind.
Cha
(297,774 posts)about her if she hadn't made it a POINT to say this.
I'd prefer she hadn't.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I am curious to know, however, how posting Jsnes comments here is useful ... in any way.
-Laelth
Cha
(297,774 posts)how they want to Jane Sanders' latest..
This board isn't in the business of covering up news.. good or bad.
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WA-03 Democrat
(3,056 posts)She doesnt have a Democratic bone in her body - an older Nina Turner if you will.
comradebillyboy
(10,177 posts)Statistical
(19,264 posts)he never runs for anything ever again. Sadly I agree with him from a policy standpoint and voted for him in the primary.
ProfessorGAC
(65,227 posts)I liked him a lot for a long time, but I question his ability to prioritize or compartmentalize, and his ability to control messaging from his inner circle is abysmal.
betsuni
(25,671 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)madaboutharry
(40,231 posts)I think hanging out with Bernie for so many decades has made her a malcontent. She was very angry that he lost the nomination to Hillary and it seems she hasn't gotten over it.
Comments like this, that anyone thinking Joe and Bernie are friends is in need "of correction" are divisive and unhelpful.
Such a comment is also unnecessary because according to a number of Senators, Bernie doesn't have any friends in the Senate.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)And I dont remember where, that Sanders was the Democrats Ted Cruz.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)demmiblue
(36,898 posts)I'm guessing that people don't want to read more than a headline and/or a couple of simplified paragraphs.
(This is not a commentary on the actual substance of the original article)
comradebillyboy
(10,177 posts)well buried. The TW piece, brief as it is, conveys Jane's sentiments quite well.
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,177 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Life is complicated... Motives and tactics and actions in the heat of the moment are complicated. It's never all one or the other."
Midnight Writer
(21,816 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,177 posts)She likely has even fewer friends than Bernie.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)Bitter and wholly irrelevant.
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)Maybe it's social media? I don't know, but people can't keep their shit quiet for a few weeks for the biggest cause in our lives. The primaries are over. If you don't have anything nice to say, keep it to yourself until Nov. 4th.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)Edited to add: my response is directed at Jane Sanders, not the OP.
The Magistrate
(95,256 posts)So she wants to get in there pitching and do what she can to help.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)She saw some recent internals from her handlers.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)P.S. I am female.
JI7
(89,276 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)The goal is to defeat the DT which requires coming together across differences.
But I still remember her 11/8/16 tweet "How we voted is not as important as that we voted"... I guess she hasn't changed.
still_one
(92,433 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)ask his staff and fellow senators
Cha
(297,774 posts)Joe Biden has lots of Friends.. Voters, too!
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)on multiple occasions, about how Biden was one of the few 'establishment' types to reach out to him.
They're workplace friends, nobody ever said they were friends otherwise. Don't know why Jane is doing this now, is counterproductive when we need unity as election day nears.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)and an eager disgruntle wife glad to assist
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)Look at the difference here versus people like Cory, Pete, Amy, Elizabeth, etc. Not to mention Hillary!
democrank
(11,112 posts)mcar
(42,388 posts)oasis
(49,426 posts)Response to RandySF (Original post)
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DesertRat
(27,995 posts)RandySF
(59,360 posts)maxrandb
(15,362 posts)BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)pnwmom
(109,000 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)I'm not friends with him either.
But i'm voting for him.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,641 posts)How is this helpful?
GaYellowDawg
(4,449 posts)Someone who couldn't really be friends with anyone who didn't 100% agree with him. Of course I could be very wrong, but that's how he strikes me.
we can do it
(12,202 posts)betsuni
(25,671 posts)"Joe Biden won't be the next FDR unless there are people like Bernie Sanders and other progressive leaders in Congress waking up every single day knowing that their job is not to be friends with Biden. Their job is to push Joe Biden whether he likes it or not. It can't be both. You have to choose."
No paling around!
Cha
(297,774 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,243 posts)DJT and the presidency, she is the antithesis of everything a First Lady should be.
Cha
(297,774 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,243 posts)Cha
(297,774 posts)hard to make it happen.
Tarheel
Bettie
(16,130 posts)it happens all the time.
Sogo
(4,997 posts)Is she just bitter?
Cha
(297,774 posts)who said they were "friends"?
jayfish
(10,039 posts)It "bothers" me when people don't know when, or even how, to keep their fecking mouths shut.
trueblue2007
(17,240 posts)i view him as a crotchy kinda man. not friends, no happy bones HIS body.
LiberalFighter
(51,137 posts)He did NOT move me or make me a fan of him back then.
On Jane. I don't have anything nice to say about her.