The Democratic Party owes Hillary big time

[geek tragedy]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4AxJ54UK8

Damn. Just damn.

I bet that call with president Obama was really pleasant.

I expect an angry speech from him tonight.

[SunSeeker]

1. Wow, what a damning article. So all those bad campaign ideas were Bernie's.

Yes, the Democratic party does owe Hillary a huge debt of gratitude.

[geek tragedy]

2. Trumpian temperament. nt

[Cha]

11. I knew it.. and if something wasn't he still approved it.. What a horribly, very bad

decision maker.

If your heart isn't in the right place this is what happens. Always maintained sanders is his own worst enemy.

[William769]

3. I'd rather watch the homeshopping network.

Not sure which one would be trying to sell me something I don't need.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Insightful article.

It changes my view of a lot of what happened.

[TwilightZone]

5. I've seen it noted that that conversation was 30-45 minutes long. I can just imagine.

Probably explains why Obama and Biden, among others, decided that this had gone on long enough.

[Fresh_Start]

6. i figured the same...

they had to decide that Bernie was willing to burn down the house to spite everyone else if he didn't get his way

[LiberalFighter]

7. This made me mad. Very pissed off.

It looks like he wants a lot of control of the DNC. They are making too many demands.

I don't agree with Debbie Wasserman Schultz but under no circumstance should she step down. She should stay until her term is over. And absolutely no way should Tulsi Gabbard be the convention chair. Hillary as the presumptive nominee should determine that position. Not the loser.

Jeff Weaver, Mark Longabaugh, and Tadd Devine as far as I am concerned should be banned from access ever having access to the VAN.

[UtahLib]

8. Wow, his own people painted an accurately ugly picture of Bernie.

[Cha]

10. I did not see that coming.. trying to save their own skin?

BS has it coming.. Rachel should read this.. and see if she still thinks he's a "hero"?

[Cha]

9. YES We Do! I knew this. you just have to have read sanders' history, his words, and his actions to

know it.

There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.

“I don’t know who advised him that this was the right route to take, but we are now actively destroying what Bernie worked so hard to build over the last year just to pick up two fucking delegates in a state he lost,” rapid response director Mike Casca complained to Weaver in an internal campaign email obtained by POLITICO.

What he got was left wing pundits turning against him and no "fucking" delegates.

Bitter berni.. will be left in the dust..

Aides say Sanders thinks that progressives who picked Clinton are cynical, power-chasing chickens — like Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of his most consistent allies in the Senate before endorsing Clinton and campaigning hard for her ahead of the Ohio primary. Sanders is so bitter about it that he’d be ready to nix Brown as an acceptable VP choice, if Clinton ever asked his advice on who’d be a good progressive champion.

"Every time Sanders got into a knife fight, aides say, they ended up losing. But they could never stop Sanders when he got his back up."

Reid, according to people familiar with the conversation, ended the discussion thinking Sanders was on board. He backed Feingold. But that’s the last anyone heard.

Word got back to Reid’s team that Weaver had nixed the idea, ruling out backing anyone who hadn’t endorsed Sanders. Weaver says it’s because the Senate hopefuls had to get in line for Sanders’ support behind top backers like Gabbard and Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.)—though neither has a competitive race this year.

Sanders never followed up himself

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One Loser decision after another.

Thanks for this, geek.. I'm sure there will be more desconstruciing of what went wrong with the BS campaign.

We were all right there to see it.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4AxJ54UK8