"Bernie Sanders ailenates his natural allies. He is completely ineffective as a lobbyist..."

[XRubicon]

"... because he offends just about everyone."

"His holier-than-thou attitude - saying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone else..."

Rep. Barney Frank

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19910712&id=vqJJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Xg0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4293,3641940&hl=en

It all makes sense now...

[comradebillyboy]

1. Barney Frank really doesn't like Bernie...

[Hortensis]

24. He respects him for his good points.

They were colleagues for a long time. Note that liberals tend to be eyes-open to faults in friends and to virtues in people we don't like. We don't insist on seeing friends as all good and imagining opponents as all bad. This is a major clue to who is liberal in personality on this forum and who is some other type.

As in IMO Bernie's okay, just not nearly as good as Hillary.

[XRubicon]

25. I can see that...

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

2. Barney sold out and is in the tank for Hillary

He's carrying her water. I'm sure all coordinated with the campaign.

[840high]

33. Absolutely - Barney can kiss my...

[Ned_Devine]

3. Which bank is Barney working for now?

[aidbo]

38. I know it might have been a rhetorical question, but the answer is Signature Bank

He's on the board of directors.
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/06/17/barney-frank-yes-that-barney-frank-joins-a-bank-board/

[Ned_Devine]

39. Thanks!

It wasn't rhetorical

[Mufaddal]

4. Good ol' Barney Banks

Seems like a legit source lol

[notadmblnd]

5. 25 years ago?

seriously?

[XRubicon]

40. Yes, I found it interesting that he is the same now

[JudyM]

6. Talk about offensive and full of himself... Barney Frank??

[jillan]

7. No surprise coming from Barney. He obviously does not own a mirror.

[ebayfool]

8. OMG! I surrender! I see it so clearly, now!

Hillary is substantially more artful at playing politics than Bernie. Her disingenuous nature and ability to lie is what we need for the Democrats to win the general election. I'm done with Bernie, he is simply too authentic -- Not made for politics! So let us all vote for that lying closeted homophobic racist and plutocratic neocon, so that she can represent her lobbyists and keep the status quo for her corporate donors, who also pays her millions to give her secretive world-shaking speeches that she guards with way more effort than sensitive government documents.

in case it's needed!

Tell me please, when you posted that ... did you get a little frisson all over, thinking that you were being oh-so-clever?

[pacalo]

9. That's my Bernie: Stepping on the toes of the sell-outs.

[PyaarRevolution]

10. Barney is the same asshole...

who was willing to throw Transmen and women under the bus to pass ENDA. Additionally, he was a stooge for the bankers(was against the "Audit the FED" bill).

[Broward]

11. Barney Frank, another banker sell-out.

At least many are revealing themselves.

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. OMFG You're not kiddin' IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

Mr. Frank joined to the board of directors of the New York-based Signature Bank on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.

His sister, Ann Lewis, served as a senior adviser in Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.

[840high]

35. There you are - so damn obvious. They

all think we're stupid.

[intheflow]

13. Sanders passing affordable housing legislation in 1991 beats Clinton's being on WalMart's

board that same year, destroying Mom and Pop shops across America.

[MaggieD]

14. Exactly

Bernie couldn't pass a piece of legislation not about naming a post office if his life depended on it. And Jane apparently thinks OK is a blue state or something.

#livinginalternatereality

[Bluenorthwest]

22. OK is a State Bernie Sanders won, a State with 25% minority voters and the second largest Native

American population in the country, largest aside from Alaska. Many, many Hillary supporters have been claiming OK is 'almost exclusively white' when it is not. This is because Hillary supporters do not count the Native people.
In fact, I welcome people to look up the phrase on DU-'OK mostly white' to find Hillary supporters who obviously don't grasp demographics and who do not seem to count the Native Americans....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511307324

[djean111]

15. Wasn't Barney's Bullshit dredged up here months ago?

I would have thought that there would at least be new bullshit - guess not!

[Kalidurga]

16. Hey it's hard to manufacture new bullshit everyday.

Just think about they amount of straw you need to feed those bulls.

[djean111]

19. Not only that, but the use of "............." - so effective in these situations!

Only three are required, but when I see the extra periods, I always think "Oh! This is serious shit! I had better re-examine my abhorrence of war and fracking and cluster bombs, and such, because - ellipsis!" Or ellipses - I dunno, does using more than three periods make it plural? Must research!

[Kalidurga]

34. And the CAPS we must be putting on our CAPS FTW!!!!

[liberal_at_heart]

17. You mean Bernie is not a natural bank lobbyist? Say it ain't so.

He pisses off all the right people in my opinion.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. Barrney

Mr. Barney Scandal Frank

[Segami]

20. LOL! ...Bankster Barney has NOTHING to say!

[Bluenorthwest]

21. Barney Frank? He's not well liked by his own community. Additionally, he is promoting a candidate

whom I used to like personally and support politically who alienated me by preaching against my rights as a gay person, something Barney is always willing to compromise around.

Like the HRC, Barney supported the non inclusive ENDA, meaning he favored denying protections to transgender people in order to get protections for gay people. Alienation of a large number of the people they claim as constituents, and both Barney and HRC have spent years trying to win back the trust of the people they betrayed.

Hillary folks think they support LGBT but the support the Established A-List Gays, not the transgender community and not the youth, not the poor nor the middle class. HRC took an endorsement vote from their Board of 30-that is precisely how equitable and democratic they are

[Bluenorthwest]

23. If uninformed folks wish to keep flailing Frank and HRC around, they should consider reading the

following link, "Let’s be Frank About Barney Frank and ENDA"
Early Fall 2014, the LGBT political community seems to be getting its inclusive act together, gay Republican marriage equality donors have been pushing for an inclusive ENDA and HRC’s new president Chad Griffin makes a historic apology to the transgender community over the ENDA Debacle of 2007 speaking at the Southern Comfort Conference in September 2014, and backs his apology with HRC’s encouraging actions to accompany their words of transgender inclusion, Barney Frank comes out of his retirement to throw grease on a long burning fire that had cooled down below a simmer.
http://www.tgforum.com/wordpress/index.php/lets-be-frank-about-barney-frank-and-enda/

The author writing as “Babs” is a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee, Deputy Vice Chair of the NJ Democratic State Committee and Political Director of the Gender Rights Advocacy Association of NJ. For the current campaign she serves on the Executive Committee of Trans United 4 Obama. She has served as Vice Chair of the DNC Eastern Caucus, President of NJ Stonewall Democrats, Co-Chair of National Stonewall Democrats Federal PAC Board, Vice-Chair of Garden State Equality, Executive Board member of National Stonewall Democrats as Chair of the DNC Relations Committee and a member of the NJ Civil Unions Review Commission.



This charge of 'alienating' people is thick, rich and hotly ironic coming from Barney Banks.....

[Stuckinthebush]

26. That sounds like GD-P!

[XRubicon]

27. I know right... his supporters here grafted his traits.

[highprincipleswork]

28. Oh yeah, like I'm going to listen to Barney Frank, particularly on the subject of offending someone!

[renate]

29. for whatever it's worth, Barney Frank is in one of my gifs

(Second from the right... obviously.)

He didn't know who Stephen Colbert was, so he was ignoring him.

I don't really have anything to contribute to the discussion other than that... but I'm just so fond of that gif.

[840high]

36. good one

[Impedimentus]

30. Barney Who ?

Yawn

[XRubicon]

37. Barney Frank.

[jg10003]

31. It sounds like Frank resents Bernie for being all the things that Frank wishes he could be.

[Scootaloo]

32. Barney "Signature Bank" Frank's opinion amounts to what, exactly?

[Dem2]

41. So this election is about the 'know nothings' vs the 'know everythings'?

j/k