2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMSNBC just now: Obama to endorse Clinton as early as this week, spoke to Bernie this weekend
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Sorry.
beaglelover
(3,496 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)LexVegas
(6,121 posts)PepperHarlan
(124 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)but it could have been early in the morning on Thursday 7 December
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)MFM008
(19,829 posts)a bit testy.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Not that he cares.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Godhumor
(6,437 posts)He will have stayed neutral until the contest was mathematically decided.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)because he endorsed the winner of the Democratic party is vanishingly small.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)JudyM
(29,294 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)JudyM
(29,294 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)delegates, they become the nominee.
This happens even if the losing candidate is displeased.
Millions of people voted for Sanders. The vast majority of them know there's zero chance he will be the nominee, and they certainly will know as of tomorrow night that Hillary won.
They will not blame President Obama for acknowledging that Hillary won, because they can do arithmetic.
mcar
(42,439 posts)TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)It's just a matter of time.
Will he lose your respect when he does?
JudyM
(29,294 posts)TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)then you are soon going to have a dilemma on your hands. There is little doubt that Bernie Sanders will do as he has often said he would and support Hillary Clinton after she becomes the nominee.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Station to Station
(53 posts)If not, why?
Sanders was right that it was over & time to focus on defeating the Republican Party then, Obama will be right to do the same barring a monumental upset tomorrow.
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)I wish he would wait another week until DC votes, so as not to marginalize them further. But at the end of the day, if she is clearly ahead in votes and pledged delegates, I think we need to accept that.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)Don't know much about reddit, eh?
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)larkrake
(1,674 posts)Native
(5,943 posts)sheshe2
(84,005 posts)onenote
(42,821 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)She will be meeting the identical criteria he met to become the presumptive nominee in 2008.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)RandySF
(59,614 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)To hear that Pres. Obama spoke with Bernie--I'm sure telling him of his intentions to endorse Hillary as soon as all was nailed down IE: She'd cross the "threshold" as the official Dem Nominee for POTUS
Secondly....
I just this picture of Pres. Obama & Hillary:
And finally, I'm sure we've all heard that Pres. Obama cannot WAIT to get out there on the campaign trail vs Trump. Pres. Obama is not the vindictive sort at all, but his dislike of Trump borders on hate, and with Pres. Obama, you have to be a pretty nasty and vile person to get him to hate you. But then again, with Trump it would not be to difficult to do now as I think about it
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Can't wait to see him let loose.