Bernie Sanders: "Joe is a good friend of mine, and I'm not here to attack Joe"

[mtnsnake]

Last edited Tue May 14, 2019, 08:37 AM - Edit history (1)

That was Bernie's response when a reporter tried to bait him into saying something negative about Biden. In the same video, Bernie shows even more solidarity when he said: "We are all gonna come together to defeat the most dangerous president in modern American history, and that is Donald Trump."

Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke are also in the same video with comments that display unity. Despite what some people think, our candidates are all united with the same purpose: Defeat Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/bernie-versus-biden-democratic-candidacy-2020-election-62840265

[ecstatic]

1. I'm glad he's not going to attack anymore.

I hope he updates his campaign on his new policy as well.

[George II]

2. He leaves that job for Nina Turner, David Sirota, Briahna Gray, Cornell West, and Susan Sarandon.

[crazytown]

3. Don't you ask me to attack Joe Biden

I pay my staff to do that.

[NurseJackie]

30. ...

[highplainsdem]

4. That link you posted has nothing to do with the rest of your OP.

[mtnsnake]

9. Thank you.

I couldn't find any way of linking to that video without having the headline that had nothing to do with the video sitting above it.

[Celerity]

14. here

https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/bernie-versus-biden-democratic-candidacy-2020-election-62840265

[Celerity]

15. here is the video only

https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/bernie-versus-biden-democratic-candidacy-2020-election-62840265

[mtnsnake]

18. Thank you!! I just edited my OP to replace the first video link with the one you provided me.

[Celerity]

20. yw!

[JI7]

5. lol , we have been through this many times

[awesomerwb1]

6. Cool story bro.

[yaesu]

7. Good on Bernie! nt

[MrsCoffee]

8. I don't want to hear shit about unity from anyone pushing the story you linked to.

We all know who was behind that blatant stunt.

And we all see the epic fail in this OP.

[mtnsnake]

11. The headline sitting above that video had zero to do with the video itself or anything in my post.

Most people have already figured that out, so I don't appreciate you coming here with the intent purpose of ruining a thread that was clearly meant to show unity among the Democratic candidates. Go and ruin someone else's message next time. Your hatred of Bernie Sanders has been obvious. Get over it.

[betsuni]

16. What?

[MrsCoffee]

26. No idea lol.

But apparently I shouldn’t have paid any attention to the original link in the OP.

[MrsCoffee]

25. Ill get over it when I'm over it.

Don’t blame me for ruining your post. You didn’t need my help.

[mtnsnake]

31. Hey, if you feel the need to continue making everything into a Bernie vs Biden hate fest, have at it

Most people have gotten over the 2016 Primaries. Obviously you haven't.

[MrsCoffee]

32. Quit blaming me for reacting to your mistakes.

[mtnsnake]

33. Nice try but how about you quit wasting my time. Go disrupt someone else's thread please

like on some conservative posting forum where your brand of ingenuous nitpicking belongs.

[MrsCoffee]

34. I'll do whatever I want.

Several people reacted to your mistakes. Get over it.

[cwydro]

10. Interesting how your link has nothing to do with your headline.

Another poster already failed miserably trying to give that story legs.

[mtnsnake]

12. Exactly

and the headline above the video has nothing to do with my post or the video. Glad you figured that out.

[Tipperary]

23. He/she is not the only one who figured it out.

Pretty obvious.

[Kahuna7]

13. Bernie has lots of surrogates who will do the job for him.

[WeekiWater]

17. He has his top surrogates doing the attacking. That is clear.

His national press secretary and co-chairs aren't going off script. It comes from the top. More deception from Sanders. He is literally using a group of Jill Stein supporter to suppress votes for Democrats.

[NYMinute]

19. Actions speak louder than words

Hiring of David Sirota, Nina Turner and Brihana Joy Gray are what would be considered "actions."

Secretly dropping the Lucy Flores story is an action.

The fake story about Biden crossing a non-existent "picket line" is an action.

[MrsCoffee]

27. +1

[peggysue2]

41. Yes!

You can wash your hands of the 'attack mode' reaction by sending surrogates in to do the dirty work. And please, let's not hear the lame excuse that: Bernie had no knowledge of the haters, the Bernie Bros. He hired them, hand selected these megaphones for 2020--Sirota, Gray, Turner, etc.

The Flores story was a bust. The picket-line action was a bust. And since Joe Biden was the first of many speaking out on Climate Change, I predict this avenue of attack against Biden will also be a bust.

[mtnsnake]

21. Thanks to Celerity for finding a better link to the video. I just edited the OP with the new link.

Sorry about the first link which showed the same video but which had a news headline sitting above it that had nothing to do with the video itself or my post. My apologies for not being able to find a link at the time I posted the thread that only showed the video, period. Thanks again to the poster, Celerity, for providing a better link to the video itself.

[LakeArenal]

35. The ones who are negative have never made errors on DU apparently.

Obviously some get it. Others seem to want to tar the messenger.

[mtnsnake]

36. Thank you.

[comradebillyboy]

22. I seriously doubt that they are 'good friends'.

And Bernie has TYT, JD and OR surrogates to do the really dirty attacks.

[NYMinute]

44. I doubt Bernie has any "friends" in the senate

He probably eats alone in the Senators' Club.

[comradebillyboy]

45. He's at least as well loved as Ted Cruz.

[George II]

24. His "co-star" at the Sunrise Movement event last night had no qualms about taking...

...a shot at Biden. Nice "display of unity".

These people do a lot of talking, when are they going to take action?

[comradebillyboy]

43. Talking is much easier than doing.

[melman]

46. Who's this "co-star" you're talking about that does nothing but talk?

Name a name.

[zaj]

28. Might want to talk to AOC, Bernie...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-green-new-deal-rally/index.html

Ocasio-Cortez, who joined the young protesters back in November and later introduced the Green New Deal resolution with Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, closed the program with bite -- and a poke at Biden -- after remarks from Markey and Sanders.


"I'll be damned," she said, "if the same politicians who refused to act (in past decades) are going to try to come back today and say we need a middle of the road approach to save our lives."

[George II]

37. That's his MO, he lets others do the bashing for him. He was standing right there when she said that

[melman]

47. That's not bashing

[George II]

48. Saying this is bashing:

"the same politicians who refused to act (in past decades) are going to try to come back today and say we need a middle of the road approach to save our lives."

[Politicub]

29. That's great! I like reading news like this.

[George II]

38. Here's a tweet from HIS National Press Secretary. So much for Democratic "Unity", eh?

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

40. This is the same lady who attacked John Lewis and voted for Stein

[LanternWaste]

39. "I'm not here to attack Joe." Right. That's what proxies are for.

Proxies are more effective, more efficient and much more numerous. The proxies instruct us that polls are meaningless until they're not, and can really lay down the beat on 'splainin' to non-SWMs.

[BannonsLiver]

42. "I mean not here to attack him...except when I attack him."