Sanders looking grim and tired as he addresses a wildly cheering rally in VA right now

[highplainsdem]

Not a word so far to congratulate Biden.

Warren started her rally speech with congratulating him.

[highplainsdem]

1. Finally congratulates Biden, and his supporters who have no class booed Biden.

[mcar]

13. Ugh

[at140]

33. Why is it a surpprise when a 77 year old looks tired after

a grueling campaign tour? Heck I look tired after a shopping trip to grocery store.

[Magoo48]

57. I hear that.

[SidDithers]

80. If he's too old and tired in February, how is he going to make it to November?...nt

Sid

[Cha]

41. Of course..

[jimfields33]

53. Please. Biden looked tired from time to time

I don’t recall us being rude about it.

[PatSeg]

70. I agree

Bernie did look tired, but I thought that was to be expected.

[Cha]

87. Heh Pat.. just to be clear.. I said "of course" to those

who "Booed Biden".. I said Nothing about BS "looking tired".

Thank you!

[PatSeg]

88. Oh no problem

I was just agreeing with the other poster, trying to find common ground. Too much time spent nitpicking the little stuff. I can't even begin to imagine how exhausting presidential campaigns are.

[Cha]

86. Hello! I saying "of course" to those who "Booed" Biden.. I

said Nothing about BS "looking tired"

[grossproffit]

49. How long did he allow them to boo? Was it as long as he allowed his supporters to boo after Hillary

won California?

[PTWB]

68. I'm not sure that bringing up 2016 is wise considering what ended up happening.

[tishaLA]

2. he seems sedated

and he just congratulated VP Biden and some in the crowd booed. Just pathetic.

[NurseJackie]

15. Sad.

[zackymilly]

3. His heart may just not be in it. n/t

[NurseJackie]

50. Oh you...

[Callado119]

4. Yup, and where are his medical records? He doesn't look well..

[highplainsdem]

11. No, he doesn't look welll.

[LisaM]

83. He doesn't.

I thought he looked kind of gray recently, which is telling. I don't think his health is holding up.

[George II]

5. Why is he in Virginia already? Wasn't Biden bashed for going to South Carolina....

....before the end of the New Hampshire voting?

[highplainsdem]

8. Yes, he was, but most if not all of Biden's rivals left SC before today.

[still_one]

19. +++. For pointing out the hypocrisy

[sheshe2]

79. He was in Boston yesterday. nt

[DonaldsRump]

6. Am feeling the Burn....the Biden Burn! n/t

[LakeArenal]

77. Looks like Bernie is feeling it as well.

[Sparkly]

7. They don't sound all that wild to me.

[highplainsdem]

9. They were cheering louder before Sanders mentioned the loss in SC. Making so much noise at the

start you'd've thought that Sanders had just won SC.

[NurseJackie]

10. Warren has class. She's got the right temperament...

... she's kind.

[at140]

34. All true, and she is the most intelligent of the group

running this year. I am entitled to my opinion!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

48. No you are not!

Just kidding. I think her depth of knowledge and instant recall on so many subjects is very extraordinary. She would be a great president.

[elleng]

12. Doesn't look grim to me.

I'd expect him (and ALL of them) to be tired.

[highplainsdem]

14. Sanders emphasizing that young voters don't vote enough. Telling his young supporters to

get their friends to vote.

He doesn't sound quite as confident of his revolution or movement as usual.

[Moderateguy]

16. Understatement of the century..

He is leading by 1 point in voters under 45 in SC. Young voters are never a reliable voting bloc and a candidate who rests his campaign on the youth vote alone is courting disaster

[apcalc]

17. Same crap , four years later

[Karadeniz]

20. I thought he looked all fagged out.

[highplainsdem]

21. There's probably enough wrong with his heart that he should NOT be campaigning.

[Bucky]

23. I'd be careful about encouraging talk about candidates's health

If I was backing the guy who forgets what state he's in and sometimes bleeds from the eyeball

[highplainsdem]

24. How petty. I've seen Warren forget what state she's in. And there's nothing about

Biden's health that anywhere near as risky as Sanders's heart attack, especially given his refusal to release his medical records.

Whether or not you like it, whether or not you want to post vaguely threatening messages, Sanders's health is a major concern, as cardiologists have pointed out.

[Bucky]

28. Sigh, if you don't want tacky responses, don't start tacky conversations

Every candidate has vulnerabilities. You might consider preparing to address them instead of dishing on fellow Dems. What gets posted here won't be a fraction of how bad it gets on the fall

[highplainsdem]

32. Again, Sanders's heart problems are a serious concern -- for all Democrats, if there's any chance

he's going to be our nominee. But especially for him and his family.

I took care of an older relative with heart problems. I got used to recognizing when looking exhausted meant another trip to the ER was likely in the near future.

[at140]

35. Why is a president's health a big deal when

there is a VP able and ready to continue the job, and if even that fails, there is the speaker of House in line.

[highplainsdem]

36. Unbelievable question.

[at140]

37. It's a real statement...the constitution is well defined

over succession, and the president usually picks a VP who will continue the agenda.
And here is a more stark fact...no one over age 65 is guaranteed to live any length of time.
Just look at the obituary pages, and find out how many die sooner than age 65.

[highplainsdem]

38. If you really think a president's (or candidate's) health doesn't matter because

of succession, I suggest you post an OP about that. The replies should be interesting.

[tavernier]

54. Yes... a silly argument.

But ppl here will argue just about anything to the death.

[at140]

61. haha you want me to get flamed?

I am already sunburned from the 5 day cruise to Bahamas.

[highplainsdem]

63. No. I hope no one would flame you. I want you to understand how few people agree with you.

[at140]

67. Never get scared if most people do not agree with you!

Only a small percentage of general population reaches top 10% level and even fewer reach top 1%.
Exceptional thinking is the only path to extra-ordinary success.

[highplainsdem]

69. Never assume you're right and superior just because you're in a small minority.

This is a democracy, and people besides those who congratulate themselves on "exceptional thinking" get to express their opinions.

Most Americans care about the health of their candidates.

[Cha]

42. And, you're doing the same, Bucky.

[PatSeg]

73. Campaigning can be grueling

and everyone gets forgetful when they are on the trail. As for the "eyeball", if he is on any kind of blood thinner, that could explain it. It happened to me a couple months ago and I'd only taken aspirin. Scared me, but turned out to be nothing.

[dware]

22. You might want to rethink what you wrote,

that seems to be a homophobic slap at the gay community.

Personally, I don't think it is, but to others, it might be.

Just a word of caution.

[highplainsdem]

25. No, it isn't. Google "fagged out."

[dware]

30. I know what it means,

I'm talking about those that hit the alert button without googling.

[oasis]

26. Withdraw early and save everybody time, money and headaches.

Pretty please.

[DonaldsRump]

27. Am feeling the Burn....the Biden Burn! n/t

[bluedye33139]

29. Warren is a Democrat.

[boston bean]

31. I thought he did not look well his voice was weak.

And he wasn’t flailing the arms or wagging the fingers as much from what I saw.

[ForEverGlades]

44. I'm not sure

there's much room for Joe to criticize anyone for having a weak voice on the campaign trail.
I mean have you heard some of the things he has said while campaigning lately?
Seriously, what's next?

[Vivienne235729]

39. Bernie is like that. Sadly, it's not the first time. This is partly why he rubs me the wrong way.

[Cha]

40. Oh wow.. Elizabeth congratulated, Biden.. How nice!

[showblue22]

43. Bernie supporters booed when Bernie congratulated Biden

Warren supporters clapped when she did the same.

[grantcart]

45. They booed Joe twice. Sanders did nothing

[showblue22]

47. We need someone who is going to heal and unite the country.

Anger won't heal.

[NurseJackie]

52. Classy.

[Vivienne235729]

62. Yet another reason why Sanders has no business being our nominee.

This level of pettiness or whatever the hell it is, is just distasteful and wrong. And yet people talk about him unifying the democratic party....give me a break.

[cwydro]

46. And this is different from his normal self, how?

Not a fan.

Sorry, not sorry.

[zackymilly]

51. His make-up person went a little heavy on the blush. n/t

[Kurt V.]

55. Interesting to note, in this thread, ppl SEE different things, yet watched the same thing.

[honest.abe]

56. He knows he is in trouble.

Probably a repeat of 2016.

[Blue_true]

58. He needed SC to be a win or close to basically knock Biden out.

SC was neither, so now a tough stretch for Bernie commences. His team is whining about how California is handling it's presidential primary because they likely know a lot of the kids coming to his rallies didn't bother to reregister as democrats so that they could pull a presidential ballot to vote as a democrat. Among democrats in a diverse state, he has tough sledding.

[honest.abe]

59. i read a bit about the CA registration issue.

Do you know if its going to be a significant factor?

[Blue_true]

64. I believe that it is going to be significant and will favor Biden doing a lot better than

polling there indicates. From what I understand, relative to NPP voters, California has a two tiered system, they don't get to participate in the second tier, which is the presidential primary. When pollsters poll voters there, unless the pollsters word their question specifically AND voters understand how the voting works, pollsters will get a very inaccurate representation of how the body of all voters will vote in the presidential primary. NPP registered voters make up little more than one third of voters in California, ahead of republicans but behind democrats, so including their preferences in primaries that they can't vote in leads to a massive error in the polls.

The Sanders campaign is complaining about NPP voters not being able to vote in the presidential primary, but Bernie has been basically running since November of 2016, he should have figured out a way to get them registered as Democrats.

[honest.abe]

66. Very interesting. CA might be a much different story than most were thinking.

Thanks for the explanation!

[totodeinhere]

71. With Bernie up 17 points in the latest RCP average in California I think it will

only be a minor issue at best.

[honest.abe]

74. I think all polling pre SC is way off at this point.

I suspect most of Bloomberg’s support will go to Biden and Sanders numbers will drop. Also undecideds and those on the fence would likely go to Biden now. Add to all that this registration mess.. CA could be a wash.

[totodeinhere]

75. I doubt it because with early voting last night's results will not have affected anyone who has

already voted. And three days isn't much time for Joe to capitalize on last night, especially since he lacks the funds for big media buys in places like California and Texas.

[honest.abe]

76. I read not that many have early voted and held their ballots in case some candidates drop out.

I think it was in the range of only 20% early voted so far in CA. Furthermore those that early voted were likely solid on their choice so they would not be affected regardless. The remaining 80% would likely be affected by SC results. There are still 2 full days until Super Tuesday. That’s actually perfect amount of time for max impact.. imo.

[totodeinhere]

78. Remember that not all voters are as fully engaged as the average DU poster is. n/t

[honest.abe]

81. Biden huge win last night is all over all media.

It would be hard to miss even for the average non DU person.

[totodeinhere]

84. So Biden's big win last night will affect the average voter.

But Bernie's big win a week ago in Nevada did not affect the results in South Carolina? That seems like disconnected logic to me. But it's just a couple of days away so maybe we should stop arguing about what we think might happen and just wait for the results.

[honest.abe]

85. Too many things happened between NV and SC.

Debate, endorsements, town hall. Plus the win by Bernie in a caucus was expected... the 30 pt win by Biden in SC was way beyond expectations.

[MoonRiver]

65. Same ole Bernie.

[totodeinhere]

72. Of course he's tired. He has been campaigning non-stop and it has got to be getting to him.

I hope that after Super Tuesday he might take a break but I doubt it. But if he can withstand the rigors of this non-stop campaign then maybe even at his age he could withstand the rigors of the presidency.

[duforsure]

82. I like Bernie but,

His health is a problem, along with his refusing to put all health records out. Joe makes too many mistakes , and he's behind the times, and I don't think he'd hold people accountable . Joe already failed at stopping trump , Putin, and Moscow Mitch . Bernie is not being straight with the American people now by refusing to open up his records. As employers of the President we should have every right to see and judge them for ourselves. Anyone putting out phony records or false claims about their health should be disqualified from running or holding that position, and all candidates and the President should be forced to random drug testing, or disqualified. Most employers are allowed to do that so why nosy us for the highest position in our government.