Should Bernie Sanders fire his Senior Advisor for attacking Michelle Obama?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[Sloumeau]

1. Agnew should be told to resign...

just like the last Agnew.

[showblue22]

2. Sanders brings these kind of folks on to his team...

and his supporters say he is not to blame for the nastiness that has ensued upon us.

[we can do it]

3. BS never should have hired him.

But he does fit in with most of his staff, so there’s that.

[RandySF]

4. No

Bernie should own it.

[zackymilly]

5. No. His Senior Adviser and the rest will soon be out of a job anyway. n/t

[DonaldsRump]

6. If I didn't know Bernie Sanders before

This tells me everything I need to know about him.

Burn, Bernie, burn....your campaign is crashing and burning. It's no wonder why.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Just him? There are a few others.

[emmaverybo]

8. He should fire more than Agnew. He should denounce his bro's. He should stop airing

conspiracy theories. However, I think he believes in them—conspiracies against him, the people he enlists, their tactics.

[treestar]

9. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder

But how could any one not think Michelle beautiful let alone not ugly?

[4139]

10. 2009, 11 years ago?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. The assertion embodied in your answer is Bernie was aware of those comments

The assertion embodied in your answer is Bernie was aware of those comments when he made Agnew his Senior Advisor and that makes it even worse.

[George II]

13. These weren't 11 years ago, they're from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, and probably many more:

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[Happy Hoosier]

18. Has he retracted those tweets? Apologized for them?

Why did he make them in the first place?

And why are you defending him?

[KayF]

20. yes, a long apology

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[Happy Hoosier]

21. Thanks for posting that. I do feel better about him. NT

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. He apologized after he got caught.

[Cha]

11. And, apologize to Michelle Obama!

[showblue22]

14. Is Bernie sending a message with this hire?

Is he telling us he plans on ratcheting up the nastiness? I don't know why else he would hire this person. He's not going to expand his support like this. His intention maybe to go scorched earth and suppress Biden's support.

[karynnj]

15. What asinine comments, even if they are very old

Even if the woman mentioned was someone like Kellyanne Conway, who is obnoxious, it is ridiculous and sexist for a man to decide that it is his job to evaluate the attractiveness of a woman and to inform the public of his view. Nothing makes this ok -- and given that he was hired by a campaign that has been trying to refute any Bernie Bro culture, this hire makes no sense.

I know nothing else about him -- and from this feel no need to look at what other qualities he has. Either Sanders is having trouble getting people to work for him -- even as we collapsed to 2 campaigns - or this shows the type of people he is willing to hire.

[LiberalBrooke]

31. Well said.

What gives him or any male the right to muse on the attractiveness of any woman? That is the point right there.

[liberalmuse]

16. Jesus, this guy works for him?

Unbelievable how some of these sorts of people get high profile jobs. That shows bad judgement right there.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. JFC. Where the hell does he find so many assholes?

[spicysista]

19. This guy is just amazing....

Why doesn't Bernie have a better screening process? I know he has the money.

[comradebillyboy]

25. Bernie and Jane think this is perfectly good behavior. Why would

one possibly think that Bernie disapproves of this given the behavior of his senior staff?

[betsuni]

22. K&R

[comradebillyboy]

23. One would have to assume Bernie approves of Agnew's

statements. This is very much the kind of person that staffs the upper levels of the Sanders campaign. I mean Bri Bri is out there retweeting posts accusing Biden of being senile. Sanders hates the Democratic Party and it's leaders because we will not bend the knee for him.

[Vivienne235729]

24. Philip Agnew is remarkable.....in how he can shove his head THAT far up his ass is a wonder.

[CTyankee]

30. IKR?

So incredibly stupid and unnecessary. I wonder about the mindset of any political advisor in OUR party saying such a thing out loud.

To most Dems, Michelle is the most beautiful woman to ever walk the earth (excepting our mothers and daughters of course).

I want to cry just remembering her and missing her...

[Vivienne235729]

33. It amazes me what people constitute as beautiful & the traits they assign to this so called "beauty"

This manufactured, superficial, mostly unattainable standard of female beauty. I see Republican men and women repeating how "classy" Melanoma is when on the very next tweet, I see melania posing nude. How do you reconcile that? And here's Michelle, rising from the south side of Chicago, going to Columbia, and then Harvard law. GIVE. ME. A BREAK. I wish we can teach people that brains and empowerment are FAR more attractive than a certain height/weight ratio or a certain symmetry in facial features. And teach our girls it's far more attractive to earn your own success and make your own money than relying on a man to do it for you. Arm candy isn't pretty. Nor is it classy.

[LisaM]

26. No, he should never have hired him.

This was out there before he was hired. If the Sanders camp didn't vet him (or worse, if they did but accepted this), it's on them.

[oasis]

27. Let Agnew remain and be a constant reminder of Bernie's poor judgement. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. I thought whataboutism was a province of the right.

[George II]

36. Biden hasn't taken a penny from Morgan and Morgan (who are they?) OR PAC money over $5000 each.

How about some specifics of any of that?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. What does that have to do with Bernie's Senior Advisor suggesting the former First Lady is ugly?

[applegrove]

29. He's blind as a bat too.

[Celerity]

32. He needs to sack Briahna Joy Gray, Nina Turner, & Sirota too, as they are some of the most divisive

top staff on any campaign in my lifetime and do true damage to our Party. He also needs to FULLY condemn Cenk.