I wonder if Bernie Sanders feels a little bit sillly right now.

[LoZoccolo]

[CleanGreenFuture]

1. Why should he feel silly?

[Broderick]

22. No kidding

When the negotiations start from a Republican platform.

He has no reason to feel silly

[Zenlitened]

2. He doesn't. I just asked him.

:crazy:

[TBF]

34. Silly? He should feel thrilled. There's definitely a movement to replace POTUS

with him.

ETA: Meant to respond to OP.

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. Why would he? We are in the EXACT SAME SITUATION today as we were yesterday.

For all his bluster and angry rhetoric, President Obama basically came out and said "nothing happened".

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. +1000 n/t

[Ikonoklast]

54. When Obama says little, people want the Bully Pulpit.

When Obama *uses* the Bully Pulpit, it's just "bluster and angry rhetoric".

And you wonder why he can't please you, it's not possible for him to do so.

[TomClash]

4. He should feel proud nt

[freshwest]

5. Doh. Explain that to dummies like me.

[Kingofalldems]

6. He fought for what he believed in. Very honorable.

[kentuck]

7. Maybe that was the catalyst that got Obama off the dime?

Ever think about that? A little tough love is good for the soul.

[swilton]

57. I don't believe for one minute that Obama is off the dime

While entitlements may be off the table, I don't doubt that they would be put back on the table in 2012.

Furthermore Rep DeFazio was complaining of the spending cuts that Obama was proposing w/o getting any revenue generation in return.

Obama is great on giving speeches - and waffling to make skeptics believe his intentions are well-meaning. But I fallen for the rhetoric only to be disappointed by the actions one too many times.

I still would support Sanders and I hope he decides to make a run for it....

[Blasphemer]

8. Silly? No. Relieved? Most Likely

He has been strongly opposed to deals including cuts to SS and Medicare. President Obama said himself that $650 billion in cuts were on the table. The deal did not happen. What's to feel silly about?

[tularetom]

9. What? Do we have a deal with no cuts to SS/Medicare?

Elimination of the bush tax cuts?

Cuts to the defense budget?

No, we don't have any of those things. We have a pissed off president but we don't have an agreement on the debt ceiling either, so as far as I'm concerned there is absolutely no reason for Sanders to feel silly.

[tishaLA]

10. unrec.

I like this President almost as much as anyone else, but going after Bernie is not cool. Bernie is a hero.

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. Silly? I would think he is popping a cork right now.

You reduce him to sound bytes. Bullshit. At the end of the day, he will do and say what he needs to do and say to make sure that the right thing is done for the right reasons.

[neverforget]

13. You're one liners are getting really old

[MannyGoldstein]

14. Obama offered $650 b of cuts to the most helpless

Bernie was/is dead-nuts right.

[Broderick]

24. Absolutely

This is silly. Obama speaks, people gush, but don't hear what he said!!!!! We are negotiating on a Republican platform. There is no other plan. Makes me sick.

[Sheepshank]

55. "We are negotiating on a Republican platform"

didn't buy it the first time you said it. Not sounding any more realistic this time around either.

[Peregrine Took]

15. Why, he never said he would run against Obama. He would, reluctantly,

seek out a challenger in the primary IF Obama went through with purported program cuts.

Sheesh!

[LoZoccolo]

16. He said he was thinking or talking about it or something.

[Luminous Animal]

17. Yes. I think that Bernie should apologize for "or something".

[piratefish08]

18. we have the same shitty deal as before! worse, in fact.

oh, yeah.

he talked tough.

i'm all aquiver, but the deal offered still sucked.

[Mimosa]

19. NO. because he fights the good fight.

The president needs progressives.

[Kahuna]

20. Bernie's hair is always on fire. I don't pay him any attention since

last year when he attributed something to Obama and it turned out to be something the president never said and he had to admit that the president didn't actually say it. He was reduced to the crazy old uncle in the attic after that.

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[Rex]

23. Dunno.

Why do you ask?

[cottonseed]

25. It's because of Bernie's threat of a primary that Obama found his spine!

I'm sure they saw the tremendous outpouring of support from the DU "Democratic base" that it forced Obama to move! When your base, the same base that constantly bashes you and vows to withhold their vote piles on the Bernie Sanders bandwagon, you better make some changes!

[steelmania75]

27. bingo. I think he even mentioned primary challenge as a part of "political games"

[pipi_k]

40. Hahahahahaha!!!

That "support" for Bernie Sanders thread has (so far) about 306 replies. Most of them are people arguing with each other. Or posting to themselves. That probably makes about 120 actual "I'M SUPPORTING HIM!!!!" replies.

Yeah. I'm sure the WH was just shitting themselves over the millions thousands hundreds dozens of pissed off people on an internet discussion group.

:+

[Sheepshank]

56. Bingo baby n/t, but +1

[Kahuna]

44. Suuuuuuuuuuure. That's the reason...

:crazy:

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. I wish he was my senator - "silly"or not

[white_wolf]

28. I wonder if the OP ever posts anything but one liner flame bait posts.

Sanders did the right thing standing up to this right-wing administration and if this country had any sense at all he would be president.

[slipslidingaway]

31. I wonder the same thing, that is why people should let the threads sink. n/t

[cali]

32. Why would you wonder that when it's patently obvious that that's all he posts.

[pipi_k]

62. Well, if they're "flamebait", then alert on them...

Although I have to say that I've hardly ever seen any of the OP's threads get locked.

Just because people can't deal with a topic in an adult manner, that doesn't mean it's "flamebait".

:shrug:

[cali]

29. Why should he? Obama was willing to give the repukes cut after cut. THEY turned him down.

[KittyWampus]

30. Sick of your flame bait.

[lamp_shade]

33. He played his role brilliantly. He should be very proud of himself and his President.

[rury]

35. Silly....he should feel pretty damned stupid...

....along with those unrealistic purists who post non-sensical anti-Obama diatribes here about the president being a "corporate sellout" and a "DINO."
He's doing what he can, when he can with a bunch of racist Tea Party fucktards in control of the House of Representatives.
And you know what?
I lay much of the blame for the 2010 disastrous midterm elections squarely at the feet of the so-called "progressives" who stayed away from the polls last November because Obama didn't create a utopia immediately upon taking office!
The rest of the blame goes to the low information rednecks who vote Republikkkans against their best interests.
And before you start with that infantile claim that he had Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, remember (if you were ever smart enough to know it in the first place) that those "Democrats" were largely "Blue Dogs" and conservative Democrats who vote often with Republicans.
True progressives were in the minority then and are even more outnumbered now.
I wish I could get inside the heads of all the Obama bashers on this forum and determine which ones are unrealistic liberal purists who don't understand how the system works against progressive change and which ones are trolls being paid by the Koch brothers to post here.


OBAMA 2012!!!!!!!!

:dem:

[grntuscarora]

36. Gee, I hope not.

Bernie just tells it like it is, without the theatrics. While all the rest act like it's all a big reality TV show, he just states the obvious. I love him for it.

[City Lights]

37. Unrec.

:garbage:

[Cool Logic]

38. I doubt it. He seems to have traversed the boundaries of phony D&R political posturing.

I don't often agree with him on economic issues, but like Ron Paul, you know he has no hidden agenda.

These are vulgar, obscene people who, in many cases, I really do believe, have serious emotional problems. In this country we have people who have drug problems, people who have alcohol problems. Bernie Sanders, referring to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

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[bluestate10]

41. The far Left, like the far Right, has no shame. nt

[Bluebear]

42. Neither do you.

/ignore

[bluestate10]

53. Thanks for setting me to ignore. Want no part of your small, detached world. nt

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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

45. Hopefully, he's feeling like a candidate.

[Marr]

46. The president offered cuts to SS and Medicare.

People who assured us he'd never do such a thing should feel silly.

[FLAprogressive]

47. Does OFA pay you per month or per topic posted? I'm guessing the latter.

[QC]

52. They say that Dickens wrote such long novels b/c he was paid by the word. n/t

[lunatica]

48. He's one politician who isn't interested in political points so I doubt he feels silly

He's one of those rare beings who fights for the right things because they're right.

[mmonk]

49. Nope.

[OwnedByFerrets]

50. Why the fuck should he? Maybe YOU should for posting this

idiocy.

[CaptRandom]

51. Yaaay! a hit and run post...n/t

[FLAprogressive]

61. that's standard operating procedure

[Forkboy]

58. I hear he's on the verge of suicide over it.

[QC]

60. He is drowning his sorrows in maple syrup even as we speak! n/t

[Lucian]

59. Do you feel silly after posting this?

Obama offered billions of dollars to cut from the poor.

I bet you find your one sentence OP's to be cute, don't you? No depth and no substance.

:eyes: