No indication he will endorse before July.

[teamster633]

Just reported on NPR...WTF?

[BootinUp]

6. +1

[Cha]

7. Oh yeah... but they were too gracious to say it.. well we've seen it .. so we can say it for them.

[liberal N proud]

2. He is a self absorbed @$$

[livetohike]

3. I think his wife controls his actions. Wonder if his VT constituents know this?

She was in the meeting with Hillary last night.

[BlueMTexpat]

31. Seemingly

not.

[livetohike]

36. Good point! But I wonder how involved she was

In his decisions when he was Only the VT Senator Sanders (I).

[stopbush]

38. Oh, she's obviously involved. And she feeds his self-centered ways

rather than mitigating them.

They deserve each other.

[apcalc]

4. Life will go on ...

[Her Sister]

5. Expecting daily stunts every freaking day til the convention! and probably beyond...

Get himself on the news! TV. Very important "press conferences" with very important "announcements!"

Maybe another Vatican Trip.

Wondering! Can he still ask for donations?

[Treant]

40. Donations = Yes

As long as he doesn't quit the campaign--even if he only suspends it--he can ask for donations.

Many politicians use that as a means to pay off their campaign debts in the event of a loss like this. In this case, I can't predict what he'll do.

[Thinkingabout]

44. Exactly, he needs Democrats to retire his debt.

[Walk away]

8. So far we are doing really well without him so....

who really cares if he doesn't come around until October? By then he won't matter very much. He is starting not to matter much now.

[justhanginon]

9. In light of his primary behavior not only to our presumptive nominee

Secretary Clinton and the Democratic party in general his speaking role at the convention should be limited to; " the rest rooms are over there", may I see your ticket please" or "valet parking maam?".

[tonyt53]

10. Does it really even matter? Sure doesn't.

[Squinch]

53. Exactly. The train has left and he's still back at the station.

[aaaaaa5a]

11. We now know Bernie cares more about his personal career

Than he does the issues he fights for.



Compare his actions to Hillary at the conclusion of 2008? And THAT was a close primary! This was not.

[George II]

12. Not even his personal career.

[BobbyDrake]

18. He only has to appease a bare majority of Vermont's less-than-700K population.

That's why he's able to have his career in the first place. He'd be a nobody in a real state.

[George II]

22. The most votes he ever got for Representative or Senator was 207,000.

Yes, he'd be a nobody in another state, one reason why he ran from New York (his home state) the first chance he got.

[aaaaaa5a]

43. He is a big fish in a very small pond. NT

[Walk away]

58. There are about 20 different lines I could use here but I will let you all....

visualize your own in this blank space_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________

and then I will laugh!

[RussBLib]

13. the attitudes expressed here

and doing nothing for party unity.

so who's being divisive now?

[grossproffit]

29. We have every right to be frustrated and angry.

[Iliyah]

30. "so who's being divisive now?

BS.

[BlueCaliDem]

32. It's HIS attitude and HIS decision not to seek party unity that's the problem, Russ.

His followers shouldn't expect to be coddled but they should be expected to do the right thing for the country. Is that too much to ask of you?

[stopbush]

39. Er, it's Sanders who is still being divisive.

[William769]

47. Speaking of party unity, where is Sanders endorsement of Hillary?

Nuff said.

[Maru Kitteh]

61. Sanders is being divisive and dishonerable.

And this is the Hillary Clinton group. I believe you may be lost.

[Starry Messenger]

14. In six weeks at the convention, no one will know who he is.

Foolishness.

[Koinos]

15. The reminder will be the protest marches in Philadelphia.

[BobbyDrake]

17. What's it going to be called, The March for En-White-lement? nt

[BootinUp]

19. It would be kinda interesting to see in an intellectual way. nt

[BobbyDrake]

20. Like a science experiment? "How long will this dumpster fire keep burning with no additional fuel?"

[BootinUp]

23. I was thinking of the contrast of the diverse excited convention

versus the angry bros in the street.

[BobbyDrake]

34. Excellent point. Love and kindness inside, anger and impotence outside! nt

[BootinUp]

37. .

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

55. Depends on the dumpster

[Koinos]

21. The press will probably make a big deal out of it.

I just hope there isn't too much disruption. And I hope there is no violence. That would put a cloud over anything positive going on at the convention.

If Bernie cared about Hillary's prospects in the general election, he would cancel those protests. But I think he is kind of looking forward to the chaos they will cause.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

56. Doubt it

Some seem nostalgic for 1968. They forget that in '68 young men could be drafted to fight an unpopular war. The Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey never ran much less won a state primary.

Today is nothing like 1968.

[Starry Messenger]

24. I suspect that's going to kind of fizz out.

Only the true die-hards are going to show up to something like that.

[Koinos]

25. Die-hards, Libertarians, and Trump Republicans holding Bernie signs.

[BlueCaliDem]

33. Exactly! Democrats who've supported him know what's on the line and care about this country.

They don't want to see a President Trump - the one candidate U.$. Media are all falling over themselves to promote against the Democratic candidate - and have been from the start. The others that are made up of god-knows-what will most definitely do their darnedest to try a last-ditch effort to damage the Democrats, and those will show up at the Convention.

[geek tragedy]

42. Yeah, a mass of people in Philly during July in order to hear

some lame lament about how open primaries are the key to democracy?

LOL.

[Starry Messenger]

45. "All Power to the Superdelegates" isn't exactly a ringing battle cry either, lol.

[BobbyDrake]

16. Clinton is destroying Trump already without his endorsement.

He waited too long and lost his leverage.

I can't wait for the time we no longer have to cater to his delusions.

[tonyt53]

26. By all accounts, since the attack in Orlando, Hillary has been very presidential, Bernie? Not hardly

He is still making it all about Bernie.

[grossproffit]

27. Many of us realized this prior to the NY debate.

He's not a team player. I dislike him a great deal.

[BlueCaliDem]

35. I knew this about him in June 2015 when I decided he's not the Democratic candidate I wanted to

support. I still respected him back then, though...up until the DNC data breach in December and the arrogance he displayed, threatening to sue the DNC for locking him out of his campaign's files which happened because he refused to either return the files they had stolen and/or destroy them and show proof of that. They simply ignored Wasserman-Schultz' requests.

It was then I got an ugly feel about him and his campaign, getting the sick feeling that they were not Democrats by any measure but a Trojan horse in order to "gut the Democratic Party" from the inside out. Now that that's failed during the primaries, he's still trying to damage the Democratic Party, this country, and especially Hillary Clinton as much as he can on his way out.

He's NO Democrat.

[geek tragedy]

41. No indication he will endorse after July either.

Clinton's strategy will be to make nice with him in public and throw him a bone or two in private, with the goal not being him joining the team but rather him fading into irrelevancy.

His endorsement would be nice to have, but the major thing is that he stops being a problem.

Bernie Sanders is never going to endorse someone who beat him, that's not in his character.

[TeamPooka]

46. I'm sure it's so he can keep going with his fundraising. It's always about the $$$.

Let's see how much he raises during June and July.

[Her Sister]

50. What excuse will he use to ask for donations this time?

Everyone ought to know that he won 2nd place!

[TeamPooka]

52. His call with supporters tomorrow is titled "The Revolution Continues"

Revolutions cost money, right?
I'm sure it will be "Won't you donate so we can take it to the convention blah blah blah."
Every last $27 you can get helps pay the senior staff right?

[SharonClark]

48. Maybe he'll never endorse, I wouldn't hold my breath for August either

[Koinos]

49. I'm thinking "never" is the correct answer.

[caquillo]

54. History will not remember Sanders kindly, if he doesn't endorse Hillary

especially if Hillary wins the election and ends up being an exceptional president. He will forever be known as the gadfly who tried to prevent the first female U.S. president.

[eastwestdem]

51. Totally agree with you Fresh_Start!! nt

[jimw81]

57. Its time move on without him

[Walk away]

59. We already did. Hillary is 12% up in the polls and he and his following are....

scrounging around the country crashing other people's charity events and staging stunts like his upcoming "Video Summit" that his favorite shill, Rachel Maddow, is hawking on her program as I type. Anything for free attention!

[Historic NY]

60. I saw he's been given a choice continue or lose speaking time at convention.

Lets see what he choses.