Hillary and all 3 Repub. candidates in DC tonight for CNN "Event"

[Rose Siding]

It's a town hall-type event. Sanders won't show but will be interviewed "from the campaign trail". Could exhaustion or funding issues be at play?

[riversedge]

1. So Sanders gets to call in like Trump does

for morning joe.

[Rose Siding]

3. Not sure if the special treatment he gets will be by phone or video

[Walk away]

13. CNN just reported that AIPAC nixed Brenie's video.

If he doesn't show, they don't want to hear from him.

[cilla4progress]

2. Bernie is actively campaigning in my state -

Washington. 3 huge rallies in one day.

Goddammit, essentially a news blackout - nothing on HuffPo or google news.

What the hell does it take for my man to get some respect?!

[yallerdawg]

4. I don't know...

winning?

[Loki]

24. LOL!

[Rose Siding]

5. Oh, please. They are ALL actively campaigning.

[Cha]

6. What's it going to take for BS to show President Obama and Hillary some respect?

All he does is diss them.. gone off his message to demonize her.

Getting some of his own medicine?

[johnp3907]

7. You talk of respect?

You BSers come into our group every day and spew your bs here and then you ask for respect???

Insane.

[Rose Siding]

8. +1

good point!

[livetohike]

9. No one cares about his huge rallies. He's losing. The focus

is on the leading candidates, not those who think they are above doing a town hall. He doesn't like being questioned. He would rather talk AT people and feed his immense ego.

[FloridaBlues]

10. Please take your post and put it in Bernie group

[George II]

12. The media and others have been tiptoeing around Sanders for months in order to avoid...

....this claim of a "blackout" and other bs.

He's gotten more exposure on the Sunday talk shows and cable networks than any candidate other than Trump. Time for these false complaints to cease.

[Walk away]

14. Maybe he should have gone to APAIC instead of giving his same stump speech...

over and over and over again.

[riversedge]

15. No fear--lots of threads on GD-P

[33taw]

23. Why don't you post this in the Bernie group AKA: GD-P?

[jmowreader]

25. Not having his supporters troll the entire Internet would be a start

[George II]

11. I think he's quietly giving up. He couldn't be bothered to address AIPAC this morning, and...

...he can't be bothered to formally attend this event tonight, one that all the other candidates will be attending.

It makes one wonder if he's really sincerely still running for president.

It also makes one wonder what the Sanders fans would say if Clinton had skipped one or both of these events. Remember the big brouhaha way back last spring when Clinton skipped a forum in Arizona in lieu of attending the biggest Democratic fundraising event in the state in which her husband was Governor for a decade?

[Rose Siding]

16. He also canceled a scheduled press avail. in Idaho

I think his priority is less about an actual campaign and more about fronting his fantasy revolution.

Bernie Sanders brings his presidential campaign to Boise Monday after a Friday stop in Idaho Falls. The Sanders campaign called Thursday to offer the Statesman 30 minutes one-on-one with the Vermont senator ahead of his noon rally at Boise State University’s Taco Bell arena.

Of course, we said yes. What better way to get past the usual campaign talking points and quiz the candidate on topics of special interest to Idahoans? (Rocky Barker covers a few of those here.)

“What do you want to talk to him about?” they asked. I thought it was kind of an odd question. We don’t typically lay things out like that ahead of time, but in deference, I said we’d want to hear more about his views on topics like federal lands and land use policy, energy and the Idaho National Laboratory, statewide political and policy issues like this year’s debates on healthcare and minimum wage, not to mention drilling down for local angles on Sanders’s campaign themes.

“Great, we’ll see you Monday,” they told us.

When I called Friday to confirm our appointment, the message back was, “Sorry, schedule change. No can do.”

Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article67253832.html#storylink=cpy

[Her Sister]

17. weird!

What's that about?

[Rose Siding]

18. Could speculate it's related to the AZ interview but

no idea. I really don't think he's as interested in the presidency, or a campaign, so much as he is in fulfilling the revolutionary dreams of his younger self.

As long as he has a big crowd to stir up, he believes he's doing that. Adulation is intoxicating.

[Her Sister]

20. not good!

"It’s too bad for Idaho, especially for those who will be participating in Tuesday’s Democratic caucus. It’s not about the campaign canceling a meeting with the Statesman, but the fact that they appear unwilling to schedule any time with the press while he’s here.

Candidates, and officeholders generally, sometimes avoid meetings with the press because they want to “speak directly” to the electorate, but a dialogue with a challenging questioner is much more informative – that is, maybe if you don’t count most of the recent Republican presidential debates.

People learn a lot about a candidate in those settings, more than they might from the campaign speeches that get repeated at every new stop."

Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article67253832.html#storylink=cpy

[riversedge]

19. Sanders would have to give specifics on Idaho problems per the article-too much work

for a guy to likes to the same speech where ever he goes


I am going to pouch your article and put in gd-p

[Her Sister]

21. lol!

[SharonClark]

22. That explains why Sanders

is on MSNBC on Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell. They're taking care of him.

[still_one]

26. This is old new, and has already taken place