If HRC wasn't "ignoring the black vote" by staying in after Super Tuesday in '08...

[Ken Burch]

...Bernie isn't ignoring or disrespecting the black vote by staying in now.

Nor is he saying that the votes of southern black people won't matter in the fall.

He was just saying it's unlikely that any Dem, including HRC, can carry any significant number of southern STATES in the fall.

The truth is, other than North Carolina, Virginia and maybe Florida, we have no chance of winning any southern electoral votes this fall.

Bernie lost AA voters on Super Tuesday this year. That doesn't mean the only way he can show respect to those voters is to withdraw before most of the voters in the Democratic nominating process, including most AA voters, can have a say.

[hrmjustin]

1. Oh Good God!

[asuhornets]

5. my thoughts exactly....n/t

[liberal_at_heart]

2. Oh, my god. Are people really saying that? I swear if I didn't have so many people on ignore

I would not be able to visit this website at all, ever.

[stillwaiting]

12. Anyone that makes that argument is being hideous. Absolutely hideous. nt

[ebayfool]

16. Yeah ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511544110

[dsc]

18. No that isn't the argument that person is making

the argument that person is making is that by saying this

“She creamed us in Mississippi and Louisiana and South Carolina,” he said, before adding that Democrats are “not going to win those states in the general election”.

“As we head to the west coast, which is probably the most progressive part of America, I think as you go forward you’re going to see us doing better and better.”

he is disrespecting the black vote. Not by merely staying in the race.

[ebayfool]

20. Actually the whole thread is what I'm linking to.

And readers can make up there own minds.

[arcane1]

3. That was never more than another lame attempt at reviving the "grumpy racist" smear.

It failed. Again.

[stranger81]

7. Revive it? They never let go of it.

Like a junkyard dog with a rancid bone.

[onecaliberal]

4. CALIFORNIA has not voted. We are the LARGEST STATE. Stop trying to disenfranchise us.

how many of your states collectively did it take to get 700 delegates?

[hack89]

11. Those delegates will be shared and most likely the results will be irrelevant to the race

it doesn't matter how many total delegates California has - all that matters is the net delegates the winner gets. And that won't be a big number.

[KMOD]

6. Can you give me a link?

[Cali_Democrat]

8. What is this in reference to?

Your post is incoherent.

[Ken Burch]

17. This here meme:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1544110

[PragmaticLiberal]

9. I'm confused.....

I assume this is in reference to another post?

[NuclearDem]

10. He isn't disrespecting the black vote by staying in.

He's disrespecting the black vote by saying they don't matter if they're in red states.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Except that is not what he said and I'm sick of word parsing from the supporters of Ronald Reagan's

Revisionist Cheerleader on AIDS. The smug straights of DU waltzed right passed that while patting themselves on the backs for being all about the people and anyone who is informed sees that as hugely ghoulish or fully ignorant and neither thing is good.
Meanwhile, Bernie can't talk about electoral politics without the footnote committee explaining the offense in every syllable. Because he speaks, he's racist but Hillary can shit on LGBT and praise monsters while you all cheer. I think the double standard is embarrassing coming out of adult persons.

[NuclearDem]

14. I've never cheered for Reagan.

Your camp, on the other hand, lionizes Reagan voters like MannyGoldstein and Elizabeth Warren.

Sorry, BNW, but you're actually going to have make a substantive reply at some point rather than just trying to paint any person you disagree with as the prime enemy of all things LGBT.

Bernie Sanders, his surrogates, his supporters, and his wife have habitually written off the southern Democratic voters, primarily African Americans, by saying they won't win those votes in the general election. Of course, the point's irrelevant, because primaries and general elections are not the same contests. It's astoundingly offensive on its own, but for the camp that had so obsessively tried to link Sanders to MLK, discounting the votes of southern blacks is just two-faced.

[Ken Burch]

15. Bernie wasn;t saying we won't get the votes of southern blacks in the fall

He was saying we won't carry most of those states.

No Dem will ever carry Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana or South Carolina again.

That isn't an attack on southern blacks, it's a comment on the unchangeable white supremacist views of the vast majority of southern WHITES.

And Bernie will do just as well among AA voters and southern white in the fall as HRC would. She can't get any votes there against the GOP that Bernie wouldn't get.

[Skid Rogue]

19. Is someone actually saying that?

Stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Bernie wants to win, pure and simple. He's not going to win, but why the hell drag in the AA vote?