Sanders won’t skydive into rally

[brooklynite]

The Hill:

“The senator will not be parachuting or skydiving into the campaign rally today,” spokeswoman Symone Sanders said in a statement to The Hill.

Jimmy Halliday, the president at NorCal Skydiving, had told The Press Democrat that the Sanders campaign would “run the idea by Bernie.”

Michael Morrissey, the manager of the Cloverdale airport where the Sanders rally will take place, said the Democratic presidential candidate is “supposed to make a grand entrance” but didn’t explain further.

That the Sanders campaign felt the need to address this at all says something.

[virtualobserver]

1. it says something about stunts that mainstream Democrats have pulled.....

[Happyhippychick]

2. That was really a possibility? I thought it was a joke!

[scscholar]

12. The senior ruler of the Bush Crime Family...

did it on his 90th birthday, and Bernie is a lot younger. Why shouldn't he? Think he isn't as capable as a crime don over fifteen years older than himself?

[Happyhippychick]

14. Why shouldn't he?

Because it's a ridiculously undignified publicity stunt and he is running for President. Poppy Bush doing it to celebrate his 90th has nothing to do with it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. No one expected him to.

[MrWendel]

4. After his...

response to Hillary's speech yesterday, not a surprise in the least.

[frylock]

17. Hunh?

[MrWendel]

22. See..

Micheal Dukakis and the Tank.

[lagomorph777]

33. Yah, I immediately pictured the bobbing head when I heard the idea.

It was pretty obviously not gonna fly.

[frylock]

36. Still not understanding what that has to do with his legit critcism of Hillary.

[MrWendel]

38. With...

time running out, just about everything would seem legit. Like skydiving, or riding a tank.

[frylock]

39. Or criminal investigations even.

[MrWendel]

40. Or...

Hoping and praying for another Benghazi.

[frylock]

41. The only people I see conflating the two issues is Hillary Supporter.

[MrWendel]

42. Soooo....

no viewing parties this time?

[frylock]

43. Viewing parties?

Again, you're thinking of Hillary Supporter. Are you feeling okay?

[MrWendel]

56. Great...

even better on the 7th. Viewing parties are the ones Bernie Supporters had watching on a couch in front of the TV, hoping Trey Gowdy would help you get the nomination. Stop being coy about it.

[ILikeTurtles2]

5. Bernie's smart. Stay out of small planes and pack your own chute.

[brooklynite]

9. ...because someone would want to kill him?

At least have the guts to stand behind your conspiracy theories.

[ILikeTurtles2]

13. "hill him"? Was that a Freudian slip?

No, I advise everyone to stay out of small planes and pack your own chute.

[cwydro]

29. Talking about assassinations of political candidates is in very poor taste.

Smh.

[frylock]

37. Indeed.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

44. You're shaking your head at your own candidate's quote.

You knew that, right?

[QC]

53. I had someone denounce me as a vicious sexist

for quoting one of his own posts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2112166

(In fairness, the post really was extremely sexist. He shouldn't have said such things.)

[JackRiddler]

59. Clinton parachuted into Sarajevo under sniper fire.

[Agschmid]

6. Social media does amazing things...

[CrowCityDem]

7. It woud have been his Bush in flight suit, Dukakis in tank, moment.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. LOL. Jinx!

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. My first thought on reading that is this...

[Agschmid]

24. ...

Lots, and lots of socks in there.

[greatauntoftriplets]

30. My first thought reading your post was...

sockpuppets. Many pairs of these socks probably.

[Agschmid]

31. Lol yup!

[lagomorph777]

35. We're gonna need a bigger codpiece.

[MADem]

52. My first thought was this (I love this clip, I never tire of it)

[greatauntoftriplets]

57. That was great.

Props to the Queen for participating, even if she didn't do the skydive. Can't blame her, I hate heights.

[MADem]

58. I think she wore the dress better than the stunt double! LOL! nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

61. She certainly did.

And no one carries an empty purse quite like QEII.

[MADem]

62. LOL~ hey, if someone hands her a card, and there's no Lady In Waiting close enough to

take it off her hands, she's got a place to stash it.


And I'll bet she's got a few butterscotch candies and peppermints in there, too!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

64. Mints and a few other things.

Sally Bedell Smith, writing in The Lady magazine, disclosed that the handbag usually contains reading glasses, mint lozenges and a fountain pen, although rarely cash, except for the “precisely folded” £5 or £10 note on Sundays.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/queen-elizabeth-whats-inside-her-handbag/

[MADem]

65. A fountain pen~! I'll bet she's not the one who has to fill the damn thing!

When I was a child, we were forced to not only fill our fountain pens (after requesting permission if we ran out of ink) from a communal inkwell, AND do our math (aka "maths&quot homework on graph paper IN PEN.

Ugh--what a long, drawn out "attention-to-detail" exercise. I remember it despite a distance of many, many decades!!!! And god HELP you if got any ink on your clothing, your mandatory cloth handkerchief, or fingers!

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Not the Onion!

[SFnomad]

15. I guess BS didn't want people to think his campaign was sinking as fast as he would be

[frylock]

16. Wouldn't want to upstage Biden parachuting into the GE.

[Agschmid]

25. Lol.

[MyNameGoesHere]

18. If he does he can visit

other than that, stay home Sanders.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

45. This is MY county, and you're not the gatekeeper.

[MyNameGoesHere]

47. Yeah well I my country my candidate won

Yours lost. Losers don't get to carry the winners trophy around.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

50. Read again. County, as in locality. Not country, as in nation.

[Nye Bevan]

20. How about a stunt double like when Queen Elizabeth skydived into the Olympics with Daniel Craig?

Or alternatively, instead of Bernie skydiving in, how about something a little safer like a helicopter lowering him in on a winch? Or perhaps a zipline?

[MineralMan]

21. Good decision.

[KingFlorez]

23. He would have looked ridiculous

A stunt like that is stupid no matter who does it.

[Skinner]

26. That's too bad.

It would have been aweseome.

[msanthrope]

27. Get it out of your system! ;

[lumberjack_jeff]

28. pfft... no snipers on the ground or anything.

"Did I ever tell you about the time my gal Hillary..."

[cwydro]

32. I would have watched.

I'd have been glued to the tv lol.

[Maru Kitteh]

34. The Pope wasn't available for a tandem?

I KID! I KID!

IT'S A JOKE.

Tell me the image of the Pope and Sanders tandem jumping together into a rally isn't amusing. It is.

[DesertRat]

51. Yes it is

[DesertRat]

46. Too bad

That would have be fun to watch.

[MrMickeysMom]

48. That certainly is the biggest pile of shit post I've read today...

But, the day isn't over...

[JackRiddler]

60. Surely not!

Par for the course, I'd say.

[MrMickeysMom]

63. I DO tend to get dramatic some days...

[wyldwolf]

49. If only he'd skydive into reality.

[shenmue]

55. Haaaaaa

[nilram]

54. I don't get it. What does it say?

[JackRiddler]

66. Absolutely nothing, but somebody wants you to think it's something.

Sort of like most Clintonista "attacks" -- or sorry, informed criticisms -- of Sanders.

A bit of projection or compensation as always, since Sanders never, e.g., claimed falsely to have landed somewhere under sniper fire!