MSNBC just now: Obama to endorse Clinton as early as this week, spoke to Bernie this weekend

[YouDig]

[mcar]

1. Great!

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Game over, Bernie

Sorry.

[beaglelover]

3. AWESOME!!!!!!!

[Happyhippychick]

4. Yay!

[LexVegas]

5. I can't remember...is President Obama already under the bus? nt

[PepperHarlan]

7. Years ago.

[tonyt53]

8. Yep, and he had to move over for Elizabeth Warren last week when it appeared she would endorse HRC

[struggle4progress]

43. I think we threw him under the bus sometime on Wednesday 6 November 2008

but it could have been early in the morning on Thursday 7 December

[auntpurl]

6. AWESOME!!

[MFM008]

9. maybe that's why Sanders seemed off his game today.

a bit testy.

[JudyM]

10. He does that, he loses my respect and that of millions of others. Period.

Not that he cares.

[wendylaroux]

13. why would anyone care who you respect? other than you

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. I think you and I could be friends. What do you think?

[Godhumor]

16. The current leader of the party always endorses the next leader of the party

He will have stayed neutral until the contest was mathematically decided.

[geek tragedy]

17. The number of people who respect him now but would cease respecting him

because he endorsed the winner of the Democratic party is vanishingly small.

[auntpurl]

20. Right???

[TwilightZone]

28. Agreed.

[JudyM]

30. In your opinion. But you may be a bit out of touch with the sentiments of millions.

[geek tragedy]

32. Nope. I live in the real world, not Narnia. nt

[JudyM]

33. ...and there you have proved that you don't know about what you don't care to see.

[geek tragedy]

34. on this side of the wardrobe, when candidate wins the voting and gets the most

delegates, they become the nominee.

This happens even if the losing candidate is displeased.

Millions of people voted for Sanders. The vast majority of them know there's zero chance he will be the nominee, and they certainly will know as of tomorrow night that Hillary won.

They will not blame President Obama for acknowledging that Hillary won, because they can do arithmetic.

[mcar]

40. Wish I could K&R this post

[TwilightZone]

26. Sanders will be doing the same.

It's just a matter of time.

Will he lose your respect when he does?

[JudyM]

29. What a silly "comment."

[TwilightZone]

36. You didn't answer the question. If your criterion for respect is whether or not they endorse Clinton

then you are soon going to have a dilemma on your hands. There is little doubt that Bernie Sanders will do as he has often said he would and support Hillary Clinton after she becomes the nominee.

[JudyM]

42. Just silliness, it's about timing. Nuff said, silly talk.

[Station to Station]

38. Did Sanders lose your respect when he endorsed Obama in June '08?

If not, why?

Sanders was right that it was over & time to focus on defeating the Republican Party then, Obama will be right to do the same barring a monumental upset tomorrow.

[democrattotheend]

41. Not mine, and probably not many others

I wish he would wait another week until DC votes, so as not to marginalize them further. But at the end of the day, if she is clearly ahead in votes and pledged delegates, I think we need to accept that.

[TNProfessor]

44. Bye! nt

[DrDan]

11. excellent news - the primary is over - time to go GE 100%

[okasha]

12. Wonderful!

to Mr. President.

[azurnoir]

14. Get that from Reddit? seems the gold standard for Hillary's party these days

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/4mv7cc/msnbc_just_confirmed_that_obama_spoke_to_the/

[TwilightZone]

22. The same reddit that organizes Sanders events?

Don't know much about reddit, eh?

[CrowCityDem]

15. I don't think it's a coincidence he'll be in NYC Wednesday.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. Pres. BHO will take care of business...he'll make Bern an offer he can't refuse. LOL!

[larkrake]

39. he could do that, but will Hill honor it?

[Native]

19. This made my day! Thanks!!!!

[sheshe2]

21. Great!

[onenote]

23. Would have loved to hear that conversation.

[MohRokTah]

24. OF course he is.

She will be meeting the identical criteria he met to become the presumptive nominee in 2008.

[MyNameGoesHere]

27. Yes and it will be Glorious!

[RandySF]

31. That's why they were as solemn as MSNBC reported

[LenaBaby61]

35. So happy.....

To hear that Pres. Obama spoke with Bernie--I'm sure telling him of his intentions to endorse Hillary as soon as all was nailed down IE: She'd cross the "threshold" as the official Dem Nominee for POTUS

Secondly....

I just this picture of Pres. Obama & Hillary:



And finally, I'm sure we've all heard that Pres. Obama cannot WAIT to get out there on the campaign trail vs Trump. Pres. Obama is not the vindictive sort at all, but his dislike of Trump borders on hate, and with Pres. Obama, you have to be a pretty nasty and vile person to get him to hate you. But then again, with Trump it would not be to difficult to do now as I think about it

[sufrommich]

37. Woohoo! Let's get this going!!

Can't wait to see him let loose.