Today in Bernie Sanders Hypocrisy

[workinclasszero]

Superdelegates are bad, but they used to be good, and they'll be good again if they vote for him at the Convention.
BY JACK HOLMES

Bernie Sanders doesn't like superdelegates. Neither do members of Bernie's staff, nor Bernie's legions of supporters. Superdelegates are unelected, unaccountable, undemocratic. These party elites, who get to vote however they want, shouldn't be counted in assessments of the Democratic primary race. Superdelegates "don't count until they vote, and they don't vote until we get to the convention," Bernie's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said on CNN last month.

But, as The Hill reminds us, Sanders didn't always sing the same tune. On June 5, 2008—two days after the last state voted, but before Hillary Clinton dropped out—Sanders pledged his support to then-Senator Barack Obama in an interview with The Burlington Free-Press. The Vermont senator had customarily held off endorsing anyone, the paper explained, until the party had chosen a nominee.

Except that Obama was not yet the nominee.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a45267/bernie-sanders-superdelegates/

[NurseJackie]

1. Kinda makes your head spin, doesn't it?

[Armstead]

3. Yes because it makes no sense to mix apples and oranges

[workinclasszero]

4. The hypocrisy...it berns!

Its not just Sanders or his handlers and mouthpieces either.

Where is the outrage among his followers over this naked attempt to overturn the democratic vote of the people?

[Armstead]

2. Um, Bernie is not fighting against endorsements.

He's trying to change minds of Superdelegates.

In 2008 he chose to endorse Obama at the ending of the primary as an SD.

Clinton was certainly entitled to try and convince him to change his mind.

[workinclasszero]

6. Did you even read this?

Bernie Sanders doesn't like superdelegates. Neither do members of Bernie's staff, nor Bernie's legions of supporters. Superdelegates are unelected, unaccountable, undemocratic. These party elites, who get to vote however they want, shouldn't be counted in assessments of the Democratic primary race. Superdelegates "don't count until they vote, and they don't vote until we get to the convention," Bernie's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said on CNN last month.

[Armstead]

10. Your point is....?

He doesn't like Superdelagates and woiuld prefer they not be the determining factor in presidential primaries.

But they are a reality in the process. If he is trying to win the nomination he has to work with that reality.

What's hypocritical about that?

[workinclasszero]

15. Bernie thundered down from the mountain of his moral righteousness

that supers were evil tools of the Oligarchy! Anti-democratic! The masters of Wall-Street, corporate whores!! Against the peoples will!!! Should be illegal!

And now Bernie runs to those very same people, begging them to overturn the will of millions of people and install him as the democratic nominee!

Damn!

A naked play for power against the will of the people with the supers he has condemned for months!

What a joke!

[Armstead]

16. It's called politics....

Bernie is a politician. He is working with the system as it exists.

If it wasn't Bernie you'd simply think of it as pragmatic politics.

I love the Catch 22. Damned if he does , damned if he doesn't.

[CrowCityDem]

5. There's an even better hypocrisy:

Bernie is saying we can't count superdelegates yet because they could change their minds at some point before the convention. But we should undemocratically hand him the nomination based on poll numbers, even though voters can change their minds before the election.

[bettyellen]

18. Yeah the argument that he might run a better race? Nope. Never mattered before....

But you know, like the speeches and taxes, it's like whatever he thinks the rules should be are crammed down our throats. Nope.

[Raster]

7. Did he cast his super delegate vote for Obama at that time? NO, he did not.

He just endorsed at that time. Sanders had the option to change his vote at any time. Weaver is 100% correct: "Superdelegates don't count until they vote, and they don't vote until we get to the convention."

Sorry, the M$M made it clear that Clinton has the delegates to be the nominee, which is false. She does not. She does NOT have the correct number of outright pledged delegates, AND WILL NOT HAVE THE PLEDGED DELEGATES even after today's primaries. This will need to be decided at the convention. Super delegates cannot pledge, they may endorse, WHICH IS NOT BINDING.

[msongs]

8. delete supers completely and bernie is STILL LOSING nt

[workinclasszero]

9. I don't think the goal is to win

I think the goal is to do maximum damage to the democratic nominee and the party.

[ancianita]

11. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

— 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'

— Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

[workinclasszero]

13. Consistency to moral standards is bunk?

Glad to see Sanders and his followers admit they have no problems throwing out everything they claimed to stand for a few short weeks ago.

[beachbumbob]

12. Like this...sanders and his followers just don't like losing..

Doesn't matter why....and takes class and grace to accept the final score...it's over for them. Nothing will change

[dmosh42]

14. Sanders, being an independent, only supported many Dems, but did not take part in their inner workin

[QC]

17. It's almost as hypocritical as utterly vilifying someone for having a "frighting" [sic]

"lust for power" that has deprived her of all humanity and might not even be healed by "years of therapy" and then declaring that person to be the best thing since pb&j.

But not quite.