Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumDid you hear the latest Bill Clinton attack? Please put sharp objects down.
WTF is wrong with him? I can't even say what I want to say here.
HARRISBURG, Pa. Millennials, theres a reason Americans are so anxious and angry in this election, Bill Clinton says. Its you.
Its no secret that Hillary Clintons campaign has been frustrated that younger people are flocking to Bernie Sanders, a septuagenarian democratic socialist.
But in a speech on Thursday to about 1,000 people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the former president, who was stumping on his wifes behalf, betrayed yet another frustration with younger Americans. He said the country would be in a much better place now if the youth had not been so apathetic and had voted six years ago, when the tea party wave put Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-clinton-blames-millennials_us_57191d13e4b0d0042da88c9f
grasswire
(50,130 posts)RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)casting blame like that. I suppose he feels he didn't have a part in creating this crap.
sorechasm
(631 posts)'Oh, yeah, and please vote for my wife.'
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)please stop appearing in public. you are now just embarassing yourself.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts).
polichick
(37,152 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)If Democrats did something that excited people to go and vote for them maybe we wouldn't have this problem. The Third Way, DLC, no we can't Democrats are losers in everything but national elections.
If Hillary gets elected, 2018 is going to make 2014 look like a Democratic victory.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)why they did not or now do not care.
It puts the blame on them, but I don't
think that they will care.
Don't get angry,jillan, the millennials will
not fall for it.
TM99
(8,352 posts)because late teens and early twenty years old currently inspired by Sanders and being dismissed by the Clintons were too young to vote six years ago.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Most of the college kids who are attending Bernie's rallies were still in high school 6 years ago-- or even junior high.
Bill's frantically grasping at straws.
TM99
(8,352 posts)losing his grip on reality as he pushes his wife towards their assumptive coronation.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)Autumn Colors
(2,379 posts)bjo59
(1,166 posts)will become. It would be highly entertaining if the situation this country finds itself in weren't so tragic.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)people wouldn't be so apathetic.
What an asstroll.
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appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)DiehardLiberal
(580 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)statements blaming young people absurdly and falsely for 'not doing enough' (some weren't of age then) when it's what HE and his ALLIES did, that largely created the MESS we're in, and millennials realize it.
Just keep on pissing people off Bill! and making an a*s of yourself even more...
Defying Election Laws and Obstructing Voting by Campaigning for Hill Outside Boston, Mass. area Polling Places.
Defending the 1996 Workfare and Crime Bill of 1994, "Super Predators" to Black Lives Matter Activists in Philadelphia.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)After Obama protected the banksters and caved to the insurance companies and big pharma on health care, it was obvious that he was a corporatist at heart.
Did Bill say it was also the fault of the voters when the Dems were routed in 1994 and lost both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years? It's always the fault of those dumb, lazy and disloyal voters, never the fault of the Third Way politicians who abandon them. If only we understood all they do for us.
Every time Bill Clinton opens his mouth I despise him even more.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)And during the next two election cycles ('96 and '98), while he was still President, we only had a net gain of about 5 seats in Congress-- a mere drop in the bucket compared with the combined losses in '92 and '94.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)If anything, the Clinton down ticket impact is negative, rather than positive.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)And with Hillary's high negativity ratings, I don't see how she could have a coattail effect with down ticket races.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)nor should she get blamed, that's more than unfair,
Hydra
(14,459 posts)Hillary choose to use him, and this is the result. She gets to own that.
djean111
(14,255 posts)She owns anything Bill says or does.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)<By way of extolling Obamas efforts at recovery, Clinton argued that the president at least brought back employment even if wages are no better.
We got our jobs back in seven and a half years, Clinton said, before coming back around to name the slackers in the economic equation.
If all the young people who claim to be disillusioned now had voted in 2010, we wouldnt have lost the Congress, and wed probably have our incomes back, he said.
Many millennials were probably too young to vote in 2010, it should be noted.>
Yeah, that's it Bill. They only "claim" to be disillusioned. Maybe it's all an act. Or maybe they see you and Hillary for the corrupt neocon war mongering corporatists that you both are.
mahina
(17,668 posts)Thanks Bill.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Big bucket of money.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Surprised?
What a fucking gasbag that racist POS has turned out to be!!
Seriously.
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BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)EmperorHasNoClothes
(4,797 posts)So there's that.
jillan
(39,451 posts)He really has a lot of nerve criticizing anyone ever.
djean111
(14,255 posts)This will percolate all through reddit, and onward from there.
They will never vote for Hillary.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)born from 1982-2004. They are not only pissing off the younger kids - my son, his wife and their friends were born during that time. Some are in their early 30s. They are all very strong Bernie supporters.
It will percolate through reddit, if it hasn't already.
islandmkl
(5,275 posts)they are in the same situation i am in on Sunday afternoon in football season:
my favorite team (KC Chiefs) keeps me involved and interested and excited...and i pay attention to other teams in their division just to keep abreast of my team's overall situation...
but the other 28 or so teams don't get much, if any, attention from me...because they are just more of the same old game and i have virtually no connection to them...
it's been that way since the '60s for me...and should, for some reason, my favorite team be dismantled and moved to another city with different owners...well, i would probably, tough as it would be, no longer have a favorite, life-long, since i was a kid football team to cheer for...
that is what has happened to the Democratic Party...in the '80s it got 'sold' and moved away from its core principles, went over to the DLC/Third Way RepublicanLite Party...and left all of its Left Progressive members behind...but wanted them to still support the 'new Dems' because, after all, they still carried the name 'Democratic Party'...
the millennials have never had the opportunity, let alone the satisfaction of supporting a party that upheld principles of fairness and equality and trying to make America a better society for all its citizens...
no...they only see two parties promoting basically the same programs...with only enough differences to look 'different'...but they see the money people getting everything they want and everybody else getting screwed...
i feel sorry for the millennials...i've, we've, all been putting up with this shit for 30 years or so...we know the difference...the millennials don't have any perspective about how things could be...
but Bernie is showing them some light at the end of a tunnel they didn't even know they were in....so there is hope...i just hope i live to see it because it doesn't look like it is going to happen too damn soon...
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)They are, of course, Bernie supporters. They said if Hillary gets the nomination
they are going to vote for Trump. After all, they said, he's against TPP and NAFTA.
Besides, one of the boys said, "How much worse could he be than Hillary? We
need a change. I'm tired of establishment candidates."
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)Blaming the victim too. The entitlement is astounding.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Might learn something.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)They don't seem to be learning anyway.
agracie
(950 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Mbrow
(1,090 posts)They don't have or support viable candidates. They also once in a while seem to be supporting a re-thug over a lefty Dem.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Fuck off.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Product liability, etc, anything to make him rich enough to stay out of politics.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)Why don't you just eat a
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)He may not be done, but stick a fork in him to check, just in case.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)at mathematics (addition, please) and understanding minimum voting age to get into law school, but I guess I'm just too ordinary to understand.