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Jitter65

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May 18, 2016

How dare the Democrats make their own rules against outsiders taking over their party!

If having rules to protect your party from the influence of outsiders is rigging the system, then so be it! If you are 15-year Independent and want to run for President, start your own party and beat us at the ballot box. I am ok with that. But don't demand that my party change their rules that were agreed upon prior to the start of this campaign to suit outsiders' demands and claims.

May 18, 2016

California has the historical opportunity to end this nastiness within the Dem party by deciding

they have had enough of the small-minded bickering, the threats, the sexist, racist dissing and just get out there and vote for Hillary. Whether they started out as BS supporters or not, if they want to save the GE for the Dems they could help by ending the insane nasty campaign of the Bernie-bots. It's really up to the Cali voters. Either they vote for their candidate or for their country.

May 18, 2016

Here is what i take from he Bernie screech to "open the primaries."

He continues to diss the the Democratic party and its long history of inclusion from the days of the Rainbow Coalition to the civil rights movements. When he stands on a podium and screams that the Democratic party excludes voters it sends a chilling quiver down my spine. After the coalition that Obama put together in 2008 and 2012 Bernie's statements are outrageous!

I spent years in the trenches speaking with Hispanics, Asians, blacks and whites of every stripe and encouraging them to join the Democratic party that had their interests at its base. Jesse Jackson, long before Bernie, was preaching economic justice and environmental justice. Maxine Waters was all over the stump preaching about the environmental injustice of waste dumping in neighborhoods of the poor and POC. How Bernie even had the nerve to utter the words "environmental justice" after what happened at Sierra Blanca is despicable.

For Bernie to imply that the Democratic party "excludes" voters is a slap in the face of all those who have fought so hard before. And Bernie is only talking about opening the primaries to white male right-leaning Independents (and some females) so that they can determine the candidates for our party. To use this as a reason to accuse the Democratic Party of being a party of exclusion is disingenuous at best and a pitiful sour grapes meme at worse.

I, for one, resent this. And any feelings of respect that I had for Bernie was "Berned" up last night in his victory speech in Oregon. Bernie is more about defeating Hillary than he is about defeating Trump...no matter what he says. His actions speak louder than words. Sorry, that so many really good Dems have been duped by this man and they will rue the day they helped to usher in a Trump presidency.

May 18, 2016

MSNBC is off the cliff with their support of Bernie and hate for Hillary.

Super Delegates were the process long before Bernie was even a thought for the race. How can the media continue to get away with their lying and dissemblance?

May 18, 2016

Bernie continues to diss Obama and the coalition he put together in 2008 and 2012,

He continues to marginalize the voters in the south and the POC all over by insinuating that they are not important as white right-leaning Independents. The Democratic party has been a party of "inclusion" since the 60's and the Rainbow coalition. Bernie, in his latest tirade has trashed all of the those who worked so hard to give us a party the looks like America.

May 18, 2016

How could Bernie form his lips to say "environmental justice" after Sierra Blanca?

He is getting more and more disgusting.

Oh, did he mention that he lost KY?

May 18, 2016

you have to admit it, Hillary's team has a great ground game. Whatever they learned about KY they

used it well. She went back there, spent a couple hundred dollars and pulled out a win from a predicted loss.

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