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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Newsweek lays the smackdown on Bernie [View all]
http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-get-control-get-out-race-461195Violence. Death threats. Vile, misogynistic names screamed at women. Rage. Hatred. Menacing, anonymous phone calls to homes and offices. Public officials whisked offstage by security agents frightened of the growing mob. None of this has any place in a political campaign. And the candidate who has been tolerating this obscene behavior among his supporters is showing himself to be unfit for office.
So, Senator Sanders, either get control of what is becoming your increasingly unhinged cult or get out of the race. Whatever respect sane liberals had for you is rapidly dwindling, and the damage being inflicted on your reputation may be unfixable. If you cant even manage the vicious thugs who act in your name, you cant be trusted to run a convenience store, much less the country.
So, Senator Sanders, either get control of what is becoming your increasingly unhinged cult or get out of the race. Whatever respect sane liberals had for you is rapidly dwindling, and the damage being inflicted on your reputation may be unfixable. If you cant even manage the vicious thugs who act in your name, you cant be trusted to run a convenience store, much less the country.
Signs are emerging that the Sanders campaign is transmogrifying into the type of movement through which tyrants are born.
Yeah, these are exactly the kind of people who Americans want to have as the next presidents basevicious, sociopathic misogynists. And their threats of violence at the convention is just another sign that Sanders could go down as one of the most destructive forces in American history. Riots and flames at the conventiona repeat of the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Conventionwould help open the White House doors for Donald Trump when compared to a nose-holding coronation by Republicans at their gathering in Cleveland.
But when the time came for a presidential run, the party poo-bahs agreed to allow him to run as a Democrat; eventually, he turned on the party, slashing at his erstwhile political home. It was as if you invited someone into your home who proceeded to leave a huge, steaming pile in your living room.
Damn.
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People who don't like Clinton believe she killed Abe Lincoln, adults ignore them
uponit7771
May 2016
#27
So much bullshit, so little time. "They" really do think we're all a herd of dumb sheep. nt
nc4bo
May 2016
#3
Yep, "Sanders, either get control of what is becoming your increasingly unhinged cult or get out"
stevenleser
May 2016
#6
Great source. A corporate rag in love with corporate billionnaires and Wall Street sharks.
imagine2015
May 2016
#14
I don't know of any far right wing media that would be for Bernie. They're all for Clinton or trump
Doctor_J
May 2016
#19
No. Paint Bernie's party as radical. Anybody could do it to anybody. There are enough crazies to go
JCanete
May 2016
#23
No, it wasn't telling. it was convenient for you that I misspoke. You should definitely run with it.
JCanete
May 2016
#59
Bernie reminds me of Charles Bukowski, an angry twisted up old geezer beloved
The_Casual_Observer
May 2016
#51