@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal that she was wondering if she would be a target after Seth Rich was shot. Closing office blinds in fear of snipers (thought they were all in Bosnia?) and the like.

#1 My current conspiracy theory is that the whole point of Brazile's tell-all is that it will soon be discredited, probably by some character assassination done on Brazile, and that this is actually a weird-ass way of her falling on her sword for Hillary and company.

It's just too hard to believe that a machine Democrat "team player" like Brazile, who handed Hillary debate questions ahead of time, is having an attack of conscience now.

@snoopydawg
He pretended as if foreign policy didn't really exist. That was convenient for him. I'm not sure he has one even yet.

#2

he stayed silent during the primary when he saw how it was being rigged for Her. He stayed silent when the states he won went to Hillary because of her deal with the superdelegates. This too is in the article I linked.

I had called out his foreign policy views all through the primary, but was told to shut up. I didn't vote for him, but did hope that he won if only to keep Her and Bill out of the WH, but I knew that our foreign policies weren't going to change. He had no problem with the Obama drone assassination program.

@snoopydawg that he has loved ones.

#2

he stayed silent during the primary when he saw how it was being rigged for Her. He stayed silent when the states he won went to Hillary because of her deal with the superdelegates. This too is in the article I linked.

I had called out his foreign policy views all through the primary, but was told to shut up. I didn't vote for him, but did hope that he won if only to keep Her and Bill out of the WH, but I knew that our foreign policies weren't going to change. He had no problem with the Obama drone assassination program.

@Strife Delivery I agree with you that he's a useless sheepdog. But you weren't so much conned as caught in the middle of him stumbling over his own feet. He clearly never thought he'd be able to come within a mile of beating her. He was just trying to keep part of the political spectrum from disappearing from the public mind.

#2 Every day that passes is another exclamation point to the reality that Sanders is a useless sheepdog.

Any normal human being with balls and a conscience would have fought back. But he won't. A useless lickspittle to corporate power.

The man rails against the duopoly for years but when he has enormous power what does he do. Nothing. He in fact does everything to prop up the Democratic Party.

Every new revelation about the corruption and malice of the Democratic Party is another stab to the heart of those who followed this sheepdog. The Democratic Party is a cancer to this world that must be completely and utterly destroyed.

I'm sickened and saddened that I was conned by this man.

is doing a classic Covering Her Ass tactic here. Sanders tried to help out the country. This nation has been going to hell in a handbasket for over 35+ years. Sanders understands what 'public servant' means. You need to look the term up. Rec'd!! @Strife Delivery

#2 Every day that passes is another exclamation point to the reality that Sanders is a useless sheepdog.

Any normal human being with balls and a conscience would have fought back. But he won't. A useless lickspittle to corporate power.

The man rails against the duopoly for years but when he has enormous power what does he do. Nothing. He in fact does everything to prop up the Democratic Party.

Every new revelation about the corruption and malice of the Democratic Party is another stab to the heart of those who followed this sheepdog. The Democratic Party is a cancer to this world that must be completely and utterly destroyed.

I'm sickened and saddened that I was conned by this man.

@Wink

Bernie on CNN are mostly Republicans, not Democrats. Meaning--that amongst the Cable TV talking heads, Republicans believe [or pretend to believe] in far greater numbers than Democrats, that Brazile's claims are credible. Obviously, there may be some mischief-making afoot. At any rate, it's not necessarily 'the other side' that's working against his interests.

Also, aside from Warren's monosyllabic 'yes' when Tapper threw out a question at the very end of their interview, most Dems/surrogates/shills are either dismissive of Brazile's claims, or, they claim that her revelations had absolutely no impact on the outcome of the primary election, regardless of any so-called irregularities.

Ironically, this is exactly what Symone Sanders claims. Go figure.

Mollie

"The standard of living of the average American has to decline. I don't think you can escape that."
--Paul Volcker, The New York Times, October 18, 1979, Page 1.

“If we can divide the electorate this way, we can have them expending their energies fighting amongst themselves, over issues that for us, have no meaning whatsoever."
--USA Bankers Magazine, August 25, 1924

#2
is blabbing their dirty laundry all over the teevee, Rule 1., you shut up and let them keep blabbing. There's absolutely no need for Bernie to say anything.

@Unabashed Liberal

This is also in keeping with Schumer's remarks to the National Press Club in November 2014... Unfortunately, both the audio and the transcript of that address have been removed from the NPC website.

I found a transcript of Shumer's remarks here.

#4

That's not who he is. Again IMO, he never thought he could get that close to the nomination, but entered the race merely to keep certain political ideas alive. That fits with his behavior.

This is also in keeping with Schumer's remarks to the National Press Club in November 2014--after the Dem's 2014 mid-term shellacking. At that time, Schumer--the Dem's main election strategist--laid out the Party's 2016 platform, etc.--to a 'T,' I might add. I posted excerpts from those remarks on several occasions. Unfortunately, both the audio and the transcript of that address have been removed from the NPC website.

Mollie

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@Unabashed Liberal thanks, I can't believe I still have the bookmark but here it is from readersupportednews.com, I didn't look for the original salon version:

By Josh Eidelson, Salon
27 November 13

Bernie Sanders tells Salon it "remains to be seen" if Clinton "will be a forceful advocate for working families"

...
The Burlington Free Press reported that you're open to running for president if there isn't a good enough alternative in the race. What do you think you could accomplish by running?

Well, let me just tell you, Josh, I don't wake up every morning with a huge desire to be president of the United States. I gather there are people who do. I don't.

But what I do wake up believing is that this country is facing more serious crises than we have faced since the Great Depression. And if you include the planetary crisis of global warming, the situation today may even be worse. And given that reality, what distresses me enormously is that there is very little discussion about these major crises, and even less discussion about ideas that can resolve these issues.

And this is not just a crisis within the political establishment - it's certainly a crisis within the media establishment, because media seems to be far more concerned about looking at politics as a game, or looking at personality and celebrity life, rather than kind of analyzing the problems that we face. Let me just give you just a few examples …

The great moral and economic and political crisis facing this country, which gets relatively little discussion, is the growing disparity in income and wealth that exists in America. We are in a situation where we have not been since the late 1920s, before the Depression, where the top 1 percent owns 38 percent of the financial wealth of America, while the bottom 60 - six zero - percent owns 2.3 percent of the wealth in America. That is obscene beyond belief. The worst wealth inequality in the entire - of any major country in the world. And in terms of income, the last statistics we have seen from 2009 to 2012 tell us that 95 percent of all new income in this country went to the top 1 percent.

So what you have there is obviously [a] horrendous economic situation, but it is very dangerous to our political system. Because big money interests are putting huge amounts of money into the political process through Citizens United. And these are issues that have got to be addressed, or else in my view the United States will move very rapidly toward an oligarchic form of society when our economic and political life is controlled by a handful of billionaires.

I see this as a huge moral issue, an economic issue, a political issue. There is virtually no discussion about that, virtually none. I don't know how we can be a serious nation when this issue is not front and center, and there are not real ideas out there on how we address it. That's just one issue.

The second issue is the crisis of unemployment in this country. Real unemployment is not 7.2 percent - it's close to 14 percent, including those people who have given up looking for work, and who are working part-time. Youth unemployment, youth unemployment is close to 20 percent. African-American youth unemployment is close to 40 percent. These are crises. And yet day after day, we hear about the deficit - which is a serious issue - and we hear almost nothing about the unemployment issue, which among other things is having a horrendous impact on the current young generation, the kids who have graduated high school and college. So we need a lot of discussion on that.

And certainly it is beyond comprehension - although the scientific community is almost unanimous in telling us that global warming is man-made, that it is already causing disastrous problems, and that those problems will only get worse in years to come - that we have almost no movement at all, virtually no movement in Congress on this planetary crisis.

And lastly, I would say that while the American people feel very strongly - and this is, by the way, across the board, Democrats, Republicans and independents - in opposition to cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, inside the Beltway, the political establishments, there is support for cuts to those terribly important programs.

So those are some of the issues that are out there that need discussing. We have a middle class that is disappearing, and somebody has got to be speaking strongly to defend our middle class.

there's more but I already overquoted
gosh i love bernie
without him who would be talking

Nobody 2018

#4

That's not who he is. Again IMO, he never thought he could get that close to the nomination, but entered the race merely to keep certain political ideas alive. That fits with his behavior.

This is also in keeping with Schumer's remarks to the National Press Club in November 2014--after the Dem's 2014 mid-term shellacking. At that time, Schumer--the Dem's main election strategist--laid out the Party's 2016 platform, etc.--to a 'T,' I might add. I posted excerpts from those remarks on several occasions. Unfortunately, both the audio and the transcript of that address have been removed from the NPC website.

Mollie

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"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures--they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive."--Gilda Radner

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers