Sanders Ran As Democrat Just To Get "Media Coverage"

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Tuesday March 15, 2016 · 10:14 AM PDT

2016/03/15 · 10:14

Bernie Sanders says he’s a “different Kind” of candidate..yet he appears to be the same ol’ same ol’ using whatever resources he can find, whether he believes in it or not, just to get coverage and money. I’ll let his own words speak about his loyalty to the Democratic party as well as his apparent dishonesty. Imagine the outrage around here if Hillary Clinton had said something like this:

Bernie Sanders on Monday told NBC’s Chuck Todd that he ran as a Democrat to get more media coverage.

Money also played a role in his decision to run as a Democrat, Sanders added.

“To run as an independent, you need — you could be a billionaire," he said. "If you're a billionaire, you can do that. I'm not a billionaire. So the structure of American politics today is such that I thought the right ethic was to run within the Democratic Party.”

www.politico.com/...

The biggest argument was over running as a Democrat. Over and over, Bernie Sanders said he didn’t want to. He’d spent his whole life purposefully outside the Democratic Party. He treasured his status as the longest-serving independent in Congress. Running as a Democrat wasn’t who he was. He didn’t want to do it that way.

His longtime consultant Tad Devine and the rest of the group came down hard: this is never going to have a chance of working unless you get over it. Suck it up, they told him.

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If what party elders take away from Sanders's MSNBC comments is that he doesn't really care about or need the party -- that last part is mostly true.

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Is Anybody Else Sick And Tired Of This???

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Wednesday February 24, 2016 · 4:18 PM PST

2016/02/24 · 16:18

Is anybody else sick and tired of the same 6 or 7 people with the same diaries on the recommended list... every day... day in and day out, attacking Hillary Clinton and fawning over Bernie Sanders like he’s a saint and Clinton was created in hell?

Come on DKOS, there is something wrong with this new system that allows the same people to write numerous diaries every day that add nothing really to the discourse of what we should be talking about and are proving to be divisive to the umpteenth degree.

Unless this DKOS Sanders gang wants to elect president Trump, Rubio or Cruz. this better stop. Im sick and tired of it!

Go back to the old system of one diary a day.

Jay Carney: President Obama Prefers Hillary Clinton For President

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Wednesday February 10, 2016 · 2:08 PM PST

2016/02/10 · 14:08

Former White House press secretary Jay Carney tells CNN that President Obama has a strong preference in the Democratic primary to replace him, and that choice is Hillary Clinton.

I don't think there's any doubt that this is the president's way of making his preference known without formally making an endorsement. Sitting presidents rarely if ever make an endorsement prior to the last primary held. Reagan did not endorse George HW Bush, Clinton did not endorse Gore, Bush 2 did not endorse McCain until after the primaries.

I cannot imagine any circumstance under which Jay Carney would make such a statement without the president's knowledge and approval, and Im certain that President Obama feels that Hillary Clinton is the one candidate to keep building on what he has already accomplished.

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama's former White House press secretary says the President has a preference in the Democratic primary to replace him: Hillary Clinton.

Obama has maintained neutrality in the primary and recently met with Clinton's opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, at the White House. Still, his comments on the race have seemed to favor his former secretary of state, if only slightly.

Jay Carney told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Wednesday that's no accident -- and the President does want Clinton to win.

"I don't think there is any doubt that he wants Hillary to win the nomination and believes that she would be the best candidate in the fall and the most effective as president in carrying forward what he's achieved," said Carney, a CNN contributor.

Carney said Obama won't make an official endorsement until the race is decided, but his intentions are clear.

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Why a ‘Virtual Tie’ in Iowa Is Better for Clinton Than Sanders

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Tuesday February 02, 2016 · 2:39 PM PST

2016/02/02 · 14:39

While not technically a tie, because Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner, it’s a better situation for her than it is for Sanders. Clinton won more delegates. She won all the super delegates. Sanders failed to win a state tailor made to his strengths. Sanders lost.

Nate Cohn:

“Bernie Sanders is right: The Iowa Democratic caucuses were a ‘virtual tie,’ especially after you consider that the results aren’t even actual vote tallies, but state delegate equivalents subject to all kinds of messy rounding rules and potential geographic biases.”

“But in the end, a virtual tie in Iowa is an acceptable, if not ideal, result for Mrs. Clinton and an ominous one for Mr. Sanders. He failed to win a state tailor made to his strengths.”

He fares best among white voters. The electorate was 91 percent white, per the entrance polls. He does well with less affluent voters. The caucus electorate was far less affluent than the national primary electorate in 2008. He’s heavily dependent on turnout from young voters, and he had months to build a robust field operation. As the primaries quickly unfold, he won’t have that luxury.

But these strengths were neatly canceled by Mrs. Clinton’s strengths. She won older voters, more affluent voters, along with “somewhat liberal” and “moderate” Democrats.

This raises a straightforward challenge for Mr. Sanders. He has nearly no chance to do as well among nonwhite voters as Mr. Obama did in 2008. To win, Mr. Sanders will need to secure white voters by at least a modest margin and probably a large one. In the end, Mr. Sanders failed to score a clear win in a state where Mr. Obama easily defeated Mrs. Clinton among white voters.

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Harry Enten@538:

Sometimes votes have clear outcomes and sometimes they don’t. Monday’s Iowa Democratic caucuses are an example of the latter. Hillary Clinton seems to have barely beaten Bernie Sanders in the closest Iowa Democratic caucus ever after holding a small lead in most Iowa polls before the caucuses. That means Iowa probably hasn’t reshaped the Democratic race for president and Clinton remains the favorite.

But neither Clinton nor Sanders did so well as to make me think either candidate will gain momentum heading into the New Hampshire primary next week. Sanders is likely to win in the Granite State — he has either an 89 percent chance or a 96 percent chance of winning there, depending on whether you look at FiveThirtyEight’s polls-plus forecast or polls-only forecast. Still, the results in Iowa suggest that polls in New Hampshire may tighten. That’s because the states look similar demographically. Even taking into account that Sanders lives next door in Vermont, Clinton probably shouldn’t be behind by 17 percentage points in the New Hampshire polling average right now.

Sanders won very liberal voters over Clinton by 19 percentage points, but he lost self-identified somewhat liberals and moderates to Clinton by 6 percentage points and 23 percentage points, respectively. That’s bad for Sanders because even though 68 percent of Iowa Democratic caucus-goers identified as liberal this year, only 47 percent of Democratic primary voters nationwide did so in 2008. We’ll need to see if Sanders can do better in a state that is more moderate than Iowa before thinking he can win the nomination.

Iowa and New Hampshire also lack nonwhite voters, who form a huge part of the Democratic base. Can Sanders win over some of these voters? Clinton has held a lead among nonwhites of nearly 40 percentage points in national polls. In Nevada, which votes after the New Hampshire primary, the electorate for the Democratic caucuses in 2008 was 15 percent Hispanic and 15 percent black. After Nevada comes South Carolina, where a majority of Democratic voters will be black. Our polls-only forecast in South Carolina gives Clinton a 94 percent chance to win, and our polls-plus forecast gives her a 96 percent chance to win.

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Neo-Nazi Response To Donald Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Says It All

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Tuesday December 08, 2015 · 8:52 AM PST

2015/12/08 · 08:52

"Heil Donald Trump - THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR."

That's what Andrew Anglin, publisher of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, had to say in response to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's call for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."

"Finally: someone speaks sense," Anglin wrote, pasting Trump's new proposal under the headline "Glorious Leader Calls For Complete Ban on All Moslems."

"Make America White Again!" his post concludes.

Glorious Leader Calls for Complete Ban on All Moslems

Andrew Anglin Daily Stormer December 7, 2015

Why were these monkeys ever allowed in in the first place? What an insane, stupid concept.

Finally: Someone speaks sense.

There you have it! The fringes are finally out from under the covers and they have the candidate of their dreams…. a fascist, who just happens to hold a commanding lead for the Republican nomination.

I find it both funny and sad that the leaders of the Republican party continually exclaim that Donald Trump doesn’t represent Republicans. Who else will be voting and supporting him? Democrats? Progressives? Liberals? Of course he represents the tenets of the Republican party. For generations now, they’ve espoused racism, bigotry, homophobia, misogyny and xenophobia. They’ve wanted to amend the Constitution to openly discriminate against people who are homosexual... in our own lifetime. They’ve both advocated and have been successful at taking away voting rights from minorities. They try to control women and their bodies and openly advocate for discriminatory salaries of women. This (is) the Republican party and it always has been.

Donald Trump is their party’s leader at this time and he has been since he declared his candidacy with open bigotry aimed at Hispanics, 6 months ago. Every single Republican leader who berates Trump’s bigoted and racist ideas and policies then turns around and exclaims that they’ll support him if he’s the nominee, renders their protestations of Trump empty, hollow and laughable.

Take a look at Trump's crowds. Row after row of angry white faces, people who beat up anybody who descents or voices criticism of Trump, they cheer his racism and bigotry. Andrew Anglin, the Neo Nazi who supports Trump in this piece above isn't the exception . . . he's the rule when it comes to Trump supporters.

Lets start holding the entire Republican party responsible for Trump….because they (are) responsible for Donald Trump!

Breaking: Trump Calls For Moratorium On "ALL" Muslim's Entering The U.S.

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Monday December 07, 2015 · 1:50 PM PST

2015/12/07 · 13:50

Pretty scary stuff minutes ago from Donald Trump:

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump took his anti-Muslim rhetoric to a new extreme today (Dec. 7), calling for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

Here is his statement:

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on. According to Pew Research, among others, there is a great hatred toward Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. More recently, a poll from the Center for Security Policy released data showing “25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad” and 51% of those polled, “agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah.” Shariah authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won’t convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans, especially women.

Even more scary is that most of his supporters will endorse his rhetoric and probably most Republican voters will as well. Today’s Republican party is nothing like your father’s Republican party.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Trump confirmed the authenticity of the statement. Asked what prompted it, Mr. Trump said, “death,” according to the spokeswoman.

Mr. Trump made his remarks a day after President Obama delivered a national address from the Oval Office urging Americans not to turn against Muslims in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Mr. Trump is expected to say more at a rally at the USS Yorktown in South Carolina on Monday evening to mark the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Experts on immigration law and policy expressed shock at the proposal Monday afternoon.

“This is just so antithetical to the history of the United States,” said Nancy Morawetz, a professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law, who specializes in immigration. “It’s unbelievable to have a religious test for admission into the country.”

She added: “I cannot recall any historical precedent for denying immigration based on religion.”

Ms. Morawetz said that the United States has long regretted policies that banned the immigration of Chinese at the end of 19th century.

“It’s a very sad chapter in American immigration history that we would think is behind us today.”

www.nytimes.com/...

"Oh, my goodness," said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s."

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Marco Rubio Out-Stupid's Himself: "I Don't Hear Anybody Talking About Bomb Control"

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Friday December 04, 2015 · 11:04 AM PST

2015/12/04 · 11:04

Marco Rubio has just proven what an immature empty suit he really is. It’s unbelievable that Republicans don’t have the intellect or common sense to be embarrassed by the clowns that are running for the GOP nomination.

Below find his ridiculously stupid comment:

“I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs and left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with guns.”

— Sen. Marco Rubio, in an interview with Fox News.

Can somebody please inform Rubio that you can’t walk into a store to buy a bomb, but gun stores proliferate all over the country.

There’s even a new cable show starting soon called “Gun TV” where you will be able to but a gun, watching television.

www.theguardian.com/…

From 1983 to 2002, there were 699 bomb deaths in the US. From 1993-2011, there were 242,394 gun-related deaths in the US. Bombs being illegal seems to have had a positive effect.

www.bjs.gov/...

Mr. Rubio, please let me know when Walmart starts selling bombs and grenades.

WOW! McConnell Calling For SS & Medicare Cuts To Avoid Shutdown

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Tuesday October 13, 2015 · 9:42 AM PDT

2015/10/13 · 09:42

Let McConnell go into the 2016 elections demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts, lets see how that affects the Republican outcome after the elections.

Is it my imagination or do Republicans just have a death wish? This latest egregious ploy by the Republicans should be hung around every one of their necks, just in time for election day, November 8, 2016...

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Saturday October 10, 2015 · 2:09 PM PDT

2015/10/10 · 14:09

It's all falling apart for Republicans. Republicans really, really find themselves screwed this week and they're getting exactly what they deserve. Here's the second admittance in just a few days by a Conservative Republican that the "House Select Committee On Benghazi" is a total fraud, existing for no other reason to smear Hillary Clinton and drive down her poll numbers and trustworthiness.

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Friday October 09, 2015 · 3:41 PM PDT

2015/10/09 · 15:41

John Kasich had quite a gaffe filled week. First, he demeaned, and then was condescending to female college voters in Richmond, Virginia.

Now, he's touched on reducing benefits for Social Security recipients, telling seniors to "get over it"....

What is it with the GOP candidates? "Get Over It".... "Stuff Happens" ....

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Thursday October 08, 2015 · 9:31 AM PDT

2015/10/08 · 09:31

McCarthy realized he has no path to 218 votes in the House.
Chaos in the Republican caucus. Who can Republicans elect? The GOP has ceased to be a real party, they can't even unite around a leader!

I love the irony that Hillary Clinton must be feeling right now.

Debt ceiling looms, Republican crazies have taken over...shutdown now appears likely.

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Tuesday August 04, 2015 · 3:07 PM PDT

2015/08/04 · 15:07

Here's the list just released from FOX News, may the best Trump insult lead to a free for all food fight and ultimate disaster for the GOP.....

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Sanders Ran As Democrat Just To Get "Media Coverage"

Is Anybody Else Sick And Tired Of This???

Jay Carney: President Obama Prefers Hillary Clinton For President

Why a ‘Virtual Tie’ in Iowa Is Better for Clinton Than Sanders

Neo-Nazi Response To Donald Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Says It All

Breaking: Trump Calls For Moratorium On "ALL" Muslim's Entering The U.S.

Marco Rubio Out-Stupid's Himself: "I Don't Hear Anybody Talking About Bomb Control"

WOW! McConnell Calling For SS & Medicare Cuts To Avoid Shutdown

(Updated): Republican Staffer On Benghazi Committee Admits Probe of Clinton Politically Motivated

John Kasich Tells Audience To "Get Over It" Regarding Cuts To Social Security Benefits

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy Dropped Out

BREAKING NEWS: FOX Nutwork Republican Debate List