2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI prefer someone who wants to inspire us, rather than someone who wants to demoralize us
merrily
(45,251 posts)I crack myself up sometimes.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The hearings would go away if we would vote her away...
merrily
(45,251 posts)have never. They won't care that she called them the enemy of which she is most proud.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/bernie-sanders-is-a-loud-stubborn-socialist-republicans-like-him-anyway/450597/
Sanders is very hard on Republicans for their policies. They get that. It's politics. But he isn't a jerk to them just for the sake of being a jerk or to get cheap applause lines or to play a victim card when caught redhanded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Dem Party, after three terms of Republicans.
That says nothing about her ability to pass legislation with a Republican Congress. Shame on you for trying to float that flim flam.
peace13
(11,076 posts)You crack me up too!
merrily
(45,251 posts)Does it matter?
bjo59
(1,166 posts)but so incredibly disingenuous. She's so transparent. Even her ridiculous "celestial choir" commentary is an attempt to borrow from Bernie's "Shakespearean prose" commentary on her secret Goldman Sachs speeches. Her attempt to even borrow his delivery style is both comical and pathetic. But to your point: agree. "We're not going to just wave a magic wand and make special interest money disappear" says the person who has been vastly enriched by it as an insult lobbed at the person who keeps successfully funding his campaign without taking one red cent of it. That must be so galling to her and the corporate interests that are paying her bags full of money to "get things done."
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Mock an opponent for inspiring people and for having a positive message
bjo59
(1,166 posts)the "Shakespearean prose" part of Bernie's speeches. I thought that clip was current because of the big yellow jacket! I inspected her to guess the time period and the jacket through me off. Oh well - I'm behind the rest of what I said! Thanks for setting me straight.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)she started calling Bernie an unrealistic con artist selling fantasy.
Funny how everyone who runs against her is somehow a con artist selling fantasy isn't it?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... and she's not the only person who's noticed and spoken up about it.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Thank you for your concern, but I know exactly why I am donating to Sanders and I will donate until someone tells me I maxed out. (I really haven't been keeping track myself.)
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)from Bernie than any other candidate...ever.
He is the most depressing, anger riling politician wanting to be POTUS, that is only rivaled by Trump.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)But I guess it's better to live in ignorant bliss and fatalistic apathy, right?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)bottom line. Maybe you think it's cool to side with the Rich, but they don't love you. And they don't love the 2.5 million children in America living on the streets. A by-product of the greedy profit grabbing Wealth 1%.
There are two sides to this class war and the Clinton Family with their $150,000,000 and billion dollar Foundation Retirement System are not on the side of the 2.5 million homeless.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)The op is about inspiration exuded by Bernie....apparently you couldn't find any either. I know just what you mean.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Heck iof that's the case let's just call off the election. Doesn't matter who gets in.
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Hillary is a liar. That's all you need to know.
anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)WDIM
(1,662 posts)you should get out and work to change it! Hillary is just more of the same
beaglelover
(3,486 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)You have a picture of a warmongering corporatist as your avatar. You must be inspired by her corruption and warlike attitudes just a little bit.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)in that direction
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)One of the real eye-openers of this primary has been that Sanders has been able to run one of the most dishonest campaigns I've seen on the Democratic side, making promise after promise he has no chance of delivering on, and his supporters still, with apparent lack of irony, crow about him being honest and Hillary not being.
This post really drives that home - a comforting lie is preferable to an uncomfortable truth.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)Nor do I expect either to make a damn bit of difference.