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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 06:27 PM Apr 2016

The end seems to be coming.

Washington Post, excerpts:

The signs are everywhere this morning: The Clinton and Sanders camps are now signaling how the Democratic primaries might wind down without too much noise, contentiousness, disruption, and anger.

Rep. Keith Ellison, a top supporter of Bernie Sanders who is also the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, suggested the Clinton camp had some work to do in order to appeal to Sanders’s supporters. But he also carefully noted that Sanders would not do anything to imperil the party unity that will be required to defeat Donald Trump. “Every Bernie supporter knows that this Supreme Court issue is looming. We’ll have party unity….everybody has a responsibility to make sure there will never be a President Trump. Bernie has been around a long time….he’s not going to hand this country over to Donald Trump.”

On the Clinton side, the Post reports that a top Clinton backer, Senator Dianne Feinstein, is now calling for both camps to “work together, across our party, to have a platform that represents the views of Democrats.”

In 2008, after the divisive primary season concluded, Feinstein opened her Washington manse to host a secret unity meeting between Obama and Clinton. She said she would reprise that role for Clinton and Sanders. “I’d be very happy to offer that,” Feinstein said.

The other day, another top Clinton backer, Senator Sherrod Brown — who has great credibility among economic progressives — also offered in an interview with me to take part in any negotiating efforts to unite the camps. He even suggested that Clinton “should work with him on the platform,” and offered some areas of common ground they could reach on financial reform (an area of real disagreement), such as how to toughen up Dodd-Frank’s requirements for big banks’ plans to wind down in a crisis.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/04/28/the-end-is-near-clinton-and-sanders-camps-quietly-signal-resolution/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

That secret meeting that Feinstein hosted for Obama and Hillary was a major turning point in their strong unity afterwards. Feinstein's call and offer is very good news.
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The end seems to be coming. (Original Post) kstewart33 Apr 2016 OP
Feinstein, ugh. But, unity is what we need. Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #1
Its the Washington Post. Sky Masterson Apr 2016 #2
The writing does seem to be on the wall. griffi94 Apr 2016 #3
We're almost to the end. NurseJackie Apr 2016 #4
The Bozo's tabloid trash that is a huge Clinton supporter. Yeah, that is real credible. Skwmom Apr 2016 #5
Bernie's spending cuts are the key. CrowCityDem Apr 2016 #6
wishful thinking from a Clinton shill publication amborin Apr 2016 #7
Why do the Clinton supporter have so little sadoldgirl Apr 2016 #8

Jackie Wilson Said

(4,176 posts)
1. Feinstein, ugh. But, unity is what we need.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 06:29 PM
Apr 2016

She typifies what is wrong with the Democratic party, but compared to R, she is a saint.

griffi94

(3,733 posts)
3. The writing does seem to be on the wall.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 06:34 PM
Apr 2016

Bernie had a good run tho.

And I agree it's probably time to start thinking forward to the GE.

Bashing our frontrunner isn't going to change the situation
The superdelegates will vote for who has the most pledged delegates.

Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
5. The Bozo's tabloid trash that is a huge Clinton supporter. Yeah, that is real credible.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 06:37 PM
Apr 2016



And Brown might be surprised to find out that some people are starting to wonder what kind of progressive he actually is.

 

CrowCityDem

(2,348 posts)
6. Bernie's spending cuts are the key.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 06:41 PM
Apr 2016

That says he doesn't have the money anymore to compete everywhere. There needs to be a winding down, so he doesn't have to look like a deflating balloon.

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)
8. Why do the Clinton supporter have so little
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 06:47 PM
Apr 2016

respect for the people, who have not voted yet?

I also remember Mme. secretary stayed in the race
until June in 08.

Why are you unwilling to allow Bernie the same
opportunity?

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