the lives lost over the past week and the problems highlighted by those deaths from Baton Rouge to MN to Dallas.

It should be a movement to mend our hearts and souls.

a "victory statement?"

If there is anyone showing poor judgement in this campaign, it is NOT HIllary.

Clintons have made major blunders recently. not Bernie, Best to proceed with eyes open, no one is taking this GE for granted. Liz nor Obama have sparked any enthusiasm. With any luck, Bernie will sway a few to vote Dem to save us from Trump. Instead of constantly critisizing Bernie, you should support him, but no, you are still talking primary. He has moved on.

The convention is a crucial week where the Democrats need to show a united, winning front. The focus need to be on that.

And if you think that neither Warren or Obama have not sparked any enthusiasm, I don't know what campaign you are following.

Also, he has NOT moved on. In order to move on, he needs to concede.

The draft of the Dem platform did include a number of victories for Bernie's movement. Assuming the Hillary mainstream is still backing those principles when the Convention starts, it is cause to celebrate.

I'm not sure what you mean by "concede". He has said he thinks Hillary will be nominated and that Trump would be a disaster. If he followed your advice and "moved on", he wouldn't be Bernie Sanders.

It means he's pretending that it's not actually a certainty, and thus he still has some small chance himself.

He said she would be, which is the opposite of that.

By saying she'll "probably" be the nominee makes it seem like Bernie thinks the situation is no different than back in April and May when he was behind but victory was still mathematically possible.

and enthusiastically campaigning for her - not campaigning for himself.

Has Sanders said or done anything in these past few weeks, aside from pushing for his platform positions that a reasonable person could regard as derogatory?

This is not a movement. It is a protest - for most of the participants.

convention, and the convention only.

The only one who would benefit from this distraction is trump.

People are tired of Sanders and Sanders will lose any floor fight on the platform.

this way.

Divide the attention between the convention and Sanders rallies and his ego-feeding "marches for Bernie" and who wins? TRUMP.

How is this helping a Democratic win in November? How is this "Doing everything to defeat trump"?

Is he planning something similar for the GOP convention? No. I guess he doesn't want to take attention away from them during THEIR convention.

So his disinterest in helping the Democratic nominee and then scheduling a rally where he is the center if attention is derogatory.

vote. He has to answer to 12 million dems and 40 million indys. Hillary has enough support and is critical of the peoples preferences. He does not work just for the party, he works for all the americans. The party represents the minority of americans, the movement takes all comers. His interest is in defeating Trump so he will support Hillary, but is going to be too busy to campaign for her

If you want to be realistic, Bernie hasn't done anything substantial for 25 years, he's not about to do it now.

He doesn't have to answer to anybody, and Hillary IS the people's preference. She WON.

If you're expecting Bernie to lead a movement, that is fantasy. He's faded since California and since he's not campaigning for Hillary, he's going to fade back to a quiet Senator after the convention.

If you're looking for a leader of your movement, you better find a new one.

to Hillarys candidacy. Bernie does not care if he fades as long as his downticket gets elected. His agenda is seeing to change in the next 3 elections . This one is done and no changes will occur from the white house- it will all be in congressional seats and progressives. 3rd wayers have won their last election this year.

That is working for the party.

The Party has very little to do with the people. They do as they damn well please, for their agenda.

Equal pay for women, the social safety net, affordable health care, climate change action, affirmative action, environmental protection parts of the Democratic platform.

I guess the Democratic party owes Bernie a HUGE thank you.

he is known as the amendment king, yes, I do thank him

Amendments are tweaks to the work other people completed. And "amendment king" is a common meme cited by Bernie supporters who don't really understand what that is in terms of actual legislation.

Hillary actually got more legislation to the Senate floor than Bernie did in his whole time in the senate (even accounting for the naming of post offices and such.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/07/hillary-clinton-was-a-more-effective-lawmaker-than-bernie-sanders/

Bernie couldn't work with other progressives. That's common knowledge.

http://wamc.org/post/democratic-vermont-leaders-fail-endorse-sanders-president

He has a tendency to take credit for things that aren't really his to take credit for, but his followers need as much validation as they can get.

dismisses the Democrats that have been fighting and pushing this for those two decades and half. That is what is offensive. From the start he demanded ownership of our Democratic policies, and we are not handing them over to him, when we did the work.

When lacking a point of substance, trotting out tired, half-witted canards like 3rd Way and Neo-Lib does little to hide that lack.

i think I was called a neoliberal once here - whatever it means. I wear it proudly. Luckily, I wasn't called a 3rd wayer - my boyfriend might get suspicious.

evils, or you love her without doubt. Many who voted for Hillary like Bernie as well,and are willing to settle. That is human nature. They all know he is fighting for them, that has never been doubted. He is not allied with corporations or wall street nor has he written absurd trade deals, or been riddled with scandals for 30 years. 3rd way has.

Nothing is black or white. Righteousness is in the eye of the beholder. I happen to think we are all entitled to a happy life, 3rd way is content to keep us in debt and stress

in case you wonder why people stop talking to you. To the ignore list you go

And for that matter since when has he done anything to support the downticket Dems?

None of them have received any financial support from him and he has done no fundraising to help the DNC, which sends money to all Democrats running for office in the General Election. This does matter.

And personally I don't see it as helping the downticket to support primary challengers to incumbent Democrats. Only under extreme circumstances should that be done.

a very boring convention, have some fun, have a party for indies who arent allowed at the convention. Wish I could be there

The Democratic Party convention is a time for all to unite behind the nominated candidate. Translation: it's Hillary Week.

Several Sanders demonstrations in no way helps Clinton or Democratic party unity. Instead of focusing on what's happening on the convention floor, the media will focus on the demonstrations and play up the disunity, because that is what they do.

By far, the most important objective is to defeat Trump. In no way are Sanders' actions supporting that objective.

Warren has been working like a dog to get Hillary elected. What more do you want? Bill has added a huge setback with his tarmac deal and people have scrambled to recover. It looks to me like people are doing their best. Hillary is a product and she doesn't fly off of the shelf as fast as some would like. All the marketing in the world won't change that.

Insisting that he's still a candidate after the primary is over is the very definition of not moving on. And your claim that nobody has sparked any enthusiasm and thus we need Bernie to save the Democratic Party is garbage.

From all appearances, and in my opinion, this strikes me as being more "about Bernie" than it is about anything else. It's short-sighted and tactless, in my opinion.

I'm sure he'd be much happier at home with his grandkids knowing that ordinary americans were getting a fair deal from their government

No. It's "March for Bernie" Blacks for Bernie". It's all about his ego, which seems to get bigger each passing day.

the runner up guy who placed a distant second?

with another stunt that screams me me me!

Assuming that they aren't placed much deeper in the park. There's also a lake there, so they will be spread out.

There's already a road divide with a fence in the way, not to mention a gigantic parking lot. And right now they are putting up many more fences.

So they won't see the DNC and the DNC won't see them.

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FDR is a pretty park. Hope they don't hurt it.

It's a big city. I think there's room for all.

n/t

the convention.

...you know, other than working to defeat Trump.

I hope I'm wrong, but this sure comes off as pure vanity.

and he therefore won't be needing another.

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Well, OK, then:

If not, then I would kindly suggest he seek help.

For real. It'll be him.

It seems the ego is at the wheel.

Move on.

that he lost? alrighty then

For him to honor his word.
Period.

What a disappointment.

He's not the candidate so he can't do it that way. But he's still a leader with a movement that will benefit Americans. I love that he's continuing his quest for gains for the middle class and poor. That's selfless.

time frame is one of the most important in the campaign.