2016 Postmortem

Recursion

(56,582 posts) Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:25 PM Jul 2016

"We all need to be as vocal and as organized as Bernie Sanders's supporters have been"

Oh my fucking God this man is a genius

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"We all need to be as vocal and as organized as Bernie Sanders's supporters have been" (Original Post) Recursion Jul 2016 OP

Yeah that was good. MichiganVote Jul 2016 #1

Yes, he is. narnian60 Jul 2016 #2

major shout out to bernie flamingdem Jul 2016 #3

Reject the divide and conquer mentality! IamTheNoodle Jul 2016 #4

I truly wonder if any of those viciously attacking tonight will "hear" that riderinthestorm Jul 2016 #5

Lol! Well this is dropping like a stone. Doesn't fit the DU meme Arazi Jul 2016 #6

The DU "meme" as you say is to Elect Hillary Clinton as our Democratic President. Cha Jul 2016 #7

Agreed 100% but obviously Obama finds the current process ok Arazi Jul 2016 #8

President Obama is brilliant.. the best President we've ever had. Cha Jul 2016 #9

Then DUers need to stop freaking out over protesters. Follow Obama's lead riderinthestorm Jul 2016 #11

Yes, and might be nice to do it with the other half of the party that voted for the other guy. highprincipleswork Jul 2016 #21

Negativity is highly prized on DU. The Bernie bashing threads remain at the top... Barack_America Jul 2016 #10

Just because when people start fighting, the post count goes up... John Poet Jul 2016 #22

This is false on its face, Imma kick it as much as possible. Obama is right, we need to be at least uponit7771 Jul 2016 #14

Berne has now dropped out of DNC star16 Jul 2016 #20

He's absolutely right. We should be grateful for Bernie and those who supported him in the primary. Tatiana Jul 2016 #12

Bernie supporters were vocal, Hillary supporters were more organized. ecstatic Jul 2016 #13

+1 uponit7771 Jul 2016 #15

That was a nice moment democrattotheend Jul 2016 #16

Unifying around a candidate is a process aikoaiko Jul 2016 #17

I just wished he's cont'd the "50 state strategy" & hadn't dissed Dean when he left DNC chair n/t NikkiTaMere Jul 2016 #18

Another fantastic line from Obama. And he's absolutely right. Credit to Team Bernie. writes3000 Jul 2016 #19

Actually, you just need to woo us :) grahamhgreen Jul 2016 #23

MichiganVote

(21,086 posts)

1. Yeah that was good.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:26 PM

Jul 2016

narnian60

(3,510 posts)

2. Yes, he is.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:26 PM

Jul 2016

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)

3. major shout out to bernie

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:26 PM

Jul 2016

thats right feel the bern!!

IamTheNoodle

(98 posts)

4. Reject the divide and conquer mentality!

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:27 PM

Jul 2016

And we win in November!

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)

5. I truly wonder if any of those viciously attacking tonight will "hear" that

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:28 PM

Jul 2016

Hope so.

BIG underscore from me.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)

6. Lol! Well this is dropping like a stone. Doesn't fit the DU meme

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:48 PM

Jul 2016

that protesting Bernie supporters are shit

Cha

(297,304 posts)

7. The DU "meme" as you say is to Elect Hillary Clinton as our Democratic President.

Reply to Arazi (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:08 AM

Jul 2016

Arazi

(6,829 posts)

8. Agreed 100% but obviously Obama finds the current process ok

Reply to Cha (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:10 AM

Jul 2016

I agree with him

Cha

(297,304 posts)

9. President Obama is brilliant.. the best President we've ever had.

Reply to Arazi (Reply #8)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:14 AM

Jul 2016

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)

11. Then DUers need to stop freaking out over protesters. Follow Obama's lead

Reply to Cha (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:15 AM

Jul 2016

I agree. He's the best president in my lifetime and I trust his instincts.

highprincipleswork

(3,111 posts)

21. Yes, and might be nice to do it with the other half of the party that voted for the other guy.

Reply to Cha (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 02:38 AM

Jul 2016

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)

10. Negativity is highly prized on DU. The Bernie bashing threads remain at the top...

Reply to Arazi (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:14 AM

Jul 2016

...of the heap, despite Obama's rather excellent, and boldly positive speech.

It's one of those things that just continues to degrade the value of this site.

John Poet

(2,510 posts)

22. Just because when people start fighting, the post count goes up...

Reply to Barack_America (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 03:56 AM

Jul 2016

so the negative threads tend to hang around longer.

President Obama sure was at the top of his game tonight!

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

14. This is false on its face, Imma kick it as much as possible. Obama is right, we need to be at least

Reply to Arazi (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:28 AM

Jul 2016

... as determined as Sanders supporters when it comes to getting our officials elected

star16

(16 posts)

20. Berne has now dropped out of DNC

Reply to Arazi (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 02:17 AM

Jul 2016

Berne is now independent!

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)

12. He's absolutely right. We should be grateful for Bernie and those who supported him in the primary.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:22 AM

Jul 2016

That was the President's nice way of saying that we got complacent.

We need to keep pushing all of our elected officials to govern and legislate better.

ecstatic

(32,707 posts)

13. Bernie supporters were vocal, Hillary supporters were more organized.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:26 AM

Jul 2016

Both camps can learn from each other, I suppose.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

15. +1

Reply to ecstatic (Reply #13)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:29 AM

Jul 2016

democrattotheend

(11,605 posts)

16. That was a nice moment

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:32 AM

Jul 2016

Bernie looked touched. I was happy to see that he stuck around for tonight. I figured he would have gone home after doing his part yesterday.

aikoaiko

(34,172 posts)

17. Unifying around a candidate is a process

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:33 AM

Jul 2016

And yes it takes some smart people to help it out. Disorder and entropy is always a possibility, but some people can reframe things in a way that puts the pieces together.