2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy is the media in the tank for Bernie Sanders?
MTP is challenging Hillary Clinton on her changing positions on key issues. That means they're biased in favor of her opponent, right?
(at least, that's how it's been explained to me here).
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)BlueWaveDem
(403 posts)Most likely. If they can knock off the Democratic frontrunner it would increase the chances of a republican in the white house. At least according to the betting markets. Although if Trump is the nominee I think we could win nominating a sack of potato's.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)They'd like either a Republican or Hillary.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Bernie's policies have remained the same over decades.
Hillary evolves as needed.
madokie
(51,076 posts)She is more interested in being the first female President than she is in being President.
read my sig line to know where I stand
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Story on this morning's cable news is that she consulted Steven Spielberg to help shape a public image
that would go over well with the voters this time.
Bernie doesn't try to sell himself like a box of "new and improved" breakfast cereal.
madokie
(51,076 posts)the same old Bernie he was back when he was fighting for racial equality years ago. Good man, solid as granite and stands taller than any of the other candidates by mountains
No need to try to appeal to anyone as he is the real Deal just as he is. Makes me Proud.
I'm most proud that I seen in President Obama enough good to vote for him in the primary and both generals and it makes me just as proud to be as big of a supporter of Bernie as I can be.
I will vote for our nominee and I will try just as hard to support who ever it is if it isn't Bernie so no one please start talking shit about me and what I believe or what my motives are. I spent 15 months in war so that should show anyone with any questions about my character as to what kind of a person I am. American first Democratic Party member second.
Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)That's how it was explained to me here...
madokie
(51,076 posts)and they want someone who is friendly to their system of what they think is fair. Our media is not in the tank for Sanders. I haven't heard his name mentioned on the local stations more than a couple times since he announced. When they did they put a lot of Emphasis on Socialist Bernie Sanders.
So you want to start a food fight, go for it, most of us see this shit for what it is.
Haven't seen his picture yet in our local paper.
Guess what, one of the richest persons in america owns our local paper. I wonder if there is any connection there
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)You cite a Bernie flip flop,
then I cite a Hillary flip flop
Then we repeat until one of us runs out of ammo; then the other keeps going until he also runs out of ammo, or the size limit is reached for DU posts.
You game?
brooklynite
(94,585 posts)perhaps Bernie will on gun control.
I'm merely observing that Clinton isn't getting a free ride from the media, and some folks here have suggested.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)so anything that does not praise her is being in the tank for her opponent.
I think the real question should be something like.
"You admit to being wrong on all these issues, what will you be wrong about next and can the country afford to wait for months or years for you to figure out that you are wrong?" (It took years for all 3 examples given, but maybe on the next one it will only take months, hope springs eternal.)
It should also be pointed out that on all 3 of the issues mentioned on MTP, Bernie was on the right side of them all along. The country would not need to wait for him to figure things out because he gets them right the first time.