It's awkward and creepy. Implies you think you're bigger than life or something. Probably makes you even less liked in the South. Southerners just don't talk like that. Come to think of it, few people do...

But you can get away with it in certain circumstances like the one he used here when you're referring to other peoples impressions of you. It's a strange thing to bring up, its not like he does this regularly.

and not that they (the reporter) made a grammatical error in quoting him.



Either that, or the reporter is a bloody handed corporatist warmongering oligarch.

HRC remains popular.

My bff LOVES Hillary alot.

We only have one candidate that can win. Unions know it, blacks, women, hispanics...

He'll improve in the polls.

Then go blame the DNC , for restricting the number of debates, if people from SC don't know who he is!

Don't tell me you didn't figure that one out yet!

Too bad he's not Wall Street sell out!!!

Oh my!!!

The 2016 presidential race spending is expected to total $5 billion. That's not Hillary's fault. Thank goodness she has the cash for such a fight. Bernie would never stand a chance against the GOP cash in the general. He can't even get enough cash for this primary.

Ask Russ Feingold how his unilateral disarmament worked out in 2010. He learned his lesson. For his 2016 race, he's allowing super pacs to help him.

Lead by example!!!

Why can't she do it?? She has the most money anyway!

It case you didn't notice, she is already running against the GOP right now. They will not "follow her lead" if she disarms. Ask Russ Feingold.

She is not running against the GOP. She is running against Sanders and O'Malley!!

Wtf are you talking about??? The Primarie elections havent even started yet!!!!

Wtf!

She would have answered those questions whether she was running for POTUS or not.

We have Democratic elections. She is not coronated. So no, she is not running against the repubs yet.

She is running against Sanders and O'Malley.

If you really think that 11 hour GOP witch trial was not aimed at knocking down Hillary's candidacy for 2016, there is no point in me discussing anything with you.

Hillary will NOT be coroneted, she must earn her votes.

You go have some *warm milk and go to bed* (your words)

I'm fine, thanks . Take your condescending orders elsewhere.

I just made a suggestion, since you sound so irritable. As you say, it's a free country. You can stay up all night if you want. I'm going to bed. I have work in the morning.

Good luck arguing with K & R ' s.

Stop telling people what to do.

There is a big difference between a question and an order. Maybe you should not try to attempt ordering people around.

Have a great day.

You know, walk the walk.

Bernie talks about inividual donations all the time. The campaign has to budget in a very strategic way how to spend it. If he wins New Hampshire, there will be plenty of time to make SC a horse race.

Since SC voters haven't even heard of Bernie yet (per OP)

So what gives??

This problem goes far deeper than better techniques for getting out the vote. It reflects a massive decay of civil society, a deep disinterest and contempt for government and politics, one that often seems richly earned.
This is also the soil in which fascism grows. As political scientists have demonstrated for more than a century, it is "mass society," in which people are disconnected from the "little platoons" beloved of Edmund Burke and the local associations celebrated by Toqueville, where a strongman can suddenly seem the solution to people's inchoate frustrations with their own lives and the irrelevance of politics.
And evidently, the quiet desperation and buried rage are such that the crazier the strongman's pronouncements, the better. (Cue Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz.)

you do realize that there are some of them there, right?

Because he can't debate Hillary due to the DNC restrictions??
And because he doesn't have the Wall Street and super pac interest money Hilary does??

Please!!!

You well know that restricting the number of the debates was detrimental to Sanders!
Hillary even refused to attend the Forum scheduled on Tuesday! She's afraid to speak , becausd when she speaks , her poll stats go down.

Thanks for kicking the thread too.

It's sad really. But funny at the same time. When you claim to kick a thread only because of who's posting it.


Have at it!!

Your choice.

Why?

It's like an enhanced ignore button.

because I damn well feel like it.

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In the third person. He has consistently said this is not change he alone can bring, it will take all of us.

The author of the article may not have followed Bernie closely enough to know that, but Bravenak surely knew this was a distortion and untrue when chosing that phrase to bold.

The name recognition excuse is getting kind of old.

It never suprises me that he struggles, the depth of the struggle is also not surprising. What I'm curious about is how he will respond. There are interventions he could do to improve those numbers, it would be nice to see him try. He implies that he will.

If he wants to be a leader, he has to solve problems better than this.

That grates on my nerves. (Also his speaking quirks and other mannerisms are as off-putting and annoying to me as those of GWB.)

Then I'm like

conservative State. Winning SC is like proving yourself with bigots. In '08 SC was where Bill Clinton got most racist and where Obama held his rallies with hateful anti gay preachers. After SC in 08 I lost respect for both candidates, for the process, for their advisers, their ethics and for South Carolina.
SC kept homosexuality illegal until 2003 when the SCOTUS made them stop.

Antisemitism is also a constant in SC, I offer mainstream Republican rhetoric spoken in defense of Jim deMint:
"There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/19/794998/-

And of course mass killer Dylan Roof who blamed Jewish agitation for racism in America:
""In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldn't cause much of a problem. The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities."
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.662174


Let's add this one:
SC Governor Names White Nationalist to Reelection Committee
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013/05/22/sc-governor-names-white-nationalist-reelection-committee

So Bernie is struggling in South Carolina? He's sure not the first minority to do so, and he won't be the last either. Hostile territory.

bad thing.

What reason do i have? I do not know him.

.... Is called illesism, and it's odd.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism

"illeism can be used to reinforce self-promotion, as used to sometimes comic effect by Bob Dole throughout his political career.[2] This was particularly made notable during the United States presidential election, 1996 and lampooned broadly in popular media for years afterwards.

Similarly illeism is used with an air of grandeur, to give the speaker lofty airs. Idiosyncratic and conceited people are known to either use or are lampooned as using illeism to puff themselves up or illustrate their egoism. The artist Salvador Dalí used illeism throughout his interview with Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview, punctuating it with "Dalí is immortal and will not die," although this may have been a reference to the legacy of his art rather than his actual self. The wrestler The Rock was notorious for this, mainly to enhance his persona to a superhuman level. Deepanjana Pal of Firstpost noted that speaking in the third person "is a classic technique used by generations of Bollywood scriptwriters to establish a character’s aristocracy, power and gravitas."[3] Conversely, third-person self referral can be associated with self-irony and not taking oneself too seriously (since the excessive use of preposition "I" is a common sign of narcissism and egocentrism[citation needed]), as well as with eccentricity in general."

I think it's funny.

But that's just me.

I think it's weird that our primary schedule puts a lot of Republican states early in the schedule. Yeah, Hillary may win the primaries in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, but she (or any other Dem) isn't going to win those states.

The largest Democratic state by far is California, and we really don't even get a say. It's usually all over by the time of our primary.

I cannot think of more than a few states she won't win in the primary. He would have an even tougher time down South.

So why are we letting red states determine the Democratic nominee?

I say this as a Sanders partisan in this election, but it's always like that.

I think we need a series of regional primaries, or all primaries on the same day, or something like that.

Why does the Democratic state with the most electoral votes (California) basically get no say at all? We don't even vote until June.

Lots of blacks down that way, we do not need to be disenfranchising anybody ahd letting the northern or western states do all the deciding. Not fair. My state gets no say ever.

he's not too popular with Blacks at least so we're told because of he's a socialist.

that. It seems like some think we just live like it's the 90's, but I have had so many people talk about the online stuff. They take one look at the comments sections, in articles about Hillary or whomever. If the article is positive about hillary? My god. The nasty things said. Not by repubs either.

For a while the commenters had FLOODED black blogs and news sources in the comments sections. It is the main thing that comes up when his name comes up if they even know about him. Not socialism. They talk about the comments. Comments made to them, to others, stuff they read on Twitter. My favorite thing? NOBODY BELIEVES ANY OF US when we say that is the main problem. Funniest thing about the entire thing. Do not believe the actual people as to why they won't give him the time of day. Some woukd rather just blame us for not liking it ahd staying clear of that type of campaign. Hell, if not for that, even I would still be voting Bernie. But to help THOSE folks win in any type of way? Goodness. Why? If that's what he likes he can have it without me for sure. Now that I'm being called nwords and the person is being honored, well, okay, I guess I made the exact right choice. Not that I blame him, cause I don't. But join that? Oh no. No no no no no no no. No. Socialism? Yeah. Not discussed at all really. Too many comments to discuss. Been going on for months. Too funny.

in fact even though I had never heard of it as such before DU, some is even direct quotes from the Protocols of the Elders of Socialism

eta don't even begin to claim I am saying this is the sole reason for the alleged lack of support for Bernie Sanders in the Black community bit it is one factor and may well be in the broad spectrum of people too

And no matter how many times blacks say exactly what they problem is, people WILL not believe them and will simply make shit up that makes them feel better and makes it so they have to do absolutely no work on themselves or their crew. Hilarious.

Get out the brooms.

Maybe we should choose our nominee in states that actually vote Democratic. Or at least give them a meaningful voice.

And if tRump is the GOP nominee anything could happen.
I have every confidence Hillary Clinton will be our next President.
They (D states) will have a say if our next president is a Dem. or Repug.

Very mildly.

More like

" Majority of internet polls favor BERNIE!!" the one's where the same people can sit there all day hitting the button over & over for Bernie skewing the poll!

Such as Titanic dreams

HAHAHA!

Pitiful.

Bwahahahahahahahhaha!!!!!

including Obama. It acknowledges all the people working with them.

Same could be said every time Obama uses 3rd person.

And it will be depressing for many to be reminded how conservative our country, and the Democratic Party, are. South Carolina is one of the most conservative for sure.

I already have a good idea of just how conservative the Democratic Party is, so it won't surprise me, but it's still saddening.

I think the recent votes by many Democrats to stop Syrian refugees and the whole gay marriage keruffufle shows just how spineless Democratic leaders are and how bigoted much of the Democratic Party is.