I will NEVER consider Sanders honest or principled after this.

I would say more, but I'm taking enough of a hide risk in what Ive already said.

You are in the can for Hillary. Nothing will change that. Everything you say is, at best, motivated reasoning - you have a conclusion to reach and by God, you will reach it.

This seems to be an extreme case, however.

I don't give a fuck who you trust.

Now, laugh.

Of course it must be an "honest" mistake then...right?

She needed to go years ago and she needs to go now. She is a disgrace!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

DWS thought she could smear Sanders and he would take it. She was wrong, he did the right thing and fired his guy, then when she still cut access he filed a lawsuit.

Maybe now DWS will realize Bernie is a legitamite contender and she should not try to screw him over. He WILL fight back, as will his supporters. Which is why the DNC phine lines were down all day, even their donation line.

DWS apparently was unable to exercise the same tact.

The nearly half million that signed the petitions to get DWS fired or the 100K+ that donated to Bernie??? Because that is what we did. Or the Hillary supporters who saw an entire campaign being derailed over a bullshit beef and applauded??

but I don't see how this could have been kept under wraps, especially after a firing. If all involved tried to spin/cover this, it would have ended up an even bigger disaster.

Agree on Sanders being on the TV, not that tone deaf Weaver.

There were ways to shrug it off.

And said fired person likely wouldn't have kept his mouth shut anyway based on what he said to the media yesterday. It was going to come out one way or another and nobody was going to control the message.

I've long known that a lot of people online operate in a selectively chosen universe.

I've seen the weirdest anti-Clinton conspiracy theories floated here. They get hundreds of recs. People believe the worst about her, eagerly.

And in a case where the Sanders campaign was clearly in the wrong, and the Clinton campaign was clearly the aggrieved party, we had a foaming-at-the-mouth wave of hatred saying this was all Clinton's treachery. Not just on DU, but on so many other online forums and news sites.

For a long time, I've dissociated this rabid behavior from the Sanders campaign. He can't control the people who support him, after all. But now I see that the Sanders campaign has the same over-the-top mindset. They really do think they're the wronged party in all this. Their staffers did something blatantly unethical against a rival campaign, and rather than apologize, they sue the party and try to fundraise off of it.

The absolute gall it takes to do that-- the sanctimoniousness and inflated sense of self-righteousness-- is incredibly off-putting.

I may regret writing all this in the morning. But I cannot believe how the Sanders campaign and its supporters handled this.

I certainly feel better.

Of course, I'm also about to trash GDP and find something more constructive to do with my time.

That might help a bit, too.

This should have been resolved in house months ago.

But... someone on Hillary's side ran to the media.

I think Bernie's side had the goods or this wouldn't have come to this.

Fuck all this nonsense.

"...someone on Hillary's side ran to the media..."

(Allegedly, I add, since I don't - yet - have personal knowledge of this.)

Was that the trigger for DWS's action? Have you a link?

I've seen a lot of "what" but not much "why" as to her reason for what I think was a monumentally stupid approach. I'd be very interested in more information.

He flip flopped and comparing the 2 is apples and oranges.

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