Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBernie supporters called "a cult”, so just for shits and giggles....
I googled "Obama supporters cult" and came up with a lot of old news stories from 07/08 and GOLLY WHAT A COOINCIDENCE its the same thing theyre saying about Bernie supporters now. Hmmmmmmm, wonder what the common denominator is here?
Id forgotten about one particularly notable person who was carrying water for the frontrunner.
In a long screed in this morning's New York Times, Krugman fulminates far and wide on the sins of the Obama camp. "I won't try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody." He believes that the Obama campaign is "dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. (Oh, really?) He finds it "saddening" how "many Obama supporters seem happy with the application of 'Clinton rules'" which is, "the term a number of observers use for the way pundits and some news organizations treat any action or statement by the Clintons, no matter how innocuous, as proof of evil intent."
ITS LIKE DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN (wouldnt want to disappoint by not doing the caps thing).
The Clinton camp "aggressively lobbies journalists around the clock." And this is how kindergarten essays make it into the news cycle. This is how questionnaires and false concerns over a candidate's liberalism fuel fervor one week while neutral observations of Ronald Reagan's presidency inflame false concerns over the same candidate's conservatism the next.
There is lots more like this out there...looks like someone didnt learn a lesson from the last time they tried this...didnt turn out so well then, aint gonna work now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/11/krugman-claims-obama-supp_n_85999.html
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Oddly enough, some of them on this board have big ol pictures of Obama on their signature lines.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)After the fact, no one was ever on the dipshit side of history.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Teagan
(62 posts)I just wish there was a Bernie version
Rockyj
(538 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)after he was smeared by Clinton.
I think that person finally took it off their sig line, but it was as though he/she didn't have a clue what Obama was doing in that gif.
Teagan
(62 posts)You should have seen her expression when doing that.
I was like, WTF?
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)It's ridiculous.
jfern
(5,204 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)but not in lockstep with the "just like Dean, Kucinich, et. al." memes being tossed around lately.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Clinton has, admittedly, more than her fair share of nemeses among those who cover the news - Chris Matthews and Bill Kristol come most clearest to the mind. But by and large, their enmity was in place long before Barack Obama arrived on the scene and emerges independently of the Obama campaign's actions. What's more, should Obama quit the scene today, those who bare their anti-Clinton bias are not likely to ease up.
And NOW there are even MORE things for them to dislike her for...I dont get how theyre saying she can win the GE. But I guess I must be missing that clearly superior knowledge they have. /s
Bernin4U
(812 posts)It's everybody's favorite oxymoron: "common sense".
(And a generous helping of that ol' "repeat something enough and it becomes the truth" never hurts.)
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)outcome? Hmmmmmmm......
That's them!
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
Teagan
(62 posts)in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)The fact that quote fits the Hillary supporters so well and it came from another Democratic Socialist, is ironic and kind of creepy in a way because it's so spot on!
ALBERT AND BERNIE - Two BRILLIANT men.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)We're Bernie Rebels.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)That hearkens back to the right wing smear that liberals thought Obama was "The Messiah."
Teagan
(62 posts)But that would fall under conspiracy theory. The best way to defeat the Clinton machine is to prove that the millennials are ready to vote the status quo out.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)They don't care about too many issues, they just want everyone else to get out of the way of their candidate.
A lot of the most vocal Hillary supporters this round were among her biggest bashers in the Clinton-Obama primary.
For a good example, check out this thread from the Clinton-Obama primary:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5168167
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)I see a few familiar now pro-HRC names on there that weren't so happy with her then. Color me not surprised.
jfern
(5,204 posts)Bernin4U
(812 posts)I think we'd be considered pretty "uppity".
We should just shut up and know our place.