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dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:34 PM Oct 2015

Bernie 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 they’re saying about Bernie supporters now. Hmmmmmmm, wonder what the common denominator is here?

I’d 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."


IT’S LIKE DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN (wouldn’t 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 didn’t learn a lesson from the last time they tried this...didn’t turn out so well then, ain’t gonna work now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/11/krugman-claims-obama-supp_n_85999.html
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Bernie supporters called "a cult”, so just for shits and giggles.... (Original Post) dorkzilla Oct 2015 OP
Same people, same candidate, same hate Scootaloo Oct 2015 #1
Funny, that! dorkzilla Oct 2015 #2
Well, you know how it goes Scootaloo Oct 2015 #4
Everyone loves a winner. frylock Oct 2015 #10
BTW: I love the deGrasse signature Teagan Oct 2015 #14
I love my Bernie Bear! Rockyj Oct 2015 #11
My favorite is the one that had a gif of Obama dusting off his shoulders Fawke Em Oct 2015 #13
I recently saw a gif here somewhere with the Clinton version. Teagan Oct 2015 #15
I've seen it. Fawke Em Oct 2015 #18
Those people have zero long term memory jfern Oct 2015 #21
History indeed repeats itself 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #3
Also from the linked HuffPo article... dorkzilla Oct 2015 #5
Of course "she will win". Bernin4U Oct 2015 #22
Om mani bernie om. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #6
Hare Bernie! Hare Rama! Hairy Bernie, get a comb! nt dorkzilla Oct 2015 #7
What's the definition for doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #8
Here's another Democratic socialist Teagan Oct 2015 #16
Yes, ironic, isn't it? in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #25
And getting bigger every day Politicalboi Oct 2015 #9
They also say that we think of him as though he's "St. Bernie." Fawke Em Oct 2015 #12
I'm wondering if some of the Clinton supporters are RW trolls Teagan Oct 2015 #17
I think a lot of them just want to back a perceived winner Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #19
Well well well... dorkzilla Oct 2015 #24
The Hillary campaign always takes the low road jfern Oct 2015 #20
Haven't heard it said yet, but Bernin4U Oct 2015 #23

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
2. Funny, that!
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:40 PM
Oct 2015

Oddly enough, some of them on this board have big ol’ pictures of Obama on their signature lines.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
13. My favorite is the one that had a gif of Obama dusting off his shoulders
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:44 PM
Oct 2015

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)
15. I recently saw a gif here somewhere with the Clinton version.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 11:07 PM
Oct 2015

You should have seen her expression when doing that.

I was like, WTF?

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
3. History indeed repeats itself
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:40 PM
Oct 2015

but not in lockstep with the "just like Dean, Kucinich, et. al." memes being tossed around lately.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
5. Also from the linked HuffPo article...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:46 PM
Oct 2015
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 don’t get how they’re saying she can win the GE. But I guess I must be missing that clearly superior knowledge they have. /s

Bernin4U

(812 posts)
22. Of course "she will win".
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 03:49 AM
Oct 2015

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.)

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
8. What's the definition for doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:49 PM
Oct 2015

outcome? Hmmmmmmm......

That's them!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
25. Yes, ironic, isn't it?
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 05:02 AM
Oct 2015

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

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
12. They also say that we think of him as though he's "St. Bernie."
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:43 PM
Oct 2015

That hearkens back to the right wing smear that liberals thought Obama was "The Messiah."

 

Teagan

(62 posts)
17. I'm wondering if some of the Clinton supporters are RW trolls
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 11:11 PM
Oct 2015

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)
19. I think a lot of them just want to back a perceived winner
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 02:47 AM
Oct 2015

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)
24. Well well well...
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 04:40 AM
Oct 2015

I see a few familiar now pro-HRC names on there that weren't so happy with her then. Color me not surprised.

Bernin4U

(812 posts)
23. Haven't heard it said yet, but
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 03:53 AM
Oct 2015

I think we'd be considered pretty "uppity".

We should just shut up and know our place.

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