I will take Biden's experience in foreign affairs and his diplomacy over Bernie Sanders, not interested.

The fat bastard should be impeached, removed, jailed, and re-educated for this alone.

To start a war for self-serving purposes (re-election, and money). Nothing more evil than that.

Dark money third party source who employees campaign surrogates and lies about democrats and the party.

DU shouldn't be a place for anti-Democratic Party sources.

Right now, Bernie Sanders can't do anything to block Trump.

Nope. Not a damned thing.

This is more of an attack against the other contenders than even an attempt to argue what the title suggests.

This article is also written by the person who accused Pete of only serving for the sake of his resume and that his service in Afghanistan was only a photo-op.

on assurances that he made to labor during his takeover of a storied British socialist magazine, The Tribune.

"You’re being played. Don’t fall for it..."

How will giving trump a second term help?

from losing.

and challengers in down-ballot races--through no fault of their own--with Sanders as our standard-bearer. It would be a wipeout in my estimation.

Fortunately I don't think that's going to happen.

I think 2020 will prove to be a great year for Democrats with Biden leading the party and proving tremendous coat-tails.

Texas will be a battleground state if Joe Biden is the nominee. If sanders is the nominee, we will lose the two congressional seats that we flipped in 2018 and the other candidates trying to flip seats can forget about it.

Trump is intimidated by Bernie.

No one is intimidated by sanders. Amused maybe but not intimidated.

There is a ton of great oppo on sanders. None of the Democratic candidates are using this oppo because no one really thinks that sanders has a chance of being the nominee. There are tons of video of sanders praising Fidel Castro, the old Soviet Union, Central American socialists and other enemies of the United States that would make great attack ads. trump has the money to run these ads on a constant loop so that sanders would be lucky not to repeat the results of the 1972 election.

In addition, Russia targeted African American voters last cycle to depress or suppress their vote.

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Bernie has only advocated democracy and the will of each nation to determine their own leaders and destinies whether our meg-conglomerate corporations agree with them or not.

We should not be supporting coups overthrowing the will of other nations' peoples.

I believe Bernie can win by a landslide and that's precisely what our corporate conglomerates and U.S. oligarchs are afraid of.

The oppo that trump has available would destroy sanders in a real general election contest.

Again, none of the other Democrats see any need to use this oppo on sanders because none of these candidates are worried about sanders being the nominee. Clinton had a great oppo file on sanders that Russia hacked. Clinton never used that oppo because sanders was mathematically eliminated after the Super Tuesday contests

insofar as the Democratic Primaries are concerned and usually 1st or second in the polls.

Follow the money and you will see that leads to the people in this case.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/politics/bernie-sanders-fourth-quarter-fundraising/index.html

Then you do understand that trump will be out spending sanders by a huge margin. trump may be able to outspend sanders by three or four times the amount that sanders could raise

it's the number of donors and how the money is raised.

Bernie would kick Trump's ass, I have no doubt of this.

I will support the nominee of the party but I really doubt that sanders will be the nominee. There are far too many real democrats who have good memories and who will not forgive or forget.

and he has little chance of getting the nomination.

Money is used to buy advertising and pay campaign staff. It doesn't matter where it comes from with respect to how many ads can be purchased or campaign staff can be hired.

and he's leading the way for any candidate short of being a billionaire, it's a new paradigm.

they weren't going to vote for, at least he the average working American; living paycheck to paycheck.

isn't a whole lot of skin in the game.

When you have Americans deciding whether to scrimp on prescription drugs or food, etc. that's a lot.

Sounds like Aesop's fable ... "The jackal was afraid of the squirrel etc. etc."

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voted to give authorization to wage war in Iraq in the first place.

Subject to the preceding condition Trump probably wouldn't be in power much less have assassinated the Iranian general if we weren't there in the first place.

In regards to "electibility" Bernie Sanders has beaten Trump in 98% of head to head to polls since 2016.


Furthermore why does anyone believe people in the Middle East shout "death to America?"

Could it have anything to do with seeing their families, friends and nation being bombed into oblivion without regard to their feelings?

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I am glad that we will never have to worry about this

Luckily there is very little chance of sanders being the nominee

when running for a nomination.

If this is true, "In regards to "electibility" Bernie Sanders has beaten Trump in 98% of head to head to polls since 2016.", then Biden has beaten trump in 100% of head to head polls since 2016.

Do you have anything to document that 98%? I'll wait.

we are still engaged in and at least in regards to electibility Bernie has won primaries.

"Electible" Biden had two runs at it, how many primaries has he won?

...since the early 2000s?

There is no comparison between their overall careers and accomplishments in Washington?

Funny how every time anyone talks about them, the ONLY thing Sanders supporters bring up is that single vote.

How about his vote for the 1994 Crime Bill AND his failed attempt in 1995 to make the penalties stronger (that's always ignored)?
How about five votes against the Brady Bill and it's amendments?
How about voting to protect gun manufacturers?
How about voting against the Magnitsky Act?
How about voting against Russian Sanctions?
How about being the only Senator of 100 who ducked out of the vote to sanction Oleg Deripaska?

Shall we go on?

slogans shouted at Iranian protests since the collapsing of the Shah.

Only Death to Israel provides a rival for popularity.

You better believe it.

This silly attack did not work against Clinton. Why does sanders think that it will work now? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/08/hillary-clinton-voted-iraq-war-still-won-primary-can-joe-biden/

the Democratic nominee have versus the President? Well, he's a Senator, but the Senate is not going to stop the Dotard.

and if Bernie should become President he will reverse Trump in a major way.

His last vote was on June 28, and since then he's missed 241 consecutive Senate votes.

passed to stop supporting Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen, that should count for something.

...and that resolution was created and pushed by Senator Chris Murphy.

January 2020 is almost twenty years after the war with Iraq, who voted for that atrocity? n/t

post offices? He can't get shit done in the Senate I do declare and it will be even worse if he is President. He needs to stay in his lane. I still think Bernie is a good guy even though there are quite a few things I find distasteful...quite a few...quite quite a few.

We have the votes no matter the Democratic candidate chosen. Just have to get them to the polls.

equipped to do.

I believe Bernie should he win the nomination, will beat Trump by a landslide.

FOX is ultra right wing propaganda without regard to truth, objectivity and balanced reporting.

Jacobin is the ultra left wing version of that. That is not what we should espouse.

Right or left, the corporate media conglomerates are the corporate media conglomerates period, their primary clients or allegiance are to the mega-corporations which purchase their commercials (follow the money) and/or parent corporations which own them.

FOX is a piss poor liar and anathema to progressive values and yet at the same time the most viewed network in America.

Propaganda is propaganda whether one agrees with it or not.

Good.

and it seems as if the war will come before any Democrat can do anything

Not Republicans, not a clarification, but congress. That is a lie, a con. I have not heard a single Democrat that is supporting Trump with this. ANY Democratic Leader will do that and I feel more successfully, but maybe equally successfully as Sanders.

No thanks

I thought you knew that.

that speaks volumes about her

She has blood on her hands as far as I am concerned

better get off his ass and put it in action.

Any time now would be just great.

hyperbolic headlines.

I really hate the way Trumpers distort the truth, don't you?

put a bill forth along these measures?

Don't you agree that the most disgusting thing about Trumpers is the way they make ridiculous claims that they know are not true?

believe in Bush/Cheney' integrity when it came to authorizing a war with Iraq based on lies?

your responses, you know it is.

far away from your original statement?

It is so insulting that they think we are so stupid that we won't notice. Don't you hate that about them?

of Bush/Cheney and their lead up to a war with Iraq based on lies.

I'm not a Congressperson but just from reading the news during the lead up to war, I knew they were full of shit.

I have no problem with Sanders himself. I'm as happy to vote for him as for any of the other candidates.

But the dishonesty of his followers is breathtaking, and it doesn't help the candidate at all. They are doing him a disservice because Democrats aren't stupid, and his more rabid followers clearly think we are.

It will be more than a year before any Democrat might be in office. God knows what kind of a mess we'll be in by that time. Whatever happens, it's way too late for Bernie to fix this (if he could, which I doubt).

We will be at war by morning if not sooner.

How is he going to stop an Iran war?

It is just propaganda.

Voting for the Iraq war really hurt Kerry and Clinton.

And it is one of many anchors slung around Biden's neck.

More importantly the one war he did vote for, the Afghanistan war, he admitted he was wrong. No prevarication. No weasel wording. No trying to rationalize it after the fact.

Sanders can call out the wars in a way the other candidates cant' credibly do.

that I know this.