2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Did Bernie's wife commit a felony when she secured a loan for Burlington College? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I do know how these deals work. And there is probably no real scandal behind these claims any more than there is behind the e-mail claims against Hillary.
The Hillary camp is desperate to find something, no matter how lame, to throw in dirty negative ads against Sanders.
Well. It won't work. I was out campaigning for Sanders tonight.
Just mention his name to anyone under 30 and you get cheers and cries of joy. Sanders is here to stay, and he has a very good chance of winning.
My neighbor across the street, staunch Obama supporters, came to visit me the other day. I told her I was for Sanders. She said she was too. Her daughter, not old enough to vote, told her she should vote for Sanders.
People watch a Sanders video and know he is their candidate.
No matter how many pies Hillary supporters throw and Sanders or his wife, the meringue is only going to land on Hillary's face.
Voters will forgive mistakes, but they will not forgive a candidate who has clearly sold out for millions and millions of dollars to the cheaters on Wall Street.
Look. Quite frankly, the "foreclosure crisis" was probably history's biggest grand theft. Millions of Americans thought they had built equity, savings in their homes. The banks and mortgage companies used every trick in the book to weaking the owners, those paying the mortgages. Here in California they offered second mortgages which meant that under our Depression laws, they would be able to claim a deficiency judgment when the homes foreclosed. It's a little complicated. Just trust me. I know what I am talking about on this issue, and I believe that you know I know what I am talking about. Every possible trick was used.
On my street prior to the crash, on my lower middle-class street with our old, run-down houses, prices sky-rocketed. I asked my neighbor how it could be that people could pay those prices which had risen when pay scales had not risen. ANY BANKER WORTH HIS SALT SHOULD HAVE ASKED THAT QUESTION. I do not believe that with the talented mathematicians that banks and Wall Street hire, they did not foresee the crash long before 2008. It was inevitable, obviously inevitable.
That foreclosure crisis, as I said, was the biggest theft of middle class wealth the world has probably ever seen. (OK. I agree. The middle class was never that wealthy before.)
The scandal of the foreclosure crisis and the theft it concealed and allowed to happen is felt, not understood by ordinary Americans. It was "unfair." It was actually a huge crime that involved almost an entire industry.
Americans are not going to care about some minor incident of possible misreporting of the estimated values of promised donations when they have seen the big banks, the hedge funds and Wall Street steal from their families and friends and get away with it.
Sanders does not take money from Wall Street. He has promised not to appoint Wall Streeters to his cabinet.
That is a huge draw. Americans are sick of the big-time corruption in Washington. Hillary is in the middle of it. The Sanders are not an extremely wealthy couple. That appeals to people.
Sorry. But trying to push some scandal onto the Sanders is not going to work. Jane Sanders did not receive any personal advantage from anything she is accused of doing. Hillary ----- ?????? The money she was paid for speeches to Wall Street firms?????? That's where the big money was.