LOLOL .. poor poor chris ... James just about took his entire career away, him and mo are meeting twice a week now .. .at least for the next two years ..
gee .. where have you been? licking something or the other that hurts ? while on a beautiful vacation ?
You might think that similar reactions are occurring over at Fox News or Trump headquarters, but the reality is that Bernie Sanders’ most devoted fans are the only real losers today. First of all, they are the only people who really expected Hillary Clinton to be indicted. Everyone else knew the story was garbage all along [ http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-clintons-emails-are-a-threat-to-life-as-we-know-it/ ], and used it for whatever purpose they could, and everyone but Bernie fans will still get to do that.
But for Bernie Sanders fans, today means the death of their last dream, and a future of only real bitterness, not the fun, feigned kind that Republicans get to enjoy. As for Bernie Sanders himself, he’s much too intelligent to have expected any other result, but may feel that slightest of twinges you get when you scan that Powerball ticket at the grocery store and it tells you what you already knew: “Not a winner.”
By Peter D. Rosenstein ? 07/03/2016 01:59 pm ET | Updated July 4, 2016
In the weeks since losing the June 14th Democratic Primary in the District of Columbia Bernie Sanders managed to turn the goodwill and power he won from running a strong campaign into an overall loss for himself and what he says he believes in. Until then he was seen as a winner because he actually gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money.
Here was a 74 year old man, with a disheveled look and not many actual successes to his credit, who excited a younger generation with his Anti-Wall Street, single payer healthcare, and free college message. They treated him like a rock star with thousands coming to his rallies chanting Bernie! Bernie! Thirteen million [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016 ] came to the polls and pulled the lever or connected the arrows to vote for him. They saw him as their vehicle to send a message to the establishment in Washington they wanted change.
It was a great campaign destined to come up short but that shouldn’t take away from its power. Bernie himself managed to do that by his actions and statements since the primaries ended. He alone is diminishing the chances to accomplish what all those millions of people who donated their $27 to him sought to do. Success and accomplishment in politics are an art. One part is the ability to get elected, something Sanders has been able to do for the past thirty-three years, and for a short time it even looked as if he would come close this year. But the art and finesse needed to get something done after the campaign apparently still escape him.
He had the chance to be a hero and a mensch at the same time. He should have taken a cue from how Hillary handled her loss to Obama in 2008 when she came away looking like a star, and a star with power. Instead he frittered away his chances, rather whining his way close to irrelevance.
Bernie’s most ardent supporters, the ‘Bernie of Bust’ crowd, saw their leader give up the clout they worked to give him. Real progressives among Sanders’ voters, even those in the ‘Bernie or Bust’ contingent, will end up voting for Clinton because they understand electing Trump would end the chance of getting anything they claim they want accomplished.
The end to Bernie’s campaign is likely the best example of turning a win into a loss I have ever seen. Some are calling it an extreme case of ‘white privilege [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege ]‘ and sexism.
Lauren Rankin writes [ http://www.damemagazine.com/2016/06/29/privilege-never-having-say-youll-concede ] “If Bernie Sanders is such a progressive revolutionary, why does he insist on undermining an eminently qualified female presidential candidate who can beat a fascistic demagogue?” She goes on to write “Moving the Democratic platform to the left is a laudable goal, but it isn’t one that he alone has led. There have been many movements, including the movement to end the Hyde Amendment, the “Fight for 15,” and the #BlackLivesMatter movement, that have pushed the Democratic Party to the left. But Bernie Sanders is presenting it as if he himself is the leader of this progressive revolution, as if he and his candidacy have been doing all of the work. This is privileged ignorance at best, and sinister appropriation at worst. Sanders has constructed himself as the progressive revolutionary savior that we have all been waiting for, a privileged and entitled point of view if there ever was one. He is unwilling to stop mansplaining to the country that he’s right because either he believes so deeply that he is right and we are wrong or does he sense that this is the one time that he will ever be this relevant to American politics and his male ego is unwilling to let this go?” I go with the last explanation.
Hillary Clinton [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton ] is probably the most prepared person to ever run for President. She is brilliant and hardworking. She has worked for The Children’s Defense Fund and a Congressional Committee. Been recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers in the country; was First Lady of Arkansas; First Lady of the United States; two-term Senator from New York; and Secretary of State.