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Old 06-09-2016, 08:33 PM
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Bernie Caves

Throwing in the towel.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/09/politi...rs-washington/
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Old 06-09-2016, 08:47 PM
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Sen. Sanders is a mensch and he's going to be an amazing part of the team that includes a veritable murderers row of Democratic surrogates facing the short fingered vulgarian and con man from Queens.

Sanders, Warren, Biden, Obama and Ol' Bill are going to slaughter the Republicans this summer and fall.
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Old 06-09-2016, 08:54 PM
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I heard that speech. He didn't "cave" at all.
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Old 06-09-2016, 09:09 PM
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I heard that speech. He didn't "cave" at all.
Whether he caved or not, he's now mostly irrelevant. Perhaps a decent Senate committee chair assignment if he plays nice.
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Old 06-09-2016, 09:23 PM
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Maybe Minister of the Disheveled. She needs him for credibility.

What a disheartening election this will be.
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Old 06-09-2016, 10:01 PM
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Whether he caved or not, he's now mostly irrelevant. Perhaps a decent Senate committee chair assignment if he plays nice.
That very much remains to be seen. He has started a movement with broader support and greater ideological clarity than the Tea Party. We'll have to see where that leads.
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Old 06-09-2016, 10:20 PM
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Senator Sanders took defeat like the gentleman he is. Accepted defeat gracefully, no shame he fought a good fight. Most likely in a different cycle he'd be the nominee.



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Whether he caved or not, he's now mostly irrelevant. Perhaps a decent Senate committee chair assignment if he plays nice.
He is relevant to Clinton posture.
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Old 06-10-2016, 12:25 AM
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Bernie should resign from the Senate and lead a progressive movement. We need to ensure that Hillary is a one term president. If not she will move the country too far to the right on the pretext of reaching across the aisle.
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Old 06-10-2016, 07:05 AM
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Sanders is no different than any other politician - in some ways worse.

He persuaded a lot of well meaning, gullible supporters his campaign was about truth and not giving in to corporate corruption - he railed against Hillary for her ties to everything he was campaigning against.

It does not surprise me as it is politics as usual that he now will get on the Hillary bandwagon - the enemy of my enemy, etc. But the message to his supporters is truth can not win, it is better to accept in Hillary everything he promised he would fight to defeat Trump.

That's how politics works and what his supporters were hoping they had found in him was someone who would keep up the fight against it.

But he is just another politician cut from the same cloth - nothing bright or shiny, new or different about him or his methods.
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