Agreed. I'm happy with the Dem platform, though their cowardice on Palestine was slightly disheartening.Terralthra wrote:I owe maraxus2 lunch, but I'm also satisfied with the reasons why. Sec. Clinton's platform has moved significantly left on two key issues (higher ed and public option/Medicare for all) in courting Sen. Sanders' endorsement.
Bernie to Endorse Hillary on the Stump tomorrow
Some of his supporters, on the other hand...(CNN)Bernie Sanders is poised to endorse Hillary Clinton at a campaign event Tuesday in New Hampshire, provided that final disagreements in the Democratic platform can be resolved during a weekend party meeting in Orlando, people familiar with the talks say.
For three weeks, Sanders has been steadily walking closer to throwing his full support behind Clinton, but has been withholding a formal endorsement until the platform is written. He repeated his pledge to help defeat Donald Trump again Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg View's Al Hunt.
"We have got to do everything that we can to defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton," Sanders said. "I don't honestly know how we would survive four years of a Donald Trump as president."
Sanders has been seeking policy concessions from Clinton on college tuition -- which happened Wednesday, as Clinton rolled out a proposal to make tuition free at in-state public colleges and universities for those earning less than $125,000 per year for a family of four.
Also on Sanders' wish list: A commitment on health care to allow those aged 55 and older to buy into Medicare, and concessions in the Democratic platform to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-country trade deal negotiated by President Barack Obama's administration, even in a lame-duck session of Congress before a new president is sworn in.
If the Orlando meeting goes smoothly, people familiar with the talks say, Sanders and Clinton appear to be on track to a joint appearance in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Plans for that joint appearance could still fall apart, and patience is running thin among some -- with Sanders insistent on policy concessions and Clinton aides feeling he's lingered in the race too long after Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee. Sanders was booed in a meeting with House Democrats on Wednesday for failing to support Clinton.
Democrats are set to meet Friday and Saturday in Orlando to finalize their platform ahead of the party's convention in Philadelphia later this month.
link‘Fraud, Sell Out’: Some of Bernie Sanders’ Supporters are Now Turning on Him
by Allen Clifton July 9, 2016 6 min read original
While I have been somewhat critical of Bernie Sanders for a few things he’s done over the last year or so, most of my issues have been with a certain group of his supporters (a small, but very vocal minority) who have been rather hostile, aggressive, and often flat-out irrational. Many of these folks are the far-left’s version of radicals who are driven by blind ideology, often rejecting any factual information that doesn’t confirm whatever it is they want to be real.
Again, I would like to point out that these people make up a very small (though very loud) percentage of Bernie Sanders’ supporters. Most of the people who supported him who I’ve dealt with are great, rational people who are ready to work together in the extremely important months ahead for our country.
Well, with news breaking that Sanders is set to endorse Clinton next week in New Hampshire, some of his supporters have already turned on him, bashing his decision on his Facebook page — with some even calling him a sellout.
Here are a few of the comments I found:
There are many reports that Bernie will endorse Hillary next week. This is unacceptable. Bernie, I thought this was campaign was #NotMeUs? We are begging you not to endorse her corruption. Please run 3rd party and save us from oligarchy and fascism!
Bernie Sanders, do not endorse someone who does not speak out against racial injustice. Please join Jill Stein.
Bernie will be the only Bernie Sanders supporter that endorses her, …lol… everyone I know would rather die then vote Goldman/Sachs president puppet.
Bernie, I’m already feeling crushed and defeated at the idea of not taking this all the way to the convention. I already feel like giving up. You cannot endorse Clinton. You just can’t. Think of how hard all of us have worked for you. We will never back Hillary, and neither should you. Show these posts to the democrats. #NeverHillary
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I could literally post hundreds of these — because there are hundreds (if not thousands by the time some read this article) all along the same lines of the comments I just listed.
To be honest, I’ve never really seen anything like what I just witnessed gathering these comments in a very long time. There were seemingly countless people claiming that he can win the nomination at the contested convention; that if he ran as a third-party he would win; or that he should join Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s ticket. And many of these comments were the most “liked” in the entire thread, with hundreds of people who seemingly agreed with them.
It’s all ridiculous based on simple, rational facts.
Why do I say a lot of what I read was completely ridiculous? Well, it’s very simple:
Bernie Sanders has maintained from the very beginning that he was going to endorse the eventual Democratic candidate. He’s said it countless times over the last year and has never hidden the fact that he was going to do so. So, I’m not sure why him doing exactly what he said he was going to do “shocks” his supporters.
If he ran as a third-party candidate, all he would do is split the left vote and hand Donald Trump one of the largest presidential victories in U.S. history — and anyone who doesn’t get the very simple, indisputable math in why that would happen really shouldn’t ever discuss politics again.
Why would he run as an independent, or Green Party candidate? Clearly if he wanted to do that, he would have simply done that in the first place.
Also, why would he choose to be the VP to Jill Stein when he’s much more qualified to be president than she is?
It’s hilarious how the person who started all of this is now being called a “sell out” by many of the same people who are so obsessed with him that even when he doesn’t tell them what they want to hear he’s not “pure” enough for them.
The fact quite a few people commenting here still think he’s going to win a “contested convention” only goes to show that they’re living inside some sort of pro-Sanders bubble where fools like H.A. Goodman are seen as “credible” and they’re rarely exposed to factual information.
While this was predictable, I still find it ironic — and slightly funny.
It’s one thing when these folks bashed and attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren, it’s quite another when they’re calling the individual who started this “revolution” a sell out simply because he’s doing exactly what he has always said he was going to do — though that’s not what they want him to do. Again, I’m really not sure why these people are angry as Sanders has been forthright from the beginning that he was never going to run as an independent and he was always going to endorse the eventual Democratic nominee.
Once he actually endorses her in a few days, the backlash he’s going to see online from the very people he worked up into a frenzy to begin with, is going to be absolutely insane.
