DNC Just Sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ Campaign

[frankfrank]

I hope it's gonna backfire.

Bernie winning against a Republican would be the best election result, anywhere in the world, in recent years. I'm considering the known fact that policies set by the United States will often have tidal effects on politics all over the world.

The Sanders campaign cannot even access **THEIR OWN** donors/database.

 

[evanrick]

Sanders campaign has sued the DNC. The Clinton responses is clearly trying to have it both ways, one hand running for the hills, the other using words like theft.

I just have one question for the Clinton people, what are Hillarys email files doing at the DNC and not on her private server where the whole world can see?

 

[TickTockMan]

 

[hotatlboi]

So not exactly a sabotage.

 

[eastofeden]

I've been a Bernie supporter from day 1. In my heart I knew he wouldn't be the nominee. But one can hope. If anything, Bernie has pushed Hillary to the left on many issues. Which is good.

I certainly won't be going P.U.M.A. like idiots did in '08. If Hillary is the candidate, she will get my full support. There are to many issues that the Republicans would fuck up royally. I won't 'hold my nose' when I check her name on the ballot.

Don't get me started on Wasserman-Schultz. Screw her. Bring back Dean. His 50 state strategy worked like a charm.

I took a quick look at Bernie at the outset..I knew immediately he was THE GUY I would most identify with and agree with...and I immediately ignored him after that because there is no way he will get the nomination and I am not going to get my hopes up again like I did with Dennis Kucinich.

Hillary will get it...and she will win the election. I am lucky..I do like her already. Nothing personal Bernie...but my political idealism has been tempered with reality and there is no turning back for me..it is a sealed fate.

I love her experience and like her or not I think she is singularly THE most qualified candidate from either side. I also think she is a brilliant statesman and she knows Washington inside and out which means she already knows how to get things done. She comes with a "first lady" who uniquely has 8 years experience....not a bad deal for America.

The best thing about her though....she has already been through the right wing propaganda machine and she is STILL STANDING! Quite a feat...and not an easy one to duplicate. I love thinking about Rove and the Koch Boys laying awake at night trying to dream up some new Hillary "scandal" to shock America....

I am expecting the lesbian stories to make an appearance.....

 

[TickTockMan]

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a putz.

 

[rareboy]

She is a putz. Can't disagree there.

Never can understand how she ended up as head of the DNC.

 

[BenDan]

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a putz.

It's amazing to me that so many "leaders" in govt. are so transparently awful

That their elevations are based on something other than competence and vision

Her Republican counterpart is no better probably worse

And now they've given the Sanders campaign another boost frankly - the opposite of what was intended

 

[BenDan]

So not exactly a sabotage.

attempted sabotage is actually worse

as the desired result is not achieved

 

[TX-Beau]

It's amazing to me that so many "leaders" in govt. are so transparently awful

That their elevations are based on something other than competence and vision

Her Republican counterpart is no better probably worse

And now they've given the Sanders campaign another boost frankly - the opposite of what was intended

Oh come on, Debbie is probably the most obnoxious DNC head ever, but there is no need for conspiracies. I MIGHT believe that if Bernie was threatening Hilary, but he isn't, and he isn't going to.

 

[T-Rexx]

I'm surprised that nobody seems to care about the stunning incompetence of the IT vendor the Democrats have hired. Not only was this data exposure unbelievably stupid on their part, but this is not the first time the vendor has done this!

And yet, somehow these idiots remain employed.

It's amazing to me that so many "leaders" in govt. are so transparently awful

That their elevations are based on something other than competence and vision

The same is just as true of business (and probably every other human organization out there). I speak from experience in dealing with these people.

 

[Kulindahr]

Look. We all love Bernie. We'd love to see him as the President.

But he's not going to be the nominee. Never was going to be. He has never had the cross country recognition and support that Hillary has had.

Nobody's sabotaging anyone. It is politics and it is how things work. The Democrats need a single, unassailable candidate who can beat the shit out of the Republican clown posse without scaring the crossover voter.

Bernie's job in this election campaign is to push a liberal agenda and allow these ideas to become part of the platform.

So hold your nose and vote because as we keep pointing out, it isn't about the presidency as much as it is about the Supreme Court for the next eight years.

Bullshit. Wasserman-Schultz has been trying to shut Bernie out all along.

BTW, the Supreme Court is a good reason to NEVER vote for Hillary -- she's a corporatist and a statist.

 

[Kulindahr]

Hillary was always going to be the nominee---Sanders was running to make a point and he has some solid strong beliefs---
interesting the gay powers that be in the DNC don't think he's anywhere near as strong as Hillary on gay issues and for that matter on black issues---two important bases in the Democratic party.

Because the "Democratic Pasrty" doesn't believe in democracy.

 

[Kulindahr]

No mention yet that it was a Bernie staffer that was caught taking Hillary's data?

That person was clearly in the wrong and was fired.

As to whether this action was justified, not sure, but it was clearly not done out of the blue just to sabotage Bernie's campaign.

A more objective article: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-dnc-suspension/

That makes it clear that W-S is punishing Bernie for the DNC's mistake.

 

[Kulindahr]

Thanks. I agree with you. I think the DNC is still mad Obama did an upset.

They've turned into the PRI: they want to select candidates in a back room and present the decision to the voters as what they should do.

 

[Kulindahr]

I took a quick look at Bernie at the outset..I knew immediately he was THE GUY I would most identify with and agree with...and I immediately ignored him after that because there is no way he will get the nomination and I am not going to get my hopes up again like I did with Dennis Kucinich.

Hillary will get it...and she will win the election. I am lucky..I do like her already. Nothing personal Bernie...but my political idealism has been tempered with reality and there is no turning back for me..it is a sealed fate.

I love her experience and like her or not I think she is singularly THE most qualified candidate from either side. I also think she is a brilliant statesman and she knows Washington inside and out which means she already knows how to get things done. She comes with a "first lady" who uniquely has 8 years experience....not a bad deal for America.

The best thing about her though....she has already been through the right wing propaganda machine and she is STILL STANDING! Quite a feat...and not an easy one to duplicate. I love thinking about Rove and the Koch Boys laying awake at night trying to dream up some new Hillary "scandal" to shock America....

I am expecting the lesbian stories to make an appearance.....

If Hillary gets the nomination it will be because people don't realize that she is a major player in destroying our Republic. She is a corporatist statist who believes that the wealthy and a small elite should be allowed to essentially own government and dictate to the rest of us.

The only candidate who actually understands the situation is Lawrence Lessig, and I'm not even sure he wants to be running; he just keeps showing up on online polls. But Bernie at least is not owned by the bankers and corporations as Hillary is.