Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumThe First Female Nominee should not have to share...
the same stage with the a man who doesn't concede and endorse her before the convention.
I'm seeing a lot of "suggestions" that Bernie's complacency to the threat that Trump poses should be accommodated. Hell no.
Hillary won and if Bernie won't acknowledge that before the convention, he can speak in the parking lot to his protestors. The last night of the convention is not about him or his "revolution".
/rant over
Freddie
(9,692 posts)There's a vast sea of parking lots outside the Wells Fargo Center.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)he still hasn't recognized her historic achievement. Not even that concession?
SirBrockington
(259 posts)That is what they do every year in the general. Romney didn't want to, McCain didn't want to... but the same night... they did. And these are Republicans.... along with sixteen other Republicans that dropped out in the primaries this year. He lost. Blaming it or using some excuse of "system rigged"? really? This is relatively unheard of in the history of politics from the class president in high school, state reps, on up the the President of the United States. And to this point someone the media hasn't made him a pariah yet, but have indulge or justified the unjustifiable because its just "Bernie being Bernie" . Would it be nice to endorse? sure. But to not even acknowledge at all? Unbelievable
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)He should not be in the parking lot. Across the street would be much better, lol.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Ellen Forradalom
(16,178 posts)Even a Presidential nominee has to perform emotional labor.
Ignore him and leave him fuming is usually the best response to petulant men. Looks like Hill knows this.
Maru Kitteh
(29,087 posts)Let him scream at the pigeons in the park, shake his fist at the sun, wail into the wind. After 35 years in elected office pretending to be 'an outsider" it's what he's most comfortable doing anyways.
BlueMTexpat
(15,496 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)..."piss on him!"
PEACE!
procon
(15,805 posts)He's nothing but a sour grapes spoiler now. He lost and he's waging a personal vendetta against Hillary. He's so bitter that he's going to try something at the convention, he has an feud against the Democratic Party and he seems intent on retaliation. He's angry that the voters selected Hillary and by slow walking his concession and endorsement, it looks like he's trying to weaken her chance of winning over Trump.
splat
(2,326 posts)Wikipedia tells me there were many nominees:
John F. Kennedy 806 52.89%
Lyndon Johnson 409 26.84%
Stuart Symington 86 5.64%
Adlai Stevenson 79.5 5.25%
Robert B. Meyner 43 2.82%
Hubert Humphrey 41 2.76%
George A. Smathers 30 1.97%
Ross Barnett 23 1.51%
Herschel Loveless 2 0.13%
Pat Brown 1 0%
Orval Faubus 1 0%
Albert Rosellini
There were nominations and seconds and then delegates paraded the aisles with bobbing signs.
When all were done, there was voting, yielding, the great state of...
Will this happen this time with Bernie?
Walk away
(9,494 posts)the Senate back and a good chunk of the House. She is a real Democrat so down ballot is her mission (just one of the 1000 reasons she is a better candidate than Bernie could ever be).
But make no mistake about it. Bernie lost and I doubt he will walk away with any real power.
question everything
(48,801 posts)He puts demands and is not even willing to endorse her?
And he is not even a Democrat. He wants to change the rules to make it easier to someone like him to win next time around. I think we should change the rules so that someone like him cannot run again... unless he is proven Democrat: campaigned and got elected as a Democrat, campaign for other Democrats.
teamster633
(2,032 posts)...maybe even for senator, under our banner. I'm not opposed to getting rid of caucuses, but that isn't a high priority. I would enjoy watching the pissing contest that would result between Iowa and NH if that did come to pass.
DemonGoddess
(5,123 posts)Nope.
SirBrockington
(259 posts)for even allowing a person with no skin in the game to run as a Democrat. A flow DEMOCRAT who worked their way through the party would have had influential people in their ear, persons they worked with throughout through the machinations to reach such a position to have the confidence of the party...such is the case with any group, bet it President of a Fraternal organization etc. etc. You let a person in who spent their time being outside of the party, what difference does it make to them if the whole thing blows up or not. He could have run green party from the start, with no media coverage, continued his lack of name recognition, and been on the radar as much as every other green party or libertarian or the "rent is too damn high" guy.
splat
(2,326 posts)Debating just Martin O'Malley would not make for riveting TV. She would also be able to move leftward and bring the voters with her once Bernie staked out the extremes, her left shift looking moderate by contrast. This is classic political theory as taught at Wellesley in the late '60s.
He wasn't supposed to pose a real threat, or divide the party.