Are you afraid he’d make a tremendous president? He would.

If I thought it would I under Bernie, I would have voted for him. I just wan't to make it clear. Bernie lost and nothing will make that not so.

to work with another human being or form a political alliance is truly Presidential material.

to miss a meaningless vote?
I'm just trying to figure out why everyone is so concerned about a cloture vote that needed 60 votes ending up 47-47.

In the wind.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

....if every Senator felt the same way it would have been a 0-0 vote. Other than the five (all republicans) who were in quarantine, EVERY Senator felt it important enough to do his/her job.

When I was working I didn't have the option to pick and choose which job functions I could do and which I could ignore. If I skipped any I would have been written up and eventually fired.

BTW, regardless of the meaninglessness of THAT particular vote, two points:

1. Yesterday afternoon he DID find his way to Washington to participate in the exact same vote, just as "meaningless".
2. From last June through early January (6.5 months), he missed 253 consecutive votes.

thought it was important enough to show up.

The man has a job to do and makes one hell of a salary, 174K. He is AWOL in one of the biggest crisis this country has faced. A million or more may die. He should be in Washington.

Not Me, US. That has a hollow ring right now. Where is he for we the people? Where?

to line up behind whoever they wanted. And that's not going to be Sanders.

If the tragedy occurred, Sanders would lose to a dead man on the first ballot, and be overwhelmed by votes for a favorite son or daughter of the Democratic Party selected by the convention.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

That laugh of hers !!

He is not going to be president. Tremendous, mediocre or terrible, or otherwise.

He has absolutely terrible leadership skills. Doesn't listen, no team-building capabilities whatsoever (rabble-rousing and getting people angry is not leadership), no consensus building experience, no foreign policy experience, no management experience, poor hiring judgement, inability to project outcomes from known facts.

He'd be better than Trump, but that's about it

K.

He doesn't even do his day job now. No excuse not to be in Washington as millions may die and the Senate is doing their best to give Americans a fighting chance for survival.

Tell me WHY HE IS NOT THERE!

anyone except Sanders could beat Trump.

You REALLY thought it was necessary to post this?

Yes, we know Bernie isn't nominee. Can we please move on.

I will concede that Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden will likely be the nominee, and that we can look forward to little systemic improvement in this country for the next 4 years.

Hey, I might even like that the country is administered by Jill Biden, Nancy Reagan style, until the 2024 election.

That said, I would still like the opportunity to vote for Bernie in the primaries. Again.

C'mon Joe supporters. You're already crowing about your candidate's delegate count. What's the harm in giving us change supporters a few more months of warm & fuzzies before the same-old/same-old curtain falls again?

Accruing 1991 pledged delegates before the convention.

True... but if something happening to Joe resulted in Sanders getting 64% of the delegates from here on out, that would make Bernie the winner.

Not likely, though...

and are not interchangeable, and voters know this, why there was such quick consolidation on Super Tuesday for Biden (and against Bernie).

In the highly unlikely chance Biden's campaign was fatally wounded - the centrist wing (which is 2/3 of the party) voters IMO would still vote Biden in the remaining primaries so that the convention could then nominate a Biden replacement.

...but I don't think you could say that would be a certainty.

The math is against sanders

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I need winning lottery numbers!

Lol