2016 Postmortem

Donate to the recount fund!

Maybe IF she donated her Wall St fees to jobs programs since she never released a transcript. Put that down as reason #1.

Maybe Bernie prepared her for this...


BERNIE SANDERS GOES ALL IN FOR HILLARY CLINTON: http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/bernie-sanders-goes-all-in-for-hillary-clinton
By John Cassidy , JULY 26, 2016

When Bernie Sanders walked out to address the Democratic National Convention, on Monday night, at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center, which normally serves as home to the N.B.A.’s hapless 76ers, he was fully aware that many of his supporters were ready for a fight. Earlier in the day, when the Vermont senator had appeared for a pre-D.N.C. event at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, he had been roundly booed after suggesting that it was time for the Party to unite around Hillary Clinton. He had then texted an appeal to some of his supporters: “I ask you as a personal courtesy to me not to engage in any kind of protest on the floor. It’s of utmost importance you explain this to your delegations.”

As the D.N.C. got started, in the mid-afternoon, the pastor who read the opening prayer, the Reverend Dr. Hale, was also interrupted with boos, as well as some cheers, when she mentioned Clinton’s name. No organized protest materialized, but from there, the proceedings degenerated into something of a shouting match, with Sanders supporters, particularly some from the California delegation, trying to drown out the speakers with shouts like “Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!” and “We want Bernie!” Marcia Fudge, the Ohio congresswoman who, on short notice, replaced Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the chair of the Convention, was moved to remark, “We are all Democrats, and we need to act like it.”

The heckling continued nonetheless. Even Senator Elizabeth Warren, who spoke after Michelle Obama’s much-lauded address, and who has long been a favorite of progressives, wasn’t spared. As Warren appealed to the crowd to work hard for a Clinton victory in November, there were angry chants of “We trusted you! We trusted you!” One woman shouted, “You sold your birthright for a bowl of porridge.”

Sanders may have feared that he would receive similar treatment, for there was little doubt about what he would say. Shortly before his speech, his wife, Jane, spoke with NBC News, invoking Sanders’s endorsement of Clinton two weeks earlier at Portsmouth High School. “I think you heard him, in New Hampshire, give a full-throated endorsement. He’ll continue to do that today, ” she said. Pressed on what, if anything, she and her husband could do to rein in their supporters, she said, “We can’t tell people what to do. We don’t want to tell people what to do. We want to engage them.”

FULL story at link.