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Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com)
It's official. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday endorsed former presidential rival Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee ahead of the party's July convention. Sanders said Clinton will make an outstanding president and that he is proud to stand with her. "Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty," Sanders added. CNN reports: "I have come here to make it as clear as possible why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president," Sanders said at a joint rally here. "Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nomination and I congratulate her for that." The 74-year-old self-described democratic socialist, who has been a thorn in Clinton's side over the last year, pledged his support to his former rival: "I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States." Clinton, speaking after Sanders, declared: "We are joining forces to defeat Donald Trump!" "I can't help but say how much more enjoyable this election is going to be when we are on the same side," she said. "You know what? We are stronger together!" Full remarks of Sanders can be found on this blog post.
Clinton is the most owned presidential candidate in history.
She is not only owned by wall street firms and big corporations, she is owned by foreign powers who "donated" money to the Clinton "Foundation". And the funniest part is, she may even be owned by Vladimir Putin!
Right now Putin and Trump are in a love-fest because Trump (having fascistic tendencies) expressed admiration for Putin. But if sometime before the election Putin does a U-turn and starts bashing Trump and says nice things about Clinton, you know something really strange is going on. Like, Russian intelligence got a full dump of the Clinton email server and found some pretty seedy stuff and want her to become president so they can blackmail her into signing treaties favorable to Russia.
This is like the Bush v. Gore but I am not sure which is the lesser of two evils now :(
Why bother reporting this? It's not even news. We've known all along that he'd get pressured into it.
I'm sure he just loves endorsing the one who pulled so many dirty tricks against his campaign...
I'm not voting for her or Trump. I'd rather write in my dog.
I call BS on that. In every meaningful way, on domestic policy Hillary has been among the furthest left leaning people in DC for decades. IF that's not far enough on the spectrum for your taste, that's as bad as the tea party extremists who say their way or the highway. She has fought for a progressive agenda from her first days out of college, with an incrementalist approach that has meant walking the nation further to the left year by year instead of failing by trying to force a nearly ideologically split nation beyond it's comfort. She's made missteps, but when you've been on the national stage for that long that's bound to happen, and she has grown every step of the way. The byproduct of that is that she's evolved to be the best candidate available for the seat of the president.
If you support Hillary, you're supporting Hillary. It's obvious. If you give your approval to candidates like that, you're going to get candidates like that.
Both sides have a job to do this fall, which is to rise up and say that we will not just accept the most corrupt and reprehensible people imaginable for leadership in high offices, because that's what the party tells us to accept.
The question is whether a voter has principles, or whether they don't. It's simple.
What happened to "she's not fit" for the office? In the time since he said that about her, she's been shown to have been either wildly incompetent or ever more deceitful in her relationship with both her job and her supporters. What's she got on you, Bernie?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
"(I won't: I've already chosen third party)" .. Then you have chosen to support Crooked Hillary. Plain and simple. This is only a 2 person race.
Unless he lives in a swing state (most people don't) then a vote for either Hillary or Donald is "wasted". In the short run, it is a race between 2 people. In the long run, it is about ideas, and a vote for a third party is more likely to bring new ideas into the Overton Window.
At least Trump is hated by Congress so hopefully nothing would get done.
The same congress controlled by Republicans who so effectively united to prevent him from getting the nomination, and even once he did, never walked back their criticisms of him at all?
You are the dumb-ass that thinks a professional liar is good so long as you agree with the lie they speak. Why don't you drink more kool-aid? Your cup is empty.
And you're the dumb-ass who wants to hand the Presidency to Trump! Do you realize how much power the president has? He hasn't finished the campaign and he's already threatening to put Amazon under anti-trust investigation because he didn't like the Washington Post's coverage. He's literally threatening to set law enforcement after media organizations for negative coverage!!
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Democratic enthusiasm is pretty low, whereas there was record turnout for the republican primary.
That certainly works in Trump's favour. Hispanic turnout is relatively low historically, and Obama got 71% of the latino vote the last time around.
Trump is doing better than any recent GOP politican with black voters getting around 15%, compared to Romneys 6%.
If Romney had gotten 5% more of the white vote he would have won. Of course down the line with different demographics, Republicans will have a harder time.
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I dunno... Trump actually polls pretty well with some of the Latino population who can legally vote here. He actually got more Hispanic votes in the GOP primaries than Cruz or Rubio.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
So do you think that Bernie is corrupt for endorsing Hillary then?
Definitely lost my support and respect. This endorsement makes Sanders come across as a hypocrite, liar, paid off, or all the above.
He's not hypocritical, Sanders has been very consistent that Hillary is vastly better than Trump and they share a lot of important policy objectives.
Similarly it's not dishonest.
And he wasn't paid off except to the extent that his endorsement was in return for embracing some more of his policies.
Or it is possible that you've massively misjudged the "criminality" of Hillary's actions and the reasons that she got so many endorsements and votes?
Yes, because we all know how sweet and innocent Clinton is. Everything is a right wing conspiracy against her. Obviously, "should have known better" and "extremely careless" is something I want to promote, amirite? What is "is" anyway?
The emails were a huge screwup, no question.
But you don't get perfect candidates.
Whom you know won't possibly win, so you're basically giving a half-vote to Trump.
Have you ever heard of a protest vote? Voting for Johnson, Stein, or Mickey Mouse is not giving "half-vote" to Trump you disingenuous busy-body. Your partisan apologetics are why 3rd parties are a joke in the US.
But you're right, I should just shut up the fuck up and vote the way you say because you know better! You are the reason why we end up with the two shittiest candidates in US history because god forbid people actually vote on principle instead of listening to know-it-all-busy-bodies like you.
Yes I know what a protest vote is, it's a claim that both candidates are more-or-less equally bad so you can't in good conscience pick either.
But whatever you think of Clinton (I actually think she's be great) Trump is VASTLY worse and could have horrific consequences if he got in.
I mean protest voting for Nader in Florida gave you Bush over Gore. And that led to the Iraq war and at least a quarter-million needless deaths. You don't get the excuse of ignorance that your protest vote doesn't matter. If Trump wins and you threw your vote away saying "It was a protest vote!" doesn't let you dodge responsibility.
You wanted to protest against Clinton so you voted for Sanders. That was your protest vote, not only did everyone hear but you actually changed both the party platform and Clinton's platform. That's a pretty damn effective protest.
But you didn't win everything you wanted, too bad, welcome to reality. Now it's time to do what's necessary and not play Russian roulette with a Trump presidency because Hillary offends your sensibilities.
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