WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Voicemails From DNC Officials (thenextweb.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Late Wednesday afternoon as the Democratic National Convention was in full swing, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks decided to follow through with an earlier statement by publishing hacked voicemails of top democratic officials. There are 29 leaked recordings, which are identified by phone number and total about 14 minutes combined. Many of the voicemails are messages of callers leaving their numbers in hopes of being called back. Others are from voters upset that the DNC was giving too much support to Sanders. The Hill reports that "One caller with an Arizona area code called to blast the DNC for putting Sanders surrogate Cornel West on the platform drafting committee. 'I'm furious for what you are doing for Bernie Sanders,' another caller says in a message. 'He's getting way too much influence. What I see is the Democratic Party bending over backwards for Bernie,' adds the caller, who threatens to leave the party if the DNC doesn't stop 'coddling' the Vermont senator."

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The DNC sucks an asshole

[Anonymous Coward]

So you thought you could trust the Democrats to leave the power to the people? Right up until they bend you over and fuck you in the ass for corporate interests. That's what Hillary really is, she's the arm of the Democratic Party that will continue to serve the needs of her corporate friends.

Hillary to the left of me, Trump to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle getting screwed.

Yeah so

[Anonymous Coward]

Why does Wikileaks thinks any of that in controversial? Sanders had a good run, but under no math could he have won. Predictably Hillary Clinton carried the South better than Sanders, and her voting record was 93% the same. Hillary is known name.

It's amazing Sanders did as well as he did considering he was more or less a no name candidate making the same big promise we always hear. This year it seems more young people were desperate enough to pay attention and I think they think that the Sander's 'platform' is somehow significantly different than the standard DNC platform. It's not at all.

Almost everything Sander says is status quo Democrat ideals, The only difference is he stands out there and says they all, perhaps more convincingly in some ways, but outlining the same Democratic goals didn't deserve the level of support Sanders got. Not unless he had a plan to get us there and he did not at all. Anybody can say the things Sanders did, but for some reason most don't get the same attention. Lots of Dems support everything Sanders does, there is nothing there especially leftists really. There are plenty of far more left politicians out there really.

Healthcare and college is basic socialist, it's not really even progressive anymore. If that's progressive liberal then every industrialized democracy in the world has been overtaken by progressive liberals because it's completely common to fund healthcare and college via the government.

Progressive liberalism at this point is paying people a living wage to offset the lack of need for workers as we automate more.

Liberals in the US have been tricked into thinking moderate positions are progressive liberal positions. When every similar nation in the world has these 'liberal' programs, they are modate programs at best. Even in the UK the Brexit idiots did that to protect their, in the rare case of the UK, fully socialized medical system

There is no Bernie Sander conspiracy, he lost by every measure and with any rules system we've ever used. He lost the popular vote by more than 20% and he get blown out in many more stats than he beat Hillary in. Not understanding the voting system is not a reason to make up a conspiracy, especially when both candidate have very similar voting records.

Healthcare should be your focus. The wars are trivial expenses compared to the 3 trillion a year we spend in healthcare. Stop distracting yourselves.

Re:Yeah so

[Zak3056]

Up until the point that he got on the Hillary train, I had a LOT of respect for Sanders. You're right that most of his positions are close to "normal" for Democrats, but unlike most politicians, he was not trying to walk both sides of a line, and he was that rare (almost unique) straight shooter. He didn't hide behind weasel words, he didn't equivocate, he stated, simply, what his ideals were, and appeared to live by them.

When's the last time you heard ANYONE at his level of politics say something like "I have to get my tax returns from my wife, she does them" and then further find out that he's actually living on his Senate salary and not "speaking fees" or other similar near bribes?

I'm actually pretty upset over the whole thing--I would NEVER have voted for Sanders, because his politics are too far off from mine, but he was a politician I could admire... until he became just another party hack at convention time.