Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumLarry Sabato's analysis (CNN) of Sanders' failings: "Bernie is a loner in the Senate and in DC.
The downside of being a "lone wolf" is that you don't interact well with others. And, that character flaw is now damaging the Democratic Party."
Allowing this loose cannon to exploit and abuse the Dem Party will prove to have been a major tactical error, I fear.
Watching his enraged, spitting face, I feel as if I'm observing someone in the throes of nervous breakdown. Not a reassuring vision.
FarPoint
(12,481 posts)Definitely not Presidential....
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)FarPoint
(12,481 posts)Hot air balloon place I guess. Lacks any concept of leadership. He's just a broken spoke in the wheel.
stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)It is up to the voters to hire the most qualified person. Sad to say, many of them also lack interpersonal skills and do not get along well with others. So they think that being anti-social is something positive and inspiring. Same goes for the Trump camp.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)literally become indistinguishable from each other.
Opposite sides of the same counterfeit coin.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)How did this country end up with any candidates like this?
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)We were told that Sanders is a decent and good man and will always take the high road, even though some of his followers seemed to be quite abusive, mean, and uncivil.
Now we find out the real truth, that his followers simply imitated their role model.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)I am ashamed of myself. When I thought of a bird landing on Bernie's podium, the image of a vulture just popped up in my head.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)I'm now convinced that, like any rabid revolutionary, his abiding philosophy is: "You must destroy it in order to 'mend' it."
Koinos
(2,792 posts)I had almost gotten the image of a vulture out of my mind -- red face, bent neck, long flapping wings (Bernie?).
Now, I've got to deal with the raptor image. "Feeling the raptor" sounds more painful than "feeling the bern." There is something so final about it.
Revolutionaries have the mistaken idea that, if you demolish everything, some good things will grow back. The truth is, things are destroyed and people die. There is no simple reboot of a dead system. What you get is a dead system with dead people in it.
I think that our aim is to try to make things better, rather than worse. Total destruction is never an improvement.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)That's exactly what happened. And he can't take any responsibility for the "movement" he's created. Can you imagine this guy as President? He's already failed this most basic of tests for a candidate. If he can't handle his followers, how would he handle the most powerful nation in the world? He would be a walking disaster.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)If he were president, nothing would be his fault. He would blame everyone else for his blunders. That's not a sign of maturity, and it would be especially catastrophic for a president.
A president has to have more than a list of idealistic goals. He or she has to have character. Hillary has that. Bernie does not.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Sanders lacks social skills and his fans appear to lack them also. They get in a rage that Hillary is civil to people she disagrees with. Sanders doesn't know how to disagree without being disagreeable.
That is no way to go thru life.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)I get a whole different feeling when I see Obama joking and laughing with other people. He likes people. Bernie finds them an unpleasant necessity.
Cha
(298,017 posts)I can't even imagine why Sen Merkley is supporting him.
I found BS intolerable before his statement on the violence and misogyny in Nevada and now.. well let's just say.. I think he's his own worst enemy and burnie sanders will get what he deserves.
Thank you, Surya~
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Last night's deranged diatribe was the last straw. If I never have to hear him again in my lifetime, it will still be too often.
Odious, spiteful, spittle-spewing demagogue.
Cha
(298,017 posts)demagogue.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)Many people disagreed with me about that. It turns out I was right all along. This is one time when I really hated being right.
Cha
(298,017 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)Merkley has to go back to the Senate when this is all over. I don't think he will want to be known as the sole senator who supported the man who wanted to destroy the Democratic party. If he becomes the majority leader, Chuck Schumer isn't going to hand out awards to senators who were part of this debacle.
Cha
(298,017 posts)pariah for that loser?
Koinos
(2,792 posts)Cha
(298,017 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)And wasn't Elizabeth Warren wise to stay away from this disaster? I think she knew the "real" Bernie well enough to foresee where this was headed.
And whatever happened to Cornel West?
Cha
(298,017 posts)which is a damn good one.
We didn't miss him but now that you mention it. wth did become of ol Cornel and his campaigning with burnie?
And yes, EW was wise!
Koinos
(2,792 posts)TwilightZone
(25,517 posts)were the ones complaining the loudest when she wouldn't endorse Sanders, not understanding that it was a perfect example of that political awareness.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)One reason I like her a lot.
sarae
(3,284 posts)wouldn't reciprocate or even appreciate his support. BS wouldn't go to bat for anyone; he only cares about himself, as has been shown many times over in the last 8 months.
Cha
(298,017 posts)in the past.. they must be especially fond of him by now. lol
riversedge
(70,441 posts)image every day. Not me!
Koinos
(2,792 posts)It might even happen at the convention, if he doesn't get his way. And he won't get his way.
A man who has frequent fits of anger is not "fit" to be president of the United States.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)specter on a daily basis on the world stage!
still_one
(92,502 posts)Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Stuckinthebush
(10,847 posts)That one MUST be a Democratic Party member in good standing before being allowed to run in OUR primaries.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Stuckinthebush
(10,847 posts)Be a Dem if you are going to run in our primaries. Not a new Dem but an established Dem.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)That would preclude the kind of overnight conversion we've seen with his "shotgun" candidacy.
Stuckinthebush
(10,847 posts)Surya and Stuck should be on the DNC rules committee.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)But, I can let 'em know what I think even from here.
TwilightZone
(25,517 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)but his own ballooning ego.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)That makes it impossible for him to co-operate with anyone, because to co-operate you need to be considered equals. No one can be equal to Sanders if he thinks he is the only one with political legitimacy, nay if he thinks he is it. Any collaboration he has done in Congress or in the Senate has been because he thinks he either tricked them into it, or because he thinks that he forced them into it. He must be a seriously disturbed individual, and, as some have said, must have a very narcissistic personality. He is more Trump-like than we realized at first. The difference is that Sanders is narcissistic based on his political positions, while Trump is narcissistic on his masculinity.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Also, for Trump, based on his bogus financial success. And, for Bernie, based on his self-styled moral superiority.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,257 posts)TwilightZone
(25,517 posts)That was one of the more bizarre political stunts I can recall.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,257 posts)now, and I fear when this is all over, so will BS, except BS will be as despised as Ralph Nader who gave us W.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)I know, royalty.