The Bern Identity

The Bern in his heart knows Hillary Clinton is not the right candidate. But the people have spoken, and the establishment in the form of the convention is "bought" and blinded by loyalty to a very flawed candidate.

Now his people are turning on him because they never really believed in the revolution to begin with. The Bern must feel like he is stranded on an island.

Bernie Sanders’s aides just threw him under the bus to Politico

"Over at Politico, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti have a dishy look inside the last days of the Bernie Sanders campaign. You should read it in full (seriously, go do that right now). The main takeaway is that Sanders's aides know they've lost; the candidate doesn't.

The secondary takeaway: the aides are throwing the candidate under the bus. Here, for instance, is the first paragraph:

There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.

Oof. You know things aren't going well when campaign staffers are trying to minimize perceptions of their influence with the candidate. This leaked email exchange about Sanders's combative response after the Nevada Democratic Convention is particularly brutal:

"I don’t know who advised him that this was the right route to take, but we are now actively destroying what Bernie worked so hard to build over the last year just to pick up two f***ing delegates in a state he lost," rapid response director Mike Casca complained to Weaver in an internal campaign email obtained by POLITICO.

"Thank you for your views. I’ll relay them to the senator, as he is driving this train," Weaver wrote back.

Someone handed those emails over to reporters, and the reason they handed them over to reporters was to show that the Nevada statement wasn't the fault of campaign manager Jeff Weaver nor rapid response director Mike Casca.

The characterizations of Sanders's state of mind aren't particularly flattering either. Aides portray him as angry, hurt, and actively deluding himself about both the reasons he's losing and the possibility he may still win:

Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect -- all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention

Dovere and Debenedetti get a fair amount of detail on the concessions Sanders wants from the Clinton campaign, and the focus seems to be on revenge rather than policy:

Campaign aides say that whatever else happens, Sanders wants former Congressman Barney Frank and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy out of their spots as co-chairs of the convention rules committee. It’s become a priority fight for him.

Sanders is said to be so furious with longtime Senate ally Sherrod Brown, who endorsed Clinton, "that he’d be ready to nix Brown as an acceptable VP choice, if Clinton ever asked his advice on who’d be a good progressive champion."

It's worth being sympathetic here. No campaign looks good in its dying days, and the end of a long, exhausting primary will leave any candidate angry, emotional, and focused on slights and thin reeds of hope. My guess is the Sanders who ultimately ends this campaign will prove much more circumspect than the Sanders who appears in this article. Even so, the Sanders who appears in this article seems to be unnerving even his top aides, and any campaign that leaked this much to Politico is not in a functional place.

There's much more in the whole piece. Read it in full...."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bernie-sanders’s-aides-just-threw-him-under-the-bus-to-politico/ar-AAgMBik?li=BBnb7Kz
 
Sorry kids, you'll have to pay those student loans and get a job. Bernie has one shot left. He must call himself Bernice, and identify as a woman. Going on a all burrito diet will be helpful as well. Start listening to rap and all speeches will be given in ebonics, and if he's really serious, cut off a leg. How bad you want it Bern? If we're going to make history goddammit, lets make some f'n history.
 
I was wondering would ever hire people showing such little loyalty.... for a moment.
but then I realized who would be hire them.

the politics of betrayal practiced by and for the politicians who betray.
There is a certain beauty in political rats abandoning ship.


AAAintheBeltway said:
Translation: his aides are worrying about their next job and fear getting blackballed.
More...
 
Searchable Clinton archive:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/

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Clinton thinks she, by default, deserves the Bern supporters. She better learn she has to earn them.

Sanders Begins Setting Terms for Closing Out Democratic Race

  • Senator to stay in race until convention, spokesman says
  • Final Democratic primary held Tuesday in U.S. capital
With the last primary done, Bernie Sanders is negotiating an end to his fight with Hillary Clinton and staking a claim on directing the future of the Democratic Party.

After polls closed for the Democratic contest in Washington, D.C., Sanders had a private meeting with Clinton that lasted almost two hours. He left without making any remarks and headed back to Vermont. The two campaigns released similar statements saying they talked about their common goals and about the “dangerous threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation.”

At a news conference hours earlier, Sanders made no move to concede the race and a spokesman said he had no plans to do so before the Democratic convention. Instead he set out terms for an eventual concession and for rallying his most fervent supporters behind the presumptive nominee.


But the Vermont senator’s insistence on remaining a candidate through the July convention no longer seems to threaten party unity as Democrats once fretted it would.

In public and private remarks and in an e-mail to supporters, Sanders indicated he’s staying in to shape the party’s governing agenda and nominating process, not erode Clinton’s standing, and that he’s committed to defeating Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, in November. Clinton already has fully engaged in the general election campaign against Trump, which has been re-framed by the mass shooting at an Orlando gay club on Sunday by an American man claiming allegiance to Islamic State.

Making Rounds
There was little at stake in the District of Columbia’s primary, which Clinton won by a comfortable margin. With all precincts reporting, Clinton had 78 percent of the district’s vote to Sanders’s 21 percent, according to the city’s board of elections. Rather than campaigning, Sanders spent the day checking in with the one constituency that will have the greatest influence on his standing now that the race is over -- his peers in the Democratic Party.

Sanders drew a standing ovation when he went into a lunch meeting with fellow Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon. Some of those who have wanted him to withdraw said they have made their peace with his decision to stay in. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey said Sanders ultimately "can, I think, and will, play a constructive role in making sure Secretary Clinton wins.”...

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...setting-terms-for-closing-out-democratic-race
 
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