Breaking: According to the latest Straw Poll, Senator Sanders will be elected President

[Hobo]

of DU. That and a ten dollar bill will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks......

[leftofcool]

1. Has Starbucks coffee gone up that much?

[Hobo]

2. Here in the UAE it is. NT

[leftofcool]

4. I think I will just keep buying at the store and making it at home.

[LiberalElite]

3. Clicklbait

not appreciated. Clicking out of GD now.

[wyldwolf]

12. Effective, too

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Pffft

What a stupid OP

[Hobo]

6. sorry did not mean to insult Saint Bernie

[Art_from_Ark]

7. "Saint Bernie"

That right there is an insult.

[leftofcool]

10. You have to admit that many think he can do no wrong.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Same goes for Hillary supporters

Personally, in my nearly 50 years of paying attention to Presidential elections, I have seen only one other candidate who generates as much enthusiasm in me as Bernie does.

I consider myself to be an RFK Democrat. And I think Bernie projects more of the qualities of RFK than any other candidate.

[leftofcool]

16. RFK! Brings back lots of memories.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Perhaps RFK's greatest moment

I break out in tears every time I see this. We lost so much in 1968.

[KingCharlemagne]

18. Written transcript of the above:

I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.

For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.

My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King -- yeah, it's true -- but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love -- a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.

We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we -- and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

Thank you very much.

~Robert F. Kennedy, April 4, 1968

[Art_from_Ark]

23. ...

[marym625]

30. and the only major city that didn't riot

What a loss our country suffered.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. Indeed he does

[Ken Burch]

19. But this thread isn't about pointing out something Bernie's "done wrong".

This is just another "It's silly for Bernie to be running and his supporters are pathetic" thread.

What's the purpose of things like that? How do they even help your candidate.

It didn't end up helping John Kerry when his supporters posted at least three huundred "Dennis is a joke" threads in 2004.

Our threads, by contrast, are about why we think our own candidate is preferable on the issues and the merits.

[LordGlenconner]

65. Interesting

I interpreted it to be a response to the overall obnoxious tone most "Bernie" fans have on the board.

And I write that as a supporter of NEITHER candidate.

[cali]

68. funny how you never do anything but excuse bernie bashers

and take great umbrage, your lordship, at any criticism of HRC.

and yeah, you are consistent in that.

[JonLP24]

20. Same as any cheerleader base of any politician

Really put pro this or anti that on display on a big issue until after the President has spoken. Now they support Hillary Clinton though her TPP stance is odd, kinda like oppose it until I'm there so I can be the one at the negotiations.

[Ken Burch]

9. What would you have said if you did mean to?

You can't win by sneering, y'know.

[LanternWaste]

58. And yet you are consistently doing as such.

"sorry did not mean to insult Saint Bernie..."

And yet you are consistently doing as such. Is it a personal policy of yours to cower behind petulant protestations, or is that merely an action so ingrained and internalized from grade school that you're simply and blissfully unaware you even do so...?

Regardless of how you advertise yourself, rest assured that you're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggonit-- people like you.

[Ken Burch]

8. Again...why do you think this helps your candidate?

BTW, the most recent poll of New Hampshire Dems shows Bernie only twelve points behind HRC after less than a month in the race.

You've got nothing to be smug about, and HRC will lose in '16 if her supporters keep acting like Bernie's got no right to be in the race.

[Orsino]

60. There's no way to turn the OP into bad news.

Nor good news, since straw polls are meaningless. But the OP explicitly acknowledged that.

[Ken Burch]

11. It's a bad sign when you have to post smilies for your own jokes.

[Exilednight]

15. It might explain why they're an unemployed comedian.

[upaloopa]

14. Looks like somebody finally gave the Bernieites

some of their own medicine and now they know this board isn't Bernieunderground after all. "Boo hoo they are picking on Saint Bernie"

[Ken Burch]

21. The threads we've done about HRC where about her record and her stands on the issues.

We don't insult for the sake of insulting.

BTW, HRC's lead is declining every day, so your side isn't entitled to this much overconfidence.

[upaloopa]

25. Bull shit

[Jumpin Jack Flash]

29. Did you see the new polls out of New Hampshire, released 6/13/15

Bernie is at 32%, Clinton at 44%. Twelve point difference. And a month ago, he was barely polling 10%. It'll be the same EVERYWHERE you go. The inevitability meme is turning to be so over.

[Tarheel_Dem]

54. You forgot to mention that same poll showed him running 42 pts behind in Iowa. Bernie's toast....

once he leaves the lily white enclaves of IA & NH. Bet on it!

[Tarheel_Dem]

57. Oh, and this ought to go over well with the GE voting populace.

“My husband has been trying to get me to move to a socialist country for years,” said Monson, whose spouse hails from Norway. “Now I’m telling him it might come here.”

[upaloopa]

35. Bernie folks remind me of church people

You act like you and only you have the true religion
And you can do no wrong because you believe in the one true Bernie

[cwydro]

50. You've really got a grudge

going here, don't you?

[upaloopa]

62. And that makes you real happy doesn't it?

It's ok because Bernie's days on the campaign trail are numbered. Come Suoer Tuesday it all over.

[cwydro]

63. Lol.

You're funny.

[Ken Burch]

66. Uh, no. None of us do.

And I don't even think you realize that you're recycling attack lines your candidate used against Obama in '08, when she was running against him from a position far to his right.


Nobody thought Obama was the Messiah then. Nobody thinks Bernie is God now. It's just that some of us preferred and prefer them to the candidate you support. It's not like it's a crime to challenge the view that HRC is simply entitled to the nomination and that nobody else even has the right to be running.

You and your candidate have never been victimized by any other campaigns. It's just that, as is the case with any other candidate, things aren't always gonna go your way. Deal with it.

[JonLP24]

24. I've seen the smug Sanders can't win posts since several months now

However no poll says someone is going to win the presidency plus I look at polls all the time so knew it was false but came for the replies.

[upaloopa]

26. He can't win the general and that isn't

being smug

[Jumpin Jack Flash]

31. Let's see...

Bernie can't win the general vs WHO?

If it's any of these Republican clowns, then Bernie's got it in the bag. He appeals to all the working people, be it a Democrat, Republican or unaffiliated.

[cali]

69. you're just adorable, hon. YOU frequently bash Bernie and his supporters here

I love the smell of hypocrisy in afternoon.

[cwydro]

22. Silly.

How old are you?

[L0oniX]

47. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

[Jumpin Jack Flash]

27. You underestimate the power of the people

Corporatists has only one vote, just like everyone else.

[GoneOffShore]

28. And out of the woodwork they come.

[Hobo]

41. Out of the Woodwork?

thats pretty funny

[ChisolmTrailDem]

53. yes, just like another recently suspended long-time nick that came out of the woodwork. nt

[Snotcicles]

55. +100.nt

[marmar]

32. Self-congratulatory emoticons.....a sure sign of a craptacular post.

[Avalux]

33. What are you, 12? n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

36. Mayor Chuy Garcia Objects to this Post!

Stop being so childish!

[joeybee12]

37. Wow Sanders loyalist really have no sens of humor...

Going to be an interesting few months.

[aspirant]

39. We get our chuckles

watching Grandma Hillary's speeches

[joeybee12]

40. Nice ageist sh*t...nt

[aspirant]

43. Just the facts, says cute, little Charlotte

St. Bernie, St. Bernard (A Dog), where do we go from here?

[joeybee12]

48. You don't get it, do you?

Would you refer to Bernie as Grandpa? Isn't he just as old..make fun of her stand on TPP for all I care, but this sexist ageist crap is ridiculous.

[aspirant]

51. I got it, your one side fits all

Now it's time you get it. This dirty twisting name calling St. Bernie, St. Bernard is beyond ridiculous, it's pathetic. It has no basis in facts, made-up garbage and your silence is deafening.

Criticize one without the other is hilarious.

[redstateblues]

42. Grandma? Bernie is

A good bit older than Hillary, if that's what you're getting at.

[aspirant]

44. No, it's a genuine loving title for cute little Charlotte.

[LanternWaste]

59. Being caught on it as such, I'd cower behind insincerity too...

Being caught on it as such, I'd cower behind insincerity too...

[aspirant]

61. What's insincere about being an actual grandma?

I wrote what I meant, no need to be caught.

Go preach to the St. Bernie, St. Bernard name callers

[Ken Burch]

67. We do have a sense of humor. It's just that there was no joke here.

OP's who's argument is that "Bernie's campaign is a joke" are not actually jokes themselves.

Oh, and lines like "they have no sense of humor" are the kinds of things guys in bars say when women don't find phrases like "Show us your tits, bitch!" to be knee-slappers

[CanonRay]

38. Possibly, but in the meantime, he will have forever changed the dialogue. n/t

[L0oniX]

45. Oh ...I almost forgot that jr high school is out till this OP got posted.

[hootinholler]

46. Is someone baking something in here?

I swear I smelled a hint of vanilla.

[L0oniX]

49. Smoking crack.

[Spirochete]

52. Well, Beavis has weighed in

we're just waiting on Butthead, now...

[Hobo]

64. Wow that was funny

A bevis joke........Sanders supporters....what you going to do

Hobo

[SidDithers]

56. He'll have to redecorate, tho...

President Kucinich had awful taste.

Sid