I think it is time for President Obama start supporting Hillary outright

[CajunBlazer]

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I'd love to see it, but I don't think he will until the nomination process is complete.

That seems to be how it's been done traditionally.

[misterhighwasted]

6. Sanders is a lurker at this point. I say bring in Pres Obama

Time to look to November, work for what a clear majority of Dem voters expect from this critical high stakes Presidential campaign & stop allowing the noisy guy outside the fence dictate the path to a Dem win in the GE.

At this point, Sanders can only make noise. He will never become the Dem nominee.
So let him point & yell about what's wrong with the Dem Party, the Dem Candidate Clinton & the Dem President Obama.
Ya he can do all that. But the Dem voters have spoken & the Dem Party moves on forward, with or without his support.
I have no idea what he's doing in the race at this point.
But he certainly does know that his relevancy & campaign donations would disappear in a heartbeat, the moment President Obama steps out to endorse & campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

Sanders uses the rules of the Dem Party to his advantage when they suit him, and damns the Party when the rules don't.
Believing that the President he loves to hate on, won't defy Party rules & step out for Hillary until Sanders is officially finished, is what he's counting on.

Tough shit bernie. You are finished now, no matter how much wailing & gnashing you put forth.

President Obama should absolutely step out for his successor, Hillary Clinton.
Bernie will disappear as soon as the Dem Party gathers its force to win the November election against the Republicans.

This is no longer about Bernie Sanders
Maybe next election he can try it again.
I mean, how many times have the 2 Pauls thrown their hat in the ring?
There will always be more elections. Well, unless a Repub becomes Pres. At that point they can do whatever the F they want to this country. Theocracy, Dictator, etc, but one thing is for certain, the last thing they will do with America is make it a Socialist Republic.

President Obama should begin a gradual endorsement of our Dem candidate, Hillary Clinton, the first woman President.
That is the real revolution happening in American politics today and Sanders will never steal that from her.
He can do whatever the F he wants from here on because the Dem Party has a very high stakes election coming up in November and the Great & Solid Dem Party of the people, now moves forward.

Bring it on President Obama

[DemonGoddess]

10. Only if he tries again, NOT as a Dem because he isn't one.

[misterhighwasted]

12. Maybe that is how he should go about it. Now that he has a voter base

..one he built on the back of the Dem Party. Its a start anyway.
He should build himself a new Party. The Party of the most depressed looking for a leader with an equally depressing message. That's is what identifies Sanders in this 2016 campaign. He's the leader of "everything's negative & rigged with no end in sight", because he fails to offer a solution to his depressing stump speeches.

It is completely opposite of Hillary & the Dem Party platform of identifying the problem & bringing about a solutionn to eliminate that problem & bring about a forward functioning society.
Bernie doesn't want a solution. He would wipe out his overused redundant depressing message if he did.

A diagnosis alone doesn't heal the problem.

So yes. Bernie should have his own Party of depressing whiners & ass-sitters.

Curious to know if this Party would opt for an open Caucaus Primary where anyone can vote (even crossovers) or a Closed Primary of whiney ass-sitters who offer no solutions.
What would THEIR primary look like.

[beachbum bob]

2. Be inappropriate until after the convention...

[CajunBlazer]

4. There are pluses and minuses, but inappropriate? I don't think so

There have been any number of sitting Presidents have waded into the nomination process, on behalf of their VP's for instance, and well before the matter was as settled as it is in this race.

I don't think it's going to happen, primarily because it doesn't help Obama legacy if he gets a bunch of Sanders zealots all ticked off at him when he could just as easily wait until after the convention.

On the other hand there is no doubt the general election race has is now in motion and Trump needs to be put firmly in his place as the amateur clown and embarrassment to the country that he is.

[SharonClark]

3. Why? There is no advantage to him to do it now

[CajunBlazer]

5. As I said above the GE is now in motion

While there is unfinished work to be done on both sides, the real contest has just begun. We need to get our big guns involved early in the battle.

That said, I believe it is wishful thinking on my part.

[misterhighwasted]

7. I agree. I expect President Obama to begin that endorsement in

..rather calculated steps, tho. I do believe he already has that plan in the works and it will be a subtle method.
For instance, today he announced he will travel to Flint MI, to meet with & address the people affected.
This is a solid backing of a cause Hillary was adament about, also addessing early on.

His cause is her cause & vice versa. Its a subtle form of support they will build into a final GE campaign. It is sincere & honest & necessary considering the abuse of power by the government of MI,

No one knows the Repub opponants better than the political chess master, President Obama, & Hillary Clinton has a pretty good read on them as well.
The two of them together is exactly what the Republicans fear.

[pandr32]

8. It is already hard to mistake his support of her

...and after last night it will likely be even more obvious. I expect Warren and other super-delegates will finally endorse Hillary, too, even though it is doubtful that Obama and Biden officially will yet--but maybe they will surprise us!

[Walk away]

9. Bernie is an Independent. Why do any rules apply to him???

I don't even think his most besotted followers could fail to understand that. They aren't Democrats. He isn't a Democrat. They seem to hate Obama anyway. What is the point of pretending???

[CajunBlazer]

11. Many of Sanders' most zealous followers are not Democrats

They are are "independents" usually vote for the totally unqualified Green Party candidate and then spend the next four years complaining about whichever Presidential candidate that wins.