Bernie Press Conference....

[Henhouse]

I guess it is to much to hope he is going to concede...

Sam Stein just posted on Twitter that Sanders is making a plea to the Super delegates.... This should be interesting.

[DemonGoddess]

1. With what merit?

He's LOST this

[Henhouse]

3. Last gasps of a dieing campaign...shakes head....n/t

[sarae]

5. BS Reasons for swaying superdelegates:

Include:
1) The Will of the People! (by "People" he means white men)

2) Because people shouldn't buy elections! (unless they do it with many $27 donations)

3) the Pope's on Bernie's side! (At least, he shook his hand for a split-second in a dark hallway)

Hope I cleared that up!

[SaschaHM]

2. Such desperation is unbecoming of a presidential candidate

If Hillary would have done this in 2008, she would have been blacklisted by the media.

[stopbush]

4. Absolute hubris born of an unsavory self righteousness.

Sickening.

He needs to concede. Yesterday.

[displacedtexan]

7. She would've been blacklisted by the party and rigtly so.

I hope the DNC cuts him off completely for this.

Sheesh!

[Iliyah]

6. Meanwhile, his supporters are still harassing the supers

[displacedtexan]

8. His remarks to the superdelegates are insulting, to say the least.

He asks them to support him because he's winning polls like the Fox News one and he's "taking on the Democratic establishment." So...he's asking the Democratic establishment to support him because he's taking the Democratic establishment on? That just sounds idiotic to me.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/sanders-raises-26m-april-primary-bid-clinton-38797037

[SaschaHM]

10. I'm ready for the media to stop beating around the bush and call his strategy what it is....

racially insensitive. He's working harder to throw out the black votes that have overwhelmingly put Clinton in the lead than I ever thought a Democrat would. Sanders/Warren may be every white progressives dream ticket, but if Sanders get the nomination by way of the Super-delegates after losing in the pledged/popular vote race, he's not going to be able to appoint a white VP and expect voters of color to show up for him on election day.

[LiberalFighter]

29. He ignored the southern states and complained about Hillary winning them.

And he can't expect minorities to vote for him when he has criticized Obama all through his two terms.

[DemonGoddess]

11. given the clear lead and the ACTUAL will of the voters

I don't see them flipping. Not at all.

[SunSeeker]

14. How is he "taking on the establishment" by having dinner with it at the WHCD?

The dude just spent last night hobnobbing with the rich and famous, taking selfies and standing up begging for applause--oblivious to the fact that Obama was jabbing him, not complimenting him.

[displacedtexan]

15. Good question.

Also, I have to wonder if he really is aware of how devious his "press conference" speech was today, or is he unaware of what's real and just reading a teleprompter. Either way, it's not good.

[SunSeeker]

17. The dishonesty of his reasoning makes me sick.

He touts his 9 million votes, but fails to mention Hillary has millions more than him. What he is asking the SDs to do is subvert the will of the people.

[otohara]

18. My Dem Senator Got 800,000 Votes

in a midterm - and these yahoos expect him to cater to 72,000 caucus voters - most newly registered Democrats.

They are out of their minds.

[displacedtexan]

20. He's also telling his ardent supporters that his "grassroots" campaign is a sham.

A grassroots campaign doesn't beg or intimidate the very people it's hoping to lead.

This whole "press conference" deal is really weird.

[SunSeeker]

26. It's like he saw Cruz and Kasich hold press conferences and thought he'd pull the same scam.

Both Kasich and Cruz knew they were drawing media to their press conference because there was suspense over whether they would announce they were pulling out of the race. Sanders is doing the same thing. If he (and Cruz and Kadich) had been honest and announced what their press conference was really about, they wouldn't have gotten as much free media. In other words, it's a scam for publicity.

[Cha]

25. I bet the Super Dels know how many votes Hillary has and that BS conveniently left that out..

they're not his $27 donors.

Boooom!

[Cha]

24. Super insulting to the American People as his campaign and surrogates have been doing

for awhile now.. why would he change now in his desperate, cornered mode.

It's unbecoming to beg with no basis in fact.

[LiberalFighter]

30. Betcha all of the automatic delegates have access to information I have.

With charts and everything included. Berman probably has it broken down by districts and even down to the critical precinct level. Who are they going to believe? Berman who helped get Obama the delegates in 2008 and now doing it for Clinton?

[Cha]

37. Berman! BS' bs is easy to discount.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. No kidding

For Christ sakes Sanders learn to lose graciously. You're going to be remembered as nothing more than a grumpy old man with a wasted life.

[sarae]

9. Infuriating

It would be interesting to see a protester question him directly on this incredible hypocrisy. I wonder how he'd handle that?

I found a quote of his from this conference today:

"It's a steep hill to climb," he admitted, at a press conference in Washington on Sunday. "But, at the end of the day the responsibility that superdelegates have is to decide what is best for the country and what is best for the Democratic party."

from this article: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/sanders-raises-26m-april-primary-bid-clinton-38797037

So he's saying that this small group of superdelegates should override the will of the voters??

[displacedtexan]

12. He says he has 9million votes. But he doesn't say that Clinton has more.

Insulting.

[sarae]

13. And people call him the "honest" candidate

I don't know how his supporters can argue that this isn't hypocritical - it's the very definition of hypocrisy. Even Moveon.org released a statement that they couldn't really stand behind it.

[LiberalFighter]

31. He must not want his supporters to know that.

[displacedtexan]

16. An excerpt from that abc news story

Hillary Clinton is 91 percent of the way to clinching the Democratic nomination, when including superdelegates. She leads in both pledged delegates by 1,645 to Sanders' 1,318, according to the Associated Press. It takes 2,383 to win.

Sanders would need to win more than 82 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates through June if he hopes to clinch the nomination; currently, Sanders has been winning just 39 percent.

So far, no Clinton-backing superdelegates have flipped to Sanders, despite an aggressive lobbying campaign from his supporters.

[DemonGoddess]

19. "aggressive lobbying campaign"

oh, you mean the threats of physical harm? That's just aggressive???

[SunSeeker]

28. I know right? When is the press going to call the Sanders campaign on these threats?

[okasha]

21. Wait for it

With his fundraising flagging, he,'s going to ask the DNC for a nice big chunk of that "obscene" money Hillary raised.

I hope they spit in his eye.

[MarianJack]

22. I have lost EVERY bit of respect...

...that I EVER had for Back Bench Bernie in the course of this campaign. How he acts and how he encourages his supporters to act in the coming weeks will determine IF I choose to ever respect him again!

PEACE!

[4now]

23. It is hard to step down from being cult leader

[NastyRiffraff]

27. Exactly!

He bragged about feeling like a rock star. He's enjoying the star-struck worship he's getting. No wonder he hasn't really tried to rein in the worst of the Berniacs; all gods demand unthinking worship.

All those rallies! All those signs! All those chants! WHY ISN'T HE WINNING??

[NurseJackie]

35. I've been afraid to say that ... but I've always seen him in that light.

Thank you for your bravery and honesty.

[IamMab]

32. He pointed to his rally sizes, without mentioning that those giant rallies rarely meant votes.

I think Sanders has become addicted to the attention, and is falling back on arguments that are obviously flawed and which run counter to his original message and supposed principles.

It's not going to be possible for people to view Bernie Sanders the same way they used to after all of this is over. For many, the bloom is off the rose.

[DemonGoddess]

33. heh

the bloom is off the rose alright. All that's left is a flower with no petals, and only thorns.

[Jitter65]

36. Almost embarrassing to allow him to be called a Democrat. nt