Bernie Sanders no longer authentic-as his wife is remaking him to be "soft" -'relatable"

[riversedge]

Funny tweet I found:
Bernie Sanders no longer authentic-as his wife is remaking him to be "soft" http://nyti.ms/1JDXSCJ #feeltheBern(NOT) #p2


.........But more than being another legislative aide or campaign strategist, Ms. Sanders is unique on her husband’s team for her ability to soften his political persona as a grumpy scold.
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Bernie and Jane Sanders at their wedding in May 1988. Two years later, she helped him win a race for Congress. Credit Via Bernie Sanders campaign

During a recent rough patch of the campaign, as her husband’s standing in the polls stalled behind Hillary Clinton, Ms. Sanders offered a tour of the couple’s home and all the places where he acted something like a normal American dad.

There was the barbecue, in a backyard framed by birch trees, where he grilled steaks. In a kitchen decorated with wind chimes, Irish blessings (“May the road rise up to meet you”) and a Norman Rockwell poster, she prompted her grandson to impersonate Mr. Sanders when he stands on a chair waving his arms like a conductor.

In the living room, where Mr. Sanders likes to sing along to the Supremes while feeding logs into a wood-burning stove, she opened a photo album, which she had taken out earlier that day to show producers from “Good Morning America.” She showed off pictures of their wedding day, where a saxophonist friend serenaded them with Abba hits, and a distant Christmas morning when he gave her son, one of her three children from a previous marriage, a He-Man sword.

But Ms. Sanders could make her husband only so relatable.....................

[FloridaBlues]

1. Can she make him stop shouting all the time while repeating same talking points?

Only 4 weeks to start voting oh please hurry up!!
Get these 2 states done and over

[Treant]

2. He never was.

He's a politician. Mrs. Clinton is, similarly, portraying an image to the public.

Mrs. Clinton's image doesn't yell at me, though, and after seeing her as Senator, Secretary, and First Lady, we have a pretty good idea of what we're going to get. I'm very happy with that.

[seabeyond]

4. Yes. He is a politician. This seems to be the crux of an argument here on DU, though I think it is

the obvious. He is a politician.

[seabeyond]

3. Mr. Sanders likes to sing along to the Supremes while feeding logs into a wood-burning stove

Now see, I am down with this.

[livetohike]

5. ABBA? Bleh. That does it for him, lol.

There isn't enough time in the world to make him relatable, in my opinion.

[Treant]

6. Hey! I AM the Dancing Queen!

Ain' nuthin' wrong with ABBA and I won't hold that against him.

It could be worse, he could be totes into Katy Perry.

[BlueCaliDem]

13. I LOVE ABBA. Been a huge fan ever since 1976 - starting with Dancing Queen. :-D

But yeah, there isn't enough time in ten campaign elections to make Sanders relatable. His anger sure does feed into the frenzy of perpetual angry people, but he's jarring and that makes him unattractive to me.

[msrizzo]

7. So?

I mean, this is a big deal because why? Hasn't everyone been saying for months what a nice guy he is? But sure, why not.

[Cha]

10. I thought he was perfect and now this?! Can you imagine if it came out that Micelle had tried

to remake President Obama's image? For one thing she wouldn't need to .. he's an authentic person.

[Walk away]

8. And yet, none of the people he works with like him or support him.

you have to wonder if anyone actually likes him except his fans and followers. I guess a softer image will only get you so far.

[Cha]

9. Oh Good Grief.. give me a freaking break.

[the dork knight]

12. We'll Have to Wait a Month

After Hillary kicks ass in Iowa, maybe (just maybe) the berniebots might start facing reality. Maybe.

[Cha]

14. I vote No.

Welcome to DU, dork knight.

[postatomic]

11. I had read this before, my favorite part.........

In Iowa, she schmoozed with supporters and reminded her husband to lighten his long, dark stump speeches. (“Doom and gloom!” she says she tells him. “Any hope at the end of the tunnel?”)

Even his wife wants him to tone down the Dystopian Rhetoric.