Michael Moore: I’ll support Hillary Clinton if she’s the nominee

[brooklynite]

Politico:

Michael Moore is an avowed Bernie Sanders supporter and has been for years. But while the outspoken filmmaker and liberal activist says he’s with Sanders till the end, he quickly notes he’ll support former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if she’s the nominee.

“Oh absolutely. She’s better than the alternative and she will do some good," Moore said in an interview on Sunday. "Unfortunately I can’t support her during the primaries because she voted for the Iraq war and she’s not really going to fix corporate America and Wall Street. They’ll still be calling the shots in her White House so that makes it difficult for people who care about those issues."

Moore said he's been a Sanders supporter for decades, having campaigned for him while Sanders was running for Congress in Vermont. Clinton’s enthusiasm gap problem, he said, is reflective of how he feels about her: She’s better than the alternative.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. He is both a patriot and not a moron. So of course he does.

[Orrex]

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He is both a patriot and not a moron. So of course he does.
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[LeftRant]

52. +1 for Yes :)

[riversedge]

102. Can't believe someone alerted on you. whow.

[onehandle]

2. Sellout.

...heh.

[Lisa0825]

3. Watch out for that bus, Michael! nt

[JoePhilly]

5. + 1

[politicaljunkie41910]

34. +2

[Buzz Clik]

4. Good deal!

[drm604]

6. He's a smart man so he of course understands the necessity of this.

[brooklynite]

11. If only some of the people here did...

[thesquanderer]

23. I think the # of Bernie supporters here who won't vote for Hillary in November is vastly overestimated

especially among those in swing states.

There may be a vocal handful of never-Hillarys, but realistically, there are probably very very few who would actually want to risk Trump beating Hillary. Maybe some independents, but almost no Dems.

So no, people aren't going to be throwing Moore under the bus over this common sense answer, despite all the comments in this thread to the contrary.

[Bluenorthwest]

26. Oh I'd say I agree far more fully and completely with Mike than you do.

That would go for most Bernie supporters. In fact I'm surprised you posted his very on point commentary. Mike nails it.

[Armstead]

32. Many Bernie supporters will vote for Clinton...and then take a long shower

[WatchWhatISay]

37. Then take a shower and be glad you can still afford the water

Trump would probably further privatize water so many wouldnt be able to afford it, or it wouldnt be safe to shower in. You know: free market capitalism = GOD

He isn't talking policy specifics because he knows many of his supporters would run screaming if they knew what he has in mind.

[mdbl]

61. Let's hope Hillary doesn't

since others in her family were so keen on privatization.

http://www.businessinsurance.org/prison-industry/

https://www.laprogressive.com/monica-lewinsky/

[yallerdawg]

7. "The lessor of two evils...

is less evil."

Progressives take what they can get. And then they have a new place to start from. Obama!

[GoldenThunder]

62. This wholesale paradigm shift rightward means...

...soon our "lesser of two evils" choice will be between Fascist A and Fascist B.

The road to hell has been paved. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is underway. The Neo-Cons and Neo-Libs each have their hands on that giant pair of scissors.

The hour groweth late.

[silvershadow]

63. I'm with you nt

[MADem]

8. My gawd, if they stuff another person under that damn bus the wheels will be three feet off the

ground!!!

[nxylas]

57. Funnily enough, I've yet to see an actual Bernie supporter call Moore or anyone else a traitor

But royalists are always assuring us that this is what will happen, so it must be true.

[MADem]

58. You should check the comments by BS supporters at the link. There's shade thrown.

Samples:

Oh God... and you can't see that Clinton IS the vitriol? Clinton is not a liberal, she's not a progressive. Her ideology is moderate Republican, at best. I have to say that I'm shocked at Moore who must have been given a dose of thorazine prior to this interview. Putting the possibility aside, I won't ever think of Mr Moore in the same way, again. Any thinking, rational, literate person has Hillary's number. You may endorse Hillary, Mr Moore, I will never endorse this murdering, Republican thief.

That's why only our Millenials, Progressive Democrats and Independents can make this Revolution. People like Michael Moore are wealthy liberals content with just continuing to make his movies calling out the absurdities. Caving in to the fear tactic as planned.. Let's do this thing! #ParentsForMillennials #ForThePeople #BernieOrBust

Traitor.

[FlaGranny]

64. Well, the biggest problem with that

post is that Michael Moore did NOT endorse Clinton. He endorsed Sanders. Then he said if Sanders does not get the nomination he would vote for Hillary because she is better than Trump. Big difference there. And actually, I completely agree with Moore, and I won't feel good if I have to vote for her, but in voting for her I would not be endorsing her. I would be voting for the better of the two remaining candidates. That poster's reading comprehension leaves a bit to be desired.

[MADem]

65. Well, I am simply responding to the assertion that there was no push back.

MM 'was' thrown under the bus by some angry Sanders supporters, as the quotes illustrate.

[FlaGranny]

67. Yes, I know you were.

And I said their reading comprehension was lacking.

[zappaman]

9. Traitor!

[Jitter65]

10. Under the Bernie Bus with you Michael Moore!!

This is unacceptable!

[SusanLarson]

13. That is his right

Just as it is my right is to write in Bernie Sanders, or to stay home. As long as we continue to accept lesser of two evils candidates the system will never ever have any hope of changing for the better.

[Hekate]

14. Another de facto vote for Trump! as is your right.

[mac56]

15. Yes, it is her right.

Just as it is my right to say that a Hillary nomination hand-delivers the Presidency to Drumpf wrapped up with a big beautiful bow.

[tomm2thumbs]

59. B I N G O

[Chicago1980]

44. That's your right, but I don't see why'd you do it with what's at stake.

Throwing a tantrum based on ideological purity isn't the best use of a vote is it?

Do you think that Bernie Sanders is going to write in Bernie Sanders name? NO...

Hillary isn't a lesser of two evils, she's not evil at all, just because you may not agree with everything she says or does.

Writing in a name of someone who'd never win with write ins or now voting at all isn't changing anything for the better at all.

[robbob]

49. I can not and will not say Hillary is "evil"

I can't look into her eyes and gauge the nature of her soul. But I will say this: I think she has a lot of blood on her hands.

<on edit> it occurred to me worth mentioning that the expression "lesser of two evils" does not (usually) mean making a choice between two things which are literally "evil" in the theological or moral sense of the word. Rather, it means having to choose between two unappealing options.

[Chicago1980]

54. President Obama I'm guessing has blood on his hands because of the decisions he's made.

Most people in positions of political power have had to make life or death decisions,

including Bernie. He's kind of okay with drones right?

Making a statement as you did is a bit off the mark as well.

[robbob]

77. Yes he does.

I respect and admire many things President Obama has done, especially the way he has conducted himself in the face of unrelenting obstructionism and overt racism from his Republican opposition. Social issues, DADT, same sex marriage, the opening of relations with Iran, there are many many policies and achievements that have transpired under this historic presidency, achievements that will not be easily undone even if the GOP manages to ever win back the office. And compared to what was in place before he got in...

But on many foreign policy issues, particularly the use of unmanned drones to carry out summary executions in middle east countries he does have blood on his hands.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/02/02/almost-2500-killed-covert-us-drone-strikes-obama-inauguration/

Sorry, I don't know much about thebureauinvestigates.com so I apologize in advance if someone jumps in and denounces it as a right wing front (cursory investigation on wikipedia seems to validate it), but it is an undeniable fact that the USA under Obama has killed thousands, many innocent of anything but being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I would suggest this is one of the most under-reported stories of the Obama presidency, not even worth much of a mention in the MSM, the unrelenting bomb strikes in countries that have vigorously protested these actions. Actions which I'm sure will continue or intensify under the next presidency, the new way America wages war in the world, totally illegal and unsanctioned, killing by proxy with the push of a button.

If you think I am exaggerating, just consider for one minute the reaction if a foreign power were to launch a drone strike against a target in the USA. Even if that target were someone that foreign power considered a terrorist whom it believed was formulating plots against them from the safety of the US borders. I think such an action would be considered justification for all out war against that country. Yet this is something that is tolerated and ignored in this society.

Noam Chomsky has written that, by the standards set at the Nuremberg trials, every president since then has been guilty of war crimes. Whether you agree with that statement or not, the fact is that the USA conducts itself on the global stage with impunity and disregard for the suffering and loss of lives that its policies cause.

Wouldn't it a nice change to see a government that tries to wage peace instead of war? That will not have its practices and policies viewed as "war crimes" by future generations? But who would get rich off of that?

[whatchamacallit]

16. So do you agree with all of his message, or just the unity bit?

[Adrahil]

20. Well, I do chuckle....

...at his suggestion that Bernie would fix corporate America and Wall Street.

Stop smoking the doobie, Michael....

[whatchamacallit]

22. Chuckle away, chuckleboy

[Bluenorthwest]

28. Re: Pot Jokes. So far, your candidate has lost three of the four States where pot is legal

The forth is currently voting and the likely fifth is CA, very large and looming primary wise. As a Bernie supporter I encourage you to make many more of that sort of wise crack, especially on CA specific discussion boards. Thanks.

[Chicago1980]

45. You mean where recreation pot is legal.

There are a number of states who have legal medical pot.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. People should always vote for the candidate they prefer.

[Ikonoklast]

30. I vote for what the person stands for, not because they are the lesser of two evils.

Voting in hope of a smaller disaster is still voting for disaster.


The current leadership Democratic Party is coming very close to finding out just how badly selling their souls to moneyed interests is gong to cost them in the following elections with the next generation of voters.

The white hairs of both parties membership who vote straight ticket are a dying breed in more ways than one.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. Exactly.

[GulfCoast66]

51. White hairs?

Seems like yesterday I thought I knew everything. But I was never arrogant enough to so denigrate people with actual life experience.

When an election means more to you than getting free shit you will understand. Sometimes elections mean things like basic human rights. And if you think Hillary and Trump are the same in this regard, you are full of shit. When you have your first colonoscopy, please think of this post.

[FlaGranny]

66. Where in heaven's name

did you ever get the "free stuff" idea? Little in life is free. We're talking social services here and they are paid for with taxes. In this case that would be a redistribution of tax money, a lot less to the military, and fixing tax laws to keep people who can afford tax lawyers from avoiding paying anything (or very little). In the end everyone pays and nothing is free. We're the only "first world" country that can't get our act together and do it.

P.S. I've had white hair for some time now.

[GulfCoast66]

70. I do not disagree

My entire post was aimed at the grey hair comment which is unseemly and something I had not seen at DU.

I actually support higher taxes on the rich and the middle class, and expanded social safety system such as found in Europe, Improved education and strengthening of labor rights.

Unfortunately I believe that if we run on that platform today we will lose. Too many Bernie supporters become enraged when they hear that and start attacking the holders of that opinion.

[Ikonoklast]

71. I'm probably older than you. But thanks for the insults.

I fell for Clinton bullshit twice, and was thrown under the bus by them.

YIf you think Hillary gives a flip about anything but staying on the 1% gravy train, think again.

[GulfCoast66]

82. No Clinton lover here

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But there is so much more at stake than an economic recalibration I would love to see. If we lose the presidency then what you are seeing in North Carolina moves to a national scale. We will have a President doing what Govenor McCrory is doing now with the full power of the Federal Government behind him.

I cannot fathom that so many supposed Democrats are willing to throw so many of our fellow citizens under the bus if their candidate does not win.

But most of Bernies supports are white, live and die for his economic positions and while I do not think them biased, they do not prioritize the issues facing minority or marginalized groups as serious.

[chervilant]

90. OMG!!!

But since most Bernie rallies tend to have similar demographics as Trump rallies I guess it is not all surprising. History tells us that the progressive movement has not always marched in step with the civil rights movement.

?!?

I cannot even fathom from whence you pulled those indefensible, disingenuous assertions!

(I sure am thankful for my IL.)

[GulfCoast66]

93. Perhaps

I that was a little over the top. Thanks for making me re-read it. I have edited it to better reflect what I was getting at. I do not except you will agree, but hopefully now it is not so rude.

[Dem2]

18. Glad he's got the common sense not to default to letting Trump win

Anybody who is promoting not voting is neither a Democrat, nor a liberal nor a progressive.

Given a choice to save 100 puppies, 75 puppies or let them all be euthanized, I will take 75 live animals over none.

The parallel in this election is human lives. Not voting is giving Trump permission to let people die. It's that simple.

[Fawke Em]

21. Hillary is neither a liberal nor a progressive.

YOU nominated her with the help from the thumb-scaling DNC. If she loses, that's on YOU, not Bernie supporters who have been warning you for months that she's toxic.

Turn that blame mirror back on yourself.

BTW, I think Hillary will cause a lot of people to die, too. She'll have us in so many wars your head will spin. Or is it that only American lives matter?

[farleftlib]

39. I agree with everything you said

but particularly with the Clinton body count. Even Trump isn't pushing regime change in
all the oil-rich countries. Hillary's foreign policy will be very hawkish as we have seen. She
will not rest until the entire Middle East is blown to smithereens. And you can't expect no
push back when you've been sabre rattling all this time.

[Chicago1980]

46. Not in your eyes perhaps,

but she and Bernie voted the same about 93% of the time when they were in the senate together.

She was the 7th most liberal of the democratic senators during her tenure.

She may not live up to your ideals and definition of a progressive or liberal, but you don't have carte blanche on the definitions of those words.

She'll cause a lot of people to die? What the hell kind of statement is that. Take an enema for the hyperbole please.

[elljay]

74. And Anthony Kennedy is the 5th most progressive justice on the SCOTUS

Your talking point stats are meaningless. Just because they mostly voted the same on the very limited set of bills that reached the floor of the fairly conservative Senate doesn't reflect their real politics. Just because the Republican and Democratic Parties veered so far to the right that Hillary is the 11th most liberal doesn't make her a true liberal. Hillary has basically the same politics as the Nixon, Javits, Weicker wing of the 60s Republican Party. Bernie is a progressive. For the life of me, I don't get why Hillary supporters are so unwilling to admit that they support a conservative Democrat. Own what you believe in, don't try to convince the rest of us that ted is really blue.

[Chicago1980]

78. Wow... fifth out of nine.

[elljay]

81. Aren't statistics fun?

And oh so easy to abuse.

[Chicago1980]

85. There were a lot more democratic senators,

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so my numbers work better for me when it comes to my statement.

[elljay]

91. You are missing the point

When you are making a comparison, it is important to consider to whom you are comparing. Not all Democrats are liberal, and this was especially true when Clinton was in the Senate. The number you quote compared her to conservative Democratic senators Zell Miller, Ben Nelson, John Breaux, Robert Byrd, Max Cleland, Kent Conrad, Byron Dorgan, Edward Bayh, Blanche Lincoln, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu and Max Baucus in the 107th Senate. The Senate was split 50-50 at the beginning of the 107th, so when you consider the conservative Dems as well as the Republicans, Hillary's being the "11th most liberal" is every bit as compelling as Kennedy being the 5th most liberal justice. It doesn't at all make her a liberal on the spectrum of conservative to liberal, just more liberal than a conservative Senate. Why can't you accept that you support a moderate/conservative candidate instead of trying to make her into something that she factually is not?

[ybbor]

113. Because she's a progressive!

Come on, if you say enough it eventually becomes reality.

She's a progressive, she's a progressive...

Sorry, didn't work. She a pro-Wall Street, hawk, right-of-center moderate. She has admitted to being a moderate, not progressive.

[pnwmom]

50. Bernie doesn't define either term. He's the farthest to the left in the Senate --

and there are many other liberals and progressives and Hillary is more progressive than many of them.

[Fawke Em]

19. Good for him. He's an adult and can make up his own mind.

I'm an adult and can make up my own mind.

I laugh when people post these things as though its going to change anyone's mind. LOL.

[Juicy_Bellows]

29. Yep. I like Mr. Moore.

I think his Fahrenheit 911 movie was all sorts of kid gloves though.

If he wants to vote for her, go right on ahead - doesn't change my convictions at all.

[MissDeeds]

36. Yeah, go for it Michael

Your vote means nothing to me. Freaking sell out... It only makes me think less of you.

[ybbor]

114. He is voting in a swing state, MI

It could matter, but as a fellow Michigander, I see the state going for Trump.

More Repubs voted in the primary than Dems, and most independents who voted for Bernie will most likely sit out or vote Trump. The Clintons are not very loved in this state.

Just my opinion, and reading of my friends in a very liberal town.

[RufusTFirefly]

69. Personally, I'm so weak-minded that I let Michael sway me

I make my decision by polling all my favorite pundits and celebrities and then going with the candidate that the majority chooses.

Deciding on actual policy positions is just too boring and hard!

Sure, I can keep track of all the latest stats from my favorite sports teams. But this democracy stuff? No way!

[SammyWinstonJack]

86. Post away. Still not going to vote for her. For any thing EVER!

[aikoaiko]

24. Lesser of two evils is the best campaign motto for HRC.

[apnu]

73. For progressives, that's exactly what it will be.

For everybody else, not so much.

[G_j]

25. agreed. nt

[azurnoir]

27. guess he needs material for a new movie?

[Logical]

33. Lol, most clinton votes will be against the GOP, not for hill! Classic. Nt

[TomCADem]

35. Isn't That Usually The Case?

Most votes for Romney were votes against President Obama in 2012.

Put another, if Bernie were the nominee, aren't votes for Trump votes against Bernie?

[ronnykmarshall]

38. Here comes the bus!!!

[farleftlib]

40. I still love Mike

If it makes him feel better to support HRC then I'm happy for him, I just happen to disagree.

Love ya, Mike!

[McKim]

41. Moral Problem with Hillary

I will stay in the Sanders camp until the very end. I have a responsibility to my brother in law who died in Vietnam for a lie. For his sake and in his name I have been active in the anti war movement for the past 14 years. Hillary will start more wars, she voted for the Iraq War and it was on her watch and her idea to destabilize Syria and Libya. I know the horrors of war and I just can't give the reigns to our country. Whatever may happen, no blood on my hands.

[shenmue]

55. Keep living in your dream world

[Jeb Bartlet]

42. I'm a Bernie Supporter

I prefer his positions on nearly every issue, but on Nov 2nd I will pull the lever for whichever Democrat is on the ballot for the simple reason that any Democrat is better than any Republican hands down.

I find it absurd that people will call themselves Democrats and Bernie supporters and then will then say they are going to vote against Clinton if she is the nominee. It boggles the mind that Bernie supporting Democrats would actually be ignoring the very message that Bernie has been trumpeting for years, namely that we need more Democrats in office if we are to ever get any of these ideas through congress. I've never once heard Bernie say if he doesn't get his way he's quitting or voting for the opposition. Bernie has been a staunch supporter of progressive ideals for decades and bailing on the Democratic party because the right wing has you riled up over some fucking emails is inane.

This is the Democratic Underground... supposedly the home of Democrats and progressives. Dems don't take their ball and go home, they suck it up and vote for their party because to do otherwise is to aid the Republicans in destroying everything we hold dear.

[pnwmom]

48. +1 n/t

[maddiemom]

68. And +1 more.

[apnu]

72. +1 but also wanted to remind you, Election day is Nov. 8.

November 2nd is a Wednesday. Better early than late, right?

[Gary 50]

89. Jeb Bartlet, I've read hundreds of posts by Bernie supporters who say they will never

vote for Hillary and not one of them mentioned her fucking emails. Yeah, that would be insane if it were the case but her email "scandal" isn't among the ten thousand reasons so many people can't imagine pulling the lever for someone they believe to be so utterly dishonest.

[Flatpicker]

43. She’s better than the alternative.

Completely agree with that.

She's a standstill Presidency. At least it would not be a backslide in most ways.

[RATM435]

47. Capitalism a love story part II.

[Hulk]

53. Well hell yes!

I would support damned near anybody...even a republican, before I would let the egomaniac fook this country up once and for all.

Sweet Jesus, I'd back ANY democrat, and nearly ALL the 17 clowns that began the repug circus before I would ever let drumpf get in the White House. That would set this country back to the stone age.

[Ash_F]

56. This does not read like a ringing endorsement.

[tomm2thumbs]

60. it's akin to supporting maggots

if they'll eat the dead, rotting flesh off your infected arm and save your life

bwahahahahaha -- actually, they do use maggots to do this, so it's all how you look at it

and Trump is the dead, rotting flesh of this country's political system


Science talk:
http://www.livescience.com/17554-maggots-clean-wounds-faster-surgeons.html

* and I am not saying anyone is a maggot

[Katashi_itto]

111. Your insulting maggots.

[Nye Bevan]

87. I don't think it's intended as a "ringing endorsement".

I will vote for Bernie in November without hesitation if he is the Democratic candidate. That is not a "ringing endorsement" of Sanders.

[Blue_Tires]

75. Now I guess Moore is about to go under the bus...

[Thinkingabout]

76. Good deal, MM knows alowing a republican to be elected is not good for progressives.

[Akicita]

79. I have much respect for Michael Moore but he isn't going to affect whether I vote for Hillary or

stay home. I'm waiting to hear what Susan Sarandon does. I'll do whatever she does.

[The Green Manalishi]

83. One positive thought

Bernie as secretary of the Treasury.

Right in Wall Street's grill and up their ass with a probe, and utterly un buyable.

Yeah, I'm voting for Bernie in the primaries,I hope he gets the nomination because I think he can take out der Trumpenfurher but as long as he has some position under Clinton We are going to be orders of magnitude better than with Trump.

Hillary's instincts are centrist, some of her positions are progressive and she has a ferocious will to power the equal of no one since Richard Nixon (don't freak out at the comparison, because Tricky Dick came from utter humiliation to winning it all in a brilliant and ruthless comeback) and the winner is very often the one who wants it the most and is willing to eat the most shit, kiss the most ass and work the hardest, nature of the game.

Three or four SCOTUS seats; that means more for the issues that matter to us, the POC, the GLBT, those of us concerned with income inequality as well as not fencing up the planet beyond habitability, because SCOTUS is going to decide issues that relate to all of those and more.

[Akicita]

84. Nice thought but there is no way Hillary's bankers will allow that.

[marmar]

88. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.....and I feel the same way he does.

I'll vote for her, but without anything resembling enthusiasm. It's all about keeping the psychos away from the WH and a potential Supreme Court nomination.

[chervilant]

92. I live in a state

that will go to Trump, regardless of my vote. Plus, I cannot write in Bernie, if Hi11ary succeeds in stealing winning the nomination.

I don't understand how anyone supports either of these "presumptive nominees." I just cannot see either of them as POTUS. Blech...

[penndragon69]

94. So will I if she is the nominee.

Then i will leave the polling station and VOMIT in shame !

[Joob]

95. Hah. Michael Moore Openly says she won't fix anything, posted as GOOD news by Hillary supporter.

[videohead5]

96. Maybe But She Will Keep

The supreme court from going far to the right for like 40 or 50 years.in four years even if you get the progressive you want that supreme court will still be there.

[democrattotheend]

97. I agree with him

Like him, I'm with Bernie to the end (donated again last week), but I am committed to supporting whoever the nominee is. But like Moore says, Hillary will do some good if she is president. For starters, by putting at least a center-left moderate in Scalia's seat.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

98. Thank you Michael Moore for being ths smartest Bernie backer.

Those who disagree with you - and berate you - here are likely voting for Trump.

[NNadir]

99. Maybe the dumb guy learned his lesson after working so hard to put Bush in the White House.

The number of Iraqis who died as a result of his efforts in 2000 vastly outstrips the number of dead at Columbine, but he made a movie about the latter case, not the former.

I couldn't care less what he does. He should stick to eating donuts.

[132nd Last Angry Man]

100. Of Course!

What sane person wouldn't? The alternative is President Clockwork Orange!

[riversedge]

101. Of course you will Micheal. thank you.

[annavictorious]

103. I think Moore remembers what happened in the 2000 election

when Nobel Peace Prize laureate / environmental activist Al Gore (characterized by purists as the corporatist, establishment, third way, lesser of two evils candidate) lost because of "progressive" support for Ralph Nader.

Moore's endorsement of the egotistical purist Nader over evil liar Al Gore helped to elect GW Bush. I guess Moore doesn't want to be responsible for President Trump as well.

[PowerToThePeople]

104. Each can do what we they want

I won't make that choice.

#HillNo

[Feathery Scout]

105. I'll take it!!

I'm a Hillary supporter, but mainly I believe in carrying on Obama's path forward for our nation....

And I'm mortified at the thought of Trump purposely destroying all of our success.

So, even a reluctant....unexcited.....nudge towards Democratic unity is huge in my eyes.

And I give a big thank you to Mr. Moore.

I would have gladly voted for Senator Sanders had he won the nomination.

[SusanCalvin]

106. Of course. So will I. But I won't like it. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

107. Do you all bring your own buses to these threads? How many Hillary supporters think wholly for

yourselves without relying on others to tell you what you think, or what TO think? Who gives a FUCK about Michael Moore's endorsement but you and Hillary? His endorsement doesn't make me less of a person for supporting Bernie Sanders. Nor does it make me stupid for supporting Bernie Sanders. Should it actually affect the principles I live by?

I find it curious and amusing at the same time; this living for the next famous person to endorse Hillary Clinton. It's like positive reinforcement or something. Endorsements reinforce your belief that it's Hillary's turn in such a way that makes me think you question it in the first place. On one hand, Hillary supporters crow about her endorsements from the rooftops. On the other, they wear Bernie's lack of them like a badge of honor.

I don't know about most other Bernie Sanders supporters, but I think for myself and endorsements could neither reinforce the righteousness or wrongness of my decision to support him.

In short? I don't give a FUCK who Michael Moore endorses. Or anyone else. Or some newspaper I've never read. Or some pop musician whose music I'd not listen to on my worst day. Or politicians. There are maybe four or five politicians I'd even piss on if I saw them rolling on the ground on fire.

Now, if that's me throwing Michael Moore under the bus... I hope he didn't fuck it up somehow, and warp the driveshaft or something. This bus has been running fine up until now. Is that his rich hundred-million dollar ass I see in the rear view mirror? Maybe it is.

[KansDem]

109. If he supports Hillary, then he's for "Moore of the Same"

"...she will do some good." Lloyd Blankfein is ecstatic!

[Hairy Harry Potlover]

112. Bad Pun

Not funny. What's even less funny is a Trump Administration.

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110. proud Californian who just voted for Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris

via absentee ballot yesterday.