Maher tells Bernie Sanders: Your campaign must be working ‘You’ve got Hillary talking like Elizabeth

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Friday night Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got the rock star treatment from Real Time host Bill Maher who praised the darkhorse candidate’s campaign for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, telling the fiercely liberal senator that his run from the left has forced consensus favorite Hillary Clinton to start “talking like Elizabeth Warren.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/maher-tells-bernie-sanders-your-campaign-must-be-working-youve-got-hillary-talking-like-elizabeth-warren/

[RufusTFirefly]

1. And she's utterly believable as Warren!

Not!

She's as comfortable in that role as Tarzan in a tuxedo.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. "Tarzan in a tuxedo" - Rufus, thats classic! Perfect analogy (loved Tarzan movies as a kid btw).

[djean111]

2. And talking like Warren is as far as she will go.

I think Obama, and the internet, may have obliterated the usefulness of campaign rhetoric. We can replay it, see what really happens, and use lessons learned - deeds, not words.

And I believe us fringe Lefties have taken that "Don't be a purist!" thing to heart.

[daleanime]

30. +1

[merrily]

3. IMO, issue polls and the persistence of draft Warren movement got Hillary talking like Warren and

the reception Bernie gets wherever he goes reinforces the message. O'Malley helps, too.

Let's talk polls. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12777036

Isn't it entertaining how the same posters who insisted that taking populist positions make politicians unelectable don't seem the least bit worried that their candidate is speaking them?

[Thinkingabout]

4. This is good, Warren is saying the same things Hillary has already said but allow all to continue to

live thinking Warren said this first.

[erronis]

14. I'm missing the Hil's pronouncements about "too big to fail".

Maybe I misread your post. Are you saying that Hillary has already stated what EW has been advocating? Please elucidate!

[Thinkingabout]

18. I said "same things" not everything, yep you misread.

[erronis]

19. I was having serious difficulties with my browser Back button and responding - indulgence requested.

[MannyGoldstein]

31. Remember when Hillary made almost the same speech as this?

But just showed a tiny drop of self-restraint, and thanked Citigroup for their very, very, very generous check?

[DeeDeeNY]

34. +1

[Thinkingabout]

35. Are you saying Warren has never said some of the same things Hillary has said

And Hillary has been saying for years? I think in the future Warren will be saying more of what Hillary has already said, it is a part of Warren moving from the right to the left.

[Divernan]

5. Social media is leading the Sanders charge!

Maher went on to advise the candidate that “You could do well with younger voters. They liked Ron Paul. He was not a young-un, but he had that same authenticity thing going,” before jokingly asking Sanders “Are you on Tinder?”

Sander explained that his campaign has “A very active social media effort.”

“In the Senate, we have more people on our Facebook page, than any other member of the United States Senate,” he said, before adding, “Look, what we want to do is tap the idealism of the kids. And what the kids are saying, for example, is that this country should lead the world in transferring our energy system and dealing with climate change. And that solution we’re going to talk about a whole lot.”

Which reminds me, this OP will be the daily Bernie link I put on my FB page - which goes out to people in 8 states and voting US expats in Mexico and Europe. FB posts are like wings of a butterfly, baby!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Yes people in the UK are getting to know Bernie through social media

they seem to like him and they need one like him.

[Divernan]

20. Off topic, but Rosa Luxemburg is a hero & martyr to me.

I was taking a canal tour in Berlin, when the guide pointed to a bridge over the Landwehr Canal, which we were approaching, and stated that it was this bridge from which Rosa Luxembourg's body was thrown after she had been murdered by the proto-NAZI freikorps. I was familiar with her history, and just felt a terrible chill down my spine to be in that place. And I felt even worse when I spent a day at Sachsenhausen concentration camp - about 30 miles outside of Berlin. The aura of evil still remains and after several hours was just overwhelming.
Anyway - peace to you and yours.
Nancy

[Rosa Luxemburg]

21. Yes she is to me too

We have a portrait of her in our living room.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Do you all remember when all the pundits, including Chris Matthews,

said that George Bush was running on a moderate platform?

The Clintons are political beings. I do believe they are genuine Social Liberals. But, fiscally...it is going to take more than talk to convince me that they really get it.

[NorthCarolina]

7. Only one of the two

candidates is truly "authentic" in their campaign rhetoric though...and for me, that's the rub. Go Bernie!

[azmom]

8. Agree. Hillary is coming off as a manufactured product.

[sulphurdunn]

13. It is unlikely

Ms. Clinton ever makes an extemporaneous statement in public.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. I'm sure Hillary's 100+ advisors have warned that speakimg her mind and from her heart would be waayyy too risky. Better to stick to her notes in a controlled environment.

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[sulphurdunn]

33. They'd be right to advise that,

and it seems she has little if any trouble following it.

[Sunlei]

10. perhaps they will end up Pres and VP, it's not like the D stage is full of people with the stamina &

decades of real work experience.

[marble falls]

11. Now if Hillary only believed what she's parroting from Elizabeth Warren....

not that she's parroting all that much. Her silences are louder than her words.

[HappyMe]

16. The focus groups are probably behind schedule.

Thus, the awkwards silence.
I think she parroted Warren about as much as she can.

[marble falls]

17. Apt to happen while trying to figure out with way the wind blows to develop a pandering stategy.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. Watching Hillary tryin to channel Elizabeth is hilarious. Hillary has become a satire of herself - it's like watching a Saturday Night Live skit.

[grahamhgreen]

22. He has set the agenda!

[BainsBane]

23. Actually it's the American people who have had that influence

Clinton has been out talking to voters and heard what they care about.

[restorefreedom]

24. i want to see the debate

sanders will stick to the issues and not get personal. but he is gonna hit her hard. she has a lot of corporate and hawkish baggage. and she is noncommittal on many important D issues.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. and

he is a good debater and they know it.

[restorefreedom]

32. yes he is

he knows his stuff, he doesn't get rattled, and he doesn't get drawn in to personal conflicts.

i think hillary will stick to the issues too but she will be bobbing and weaving to avoid a real answer.

should be quite interesting.

[TheNutcracker]

26. Go Bernie!