Bill Clinton Speaks while Feel The Bern plane circles overhead.

[NorthCarolina]

I hope a portion of my donations to the Sanders campaign so far went for this.

[DURHAM D]

1. Why is Bernie paying for a plane to

promote a Clinton rally? Seems wasteful.

[Agschmid]

2. I'm sure it not him.

He wouldn't do that.

[SoapBox]

31. It's not a Clinton "rally"...

It's the Iowa Democrats Jefferson-Jackson dinner...the Clinton's don't own it.

And that bit of Bernie promotion by someone is hilarious.

Especially in light of "Hillary Sharpening her Attacks Against Sanders"...or something like that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1241655

[George II]

63. The dinner is INSIDE the hall, both candidates held rallies....Clinton's was right outside...

...the hall, Sanders' was relegated to a location across the river from the hall.

[Fearless]

88. "Relegated"? He took part in a women's rights march FFS. What is wrong with you?

[beam me up scottie]

102. No kidding.

[Inspired]

100. You don't know much about this event, obviously!

[A Simple Game]

116. Or the candidates obviously. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

121. "the Clinton's don't own it"

Good luck convincing THEM of that.

They think they own the party.

[NorthCarolina]

34. Bernie will be speaking at this same "Clinton Rally" at 8pm EST

Here's the link if you care to watch...

Tune in, maybe there will be a dirigible emblazoned with "Hillary for Status Quo" flying overhead. You will never know if you don't watch!

[George II]

68. You're a little late - there were separate rallies for both candidates earlier in the afternoon.

The dinner itself (not a "rally&quot starts at 8PM Central Time.

[BeanMusical]

91. He's speaking live now at the link provided by NorthCarolina.

[brooklynite]

78. But, I was told "they" had shut down Bernie2016TV...

[tammywammy]

90. Ha. n/t

[BeanMusical]

93. I just watched Bernie's speech and he rocked!

Thanks for the link.

[JDPriestly]

36. Someone with a crop-dusting plane probably did this.

Or someone with a private plane.

It would not have been Bernie's campaign. He probably wouldn't even approve.

[Fearless]

55. A Clinton Rally??? Really now? How absurd.

[Walk away]

109. I think it's symbolic of an annoying misquito flying around Hillary....

You know how it goes with mosquitos...they either bite you and get smacked or they just get smacked. Either way they have a short but annoying life span!

[CentralMass]

3. :-)

[msrizzo]

4. Very persuasive...

I'm sure that people's eyes were glued to that instead of Katy Perry.

[NorthCarolina]

6. Not gonna look, not gonna look, not gonna look...

oh damn, I looked.

[riderinthestorm]

13. !!!

[ronnykmarshall]

85. yup

That's what happened

[ruffburr]

5. Possibly-

A well meaning volunteer for Bernie,

[BooScout]

7. How tacky....

[NorthCarolina]

8. LOL....

but, but, but...politics is Rough.

[1monster]

82. Yeah, if only Hillary's people had thought of it first...

[BooScout]

86. It's been done before....

Scroll down the thread.

Btw, Hillary and her campaign really don't feel the need to crash Sanders events to get attention.

[1monster]

87. But this was not a Clinton event. It was a Democratic Party event and Bernie was

also a guest and had a rally in the same air space as Clinton's.

And as that has been stated, ad nauseam, on this thread, claiming ignorance is a tough sell.

[BeanMusical]

94. +1000

[sufrommich]

108. What the hell? What an asinine thing to say.

It's freeperish bullshit.

[sabrina 1]

9. Creative ways to fight the obscene amounts of money are going to be needed.

The media is in the pockets of the Corporate chosen candidates.

The people are up against an enormous, powerful, obscenely funded, secretly now thanks to Citizens United, media and political machine on all sides.

[treestar]

17. Planes cost money

lol

[sabrina 1]

128. Depends. Pilots who own their own planes often do things like this. When a member of our family

died in an accident, someone who loved flying, a pilot who owned his own plane did a fly-over at his funeral. It cost our family nothing.

[treestar]

129. BS, that cost BS a lot of $$

You'd be going on about Hillary's being a corporate stooge with lots of money from the banksters if she ever hired one.

[ucrdem]

10. Surrender Hillary

Well we know how that one turned out . . .

[ucrdem]

27. this just in . . .

[SunSeeker]

45. LOL Thread win!

[MohRokTah]

11. That's SOOOOOO 1998.

The wingnuts used to have aircraft do the same in 1998 only it read "Impeach Clinton".

Just lost any respect I had left for Sanders.

[sadoldgirl]

20. You are repeating this all the time.

You just cannot admit that you never had any.

[MohRokTah]

21. I used to respect the man a lot.

Then I encountered his supporters.

[Live and Learn]

54. Anyone who would judge a candidate by a few supporters he/she knows is lacking in

character. I certainly don't think Hillary would want to be judged by all of her supporters.

[cwydro]

59. I don't hold anything that Sanders' supporters say here against him.

There is one "Sanders' supporter" with many threads who I'm beginning to wonder might be a troll.

Not you, but someone whose threads are so objectionable, I can't help but wonder if he's playing from another camp.

I'm undecided, and none of this silly nonsense will help me decide.

[treestar]

131. The trouble is, reading this article

It appears Bernie gets his talking points from his supporters! All of it is familiar:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/clinton-iowa-215133#ixzz3paZLuPFI

[Autumn]

92. That's hilarious.

[BeanMusical]

96. Lol, you can say that again!

[Autumn]

97. Can you imagine judging Hillary by her supporters here and on other...

site?

[BeanMusical]

98. Roflmao!!!

[thesquanderer]

111. HRC and BS both have their share of over-the-top supporters.

I would not lean toward or against any candidate based on the attitudes of a handful of people online, nor would it affect my respect for the candidates themselves who have no control over them, and should be judged by their own positions, histories, etc. You're not voting for anyone's supporters. If Charles Manson endorsed HRC or BS, who cares?

[treestar]

130. lol what difference does that make?

Whether a person used to have respect for BS or not? It is a moral failing not to respect him?

[retrowire]

30. You never had any respect for a Democratic Socialist such as Sanders

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251713763#post45

Remember! You're "fundamentally against" everything he stands for!

Your true character is showing here. Time to make a new username and start again. :/

[murielm99]

38. Yeah, someone posted about my true character too,

when I criticized Bernie.

I put them on ignore.

[reddread]

114. dont reference the Bush crime family or you will be consigned to irrelevance

or something. Some posters set the standard for NOT LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.

[Armstead]

47. You ever had any respect for Sanders?

[72DejaVu]

12. One gimmick after another

Where I live, the Hillary supporters are knocking on doors. The Bernie supporters are carving Bernie's face on pumpkins.

[Agschmid]

15. Yup.

Every Friday we prep for Saturday, and every Saturday we knock on hundreds of doors... And we always have enough volunteers to do the entire city.

Keeping busy.

[jwirr]

67. Don't worry about it. Bernie has other volunteers to knock on

doors. We all do what we can.

[72DejaVu]

71. I'm not worried

I'm amused.

Good looking' out though, thanks!

[bvf]

112. Really? That's your point? Great.

[beam me up scottie]

119. Gimmicks?

[artislife]

14. Funny!

I enjoyed this.

[liberal_at_heart]

16. Creative use of campaign resources. I love it!

I too hope part of my donation went to this.

[mcar]

29. I'm sure many in the large crowd

switched their vote to Bernie as a result.

[workinclasszero]

18. Kinda rude and childish stunt

But hey if Bernie wants to spend what funds he has on stunts by all means proceed.

I'm sure the whole operation netted him zero votes.

[Vincardog]

24. I bet you $1,000 it was not paid for by the Sanders campaign.

[Ed Suspicious]

25. I would bet much money that this is not a Bernie sanctioned spend.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. Doubtful it was an official campaign thing, probably a volunteer

who has an airplane. And, if a plane towing a banner saying something like "HILLARY ROCKS!" was seen circling a Sanders event you'd all be raving about what a clever stunt it was.

[stevenleser]

99. Yep. I expect candidates for dog catcher to try something like this.

Not the person I expect to lead the country.

[Ed Suspicious]

19. We need a little volume next!

[FlatBaroque]

22. he's on a mission from God

[sufrommich]

23. It's been done.

[BooScout]

26. But, but, but....

I thought Bernie was supposed to be all original and everything!

I'm shocked I say...just shocked!

[SoapBox]

32. ...

[juajen]

61. we are lucky to have such great democrats.

Please stop sniping at each other. It is unseemly.

[Ed Suspicious]

72. Nice try. Not clever.

[cascadiance]

122. I think he spoke of a revolution a long time ago... And at least he didn't violate a trademark...

... that Ron Paul seems to have violated his conservative principles in doing here!

[jalan48]

28. Very cool.

[redstateblues]

35. Very classy

[MelungeonWoman]

73. Our Central Ohio for Bernie group did this for the OSU game last week.

The plane was controlled by several forces out of our control, the best they gave us was a window when the plane would fly over. I doubt they timed it precisely for Clinton's speech.

[murielm99]

37. Typical of the Bernistas rudeness. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. If a plane towing a Hillary banner had appeared over a Sanders event

I'm reasonably sure that most Hillary supporters would have thought it was cool as hell.

[murielm99]

43. No.

We are not that childish and classless.

[KoKo]

105. Katy Perry and light sabers?

Who paid for that?

[murielm99]

115. Jealous much?

I thought you were so proud that Bernie's campaign doesn't have money.

Maybe you should find out who paid for Katy Perry instead of asking me. Maybe Katy donated her time, or paid for it herself. I don't know. Go do your own homework.

[A Simple Game]

117. I like Katy Perry but she doesn't have much luck picking husbands either. n/t

[SunSeeker]

46. Wrong. nt

[stevenleser]

125. Let me put the correct ending on your title ... we would be in bizarro world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World

Hillary and her campaign would repudiate this and 99% of Hillary's supporters would reject it as crass, classless and unbecoming of efforts to elect a future President.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

127. Well, we'll see.

There may still be some unconventional campaigning by some Hillary supporters. We'll just see how the DU folks respond.

[Fearless]

57. Pot kettle black much??

[R B Garr]

58. Exactly! Can you imagine if Hillary had done this

to Bernie...? There are so many fabricated conspiracy theories out of thin air, the latest that she paid off the GOP Benghazi committee to make her look good. I can only imagine the histrionics if there was an actual plane flying around. But these people think it's funny -- if it's done to Hillary.

[beam me up scottie]

83. Like the Hillary supporters who booed Bernie on his birthday?

[MerryBlooms]

39. Whether some like it or not, Bill Clinton 'brings "it", whatever, "it", is, he has it.

I'm a Bernie gal, but honestly, it's nice to finally see another big enthusiastic crowd for Hillary. I think this is the first since her announcement.

[Uncle Joe]

40. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, NorthCarolina.

[JRLeft]

41. This is Hillary's advertisement to Iran and Syria.

[silenttigersong]

44. Clinton supporters call for no fly zone over Iowa

[SunSeeker]

48. If anything, that stunt garnered votes for Hillary. nt

[appalachiablue]

49. That's fantastic! So fun. And it's the JJ Dem. Dinner where Bernie is also speaking. It hasn't

been changed to the Jefferson-Clinton Dinner I don't think, although Jackson is very unpopular to many for his Indian genocide action.

[liberal_at_heart]

52. I agree with every word you wrote in this post.

[NurseJackie]

50. OMG … That's absolutely hysterical. But it makes no sense.

Why would anyone think that spending money to taunt Hillary supporters is a worthwhile investment? This makes no sense at all.

It's a pretty unsophisticated and juvenile stunt. But, maybe someone follows the philosophy that "any publicity is good publicity" no matter how desperate it makes them seem to be.

[ucrdem]

51. I kind of think we're in cool story territory here. . .

Still fun though

[riderinthestorm]

65. The event is a Democratic dinner - it's not a Clinton rally

Bernie Sanders also spoke there.

All of the faux outrage from Clinton supporters about this is pretty silly since the event wasn't exclusively a Hillary rally.

Welcome to DU!

[NurseJackie]

70. Thank you for clarifying that for me.

I was unaware of that. <latella>Never mind.</latella>

Thanks also for the welcome.

[Starry Messenger]

53. I hope it did too.

[That Guy 888]

56. It's too bad that the Hillary supporters can't accept that the primary season is just starting

Campaigning is just starting, I really wish they wouldn't take the fact that Bernie Sanders is going to try to win the Democratic nomination so personally. If your a Clinton supporter reading this post, hears something that may be surprising to you: sometimes you guys sound unhinged, over the top, and counter-productive to the Clinton campaign just like you accuse Sanders supporters of being.

This is one case where I have seen both sides do it. However, the OP isn't something that should get HRC supporters upset.

[NurseJackie]

60. I never really thought that laughter and amusement could be described as "unhinged" or "upset".

I think it's great! I admit I don't fully understand it, but it's still great. Very entertaining. Do more! Do more!

[liberal_at_heart]

64. The point is that this is not just a Clinton event.

[NurseJackie]

69. Oh. Well then, that's different. Never mind.

I wasn't aware that Sanders was there too.

[That Guy 888]

77. I think you misunderstood

The way you (as in HRC supporters) feel about some Bernie supporters (i.e. over-the-top, tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy nuts, etc.) is the way some people feel about some HRC supporters too. Not meant as an insult or slur, just a reminder (to myself as well) not to alienate potential Democratic voters in the Presidential Election. Only the second paragraph had to do with this specific post, someone flew a Bernie banner over a Democratic primary dinner, not a Clinton-exclusive event.

[NurseJackie]

84. Yes, I did. Thanks for clarifying.

[Duval]

62. I just laughed so hard!! This

has to be the funniest! Whomever is responsible deserves a medal. I hope so, too NorthCarolina. btw, I'm in Durham. Can you tell me where you are? Rats! Charlotte is hours away.
Victor and I are Bernie supporters.

[NorthCarolina]

66. howdy fellow tarheel...

we're in Charlotte.

[Digit]

113. Another Bernie supporter here in Raleigh

I am originally from Arlington, Va and only came down here in my later years. My politics reflect that and I lean to the left. Anyway, greetings to you all!

[bigtree]

74. pathetic

...classless.

[Ed Suspicious]

76. Makes me want to clutch my pearls.

[bigtree]

80. whatever

...stupid stunt.

I understand that the cool folks here at DU find this inspiring.

[brooklynite]

75. An airplane banner would definitely change MY mind...

[thesquanderer]

110. These kinds of things are not designed to change minds

They are about building awareness/enthusiasm. How well they work, I have no idea. But I don't think an airplane banner, a lawn sign, bumper sticker, etc. ever changed anyone's mind.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

120. But I learned up-thread it will garner votes for Hillary.

Who knew there are so many delicate flower American voters who allow their votes to be influenced by supporters, banners, etc.

[brooklynite]

79. Did they fly over the O'Malley rally?

I'd hate to think whomever rented the plane didn't cover all their bases.

[FSogol]

133. Maybe they should have spent the cash making sure their candidate got on the ballot in all 50 states

Just saying...

[MrWendel]

81. It kind of...

reeks of desperation. I'm not sure why, but its early.

[ronnykmarshall]

89. and no one gave a shit

[Autumn]

95. Those darn Bernie supporters

[redstateblues]

101. Feeling Berned out

Cheesy - really

[NCTraveler]

103. That's cute.

I like the humor. Though most probably thought is was a promotion for the Hillary event. Some of those shiny scalps need some sun lotion before they really feel the bern.

[DCBob]

104. Clever. Good one for the Bernie campaign.

Although I doubt it have any real effect on the voters or the outcome of the caucus.

[ismnotwasm]

106. lol.

That's pretty funny. I hope part of your donation to the Sanders campaign went toward that too.

[lame54]

118. It would take a lot more than an airplane to detract attention from The Big Dog

[cascadiance]

123. Occupy and the grass roots live!!!

And as the plane banner was telling us... Steve Earle and OWS also tell us!

THIS REVOLUTION STARTS NOW!!

[silenttigersong]

132. +1000 n/t

[dreamnightwind]

124. Somehow I picture Bernie himself piloting it

WWII aviation goggles, hair blowing, mouth wide open in joy, bug stains on his teeth.

[CountAllVotes]

126. my oh my

Gee I think I FEEL THE BERN after seeing this!



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