Bernie tries to honor MLK, trashes Obama instead

[Landslide Lyndon]

This guy's tone-deafness is astounding. I guess he won't rest until he loses the black vote 0-100.

https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/981706802990546945

https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/981707158306869248

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know what's funny? Sanders says he is disappointed with the Democratic party of the last 15 years.
So I guess he is yearning for the good old days of Bill Clinton.
Amirite?

[Landslide Lyndon]

This isn't trashing Obama at all? He was simply pointing out the fact that YES the Democratic Party has preformed horribly in down ballot races especially on the local level. Barack Obama WAS a part of that problem in certain ways. Im not a huge Bernie fan, but seriously the fake outrage over a comment that was never meant to be a personal jab is ridiculous

It's heartening to see that Bernie Sanders cares so much about how many legislative seats Democrats lost under Obama.
Is he by any chance the same guy who said a couple of years ago that Southern states don't matter?

[Landslide Lyndon]

This is the reason I love Bernie Sanders so much, because he's the only Democrat who has the guts to say the truth about what's happened to our Party. Obama may have been a "great orator" and a "nice person", but in reality Obama was an ineffective politician who only got elected because of the financial crisis, and who once elected failed to achieve any of his major campaign promises (the healthcare bill written by the heritage foundation doesn't count), lost the house in his first Midterm, barely scraped by for reelection, lost the Senate in his second Midterm, and did nothing to help his party hold the White House in 2016. Finally, if Democrats want to rebuild their party and start winning elections again, they need to put the policies and strategies of the failed Obama-Clinton era in the dustbin of history (extreme Social Progressivism, Economic Centrism, Military Interventionism, and appeals to identity politics), and embrace the policies and strategies of Bernie Sanders (Economic Leftism, Non-Interventionism, moderate Social Progressivim, and appeals to Class-based Politics), because Bernie Sanders is the only modern politician who can lead the Democrats to victory and create a new Left-wing political realignment if he wins the presidency in 2020.

When King Lear praises you...

[Landslide Lyndon]

And like really, what else is he gonna do? What would his core constituency among black regular democratic primary voters in the South be? He's not gonna get a hearing from Bakari Sellers-esque business progressives, he's not gonna get a hearing from the old CRM crowd that has since yielded to the practicalities of politics, &c. His only real, practical choice is an end-run.

Black supporters of Bernie Sanders:

Nina Turner: was begging for the Clintons endorsement in 2014, then trashed them as the destroyers of the Democratic party two years later. Endorsed for governor of Ohio a Trump apologist, conspiracy theorist, Fox News Democrat.

Cornell West: called Obama an "Uncle Tom", praised Trump as "authentic human being", voted in the general for Russian plant Jill Stein.

Killer Mike: NRA mouthpiece that went on NRA TV and attacked Parkland kids the day they marched for their lives.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I for one look forward to Democrats in the southern states saving us from nominating Sanders in 2020 much like they did in 2016.

The southern vote will be nowhere near as unified in 2020 as it was in 2016 and 2008, given how large a field it will be.

By the time the first southern primary comes it would have winnowed considerably.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Hahahaha!!! Weaver is such a tool.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/bernie-sanders-revolution-needs-black-voters-to-win-but-can?utm_term=.alVZJNKLG#.qkVEK54NM

Sellers argued that Obama’s legacy encompasses not just his work as president from a policy perspective, but his symbolic importance. He alluded to the photo of a boy touching Obama’s hair in the White House to see if it felt like his. “Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand how that photo is emblematic of the hope of many African Americans and that it speaks loudly to who Barack Obama is.”

Speaking by phone on Thursday, Weaver fired back at Sanders’ critics. Sellers, he said, was attempting to sow “racial division” by “deliberately misinterpreting” the senator’s remarks. (“My father was shot because of racial [division],” responded Sellers, whose father was shot during what became known as the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968. “[Weaver] should find another line of attack, because I will not dignify that.”)