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

[Sir Mohamed]

He was never a great fan of B.O., even talked about a primary challenger in 2012. I hope Bernie doesn't run in 2020.

[Kleine Scheiße]

Sanders is unquestionably tone-deaf and I hope the closest he ever comes to the oval office is a guided tour, but I don’t see this as “trashing Obama.” He’s trying to push the party in his direction at a time when much of the party has been romanticizing the past decade, distracted by the juggernaut that Obama was.

All Bernie is saying, for once, is that there are severe underlying issues with the way the Democratic party operates, and that Obama’s brilliance as a politician and chief executive makes it difficult for some to look beyond his personal strengths. He’s saying that in spite of Obama’s successes, for all they’re worth, the Democratic party needs to be reformed.

This was not the right time or place to start that discussion, though.

[Dr. MB]

Obama was fine but he wasn’t a saint. Criticism should be given when due.

[Jeppe]

Obama was fine but he wasn’t a saint. Criticism should be given when due.

Which is at an event commemorating MLK in a 80% black city?

[JG]

Obama was fine but he wasn’t a saint. Criticism should be given when due.

Which is at an event commemorating MLK in a 80% black city?

[Torrain]

Obama was fine but he wasn’t a saint. Criticism should be given when due.

Which is at an event commemorating MLK in a 80% black city?

[Del Tachi]

Obama was fine but he wasn’t a saint. Criticism should be given when due.

Which is at an event commemorating MLK in a 80% black city?

Is the implication here that Barack Obama should escape criticism because he is Black?  Because that doesn't exactly seem fair to me.   Or would it have been fine if Sanders' criticism came while he was speaking in an 80% White city?

Obama's presidency was definitely a watershed moment for African-Americans and other racial minorities in this country, but if that makes him unsubject to criticism that has absolutely nothing to do with his race then we have to ask how far we really have come.

[YE]

What context even allowed him to talk about Obama?

[Del Tachi]

What context even allowed him to talk about Obama?

He's a national politician who is seen as a leader within the Democratic party?  People apparently value his opinions on the way that the party is run

[YE]

What context even allowed him to talk about Obama?

He's a national politician who is seen as a leader within the Democratic party?  People apparently value his opinions on the way that the party is run

Yes, but he went there to honor MLK not Obama so he was obviously diverted off message somehow.

[Del Tachi]

What context even allowed him to talk about Obama?

He's a national politician who is seen as a leader within the Democratic party?  People apparently value his opinions on the way that the party is run

Yes, but he went there to honor MLK not Obama so he was obviously diverted off message somehow.

No he was there to campaign and gain media exposure just like any politician who has ever attended a public event. 

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

These comments were incredibly tone deaf. I am tired of Bernie's grandstanding and judging by his only 20% support in the primaries, it looks like a lot of 2016 Bernie supporters are looking for someone different.

[Jeppe]

Obama was fine but he wasn’t a saint. Criticism should be given when due.

Which is at an event commemorating MLK in a 80% black city?

Is the implication here that Barack Obama should escape criticism because he is Black?  Because that doesn't exactly seem fair to me.   Or would it have been fine if Sanders' criticism came while he was speaking in an 80% White city?

Obama's presidency was definitely a watershed moment for African-Americans and other racial minorities in this country, but if that makes him unsubject to criticism that has absolutely nothing to do with his race then we have to ask how far we really have come.

He was disparaging the country’s first and only black president at an event remembering the work and death of the most famous civil rights icon in America. It’s like speaking at somebody’s funeral and trashing their friend. Not the right time or location.

[JG]

These comments were incredibly tone deaf. I am tired of Bernie's grandstanding and judging by his only 20% support in the primaries, it looks like a lot of 2016 Bernie supporters are looking for someone different.

I think a lot of Sanders 2016 support was more of an anti-Hillary vote than a pro-Bernie one.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

These comments were incredibly tone deaf. I am tired of Bernie's grandstanding and judging by his only 20% support in the primaries, it looks like a lot of 2016 Bernie supporters are looking for someone different.

I think a lot of Sanders 2016 support was more of an anti-Hillary vote than a pro-Bernie one.

i don't agree. I think a lot of people want more progressive policies.

But they want to see it from someone different from Bernie.

[JG]

These comments were incredibly tone deaf. I am tired of Bernie's grandstanding and judging by his only 20% support in the primaries, it looks like a lot of 2016 Bernie supporters are looking for someone different.

I think a lot of Sanders 2016 support was more of an anti-Hillary vote than a pro-Bernie one.

i don't agree. I think a lot of people want more progressive policies.

But they want to see it from someone different from Bernie.

Oh I expressed myself badly. Sorry. I meant, that a lot of people who voted for Bernie in 2016 probably voted for him because he was the only progressive alternative to Hillary. Now that there might be a lot more options, they are looking somewhere else.

[YE]

These comments were incredibly tone deaf. I am tired of Bernie's grandstanding and judging by his only 20% support in the primaries, it looks like a lot of 2016 Bernie supporters are looking for someone different.

I think a lot of Sanders 2016 support was more of an anti-Hillary vote than a pro-Bernie one.

i don't agree. I think a lot of people want more progressive policies.

But they want to see it from someone different from Bernie.

On Atlas? Sure. In most polling? Maybe, given that basically every poll has included Sanders and Warren when I doubt both will be running.

It seems events like these make Atlas hate him and view him as a whiny attention whore who'd get nothing done, a general contradiction from his record in the Senate.  The idea that Bernie was the only one fighting on all the key issues has seem to worn out his welcome a long time ago here.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

These comments were incredibly tone deaf. I am tired of Bernie's grandstanding and judging by his only 20% support in the primaries, it looks like a lot of 2016 Bernie supporters are looking for someone different.

I think a lot of Sanders 2016 support was more of an anti-Hillary vote than a pro-Bernie one.

i don't agree. I think a lot of people want more progressive policies.

But they want to see it from someone different from Bernie.

On Atlas? Sure. In most polling? Maybe, given that basically every poll has included Sanders and Warren when I doubt both will be running.

It seems events like these make Atlas hate him and view him as a whiny attention whore who'd get nothing done, a general contradiction from his record in the Senate.  The idea that Bernie was the only one fighting on all the key issues has seem to worn out his welcome a long time ago here.

atlas is almost 90% white, whereas a dem primary is about 60% white

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

While I can agree with Bernie MLK is being unfairly overlooked at times, it wasn't a smart thing to say.

[Donerail]

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/981878733224185856

sounds like it played well, so yeah, keep on concern trolling

[Rookie Yinzer]

Obama wasn’t perfect but to pretend that a lot of those seats weren’t lost just because the face of the Democratic Party was a black man and nothing else would be intellectually dishonest.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/981878733224185856

sounds like it played well, so yeah, keep on concern trolling

Oh f##k off, you don't have to be a resistance twitter bot to understand that a memorial for MLK is the wrong time to complain about Obama.

These comments were incredibly tone deaf. I am tired of Bernie's grandstanding and judging by his only 20% support in the primaries, it looks like a lot of 2016 Bernie supporters are looking for someone different.

I think a lot of Sanders 2016 support was more of an anti-Hillary vote than a pro-Bernie one.

i don't agree. I think a lot of people want more progressive policies.

But they want to see it from someone different from Bernie.

I'm this.

[Pyro]

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

Oh would you look at that, Sanders was correct about the perilous state of the Democratic Party. Again.

[Torrain]

Oh would you look at that, Sanders was correct about the perilous state of the Democratic Party. Again.

If Bernie Sanders really cared about the Democratic Party, he could at the very least put a (D) after his name. You can't both demand a party reform in your image, while reinforcing your own independence from that same party. It makes no sense.