Clinton says "nobody likes" Sanders and calls him a "career politician"

[RogueBeaver]

https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1219598119178047488

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1219608345298030595

[bilaps]

Every time she opens her mouth it's a good thing for Sanders and Trump

Hillary of all peple saying nobody likes him. LOL. Nobody likes you, moron.

[Horus]

Hillary is a great surrogate for Bernie.

[free my dawg]

All this is because Hillary thought she was entitled to the presidency. As I've been saying before, there is no figure more childish and entitled in politics than Hillary Clinton, and this only serves to prove my point.

Also glad to see her out herself as a racist, but we all knew that from 2008.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho

[Lambsbread]

Damn, I wish I could live rent free in my apartment the way Bernie does in Hillary's head.

[Cinemark]

Every time she opens her mouth it's a good thing for Sanders and Trump

Hillary of all peple saying nobody likes him. LOL. Nobody likes you, moron.

Lots of people like Hillary, which is why her comments are unhelpful. Party unity will be incredibly important come November and we cant afford to relitigate the 2016 primary every couple of months.

[free my dawg]

If anything, the good people of Iowa agree with me, so I'm not overly worried. If anything, this anti-endorsement helps us.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Every time she opens her mouth it's a good thing for Sanders and Trump

Hillary of all peple saying nobody likes him. LOL. Nobody likes you, moron.

And yet he lost to her ass by 4 million votes. LOL.

Handwringing over this is as pathetic as the Bernie Bros like jfern who handwringed over Hillary being a Goldwater Girl.

Yall are sensitive as hell. And I'm supposed to believe you all prepared to take the $1 billion worth of hits coming from the GOP and right wing media? LOL.

If you think that's bad, you should listen to the way you talk about Liz Warren.

Receipts please.

I don’t blindly stan Elizabeth Warren the way y’all write every criticism of Bernie off as an attack perpetuated by the corporate media. Other than the view on social issues there’s not much daylight between y’all and the sycophant Trump supporters.

[free my dawg]

Also funny how she calls Bernie a career politician when the party literally gift-wrapped her a Senate seat.

[Lambsbread]

I just donated to Bernie, thanks for reminding me to do so, Hillary!

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Hillary Clinton, nearly four years after a bitter race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, blasted her former primary opponent Bernie Sanders, claiming in a new interview that “nobody likes” him and that Sanders has achieved nothing during his time as a senator from Vermont.

“Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done,” Clinton told the Hollywood Reporter as a part of the upcoming Hulu documentary on the former secretary of state. “He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”

Clinton also declined to say whether she would endorse or campaign for Sanders, a leading contender in the current 2020 primary race, if he were to clinch the Democratic nomination to run against President Donald Trump. “I’m not going to go there yet,” she said.

The stinging remarks were roundly condemned on the left, even by Clinton supporters, many of whom expressed confusion as to why she’d seek to relitigate the 2016 primary and potentially sow more divisions ahead of the fast-approaching Iowa caucus.

Mother Jones

Something tells me that if Sanders wouldn't commit to supporting the nominee, that wouldn't sit well with certain folks here.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Finally someone with some clarity about all this Sanders BS.

[Sir Mohamed]

Every losing candidate has made comments after losing an election. In Al Gore's case, who also won the NPV, it was welcomed. Why the double standard? Why is she supposed to stay silent? Isn't HRC entitled to voice her opinions?

[free my dawg]

Glad to see the rousing endorsement for Bernie 2 weeks before Iowa.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Every losing candidate has made comments after losing an election. In Al Gore's case, who also won the NPV, it was welcomed. Why the double standard? Why is she supposed to stay silent? Isn't HRC entitled to voice her opinions?

She's a woman. That's obviously still a problem for some Americans, as indicated by the thread title.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Say what you want about him, but if Sanders were a quintessential "career politician", he wouldn't have been openly embracing socialism when it was essentially a political career-killer.

[Cinemark]

For the first time in close to 40 years, Hillary is free to be as candid and open as she damn well pleases. Do I think its helpful? no. But I cant fault for saying what she thinks.

[brucejoel99]

"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," Clinton told the Hollywood Reporter as a part of the upcoming Hulu documentary on the former secretary of state. "He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

I see no lies here.

And something tells me that if Hillary was a man, "certain folks here" would want her to "STFU" much, much less than they currently do.

#StillWithHer

[free my dawg]

Say what you want about him, but if Sanders were a quintessential "career politician", he wouldn't have been openly embracing socialism when it was essentially a political career-killer.

Funny how Bernie's the career politician when the DNC literally gift-wrapped her a Senate seat in a state she had no connections to.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," Clinton told the Hollywood Reporter as a part of the upcoming Hulu documentary on the former secretary of state. "He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

I see no lies here.

He's part of the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership team and was chairman of the Veteran's Affairs Committee where he worked with John McCain to co-author a bill on veteran's health, so it's obviously untrue that no-one likes Sanders or wants to work with him. Clinton is projecting her own feelings onto Sanders' colleagues in the Senate with whom he gets on fairly well.

https://twitter.com/Matt_Kiser/status/1104816694738984960?s=20

[free my dawg]

Every losing candidate has made comments after losing an election. In Al Gore's case, who also won the NPV, it was welcomed. Why the double standard? Why is she supposed to stay silent? Isn't HRC entitled to voice her opinions?

She's absolutely entitled to do so. That would be incongruent with my personal beliefs, especially as someone who referred to Bernie's apology as "major cuck energy". Luckily, we have the freedom to criticize what she's saying.

As do the Pod Save America guys and Paul Krugman.

[DrScholl]

He has a reputation of being difficult to work with and thinking that his way is the only way. His supporters think he is this super nice person for some reason and they have zero evidence to support that.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Preach Hillary! Bernie doesn't know how to coalition build, enforces insane purity tests, and hates the Democratic Party. He would be a terrible and ineffective President and a disaster for Democrats down ballot who would have to defend his ridiculous policies that he can't pay for. There was NO Bernie Sanders backed candidate that flipped a seat from red to blue in 2018. PERIODT.

[Lambsbread]

I know a lot of Bernie supporters who voted for Hillary in 2016 (I was one of them) and have committed to voting for the Democratic nominee in 2020, no matter what. And, just speaking for myself here, I did that because I see the bigger picture, understand the implications of electing Donald Trump, and do not see an equivalence between someone like Hillary or Biden and Trump. I understand that, given the choice, being marginally better than the worst man to ever run for President is better than nothing at all.

That being said, I don't think Hillary appreciates how many of Bernie's supporters voted for her for the same reasons, nor does she appreciate the work Bernie did to try and garner her as much support from his base as possible. It goes without saying that he and Hillary are about as ideologically divergent as two candidates for the Democratic nomination have ever been. And he still did the work to get her elected because he saw the same conundrum I saw.

So those leaping to Hillary's defense here have to understand why this is so particularly out of line; many, many Bernie supporters fell in line for Hillary in 2016 despite our extreme ideological differences. She has been unwilling for 4 years to do the same or even so much as express gratitude that Bernie worked to try and bridge that gap. She has always been caustic in her language speaking about him, as if all he did was ruthlessly, relentlessly attack her for no reason and never worked to get her elected.

I am still committed to vote blue no matter who, but I fail to see the more centrist Democrats on here commit to the same sentiment should Bernie get the nomination. I always see people say "well Bernie isn't a real Democrat anyway" as if that's any justification for overruling the voice of the Democratic electorate (should they choose to make him the nominee) and hand a second term to Donald Trump. Remember how pissed people got at Howard Schultz when he was thinking of running as a third party candidate?

The point here is that the far left has been as patient and acquiescent to the will of the Democratic establishment as possible given the gap in ideologies; the reverse has not been true. The moderate wing sees the far left as the same kind of threat that the far right sees them as; this is about as politically volatile as anything the right is doing. Either we unite as a party under the banner of the candidate our voters choose, or we accept Trump's re-election. And if Joe Biden is the nominee, I'll be damned if I'm not making calls or knocking on doors for him. I expect the same to be true if Bernie is the nominee. And if you consider yourself a Democrat but will not agree to that absolutely imperative compromise, then it is you who is not a real Democrat.