Comments on: It’s Time for Bernie Sanders to Step Down

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:59:00 +0000

In reply to Heather Hastie. Went on a municipal trip in lieu of a proper honeymoon is the case. He has joked about it ever since. I do agree that writing bad porn is inexcusable though.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:40:13 +0000

In reply to Ken. The latest results on CNN have Clinton at 63.5% in California. This is not the close vote Sanders supporters were expecting.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:24:04 +0000

In reply to Martin Fuller. The one I'd like a serious journalist to look into is the allegation that Trump is funding some of the protests against him. The fact that someone can even suggest that and people take it seriously says something about the race.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:21:01 +0000

In reply to Ken. I don't know all the details of Bernie's trips to the USSR, though I heard he went there on honeymoon, which isn't necessarily a problem. I've always thought it would be an interesting country to visit, and I thought that before 1989. j.a.m. is right about Bernie earning a living as a porn writer, though I've never read it personally so can't confirm it.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 02:49:43 +0000

In reply to j.a.m.. My latest theory is that you continue to post your bullshit in the hope that the rest of us will get bored countering it, so that you might actually succeed in misleading someone. So it is with your pathetic slander of Sanders' trip as mayor of Burlington to a sister city in the Soviet Union. That says much more about you than it does him.

By: rose

rose — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 02:38:48 +0000

Hey maybe he could be vice president.He does need to step down .

By: j.a.m.

j.a.m. — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 01:56:14 +0000

Sanders definitely should milk it while he may. After all, he’s devoted his whole life to lost causes, like the losing side of the Cold War. Most people know nothing about him but his dream honeymoon touring the gulags and his undistinguished try at writing smut. Forty-eight hours after he quits he’ll be deservedly forgotten — and no one does amnesia better than the Clintons.

By: Dennis Mitton

Dennis Mitton — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 01:20:14 +0000

I like Bernie in the race. The office of president is nothing but a chapter title for the next political book. Society moves just as culture pushes it, thus President Obama ‘evolves’ on same-sex marriage else he is steamrolled by culture. Every now and then someone comes along and pokes a stick in the spokes and the wheels stop spinning. This time around we have two – Trump and Sanders. I think Sanders would make a fine president who will never ever accomplish anything. Trump is pure entertainment. I think Bernie should continue to run just for himself. He’s drawing good crowds and enjoying himself. He’s more relevant than any other candidate. I say let him have his time in the sun.

As always Heather – thanks for provoking and promoting thoughts.

By: Jenny Haniver

Jenny Haniver — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 01:14:32 +0000

In reply to Martin Fuller. Then there are those Republicans who, not so tongue in cheek, speculate that Trump is really a plant working for the Clintons.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:46:03 +0000

Thankfully, Bernie will ignore your advice, Heather, and continue to the convention, just as Hillary ignored similar advice in 2008. Even if there were not the critical discussion still to be completed before delegate votes are cast about who will be the better candidate against Trump, Bernie needs to ensure the other important business at the convention, about rules, about the platform, are approached from a position of maximum strength. He needs to ensure Hillary stays on as much of a progressive path as is possible for her, and would be politically stupid to do anything else.