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It’s not really a surprise that Hillary Clinton’s nasty, little, backbiting remarks (“Nobody likes him”) were met with an absolute outpouring of Bernie love. That love of candidate, which is noticeably absent among most politicians’ supporters, is a major element in the Sanders phenomenon.
Also, Bernie’s core support skews young, and by extension internet savvy. And, boom, #I Like Bernie is the number 1 hash tag on twitter.
Also, it’s a great and natural slogan. It worked for Eisenhower, and the comparison between the two men is not far fetched at all. Also, it’s a very positive message, which is in keeping with Bernie’s political philosophy: promote your own programs, don’t talk about your opponents too much.
I admire that in Bernie, because I have a natural tendency to gravitate toward slightly more negative slogans, such as “Joe Biden is a senile old fart, and probably racist” and “Buttigieg was a shit mayor” and “Warren is a backstabbing fucking snake,” which are no less accurate, and I’m not sure which is more effective, but “I like Bernie” is far truer to his essence.
Bernie is a likeable guy. He tells self-deprecating little jokes, he seems perfectly comfortable with babies, and dogs, and cats, he played a long winded rabbi once in a romantic comedy, and he flies coach.
He would never get right up into a reporters face and start screaming, like Biden did.

This latest meltdown from Joe Biden should be getting massive media attention, but it’s not. It happened 24 hours ago, and I’m seeing very little commentary on it. It’s way worse than the “Dean Scream,” which at least made sense, it just seemed a bit over the top.
While Biden was leaving an event in Mason City, Iowa, a reporter asked him “Why are you still attacking Sanders?” (meaning still, after Sanders had apologized for an ad somebody else had made, which took a bit out of a Biden speech where he seemed to be saying he’d cut Social Security, but the film was cut off before the point where he said ‘ha ha, just kidding,’ and which is kind of an understandable misunderstanding because of all those other times that he HAS tried to block, freeze, or raise the minimum age for social security).
Biden, who was almost in the clear, suddenly turned on the reporter and shouted “Why why why why why why why?!” right into his face, and then saying “Calm down, man, you look a little nervous?” Well, first, the reporter didn’t look nervous at all. He was holding his ground and just kept the mike right in Biden’s face.
Secondly, that was a dick move. To shout in somebody’s face like a crazy person and then say “Hey, calm down.” I see that and I am almost certain that Joe Biden was a bully in high school.

This is with regards to a clip I saw a few days ago, from The View. Now, let me state right off the bat that I don’t really object to the premise of The View. Get a handful of minor celebrities together, none of whom are experts on politics, and have them talk about politics. You might not get brilliance, but you’ll hear different points of view, and that’s democracy, right?
The topic was Liz Warren’s accusation of sexism against Bernie Sanders, but we’re all done talking about that now. That’s not what this blog is about.
In the clip, which they replayed on The Young Turks, Meghan McCain made two references to ‘pundants.’ (she also talked about Burning Bros, but that’s a slip of the lip, maybe Freudian, maybe just from talking too fast, and it does not at all negatively reflect on her intelligence.)
But pundant was not a mispronunciation. She said it twice: “Liberal pundants and female conservative pundants like myself.”
That would be cute, if she was just some girl sitting around with her buddies drinking wine and talking politics. But she actually is a pundit. She should know how to spell, and therefore how to pronounce the word.
This is as bad as saying liberry instead of library – even though you happen to be a librarian.
If she didn’t even bother to learn that before going on the show, how can we take her political opinions seriously? She’s clearly a moron.

Hillary Clinton said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, today, hot off the press, that nobody likes Bernie Sanders. Here’s a bit more: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”

Hillary Clinton is delusional. She is also petty, vindictive, bitter, and angry, but, the key point of tonight’s blog is that she’s delusional. People LOVE Bernie. Not only does he routinely get 10 or 20,000 people at his rallies, those people are CRAZY for him. He is THE most popular Senator among his constituents of ANY U.S. Senator.
All sorts of people love Bernie. Young people, old people, people in between. He has inspired us, he has uplifted us, he has united us, and that’s a great feeling.

If she’s talking about just people in the Senate, she’s delusional on two counts. First, he’s fairly popular in congress, from all I’ve heard. Most people say he’s respectful, honest, and pleasant to work with. There is all sorts of documentation of this. I remember seeing one letter from the first lady at the time, Hillary Rodham Clinton, thanking him for all his help trying to get her watered down health care passed. Second, to think it matters whether or not he was liked by his fellow congress people. They are not the ones who select the president. That’s the people. And, if recent polls are any indication, a tsunami of Bernie love is sweeping the country.

I don’t know what Hillary Clinton’s motivations are, but I’m hazarding a guess that her very worst nightmare is that Bernie will win the presidency, and he will get Medicare for All through congress, and then her little “He will never, ever get universal health care” speech will look pretty darned stupid. And that will be her legacy.

It seems to me like a poor choice that the New York Times, the newspaper once know as the paper of record but more recently associated with the weapons of mass destruction deception, which helped start a war, and Judith ‘I don’t think it’s a journalist’s job to question the government’ Miller, has decided to endorse Warren and Klobuchar for the Democratic nomination.
They’re just going to have to pick somebody else in a few weeks.
No matter how the press tries to spin it, the most recent debate, and the day leading up to it, were an absolute disaster for Warren. First, her over reaction to a Bernie staffer suggesting a script for canvassers which was actually not so terribly hostile to Warren at all made her look a bit silly, then the accusation that he’d said ‘a woman can’t win’ which most people realized was bullshit from the get go, and then CNN’s attempt to ambush Bernie with the question and Bernie’s beautiful and simple response, and then her repetition of the charge, then the exchange at the end which may have helped Tom Steyer some but certainly didn’t make her look good.
I don’t know if she lost 5% of her support, or 50%, but it was an amount of support she couldn’t afford to lose as she was already slipping in the polls.
I could be reading the public wrong, I know she’s got a lot of faithful and dedicated fans, but I don’t think she’s going to have over 15% in the Iowa caucuses, and Bernie is going to thrash her in New Hampshire.
Klobuchar (and maybe this is what the NYT is thinking) might be the beneficiary of Warren’s collapse, because it’s either her or Tulsi Gabbard if they want to commit to a woman, and the women who love Elizabeth Warren because they hate Bernie Sanders hate Tulsi Gabbard almost as much. Still, even if Klobuchar were to gain 10 points between now and February, she still wouldn’t clear 15%.
So, the New York Times is just whistling into the wind, and I can’t quite understand why.