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To: JohnM who wrote (298144)

5/2/2016 8:42:46 PM

From: koan

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This is only my opinion, but when I read that column that Krugman wrote I was really disappointed in him. He has been a hero of mine for as long as I can remember. But he is spinning an awful lot in that column from a political and logical point of view. I don't know whether he's just naïve about politics or that's a dark side of him that I never saw before?

I do think that Bernie should wind it down and do everything he can to help the Democratic Party and help Hillary get elected. But at the same time I do not understand why all the graciousness has to come from Bernie when Hillary has engaged in no graciousness at all that I can see.

I think both Hillary and Bernie should be held accountable by the Democrats and neither has not been better than the other. They both seem to have gotten caught up in the battle between the two.

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Bernie’s Bad End
May 2, 2016 6:44 am

This is really depressing: Sanders claiming that there will be a contested convention, and suggesting that the nomination fight was rigged. Can someone tell Bernie that he’s in the process of blowing his own chance for a positive legacy?

Here’s how the narrative could have run: although he fell short of actually getting the nomination, Sanders did far better than expected, giving him and his movement a good claim to have a big say in the Democratic agenda for 2016 and perhaps setting the movement up as the party’s future. But to take that position — to turn defeat in the primary into a moral victory — he would have had to accept the will of the voters with grace.

What we’re getting instead is an epic descent into whining. He dismissed Clinton victories driven by black voters as products of the conservative Deep South; he suggested that his defeat in New York was unfair because it was a closed primary (you can argue this case either way, but requiring that you identity as a Democrat to choose the Democratic nominee is hardly voter suppression — arguably caucuses are much further from a democratic process); then, with the big loss in the mid-Atlantic primaries,he has turned to a sort of fact-free complaint that any process under which Bernie Sanders loses is ipso facto unfair, and superdelegates should choose him despite a 3 million vote deficit.

At this point it’s as if Sanders is determined to validate everything liberal skeptics have been saying all along about his unwillingness to face reality — and all of it for, maybe, a few weeks of additional fundraising, at the expense of any future credibility and goodwill. Isn’t there anyone who can tell him to stop before it’s too late?

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