Bernie Sanders Says He’s Already STARTED Writing His Inaugural Address

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This is a preview of the eighth installment of '16 And President, the Huffington Post series that takes you behind the scenes for a day in the life on the campaign trail with the candidates running for president.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- He may be a big underdog against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hasn't let the challenging odds stop him from drafting what would be his first speech as president.

During an interview this week on a jam-packed day of campaign events around the New Hampshire Seacoast region, HuffPost asked the 2016 Democratic White House contender if he’s been preparing himself mentally for the possibility that he could become president.

“Have I started writing my inauguration speech, as opposed to the speech I have to give tomorrow?” Sanders replied. “Look, the answer is yes. It is a very sobering thing to be thinking about oneself as president of the United States and the enormous responsibilities that go with that.”

Though he trails Clinton in the polls nationally and in every other state, Sanders has led the former secretary of state in several recent New Hampshire surveys.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-inaugural-address_5672f21ce4b0648fe30284a6?utm_hp_ref=16-and-president

[thereismore]

1. Oh FFS he said yes to the actual question, not to his paraphrase of the question.

Jesus Christ on a hitch.

[Nonhlanhla]

2. Well, he does make the same speech over and over...

So I guess he wil just repeat his standard stump speech on inauguration day?



Just kidding. I actually like a lot of what he says.

[NCTraveler]

3. Years ago.

He is the career politician in the race.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. nt

[Cassiopeia]

6. Unless you support Clinton

then it's good to post poll after poll after poll counting all those chickens.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Clinton started writing her inaugural address? nt

[Cassiopeia]

10. I read here on DU every few minutes that Bernie can't win.

I won't claim HRC is writing her inaugural address, but her supporters preach that it's already over before a single vote has been cast.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. There's a difference between some random supporters posting polls on an anonymous message board

and the candidate himself writing his inaugural address.

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16. Those claims are repeated on a daily basis....

throughout the board threads.......the Hillary campaign are trying to control the primary by running out the game clock and win by default. I've never seen a candidate drift so far away from their previously held positions than Hillary Clinton. She has mirrored Bernie's positions in order to fudge a progressive image in the eyes of many. A very tailored maneuver. But her positions will drift back to center-right IF she is anointed with the Democratic nomination.

[bahrbearian]

11. In 2008

[hobbit709]

12. She probably had hers written for her by her sponsors.

[Myrina]

19. ... but the details will change depending on the focus group, and anticipated audience ...

n/t

[catnhatnh]

21. I'm quite sure she's finished it...

...long before the start of this election cycle.

[Gamecock Lefty]

5. Poor Bernie

He's got nothing else to do while his poll numbers remain stagnant.

[sufrommich]

8. I'm trying to imagine the epic level of outrage this

would have provoked here if you replaced "Sanders" with "Clinton". The collective hair fire would be a five alarmer.

[Flying Squirrel]

22. While that's true

He said "yes" to the original question of whether he had been doing any mental preparation, not to his own rhetorical paraphrasing of the question. Anyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty can see that, but some people will insist that he really claimed to be writing his inauguration speech just because one bad reporter decided to take it that way knowing it would be a sensational thing to report.

But I will grant you that there are those on my side who would have been similarly happy to misconstrue Hillary's words if she had said the same thing.

[MineralMan]

9. OK, but has he started writing his endorsement speech

for Hillary yet? There's still plenty of time. Over two months, actually. It'll be a snap, too, since it needn't be very long.

[redstateblues]

14. he'll need a concession speech

if not for the primary for the GE There will not be a Socialist President

[sonofspy777]

15. Actually

It will be 0 words because he won't be giving one.

[MineralMan]

18. Oh, OK...

[workinclasszero]

17. No comment

To spare a hide but...

Well bless your heart Bernie. Heh

[Agnosticsherbet]

20. A brief history of hubristic drape-measuring

A brief history of hubristic drape-measuring
October 25, 2008 @ 12:52 pm · Filed by Ben Zimmer under Idioms, Language and politics


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In Thursday's Washington Post, Richard Leiby digs into the background of a political cliche: "measuring (for) drapes." In his stump speech, John McCain says that "Senator Obama is measuring the drapes," meaning that he is already presumptuously planning how to decorate the White House. President Bush used the line about Congressional Democrats before the 2006 midterm elections, and Bush the elder applied it to Bill Clinton in the 1992 campaign. Leiby took the drape expression back to a 1980 reference in the New York Times on John Anderson ("Obviously, it's much too soon for Mr. Anderson to start measuring for drapes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue&quot , but its roots actually go back for several decades before that, as befits such a sturdy cliche.

The expression turns up with drapes or curtains used interchangeably, which may offend interior decorators ("Drapes are pleated and are more formal, whereas curtains are informal and generally gathered," says Well Dressed Windows), but the distinction matters not a stitch to most of us. Putting up new drapes (or curtains) in the White House has traditionally been seen as an appropriate task for a new First Lady, along with picking out china patterns and other domestic busywork. (Jacqueline Kennedy was perhaps the most famous White House decorator, and on Jan. 17, 1961 Helen Thomas of the UPI noted that Mrs. Kennedy "brushed aside questions about fashion but said she already has ordered fabric for curtains and slipcovers at the White House and the Kennedy weekend home at Middleburg, Va.&quot .

An early example of a hubristic First Lady-in-waiting was Martha Taft, wife of Senator Robert Taft, the early favorite for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination. Martha spoke too soon in February 1940, since her husband didn't even manage to get the party nod, losing out to Wendell Wilkie:

It's and old article, but it applies to this.