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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sanders Returns: "It's Not Just About Me," Clinton Will Have To Change Her Platform To Earn My Suppo [View all]
Sanders Returns: "It's Not Just About Me," Clinton Will Have To Change Her Platform To Earn My Support
By Tim Hains
Posted on April 22, 2016
In his first interview since losing the New York primary to Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders sets the record straight about calls for him to drop out of the race or "tone down" his rhetoric. First, he will continue fighting until the convention no matter what. Second, if he is going to endorse Hillary at any point down the road, she will have to adopt significant portions of his platform.
"It is not just about me, it has never just been about me," Sanders told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Thursday.
"Well, first of all, I 've got to find out what her platform is," Sanders said about the possibility of an endorsement. "What the views are that she is going to be bringing forth, to what degree she will adopt many of the ideas that I think are extremely popular and I think very sensible."
"It is a two-way street. I want to see the Democratic party have the courage to stand up to big money interests in a way that they have not in the past, take on the drug companies, take on Wall Street, take on the fossil fuel industry, and I want to see them come up with ideas that really do excite working families and young people in this country," Sanders said....
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Sanders Returns: "It's Not Just About Me," Clinton Will Have To Change Her Platform To Earn My Suppo [View all]
think
Apr 2016
OP
Was that "Trade Treaty" approved by 3/4 of the Senate? IF not it is not a treaty.
Vincardog
Apr 2016
#218
Would that be harder or easier to get out of than the Geneva Conventions W abrogated?
Vincardog
Apr 2016
#222
LOL!....Bernie, the candidate of 'US and WE' versus Hillary, the candidate of 'ME and I'....
Segami
Apr 2016
#12
No. Another invention. We're not buying and not debating the pure fabrications.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2016
#17
I donated to other Democratic candidates because Bernie's campaign sent an email asking me to. n/t
femmedem
Apr 2016
#85
My mother taught me to Look Away when someone is making a fool of themselves in public.
bvar22
Apr 2016
#177
Consider the name: "salinsky". A very popular online username among a certain set of voters.
ieoeja
Apr 2016
#70
Are you kidding? He didn't want to run for president and waited for a long time to see if
Blue Meany
Apr 2016
#35
Warren is not running because she has an important agenda that is better served ...
salinsky
Apr 2016
#49
You have no clue why Warren isn't running. Please stop pretending to read minds.
merrily
Apr 2016
#73
Here are two of the many statements I found that essentially say the same thing. But anyway,
Squinch
Apr 2016
#96
I would have ended it with the one and only reply I made to the poster, if you had not chimed in.
merrily
Apr 2016
#98
“I’m not running and I’m not going to run,” she said. “I’m in Washington. I’ve got this really ...
salinsky
Apr 2016
#107
It is phatic. She had to say something. Do you think everyone who asks "How are you doing?" really
merrily
Apr 2016
#108
I stated my position, which is different from yours. That is no different from what you are
merrily
Apr 2016
#112
By what measure? Another slime if you can't come up with evidence of dishonesty?
snowy owl
Apr 2016
#117
It has never been about him, and the proof is if he wanted to profit off of
Jackie Wilson Said
Apr 2016
#152
I just find it hard to believe that Bernie would believe anything Hillary says, at this point.
djean111
Apr 2016
#2
She would have to do more than adopt specific aspects of his platform to convince me
swilton
Apr 2016
#37
Well, Bernie stated that he would support Hillary if he only knew what she stood for.
Major Hogwash
Apr 2016
#183
No he isn't, he was responding to a question designed to elicit that response.
CentralCoaster
Apr 2016
#10
I think you've nailed it. My first reaction was "WHAT HUBRIS!" but looking through a longer lens
MADem
Apr 2016
#72
He can be "in it to the Convention" but if she wins on the first ballot, and it's likely that she
MADem
Apr 2016
#161
So candidate Carpetbagger is going to play hard to get, eh? The people that voted during the
SFnomad
Apr 2016
#9
Well he is a democrat but many people are finding the 'he's no democrat' a plus given their well
haikugal
Apr 2016
#33
When you said "candidate Carpetbagger" I thought you were referring to the former Senator from NY
corkhead
Apr 2016
#64
After 7 years you're hardly a carpetbagger anymore. How long has BS been a Democrat? 15-20 mins? n/t
SFnomad
Apr 2016
#68
Note to independents/third parties: don't caucus with Dems. Sounds like a winning strategy! n/t
That Guy 888
Apr 2016
#93
Secretary Clinton has had a house in NY for 16 years now ... she has ties to NY
SFnomad
Apr 2016
#103
No. It is Mrs. Alan Greenspan. Her husband was a key perpetrator of the Great Recession
FlatBaroque
Apr 2016
#36
Isn't it misogynist to imply that a woman can't think differently than her husband?
Dem2
Apr 2016
#113
LOL--He's saying "It's not about ME, but if you don't do what I WANT, I'm going to take all my
MADem
Apr 2016
#28
You don't think he was making threats himself? Still the same old I'm-not-a-Dem gadfly...
Hekate
Apr 2016
#87
I don't dispute that the Dems made a deal with him--they even put him on their ballot.
MADem
Apr 2016
#172
If you want my support you have to earn it. Sounds very reasonable to me.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2016
#30
Too bad. I was hoping he wouldn't go full tilt into the role of an angry and bitter old codger.
procon
Apr 2016
#39
Yeah, I bet you were hoping. I bet you might even vote for Bernie if it weren't for his supporters
corkhead
Apr 2016
#52
lol,how about your old war horse screaming non stop? I like how her eye twitches when she's angry
wendylaroux
Apr 2016
#66
May I remind you that Hillary is ONLY 5 years younger than Bernie and Bernie is in better health.
jillan
Apr 2016
#101
Try that message with the Superdelegates you need and let us know how it works out
brooklynite
Apr 2016
#50
Clinton is not stupid. If she becomes the nominee, you will see incorporation
JimDandy
Apr 2016
#131
So tired of those myself, even when prepared for them. That's why I don't think I will even have it
JimDandy
Apr 2016
#164
This is pretty disappointing. He wants to run on the Democratic ticket, but
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2016
#74
Any candidate who is for war and fracking and the TPP and means-testing Social Security
djean111
Apr 2016
#205
If even 1% of Bernie's Ideals make it into a Clinton Platform it will probably have been worth
The_Casual_Observer
Apr 2016
#80
That's already happened. Clinton became his doppelganger months ago and has already appropriating
JimDandy
Apr 2016
#130
She would have to demonstrate NOW that she is serious about election integrity.
lagomorph777
Apr 2016
#97
"I 've got to find out what her platform is" Who the hell supports such ignorance? WOW.
bettyellen
Apr 2016
#100
That was a great side swipe by Sanders at the Weathervaner's weekly changes in policy.
JimDandy
Apr 2016
#127
Meh. Bernie will endorse Hillary. He's not going to end his career by helping Trump get elected.
Nye Bevan
Apr 2016
#109
I'm familiar with the reality of Hill's deck stacking, game rigging and string pulling.
senz
Apr 2016
#189
This post more than others has evoked the absence of integrity in Clinton supporters.
snowy owl
Apr 2016
#120
She'd have to change her (political) DNA to earn my support. IOW, it's not possible for her. nt
Romulox
Apr 2016
#136
Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be not only a liar and a cheat, but incompetent to boot.
AzDar
Apr 2016
#150
Clintons platform is the win and what is getting the votes. So, Sanders renigs. Insists, demands
seabeyond
Apr 2016
#180
Then she will have to do it without the Bern. This sounds like a threat and not good to supers. nt
Jitter65
Apr 2016
#186
She sure does. If he doesn't win, he needs to move her as far to the left as he can
silvershadow
Apr 2016
#201