Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton For President

Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton For President

Clinton has already secured the majority of pledged delegates, making her nomination all but official.

07/12/2016 11:28 am ET
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president.
“Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that,” Sanders said. “She will be the Democratic nominee for president and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.”
Sanders thanked those who voted for him during the Democratic primary, especially the people of New Hampshire ― where he got his first primary win ― and his home state of Vermont. He also warned against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, arguing the business mogul would be bad for working families.
Clinton has already secured the majority of pledged delegates, making her nomination all but official.  
A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders was initially seen as a non-threat to Clinton’s path to the White House. But the senator’s progressive message, focused on righting the wrongs of economic inequality, struck a chord with many voters.
Sanders picked up an early win in New Hampshire, a victory few pundits would have predicted months earlier. One month later, he stunned with a victory in Michigan, despite polls showing a huge lead for Clinton. That win, apparently bolstered by Sanders’ criticism of U.S. trade policy, emboldened his campaign to gun for the rest of the Midwest.
“These states in the Midwest are going to respond to us and our message in the same way Michigan workers did, and that is, ‘We need an economy that works for all of us and not just the 1 percent,’” Sanders said.
Clinton swept the March 15 primaries, however, winning Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. And as she continued to dominate in big states, Sanders struggled to keep up in the delegate count.
Nevertheless, Sanders held on. While Clinton took home most of the delegates in big states like Pennsylvania and New York, Sanders had a series of wins in smaller states from the end of March through mid-May. But while it remained nearly impossible for Sanders to overtake Clinton in the pledged delegate count, he vowed to stay in the race until the convention, hoping to flip unpledged superdelegates to his side.
After Donald Trump became the GOP’s presumptive nominee, Sanders hoped to convince voters he’d have a better chance at defeating the hotel magnate in November’s general election. But as primary season came to a close, Clinton still came out on top in the delegate race. 
Bernie Sanders’ candidacy was far more successful than many pundits expected.

Sanders announced his presidential bid in April 2015, touting himself as a progressive alternative to the perceived inevitability of a Clinton nomination.
“People should not underestimate me,” Sanders told The Associated Press. “I’ve run outside of the two-party system, defeating Democrats and Republicans, taking on big-money candidates and, you know, I think the message that has resonated in Vermont is a message that can resonate all over this country.”
The senator gained momentum throughout the summer and fall, picking up a host of big-name endorsements including former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, economist Thomas Piketty and celebrities like Killer Mike, Spike Lee and Sarah Silverman.
Throughout the campaign, Sanders sought to convince voters that Clinton was too beholden to corporate interests to adequately represent working-class Americans, pointing to donations from Wall Street executives. He also pressed Clinton to release the transcripts of lucrative speeches she made to Goldman Sachs. Clinton, in turn, accused the senator of smear tactics, denying donations had influenced her policy positions.
Clinton and Sanders also frequently tussled over issues like health policy and gun violence. However, the key difference between the two candidates was one of vision. HuffPost’s Jonathan Cohn explained:

Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were really arguing over something very basic.
Can the next president eliminate, or at least weaken substantially, the political obstacles that block a liberal agenda?
Sanders thinks the answer is yes. Clinton thinks the answer is no.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton_us_56e98f60e4b0b25c91841bdd

eddie wrote:I think Veya summed it up well, above:

OMG...yet again - relying on a mocked meme unproven/non-fact checked/BS satire image that this blogger uses for his tweeter account and because Veya assumes it's FACTUAL and strikes his fancy ---

Well, we've been down this road with some of Didgey-dooer's blogger/'Faux Media' BS claims as well. 
Nothing I can do but SMH and think; it doesn't really matter what HRC thinks/says or does - you'd rather believe the fake/lies and hyperbole then facts/truth and what she stands for and what she's done in her life! 
Small minds and equally smaller minded mean people always believe the 'talking points and never bother with TRUTH'!

Psssssst ...BTW, that's not a VEYA quoted image; he didn't make - he didn't design it - all he did was a C & P and pulled the satire/joke/meme in there for commentary!  

eddie wrote:How come you will all readily, and easily, and greedily gobble up "facts" (stuff you've pulled from somewhere) about Trump then?

SERIOUSLY ???   

You don't think I haven't been following that 'cheeto - Jesus' since he's such a infamous blow hard - mega mouth - ran for the presidency twice before? 
Informed adults, stay informed and his putrid ignorant arse has been cussed and discussed since the internet has been up & operational - you British are just in your infancy with the knowledge and know how ...we've been using it for 16+ years.   

eddie wrote:Les I am not disputing who's the lesser of the two evils, I'm merely pointing out that because people want to vote for Hilary, (best choice of two perhaps, but who really knows?), they simply won't admit that Hilary is a bag of lying crap.

> "I often don't read what you post or the entire post - my bad"...because here's a PRIME EXAMPLE :
I've posted numerous times that your morality bar for expectations and your standard for what you CLAIM is a lie and what I've read - what I've heard her state and her marriage has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH HER CAMPAIGN ...just keeps getting a memory dump when you move on to some other topic for your superior reading skills!
I've explained - Quills Explained ...and you just toddle off and return later to regurgitate the same BS question and opinion as if we haven't clarified that to you many - many times before --- now whose got the listening/reading problems  

eddie wrote:Didn't you fancy taking on Les? He thinks the same as me.

Hmmm, Les...doesn't seem to be flooding the forum with a another self-anointed bloviated 'why don't people listen' topic when you have been so self-absorbed and abused the very same issue that irritates you about the REST OF US.
Your cross of many woes seems to be self-inflicted with those same sorry assed problems that you enjoy finger pointing to your subjects.  

And Frankly - my attempting to have an ADULT DISCUSSION with you about our election has begun to feel like a irksome exchange with Tommykins -     

4EVER2 wrote:

eddie wrote:I think Veya summed it up well, above:

OMG...yet again - relying on a mocked meme unproven/non-fact checked/BS satire image that this blogger uses for his tweeter account and because Veya assumes it's FACTUAL and strikes his fancy ---

Well, we've been down this road with some of Didgey-dooer's blogger/'Faux Media' BS claims as well. 
Nothing I can do but SMH and think; it doesn't really matter what HRC thinks/says or does - you'd rather believe the fake/lies and hyperbole then facts/truth and what she stands for and what she's done in her life! 
Small minds and equally smaller minded mean people always believe the 'talking points and never bother with TRUTH'!

Psssssst ...BTW, that's not a VEYA quoted image; he didn't make - he didn't design it - all he did was a C & P and pulled the satire/joke/meme in there for commentary!  

Summary of eRumor:

As a 27-year-old working on the Watergate investigation in the 1970s, Hillary Rodham Clinton was “fired” from her position for being a “liar” and “unethical”.

The Truth:

It’s true that Hillary Clinton’s ex-boss has accused her of being a “liar” and “unethical” during the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry into Watergate, but claims that she was fired for those reasons are false.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/clinton-watergate/

The case reemerged in 2014 after conservative news site The Washington Free Beacon published what have become known as the “Hillary Tapes,” in which Clinton can be heard discussing the case and how her client had passed a polygraph “which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs” in a 1980 interview.

The victim of the alleged 1975 rape told the Daily Beast that Hillary Clinton had “took me through hell” in a 2014 interview:

Hillary Clinton took me through Hell,” the victim said. The Daily Beast agreed to withhold her name out of concern for her privacy as a victim of sexual assault.

The victim said if she saw Clinton today, she would call her out for what she sees as the hypocrisy of Clinton’s current campaign to fight for women’s rights compared to her actions regarding this rape case so long ago.

“I would say [to Clinton], ‘You took a case of mine in ’75, you lied on me… I realize the truth now, the heart of what you’ve done to me. And you are supposed to be for women? You call that [being] for women, what you done to me? And I hear you on tape laughing.”

The victim’s allegation that Clinton smeared her following her rape is based on a May 1975 court affidavit written by Clinton on behalf of Thomas Alfred Taylor, one of the two alleged attackers, whom Clinton agreed to defend after being asked by the prosecutor. Taylor had specifically requested a female attorney.

Allegations about how Hillary Clinton portrayed the victim proved to be mostly true when an affidavit filed by Clinton in the case was made public:
https://www.truthorfiction.com/hillary-clinton-freed-rapist-laughed/

4EVER2 wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:
100's of million in donations staight out of her husbands Presidency

“…the fundamental bedrock principle that [marriage] exists between a man and a woman, going back into the midst of history as one of the founding, foundational institutions of history and humanity and civilization, and that its primary, principal role during those millennia has been the raising and socializing of children for the society into which they are to become adults.”   Yipper, HRC and a whole lot of out spoken political leaders were still SOS {stuck on stupid} about the equality for ALL AMERICANS to marry; that's how deeply ingrained their faith was ...you seem to think those people with deeply seated faith could just 'LIE/FAKE Their Response' to make you happy? Often the method takes some evolution and this like accepting GLBT has been an evolution - but you don't live here, you just pull some MeMe's off of your twitter/FB page without doing any FACT CHECKING and amuse yourself with ..."see this image tells me what I NEED TO KNOW", when you've done ZERO LEG WORK FOR PROVING ANY OF IT. 
You behave like a sock puppet and want to get pissed at me because I don't fall all over your foolishness - and that's all you have - stupid images that repeat more stupid false info and you fall for it. 
CONGRATS

And 4 eva still nothing good posted about her  you've obviously missed a couple of my posts, but that's OK, your bizarre rants are quite amusing - full of BS, but quite amusing!

Nothing that even remotely qualifes her as leader of the free world.

Trump is shit, Hilliary is just as shit.
the LW in the USA disgust me with their hillshepherd behaviour and compelete lack of will to get a decent leader.

Both sides just believe the the Bullshit of their own highly partisian media, Vote for her by all means But Dont feel any smarter than the Moron that votes for Trump. You are being MORE obviously played by the corrupt.

she already says as much nonsense as Trump.

rank and File? BULLSHIT! she was not even a politican at all until she forgave Bill for monica then got posted unopposed to the SAFE senate seat of new york, she is the literal OPPOSTIE of working through the ranks.

She is not standing up to Scrutiny at all!!! except to completely rusted on party hacks, no one esle is looking at her struggle with the truth and saying she is handling it well. they are saying liar, so obviously a liar.

Like this LIE

She's done jack shit, Zero Progress and as Les points out Clearly a bandwagon jumper when she thinks it is politically savy to do, a more fake and phony person you could hardly make up.

This should aleviate all of your stress and issues about 'MY' choice that 'I' have to make about 'MY FUTURE POTUS'

Veya will not have a vote in our Nov. 2nd election
Les   will not have a vote in our Nov. 2nd election
Eddie will not have a vote in our Nov.2nd election

And since 'I' do my research and 'I' keep abreast of the rightful person to chose for my POTUS and there isn't such a thing as a PERFECT CANDIDATE, my vote has always gone for the best qualified - best of the people put forth and the best options for my country ...will I vote for HRC =  
BTW - getting nasty/ugly about 'MY OPTIONS & OPINION & VOTE' only makes your position that much weaker and your opinion that much more redundant so leave off doing so Veya ...it doesn't gain you any points in a discussion. OK?

4EVER2 wrote:
But look how well you 2 work and play together over a LOAD OF BS  

veya_victaous wrote:Eddie is correct

Don't Agree on much....... But this is fucking obvious            

eddie wrote:Well it's the only thing Veya and I agree on at the moment due to the fact he's going stark raving mad.

But 4ever, would you really be voting for her if there were any other option?

Granted you do seem to have that selective memory problem; but I've been riding this campaign program for well over 2+ years and just joined this lovely den of weirdness and happy folks in Feb. and between Ben - Quill - and I, we've kicked around & discussed several of our 'would rather see' type of potentials standing up there for our final choices!   Where were you in all of THOSE DISCUSSIONS?

  SWEET JESUS - you and VEYA are Boring as FUCK!  

eddie wrote:I love it when you tell me off

So like Didgey-dooer you're just GOADING me with your twisting my clearly stated opinions around to something that I've never stated nor hinted at ...in order to continue this ration of utter shit or you're trying to push buttons to find my 'final straw' and see if you can shove me over the mental edge like Didgey-dooer ends up?