[ek_hornbeck]

The senator’s standard stump speech – a call for political revolution – does not include much specifically aimed at Latino or African-American voters. Asked specifically what he’s done for black Americans Saturday, he cited his vote for Obamacare. Asked to offer concrete proposals on what he’d do to help blacks if elected, he initially responded: “We’re going to transform the economic system so we create millions of new jobs.” The generalities only made the protesters angrier. “I want Bernie Sanders to say my name,” they chanted as the senator tried to speak. The event went so off the rails that the moderator abruptly ended it 15 minutes early. “Okay, good,” said a peeved Sanders. He then skipped a scheduled meeting with black activists.

In other words, it's not enough to support policies that benefit black and hispanic people if those policies also benefit poor whites. To be a pro at the race pandering game and a real player in the Democratic Party, you have to talk about policies that SOLELY benefit blacks and hispanics at the expense of whites. Bernie needs to learn to play the rules of this game if he wants to compete with Hillary. Same with Mark O'Malley, who got into the hot seat a few days ago for daring to suggest that non-black lives might matter too.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Daily 202: Bernie’s base problems

It's all about the base, about the base. No? Trouble!

[C. Edmund Wright]

So the socialist Hispanics and blacks prefer the old white quasi socialist woman to the old white socialist man? Hmmm......

[KC_Conspirator]

Oh yes, the northeastern liberal, who are the whitiest white of the whitey whites, now being asked to pander. Sadly, this country at one time had not elected a northeastern liberal since FDR, but I am afraid my once sensible country is going to commit suicide.

[cripplecreek]

This is an issue that really deserves more attention from the media. Its completely insane that democrats are now expected to specifically exclude whites.

Its no different than declaring that Aryan lives matter and everybody else needs to shut the hell up.

[mrsmel]

That’s how it is, in our brave new world. If you say “All lives matter”, you will be howled down. Only black lives matter, to these loons. But they seem to forget that, when blacks are steady killing each other.

[Theoria]

People are stupid. I don’t support Bernie, but he had ‘skin’ in the game back in the 60’s for ‘civil rights’. He was arrested and such fighting for desegregated schools in Chicago.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bernie has 2 base problems:

1. Gun Control Nazis who don’t like his relatively benign stance on the Second Amendment.

2. Paid Clinton Machine hecklers.

[sauropod]

Apparently, #SandersLifeDoesn’tMatter

[SampleMan]

Silly Sanders. He told black activists that he would get them jobs, and they got pissed.

A politician has to know his base.

[bcr100]

The irony is what has the democrat party really done that is positive for minorities? Ghettos still exist. There are more blacks unemployed today than ever before. If it’s about giving away things and making minorities more dependent on government is considered “helping” minorities, then yes, the democrat party has done a swell job.

[bert]

Blacks and Hispanics will not support a Jew

[originalbuckeye]

In the summer of 2008, in the midst of a extended family argument, my cousin's son (a privileged, young white college student, who was working for The Won on his college campus) e-mailed me and a few other family Conservatives this : ‘when Obama is President, whites are going down’. Well, I guess Obama has been pretty successful as whites are now being denied even the slightest civility. Sanders, Clinton and the rest of the Socialists really don't get what the head of their party has done. He wanted a race war and even his party hacks will be cannon fodder.

[Seruzawa]

I love it when the leeches turn on each other.

[SharpRightTurn]

Trouble in Bernard Sanders land. When a hardened Marxist like Sanders is jeered by Netroots—composed of every misfit out of the fever swamps of the Left—then who are you going to turn to? They don’t come any more leftist than Bernard.

[GOPJ]

A person who’s white AND a democrat makes as much sense as a person who’s black AND a KKK member.