Posted on 07/25/2016 1:25:24 PM PDT by randita
In a speech to his delegates that drew fierce boos and palpable anger, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday urged his supporters to help Hillary Clinton defeat her opponent because the alternative is a danger to American society.
Donald Trump "is a bully and a demagogue!” Sanders told a packed ballroom full of hundreds of impassioned loyalists at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
“So is Hillary!” were among chants he got in return. More than once they booed when he said her name.
The Center City meeting with Sanders' pledged delegates on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention followed a tumultuous weekend in which leaked Democratic National Committee emails prompted the resignation of party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. News of those emails, which suggested a concerted party effort to stifle Sanders’ campaign, seemed only to inflame his delegates as they arrived in Philadelphia for the convention.
In a 20-minute speech that at times sounded as if his campaign never ended, Sanders took credit for shaping the debate. “Make no mistake about it. We have made history," he told the roaring crowd. "We're not fringe players anymore."
Some had signed a petition Sunday night that has circulated among delegates that would sanction a roll call vote on the floor of the convention at Wells Fargo Center.
But any hope they may have had for Sanders breaking with the party were dashed when he urged them to line up in support of Clinton. Trump, he said, is a great threat to civil liberties and the Constitution. “Trump has made bigotry and hatred the cornerstone of his campaign,” Sanders said.
Still, some of his supporters wanted none of it.
“And Hillary has insulted us!” one man said, a common jeer.
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I can’t help but wish that the Clinton’s at some point would even become the pariahs of the Left.
Those two people have had a devastating effect on this nation that goes far beyond politics, and even that was bad enough.
All kinds of chatter about DNC mass purging...night of the long knives...Schultz was just the first...
First to squeal gets the deal! Step right up.
Trump knew this was coming. That’s why he’s been saying that Bernie is getting screwed and suggested the Bernie supporters vote for him.
These people are true retards if they vote for Hillary. Sanders screwed them big time. He used them.
Best we can hope for is they stay home
Remember back in 2008 Hillary’s PUMAs were going to help defeat Obama
A big nothing
Sounds like Hillary’s lackey thugs got to Bernie. Nice grandkids you got there. Be a shame if something happened to them. Same crap that was presented to Comey.
I see What’s also important is that today’s D party advocates policies which destroy jobs and economic opportunities -,thus keeping poor folks poor. And today’s D party usually advocates more restrictions on our liberties than the R’s
So I wonder when it dawned on Bernies supporters that he is nothing but a damned hypocrite? Hillary us everything he railed against. Probably didn’t take whole lot of Clinton cash to buy him off.
Bernie may be just trying to stay alive.
Clinton opponents tend to be accident prone, and have the ability to aim a revolver at the back of their head with one hand, while standing on a 1:1 slope.
I’m sure Bernie is saying, “Support Hillary” with bile in his throat. I compare it to Mark Antony saying, “Brutus is an honourable man” over and over in his speech when Julius Caesar died. It was sarcasm. Mark Antony didn’t like Brutus any more than Bernie likes Hillary.
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