ONE MORE BLOG ON BERNIE SANDERS AND “NEGATIVE” CAMPAIGNING

Ken Berwitz


I was going to move to other topics, but I have to put this up.

Yesterday\’s edition of The Washington Post  – written a week and a half after the incident I referenced in my previosu blog, had an article, written by John Wagner and Philip Rucker, titled “Sanders:  Clinton is running a \’desperate\’ campaign that lacks excitement”.  It talks, among other things, about Sanders\’ turning more to the negative….with  Sanders being quoted as saying:

“When Hillary Clinton\’s hit man is throwing garbage at themedia, she is in a sense making it harder for me to win the general election.  Our campaign is notgoing to simply sit back and accept all of these attacks.”

This, to me, reads as “I wasn\’t going to go negative.  But now that Hillary and her people are throwing dirt at me, I\’m not going to give them a free pass”.  

It doesn\’t take a political genius to figure out which direction the campaign rhetoric between Sanders and Clinton is heading, does it?

That said, I would like to end by putting up a commenter\’s take on this article.  The commenter, calls him/herself “sleeve”, had this to say about Bernie Sanders, and his prospects for winning the Democrat nomination”:

I wish Hillary could respondto the dirty old man Sanders and put his gang rape fantasy he arrogantly,crudely published to promote sexual gang violence by entitled elite white boysat St. Albans in VT where rape was encouraged in the “small rural state”.His Nixonian move to steal campaign data to sway elections was illegal to themax and still the press let\’s the fool play loud, whiney victim. He recentlycompared himself to George Washington for god\’s sake. The old angry muppet ison an ego trip on the Democratic Party\’s dime since he stole data Democratscollected to further his campaign being financed by Karl Rove and the other GOPmoney men. Bernie has taken much money from gun manufacturers who actually killpeople, but screeches about Hillary being paid for speeches from banks, no oneelse, just the female. He completely changes his positions on healthcare, hisgun buddies, his horrid misogynic attitude towards NARAL and PP, completelydismisses minorities on Black Lives Matter and reparations, then tries to suckup to them for elections. I despise this bigot who sounds just like Trumpbragging about his poll numbers. Nothing about that dirty old man “passesthe smell test” The stupid arrogant bigot spouting, spitting andscreeching nonsense about he is the new George Washington leading our secondrevolution certainly doesn\’t pass “the smell test” or the sanitytest. Smells like an entitled white male bigot to me, making sure all of thewhite males are heavily armed to maintain white male hegemony. He promises kidsfree college though he well knows he is lying through his sharp yellow teeth. Idespise Sanders more than Trump, as Trump is at least himself instead of a flipflopping airhead hypocrite screeching and raging against the machine he hasbeen part of for a quarter century. Even if he wins in the 85% whitewonderlands of Iowa and NH, the stupid addled old bigot will meet reality onSuper Tuesday.

If that is a little – ok, a lot – incoherent, and is maybe a little – ok, a lot – racist, and you don\’t know what he/she is talking about…don\’t blame yours truly.  I\’m just putting up the comment, verbatim, for its entertainment value.
Let\’s just say that, altough I don\’t know who “sleeve” is going to vote for, I have a pretty good idea of who he/she is not seriously considering….

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *