Wow. I hadn’t even THOUGHT about the caucuses being something Bernie should be directly against. I live in Nevada and caucused for the first time in my life (moved from CA) and it was horrific compared to a primary. A lot of people didn’t participate because they had to go to work, and we’re a state where a LOT of…

Pretty sure I stated my exact issue. There was huge opposition to this “part of the process” until the realization dawned that he needed them. Now all of a sudden there is an incredible openness to accepting the superdelegates. Do I understand why he has changed his tune? Of course. But my understanding of the process…

NO, it doesn’t. It is for the down-ticket races primarily. It’s part of a fund to help other candidates called the Hillary Victory Fund. She gets a very small portion, but the rest goes to down ticket candidates. This is not hard to find out about.

Straight from the website: “The first $2,700/$5,000 from an…

You mean that people from local races are more likely to support the person who is helping fund their campaign? The ignominy!

God damn. Sanders is quickly losing any goodwill he ever had with me. What a fucking asshole. Private citizens raising money for you is okay because they are poor people? Clooney is raising money for down ballot candidates. Something Bernie hasn’t bothered to worry about because Bernie only cares about Bernie.

It further cements his “I’m not part of the establishment” persona, so I see why he did it. But, yes, his answer totally discounts the reality that politics do come into play when making SC nominees. Yeah, Obama could have gone with an idealistic choice...with no chance of the nominee being confirmed. I know…

That’s what I don’t get about Bernie. I appreciate his ideas, but he seems shortsighted and very narrow in his focus of events. He can’t see that politics is playing the long game. And that when you’re President, as much as one side hates it sometimes, you are President of everyone.

Sanders is speaking out of both sides of his mouth on this one. You can’t say you would “100% support” Garland and simultaneously say you would ask Obama to retract the nomination if you got into the White House. Sanders has never respected Obama’s presidency. How is he expecting people to respect his, with statements…

It doesn’t matter what the timeline is? If he asks at all, he’s saying that the incoming person has the right rather than Obama.

“But I will strongly support the president’s selection of Judge Garland. The idea that the president should not be able to make a nomination is totally absurd. Republican obstructionism just tells us what’s been going on for the last seven years.”

He’s previously said that overturning Citizen’s United is his only litmus test. The interviewer was even like “...nothing else?” and he doubled down. It was definitely a side-eye moment for me when it happened.

Garland is a moderate, but he’s not “center right.” If anything, he’s center left, with every indication being that he will join the liberal wing of the court on most social issues.

The Republicans are violating the Constitution! They should do their jobs and give Garland hearings and a vote!

That’s exactly right. Except your conclusion. He is not the new president, he is the president elect. It is Obama’s right to back his nominee or put up a new one until they change the damn drapes. Even if they hold the confirmation in January, it is still his call.

We’re boxed between a Dodge and an RV at the drive-thru, Bernie. We’re not getting Wendy’s instead.

Yeah I’m not exactly sure why he thinks he gets to tell the President what to do if he is President Elect.

Yeah, that kind of bothered me too. This strikes me as a time when honesty is not the best policy- even if he feels this way, now is not the time to say so. President Obama is clearly doing a thing at the moment (picked someone he would find acceptable if he got confirmed but is also clearly a compromise pick to prove…

I find this to be really frustrating. Of course, Garland isn’t the most progressive pick; in the current political climate, where even this moderate nominee is unlikely to get a fair hearing, a more progressive candidate would especially be DOA. Obama was/is being a savvy politician by offering up a qualified…

This is bullshit. It is outrageous for Bernie to suggest Obama should retract his nominee if he doesn’t pass by November — that’s essentially the Republican argument that the incoming person should decide who goes on the court. And, like them, he only thinks that rule should only apply if it’s his team who wins the…

Have to believe it was at least partially because Matt Barnes is a giant fucking asshole.