For the same reason how and why Hillary went from penniless to rich is important.

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I guess if you're worried about hypocrisy, but I expect such from politicians. Not to be some big Bernie defender here, but his concerns about income inequality are completely justified by objective measures like the gini coefficient.

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A lot of his words are perfectly fine to me. I just think he's full of shit and a conman.

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And your second sentence is probably descriptive of many/most politicians. His tax returns aren't going to change any of that.

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True. Unfortunately many people don't believe Bernie or Trump are. If you combined their supporters you are looking at half the country.

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It is patently dishonest to suggest that people here have been posting about how Hillary has been kicking Bernies ass. They haven't, aside from three people. Instead there have been posts about momentum, emails, FBI investigations, personalities, dishonesty and the like. In addition is the fact you seem to have a problem because people decided to point out the flaws in Sanders. Also for a person that doesn't like arguing with me you sure do seem to like arguing with me.

It's invariably personal. Rather than address points, you choose to focus on me. The points that I made regarding the super delegate thing was neither redundant nor irrelevant yet you choose as is your pattern to ignore it for the truly redundant and irrelevant attack on me.

I really don't see myself as an authority on anything to be exact. I'm simply a guy that posts on a message board, as are you. I have done a little reading in my life and I don't apologize for that. I also don't view myself as some sort of board spokesman, or the guy to issue board referendums, nor the guy who assesses the pulse of the board. I simply posts here and if I have a disagreement I state it.

What I never do is pile on as you and others do and attempt to bully guys that I disagree with. My opinions are rightly or wrongly my opinions. I don't base my opinions on the guy that's posting. Can you and the others that constantly engage in piling on say that?

Each and everything that you post about me is primarily about me and not about what I posted. It's not even remotely annoying at this point. The interesting thing is that you complain about redundancy. How redundant is that?

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LTG, your apparent sincerity is refreshing. The length of your posts is perpetually frustrating.

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To be honest, I don't really write long posts at this stage. I admittedly used to. They have become much shorter. Sometimes I attempt to address all of a person's points and it gets lengthy. They have become succinct lately.

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And for the record, I voted for Bernie so this isn't a shot at him. I just think it's funny.

Thus proving his point.

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I don't know what point that is nor do I particularly care for that matter.

What I will say is this. It is obvious that there are a certain group of guys that respond to posts that I make solely for the purpose of disproving things that I post. When that tactic doesn't work or isn't particularly viable, they resort to personal attacks against me. Any idiot can see that.

Among this group are several guys that have been banned from this site for exhibiting this same sort of behavior previously. Some have been banned on several occasions for exhibiting this sort of behavior. That is why I find it funny that they are now among the group that attempts to lecture and frankly condescend to me about the proper way to conduct message board conversations.

I don't know which category you fall under, nor do i care for that matter. I don't expect you or anyone that falls under the critical class to ever go against the grain anyway. Consistency is, after all the key. However yours and others opinions would have much more credibility if you were honest about the nature of the criticism.

It is obviously about the poster and not the post. My ability to respond to posts have never been based upon the person that is posting. Hopefully this will be the last time that I address this particular topic. Probably won't be though.

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It's unfortunate that people have to resort to personal attacks when they've been burned by Bernie.

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It's not personal. It's just aimless.

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Leash is LTG

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No its not and I stand behind everything I stated. Also since this is the Bernie thread I will jump back on topic. It's ironic that a guy that spent months bashing people for having the audacity to support Hillary is now lecturing me about criticism levied against Bernie.

The primary reason that I choose to dig in is because if I don't bring light to this stuff it won't ever be brought. It's not about me being an "enlightened soul" either. My status as an enlightened soul has more to do with being an outlier than anything. It's obvious that guys don't want to speak truth to message board power. Just never know when they will have to answer for their indiscretion at the next message board outing

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Your troll work gets worse by the second.

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Great! Leash use of the quote function looks eerily similar to yours.

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"We now have Nas, in the role previously played by Spmack". These are the Days of Our Lives.

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I don't get the question. Also, what does Obama have to do with Sanders' campaign? Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the references to Obama seem to be Clinton talking points.

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Sanders is being accused of committing fraud. He should stop lying to poor people so he can raise money.

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He'd fit nicely within one of those for-profit prisons he so sanctimoniously derides while misleading the masses on the stump.

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Bernie now has a national platform and following, even if he drops out of the race tomorrow.

I think the next few years are going to show who is right regarding his principles or political expediency. If he becomes an outspoken critic of what some here refer to as center-right Democratic stances and holds Hillary's feet to the fire if she becomes President, then it's clear that his supporters like leash were correct. If he goes quietly into that good night, it's pretty clear Nas is correct. I'm not sure there's a middle ground here.

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I will be the first to admit that I was wrong. Considering that he hasn't done it in 3 decades in Washington I doubt he will start now.

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I don't know if we have to wait - the majority of Sanders' positions are virtually unchanged from what he's believed prior to the presidential run, aside from inconsequential things like registering as an independent vs registering as a democrat. Also, and this isn't necessarily directed at you, the absence of policy and/or structural change isn't evidence that Sanders has failed to fight for the things he says are vitally important.

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The discussion is about whether Sanders' attacks on Clinton are almost all a similar attack on Obama.

rpb said that Obama and Sanders aren't all that different. That is why I said I don't think you can call it a political revolution if the candidate is basically the same as the previous guy.

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I haven't read all of this thread so I may have missed the nuances of RPB's argument, but I'm not sure if I'd agree that Sanders and Obama the candidate similar. As I see it, a major difference between Bernie and other politicians running on a similiar platform is Sanders also walks the walk. As far as his campaign goes, for example, you can objectively state that his views on campaign finance are not bullshit. Not sure you can say the same about others, past or present, who also deride the current state of campaign finance. Just one example and I acknowledge there may be counter examples that complicate the point I'm trying to make

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The registering as an independent rather than Democrat thing is probably the single biggest reason that he hasn't received more support from the democratic "establishment". Hardly see how that could be considered inconsequential.

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If Bernie wants to stay relevant he needs to concentrate on one issue and be an advocate for that. He also needs to eventually bow out gracefully. If he goes to the convention trying to get a back door nomination he will only seek to alienate people.

My biggest problem with him has always been that his good ideas came with many bad ideas. If he sticks with a theme of campaign finance reform then I think he can make a real difference. If he instead just wants to push his brand of Socialism on a broad scale then he will disappear quickly.

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