Democratic Primaries

Having viewed that enterprise myself with scorn as an act of idiocy that could have no good result, it does not trouble me that the man made a mistake years ago. Especially when he gets off a fine and precise summation of the case with 'Bernie' at the present day.

Let me guess --- you oppose Mr. Biden on similar grounds? Charge him, as was done to Mrs. Clinton, with being a war-monger eager to set the Middle East on fire with a nuclear blaze?

Every person in the country whose main reason for opposing a candidate was apparent support eighteen years ago for invading Iraq could gather for a meeting in the basketball gym of a large rural high school. It would be dense, but hardly stifling. No one cares. Really. No one cares.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."