For those who still believe that only the GOP establishment has lost its nerve with its fringe frontrunner of a candidate, here is proof that when it comes to Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly strong performance to date, the Democrat party is just as unhinged that Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign, which was supposed to be smooth sailing, has been anything but.
As the Hill reports, a former deputy executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on Friday lashed out at presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in a post on Medium titled “Go fuck yourself, Bernie.”
The post was in response to Sanders implying that rival Hillary Clinton was praising President Obama in order to “win support from the African American community where the President is enormously popular.“
English, who is black and who was profiled two years ago by Politico, was not happy: “It’s not just Black people that love Obama. The President is ‘enormously popular’ among all Democrats. Welcome to the Party,” former DCCC official Brandon English wrote in his post.
“Do you have any idea how belittling it is to reduce Obama to the President that the Blacks like?” English noted that both Sanders and Clinton have been attempting to curry favor among black voters.
Well, if so, it has not been working for Sanders as the following data confirms:
In 5 majority black precincts, Clinton has an 84 to 4 delegate lead over Sanders.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 20, 2016
Facts aside, English decided to go to town with his ad hominem attack: “In a world of voting rights abuses and gerrymandered districts where Black voters are constantly disenfranchised, it’s nice to have someone speak directly to our needs for a few months every 4 years,” he said.
Toward the end of his piece, English did soften his criticism: “So do I actually mean it when I say Go F— Yourself, Bernie? No. Everyone’s allowed to have a bad day,” he wrote. “Everyone makes mistakes when every word is captured on tape. If Bernie wins the nomination, I’ll be knocking on doors for him in Cleveland. “But for today, and for that comment, and for anyone that tries to diminish Obama’s presidency to ‘He’s popular with black people,’ Go Fuck Yourself.”
His full post below:
Go Fuck Yourself, Bernie: Obama isn’t just the President of Black people.
In @BET interview, Sanders accuses Clinton of cozying up to Obama in order to win African-American votes: pic.twitter.com/x9O4dmvnKI
— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) February 18, 2016
1. It’s not just Black people that love Obama. The President is “enormously popular” among all Democrats. Welcome to the Party.
2. Do you have any idea how belittling it is to reduce Obama to the President that the Blacks like?
3. Aren’t you the one that got shouted down by Black Lives Matter protesters at Netroots Nation, canceled all your meetings in a huff, talked to your advisors and then suddenly realized you needed to start parroting Black Lives Matter catchphrases in all of your speeches?
4. Have both you and Hillary been putting out policies to “win support from the African-American community”? Yeah. And you know what? That’s a GOOD thing. In a world of voting rights abuses and gerrymandered districts where Black voters are constantly disenfranchised, it’s nice to have someone speak directly to our needs for a few months every 4 years.
5. When politicians suck up to minority groups, its called pandering. When politicians suck up to white people, it’s called campaigning.
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So do I actually mean it when I say Go Fuck Yourself, Bernie? No. Everyone’s allowed to have a bad day. Everyone makes mistakes when every word is captured on tape. If Bernie wins the nomination, I’ll be knocking on doors for him in Cleveland.
But for today, and for that comment, and for anyone that tries to diminish Obama’s presidency to “He’s popular with black people,” Go Fuck Yourself.
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