The Associated Press - followed by the major television networks - named Mrs. Clinton the presumptive nominee after she won 36 pledged delegates in the Puerto Rico Primary on Sunday, June 5th and by confirming that 13 additional super delegates would take Secretary Clinton over the top of the 2,383 total delegates necessary to clinch the nomination.
Bernie Sanders must - and I do say must - now acknowledge... and quite frankly...embrace...the fact that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. The Vermont Senator cannot remain defiant... and object to the AP and the networks counting the super delegates in Secretary Clinton's column. If Sanders waits to accept the inevitable...until the Philadelphia convention...then he will potentially hurt Mrs. Clinton...and the entire Democratic Party might not be unified. If Sanders doesn't start now...to encourage...and persuade the "Bernie Backers"...to get 100% behind Secretary Clinton - and to do it in a convincing fashion - Democrats risk the possibility of those Sanders voters staying home on November 8th and not casting their ballots for Hillary Clinton in the general election. And that would be a tragic mistake that could put America in the hands of an egomaniacal, narcissistic, racist xenophobe who is unfit and dangerous to be occupying The Oval Office.
That all being said, is Donald Trump's campaign imploding? Has the presumptive Republican nominee irreparably ruptured his chances of even being nominated at the GOP convention in Cleveland? Is it possible for the Rules Committee to...change certain rules...that would keep Trump from being nominated? According to political legal experts...the answer to that question...is yes.
Trump's racist remarks about Federal District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel may do him in. One Congressional supporter, Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois has already revoked his endorsement for Trump. And should Speaker of the House Paul Ryan...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus...and other top Republicans...withdraw 
their support of Trump...the billionaire businessman would be politically bankrupt. To make derogatory comments about a person because of ethnic heritage...to say that an officer of the Court cannot make an impartial ruling in a case because of where his parents were born...is without question... despicable racism. So I'm not so sure that Donald Trump's name will even appear on the Election 2016 ballot as the Republican nominee. As for what those Americans who have voted for Trump in the primaries...and who agree with his warped thinking...will say...or do...if Trump is not the nominee...l shudder to think. At the risk of sounding dramatic...riots could erupt in Cleveland...and elsewhere. But if Bernie Sanders doesn't become a team player...and come forward this week to endorse Hillary Clinton...Philadelphia may end up looking like the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention. And God help us all if 
Should Trump somehow escape the tumult that is currently facing his campaign...and is nominated at the Republican Convention...then Bernie Sanders needs to do what he has said all along...and that is...to do anything he can to keep Donald Trump from winning The White House. Well Bernie...you're overdue. You can't wait any longer. It's passed the time for you to suspend your campaign and drop out of the race for President. Do it now, Senator. Do it now...before it's too late.
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First, it doesn’t sound like Bernie is going anywhere but Philadelphia. If he quits now he loses all his clout at the convention. He wants to make sure Hillary and the DNC goes more to the left and stays there. If she wants his endorsement she is going to have to pay a big price for it. As for Donald Trump he will be the GOP candidate, he was not my first choice, not in my top 10 but now my only choice. Who should I vote for, Hillary a person who is anti-almost everything I believe America is, if she is elected she will do more harm to this country and the world then she did as secretary of state, even more harm than Obama has done. I do not agree on how Trump said what he said about Judge Curiel but agree that Curiel should not hear this case. How can anyone expect him to be impartial when he is a member of La Raza Lawyers Association a Latino activist group that supports pro-illegal immigration groups? It is not that he has Mexican roots it is his associations that disqualify him for this case. He chose a law firm to represent the class that is known to support Democrats specifically thousands of dollars in 2015 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Like I said I disagreed with what Trump said and how he said it but not the reason it was said. I do not believe the Trump is a racist as you try to make him out or a xenophobe. I think it is disgraceful the way you and the left lie about him being anti-foreigner or anti-immigrant he is neither but he is anti-illegal alien. The big part you and the left leave out is the word “ILLEGAL”, they committed a crime coming here. I will say if there is a problem in Cleveland it will be caused by the left wing agitators who do not believe in people’s right to have a different view then theirs. If there is problems in Philadelphia it will be because the Bernie supports feel they were screwed by the DNC .
ReplyDeleteBernie will be suspending his campaign - at the very latest - on Wednesday, June 15th, which is the day after the final primary, which is Washington DC. He has already been given a nudge by President Obama, recently, and he will get more of a push when he meets with the President tomorrow (Thursday), June 9th. He is, without any doubt, already in negotiations with Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Democratic National Committee Chairperson/Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and perhaps other top Democrats...and Bernie must now realize that he has to unify the Democrats - nationwide - if Hillary is going to beat Donald Trump - or whomever ends up being the Republican nominee. As for Trump, it's going to be up to the Republican Party - that is Speaker Ryan, Senator McConnell, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and others. If Trump doesn't tone down and continues to show his colors as a racist - which, no matter what you may think, he is a racist - then he'll be lucky to be nominated dog catcher of Anytown, USA. Nobody makes the statements Trump has made for a year now...including the remarks about Judge Gonzalo Curiel...unless you are a racist. As the saying goes, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck. With all due respect to the real Donald Duck - who I'm sure is not a racist - Donald Duck Trump has proven - every which way - to be one. As for your comments about Hillary Clinton and President Obama - as I tell all my Republican readers - I'm not going to waste my time defending them because no matter what I say, you're not going to accept or agree. I will say that Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding President...and Barack Obama has been an outstanding President already. Now, regarding Cleveland...that will all depend on how Trump continues over the next several weeks. And as far as Philadelphia - I think Bernie must do what I have stated, and - if he does - I'm confident that Democrats will unite and Hillary Clinton will be elected - on November 8th - the 45th President of the United States. GBD
DeleteYou as many others don’t seem to know the definition of the word RACIST, per Webster’s dictionary : “noun 1.a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
ReplyDeleteAdjective 1. having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.” I don’t believe you can show a single statement by Trump showing he believes one race is superior to another race. You, the left and any others who feel the need to be PC politically correct are destroying this nation. Being PC is wrong, things are right or wrong not PC. Trump may be wrong in some of what he says but that doesn’t make him a racist. The media and the left are trying to make him into one to help Hillary. I may disagree with Trump but I rather have a president who speaks his mind then one who tells everyone what they want hear no matter what she thinks and can’t tell the truth if her life depended on it. You claim not to be a hater, but all you do is name call, demean and belittle those you don’t agree with, to me that is a hater. You as does the left play the race card, the women card, the gender card anything you can to divide America, you as does the left puts party before Country and it is sad to see. The GOP and the right may have its problems but it always puts Country first. The saddest of all is the Clintons always put themselves before anything, party or Country.