Is Bernie an atheist Jew and would that help DNC/Hillary?

[Harry Bosch]

I'll admit that my apathy over the matter is due in large part to my fear of Trump. Only one of two people is going to become POTUS. And only one of those two people is anything near acceptable.

Those two things are far apart though. I'm not supporting Trump here, and I think that a Trump presidency would be a disaster - and for that matter neither third party candidate is even worth a protest vote.

That said - this isn't a case of people being mad over losing a game of Monopoly. This was a tactical play at capitalizing on people's distrust and dislike of atheists.

For what it's worth, I don't remember Sanders faith or lack of ever coming up in the election. Actually I remember Trumpster attacking HRC's faith many times. I don't think that Sanders lack of faith hurt him that much in the primary. He ran a hard race - but lost.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Those two things are far apart though. I'm not supporting Trump here, and I think that a Trump presidency would be a disaster - and for that matter neither third party candidate is even worth a protest vote.

That said - this isn't a case of people being mad over losing a game of Monopoly. This was a tactical play at capitalizing on people's distrust and dislike of atheists.

For what it's worth, I don't remember Sanders faith or lack of ever coming up in the election. Actually I remember Trumpster attacking HRC's faith many times. I don't think that Sanders lack of faith hurt him that much in the primary. He ran a hard race - but lost.

I guess you're right. Conspiracy to commit rape < attempted rape < actual rape.

 

[iolo]

I think the only sensible approach is to restrict 'Jew' to a believer in Judaism, and to describe all those who don't but have some connection with it as 'of Jewish background'. Otherwise you end up, like the Zionists, in believing the Hitler crap about 'race'.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

I'm glad they let Bernie run.
Bernie did a great service moving the party left, as I'd want it moved.
But it's just stupid sour grapes to expect that the whole organization would suddenly support him after all he has said about them for years and years and years.

They dind't have to let him run under their party banner. They could have explicitly told him no, instead of lying to everybody about giving him an fair shot with them. Expecting people to behave honestly ins't stupid sour grapes. You folks should indeed be quite alarmed by behaviour such as this, insofar as it charts the future course of your nation.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I'm glad they let Bernie run.
Bernie did a great service moving the party left, as I'd want it moved.
But it's just stupid sour grapes to expect that the whole organization would suddenly support him after all he has said about them for years and years and years.

They dind't have to let him run under their party banner. They could have explicitly told him no, instead of lying to everybody about giving him an fair shot with them. Expecting people to behave honestly ins't stupid sour grapes. You folks should indeed be quite alarmed by behaviour such as this, insofar as it charts the future course of your nation.

Ya, it sounds like they were taking Clinton's nomination as an inevitable fact and looking ahead past the primary to the general election and didn't want the primary to do anything to negatively impact that. The fact that they were right about the inevitability of her nomination and the things they were worried about could actually hurt her in the general election doesn't mitigate the fact that they were trying to avoid running a fair race. Their job in the primary is to provide a field for the candidates, not to skew the selection of the candidates.