I'm beginning to regret voting for Bernie in the primary. Harry Reid met with him today and told reporters that he thought Sanders would be issuing a statement condemning the behavior.

His statement said he didn't condone violence, but he understood why people were frustrated.

Isn't that EXACTY what Trump says about his supporters?

What's Bernie's endgame? Even he doesn't seem to know. I wearied of him some time ago. Another similarity with Trump: they're both stalling the release of their income tax returns. I'm beginning to think there's more to Bernie's foot-dragging than his wife being "too busy."

Same as his strategy to implement his goals. "The revolution," wishing, etc. Repeat.

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"Bernie Sanders revealed Tuesday that shots were fired into his Nevada campaign office and that an "apartment housing complex my campaign staff lived in was broken into and ransacked."

Bernie's campaign staffers all live in the same housing complex?

It's past time for Sanders to drop out of this race. His success, which is beyond what he ever dreamed, has gone to his head and he's running on pure ego now. Both he and his supporters are just disruptive forces at this point. Clinton has 3 million more votes nationwide and she won the Nevada caucuses in February, but still the election is "rigged" (except when it benefits Sanders of course). He has become a left-wing demagogue. Democratic voter turnout is down from 2008. There is no revolution.

He [Sanders] identified the Democratic party as an essentially corrupt, moribund institution which is now on notice that it must let 'the people' in. What about the coalitions Barack Obama built in 2008 and 2012, the biggest and most diverse presidential coalitions ever constructed?

Sanders narrative today has essentially been that he is political legitimacy. The Democratic party needs to realize that. This, as I said earlier, is the problem with lying to your supporters. Sanders is telling his supporters that he can still win, which he can't. He's suggesting that the win is being stolen by a corrupt establishment, an impression which will be validated when his phony prediction turns out not to be true. Lying like this sets you up for stuff like happened over the weekend in Nevada.

How is it a man who was a registered Independent for decades can all the sudden determine how the Democratic Party should be run? How is it he can declare the Democratic Party corrupt because of closed primaries? If he wants to use the power of the Democratic Party, then he should have been supporting the party for decades, more than just voting with them?

I'm proud to be a member of the Democratic Party, for decades.

What's disturbing to me is that so many Hillary supporters seem to think he doesn't have that right or "shouldn't" just because they say so. Why are you squashing this? We still live in a Democracy. It will play out and it should play out and instead of automatically throwing barbs at the Bernie supporters actions and taking the media's soundbites, it might help to look closer at the WHY of the outcry which came because the rules were changed midstream to benefit Hillary.

The voting will be over soon, so chill out. And if you are so confident that Hillary is the best and strongest candidate then why are you so worried about Bernie supporters? Shouldn't you be able to convince them she's the best? I would think so, but being defensive and belittling does NOT help your case.

And of course Bernie didn't get much attention when he was polling in low double digits, and of course it was assumed that Clinton was the front runner. The polls bore that assumption out. That's the way it works. Not sure what the complaint is here.

Bernie's chief strategist, Thad Devine, is considered one of the architects of the DNC electoral process, and is as "establishment" as they get.

"Political work
Democratic Party rules and delegate selection

Devine is considered one of the leading experts on the Democratic Party's presidential nominating process[6] and general election strategy.[7] In 1980, he worked on President Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign as a delegate tracker.[8] He went on to serve as Deputy Director of Delegate Selection in the nomination campaign of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Executive Assistant to the Campaign Manager in the 1984 general election.[9] [10]"

And:

"From 1987-88, he served as Director of Delegate Selection and Field Operations in the nomination campaign of Governor Michael Dukakis. In 1992, Devine served as a member of the Democratic Party Rules Committee and was a consultant to CBS News throughout the Democratic National Convention in New York. As lead negotiator for the Dukakis campaign at the 1988 Rules Committee, Devine was involved in the Democratic party's 1988 reform that eliminated winner take all methods of delegate selection and established proportional representation as the exclusive system of delegate allocation in the Democratic Party.[11][12]"

Finally, you are mis-remembering history if you think the media have ever been particularly kind to Hillary Clinton.

Hillary wouldn't have been my first choice, and neither would Bernie Sanders, who will, btw, be 75 years old by the time the election rolls around (six years older than Clinton).

You say you want a revolution?

Nice Grandpa Bernie Sanders Gonna burn your sh*t dowwwwwn

Wonkette has been officially neutral in the Democratic primary, until now. (We know, angry commenters; Wonkette says it has been neutral but has been a reliable source of bought-and-paid-for neoliberal corporate piece of shit one-percenter shilling for a mass murderer who will be arrested for “emails” any day now. Fair enough!)

As told by a Hillary supporter.
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Bernie didn't "incite violence" the party's state chairwoman is to blame with the shady politics she played.
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And finally, for those of us that are truly progressives (meaning to the left of Obama, Hillary, and other establishment Dems), I truly wish I had written this, as I read it, I felt like Rall was in my head.
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Progressive Democratic voters are understandably unenthusiastic about Hillary Clinton. After enduring her conservative Southern Democratic husband (major accomplishments: bombing Bosnia, ignoring Rwanda, NAFTA, trashing welfare) and Obama (major accomplishments: drones, Libya, Syria, Iraq again), they know what's coming: more of the same. Because they're not willing to ditch the Democratic Party, however, they're trapped in a state of cognitive dissonance, unable to act in order to avoid certain disaster.

What would be helpful in more clearly understanding this incident would be a complete play-by-play of the events to have unfolded at the convention (and even the video clip I linked previously isn't "complete").

Apparently, the Nevada state party was challenged in court, by the Sanders campaign, *before* the convention for passing this bylaw that allowed the state chair to adopt temporary rules changes for the convention? But some reports claim that she subsequently failed to follow the guidance contained in the newly adopted bylaws? I had to read umpteen media reports before I even learned of this suit *prior to* the convention, and I still can't claim to understand the particulars.

I am withholding judgment on the ire displayed by Sanders supporters at the convention until I more clearly understand these details.

(And FYI, even though I remain a Sanders supporter, I *have* taken exception to the tactics of some of his supporters before. I objected to them insisting it was "necessary" to infiltrate that chaotic Trump event in Chicago and felt that their protest would have been every bit as effective from outside the hall, behind the police barricades.)

Anyway, interested in any specifics anyone can dig up.

One of our Doyle classmates who now lives in Nevada was a delegate. He shares "this article [as] the most representative of reality published thus far. Speaking as a delegate who was actually present at that event, it's very refreshing to finally read something resembling the truth."

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/18/how-democrats-manipulated-nevada-state-party-convention-then-blamed-sanders-chaos

Well, this is depressing. Why are y'all so hellbent on re-living the 08 madness?

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It would appear the Clinton spin machine is somewhat more organized than the Sanders machine, but that perhaps they are playing loose and free with the truth.

It would behoove her to come together with Sanders and the whole of the party on policy and her platform. She controls her own destiny.