President Obama called Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the conversation, reports CBS News' Julianna Goldman.
The call between the two lasted 30-45 minutes, CBS News' Nancy Cordes reported. Sanders also spoke with the president by phone in mid-May.
The Vermont senator took the president's call on the side of the road in the financial district in San Francisco, at around 2:30 p.m. ET. Atwood said that as the press bus drove by, Sanders could be seen standing on Market Street, legal pad in hand, as he talked on a cell phone.
Atwood asked Sanders about the conversation Tuesday, but he declined to say much about it.
"I have spoken to President Obama many many times about many issues, and I really think it's not appropriate to talk about my discussions with the president," he told Atwood. "I try to keep that private."
The Sanders campaign stressed that the President and Bernie have talked multiple times during the campaign season, but none of that really matters.
What matters is what President Obama said to Sanders only two days before the June 7 primaries, since we now know that he is anxious to jump into this race on Hillary's behalf and start going after Donald Trump.
Whatever was said it apparently was not something that Bernie Sanders enjoyed hearing.
Yeah, I think most of us have some idea as to what that conversation was aboutBut whatever message President Obama delivered, it wasn't cheerful for the Sanders campaign: The mood soured, and he huddled with wife Jane— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 6, 2016
He said, "good job, old boy. you gave it your all but she beat you. time to jump on her bandwagon with me and roll over the real enemy. Trump!"
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ReplyDelete"Bernie,my man.
Hang in there 'cuz I just keep handin' Hilldawg rope. I personally hired Comey and he won't miss this time.On a personal level,I'm PISSED off that she shared important info with Blumenthal when I explicitly said he could not have a job in my administration.And have you ever seen Michele mad?
Why do you think we've never had them over to the WH?Michele hates her guts and as a lawyer can't believe the cavalier corrupt behavior from Hillary.Hang tough 'cuz the whip is comin' down."
You sound like Trump, asshole.
DeletePresident Obama probably said:
DeleteHang in there Bernie!
"We all remember that Bobby Kennedy
was assassinated...in June...in California!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0QAewVrR28&feature=youtu.be&t=113
Yeah, somethin' like that. (⌐■_■)
"Hang in there buddy.
DeleteKarma is a bitch, and so is Hillary. I've been waiting 8 years for this payback."
12:51 - assassination jokes are not funny. Sick.
DeleteI'm sorry, 12:51... what is your point cuz you can't be calling for Bernie to be assassinated.
DeleteThat would make you sound like a criminal in addition to a motherfucker.
I think those that are making these stupid assassination remarks are men and their little wee wees get hard when they say stuff like that.
DeleteHave any of you complaining actually watched the video linked?
DeleteIt was HRC herself making that comment...to a camera in 2008. I'm sure she didn't mean it to sound like someone would take a 2nd Amendment solution to then Senator Obama before she had to drop out of the primary. Naaaa, doesn't sound like her at all. (͡๏̮͡๏)
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/obama-manager-accuses-clintons-of-widespread-dirty-politics/51660/
Plenty more where that came from.
2:51 - shouldn't you be phone-banking CA? Berniepb.com
DeleteWhy don't you use a space after commas and periods? This isn't grammar-geek nitpicking, so skip the "I focus on the ISSUES!" response. This is a very basic rule American kids just learning to write have mastered. Why haven't you? I have a theory, but would love to hear your excuse.
Delete3:17 ~ No reason to. The AP/MSNBClintoNN took care of that for me in one felled swoop. Thinking (not their strong suit) that they would lock down CA with the propaganda / premature pronouncement, they guaranteed a massive turnout by some pretty annoyed voters. And for the two-birds-with-one-stone part of the story: All those HRC voters who don't have to show up because they aren't needed.
DeleteNow with the eyes of the nation on today's proceedings, if the establishment attempts any shenanigans, it will be all they can talk about, all while we're supposed to be measuring her highness for her crown.
But thanks for your concern. (¬◡¬)凸
Then you don't really care about Bernie. Faker!
DeleteAnd Hillary doesn't really care about you! Sucker!
Deletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjeKFSkXIAASipU.jpg:large
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O/T - Bernie's Senate financials just posted when he missed the deadline this Sunday. This VT publication calls Bernie one of the least transparent candidates in history in terms of financials, citing Politifact.
ReplyDeletehttps://vtdigger.org/2016/06/06/tardy-sanders-financial-disclosure-is-dominated-by-wifes-pensions/
Not only one of the least transparent, but THE most transparent, even less transparent than Carly Fiorina. Plus, he continues to lie about having released earlier tax returns: he hasn't released them. Does he think no one is noticing? I think he's in for a shock next time he runs for re-election.
DeleteWhat is he hiding? It's gone way, way past disorganization or procrastination. This is simply covering up now.
DeleteThe conversation went like this.
ReplyDelete"Dude . . . . .really?" That is all.
LOL
DeleteWhat has the media done to you people? Bernie is NOT and has NOT been the goddam enemy.
Delete12:58 - Bernie's own words have done it, not the media, it was Bernie himself.
DeleteHe has become the enemy. The moment he decided he couldn't accept getting beat by a woman and started claiming fraud and flip flopping about superdelegates.
DeleteY'all have some thin skin and hopefully your idea of politics will evolve beyond a supervised game of Monopoly.
Delete2:00 - I hope you will politically mature beyond Chutes and Ladders.
DeleteOT RIGHT?
ReplyDelete:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/house-committee-accidentally-releases-names-fetal-tissue-researchers-and-planned-pa
Accidentally my ass, they might as well have painted target on their backs. What anti choice outfits do the staffers of these people belong to and how did they get that info to release?
DeleteThey should sue Marsha Blackburn and the other members of the GOP committee. I think they will.
DeleteProbably something like "Remember in 2008 when you unhesitatingly came out for me as the presumptive democratic nominee despite the fact that I only had 51% of the pledged delegates and needed to count the superdelegates in order to really say I was the nominee?
ReplyDeleteMy opponent was much closer to my lead than you are to your opponent's lead. Maybe ya oughta do what your opponent did after the vast majority of races are concluded on June 7th. Just a suggestion."
The media really should be hitting this point harder. Bernie fell all over himself declaring for Obama in early June 2008.
DeleteHis dishonesty is epic .
More and more Democrats will be calling Bernie after tonight, and telling him to concede.
ReplyDeleteNancy Pelosi endorses Hillary, and says she'd like Warren or another female candidate for VP.
"Hey Bernie, my man - thank you for your valiant efforts at keeping Hillary to the left. It will make my job endorsing her easier."
ReplyDeleteJeeze, Gryph - I feel like IM has become an all Hillary all the time site - and it is all news we can find at many other places. Most people come here for PayMe news! No disrespect intended; just my humble opinion. Still an undying IM Fan!
ReplyDeleteI never read the Palin threads. I come here for Democratic issues.
DeleteGuess what - they are plotting to throw out Trump in Cleveland!
https://politicalwire.com/2016/06/07/flake-suggests-convention-challenge-to-trump/
This is a personal blog! Gryphen can write about whatever he pleases. End of story.
Delete"Most" people? Says whom, and did you know that you can (gasp) get your PayMe news at many other places also too?
DeleteIt's Gryph's blog; too damn bad if you don't like it. Start your own!
Please do not try and speak for the rest of us.
DeletePersonally I would rather read about current events than about that has-been Sara Palin.
You do realize that there is an election going on, right?
DeleteI see your point, 12:37, but there is no Palin news any more of any importance. She is a political hasbeen and she has no effect or influence on the current political scene. Her family's trashy behavior can be entertaining but it is not important.
DeleteIf something of consequence comes up regarding Palin, I'm sure Gryphen will carry it. In the meantime though, the upcoming general election is much more relevant to most of our lives.
Wow, angry much 1:06! Yours is the only disrespectful comment here. Grow up!
DeleteHey 2:27 ~
Delete... guess you, TOO, have a problem with someone very nicely expressing their opinion like 12:37 did...
What are you waiting for? Pile on!
I defend Gryphen when someone tries to tell him how to run his blog, but draw the line when a certain sector rejects every differing opinion - no matter how nicely it was offered.
2:47. Unlike you, I expressed my opinion nicely above. Calling people "fucking bitches." Yeah, really cool of you. You're such a great community builder here!
DeleteI don't mind being called a fucking bitch, but if you have no idea know how to correctly use "y'all," don't try it.
DeleteNo. They don't. Thank dawg that this blog has gotten back to it's original mission - religion and politics.
Delete12:37 I hear you. All this political reading takes brains and I really need a brainless romp through Palin World at times.
DeleteBut they've been so quiet lately.
Must be the court thing hanging over Track. If he gets a conviction on the domestic violence or the gun thing he will lose all access to guns. Even can't be around people when they handle guns.
Big deal for them gun totin', bible smacking, Levi photo shootin' Palins.
So we are to believe Bernie was standing on a street corner, with a cellphone in one hand legal pad in the other...what was he writing with-his mouth?
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the POTUS was giving him the heads up that he would be endorsing HRC once the Tuesday primary results were in. And, he probably graciously told Sanders that he fought a good fight and had a very large support base.
Bernie 2016
Yes, I think this is right. My guess is Obama thanked him and let him down easy. He's a very upstanding guy. Obama also owes Hillary a LOT, so he will play Good Cop and work all the angles to get her elected.
DeleteI'm sure this is fairly close to what Obama said to Sanders during the call. It is unfortunate that the AP didn't wait until after the results from today's primaries. I think it is important for the voters to turn out today to end the primary season. Hillary has got the momentum after her foreign policy speech last week. If the AP hadn't jumped the gun, I think Bernie would have suspended his campaign after today's results. Now he may stubbornly just keep forcing the issue through the convention.
Delete@12:58
Delete"Obama also owes Hillary a LOT"
For WHAT?
Bob Cesca summed it up very well today: Bernie Sanders is Taking a Big Risk if He Doesn't Drop Soon.
DeleteBernie can be a hero or a villain; it's all up to him.
1:03 - Is there a page on Reddit for you to read American History from, let's say, 2006-2016? Then you'd learn what you're missing.
DeleteBluetooth. Welcome to the 21st century.
Delete"Bernie you already lost, get over it. Now go tell Jane she doesn't need to find a gown to wear."
ReplyDeleteI don't think President Obama is that cruel or shallow or juvenile.
DeleteI have heard through the grapevine that one thing the President mentioned was Al Giordano's exploration of a run against Bernie for the junior senator of VT slot in 2018, as profiled by Joy Reid in this article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/06/meet-al-giordano-the-man-who-wants-to-take-bernie-down.html
ReplyDeleteI plan on donating to Al or any Democrat running against Bernie.
DeleteYou're not the only one. I can already imagine the attack ads against Sanders using his own words. Al has a lot of material to work with...
DeleteThere's been a huge outcry in support of Giordano across the US. He thinks he can raise more money in a grassroots campaign than has ever been raised for a Senate run in VT.
Delete'We won’t accept it': voters in California still feel the Bern despite call for Clinton
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/feel-the-bern-california-primary-bernie-sanders
hen I would suggest they seek mental healthcare.
DeleteOMG y'all
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/SgtDakotaMeyer/photos/a.258060727567109.65283.253985551307960/1182960561743783/?type=3&theater¬if_t=notify_me_page¬if_id=1465334704256040
This isn't a big surprise. They've been hinting at it for weeks.
DeleteBest comment from Meyers' fb page: Jim Romeo - Or she could be an abusive, manipulative, narcissistic, sociopath. It's cool. I married one too.
All you Hillaristas clean the jizz off your keyboards.
ReplyDelete"WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - President Barack Obama is not ready to endorse Hillary Clinton "at this point" even though the Associated Press has concluded from a survey of superdelegates that she has enough to support to clinch the nomination, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday. "There is at least one superdelegate, the one who works in the Oval Office, who is not prepared to make a public declaration of his endorsement at this point, but stay tuned and we'll keep you updated," Earnest said at the daily briefing. Obama does not expect to "see, or meet, or appear" with Clinton during a trip to New York on Wednesday, where he will hold two fundraisers and tape an appearance on the Tonight Show."
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-not-ready-to-endorse-clinton-at-this-point-white-house-2016-06-07
It's happening by Thursday on The Tonight Show. Maybe take a chill pill?
DeleteWhy do so many young female Sanders supporters feel that it’s no big deal if a woman wins the presidency? In LGBT circles, the phrase “self-loathing” comes to mind. It’s the notion that you’ve been oppressed for so long, and have so internalized your “lesser” status, that you not only accept your subjugation as normal, you almost embrace it.<
ReplyDeletehttp://americablog.com/2016/06/electing-woman-matters.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog+News+%29
With your copy and paste, you're not giving Americans enough credit for seeing past gender and looking at the message.
DeleteWhy does this card keep rearing it's ugly head? Don't you think Elizabeth would beat Hillary with one arm tied behind her back?
Give me a fucking break, 2:31. You copy and paste here all day long.
DeletePay attention bernie/supporters>
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/koch-brothers-charles-blahous_b_10325224.html
Obama was just being nice to call Bernie and tell him he would be coming out with Hillary on Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteJane>
ReplyDelete"“Everywhere you look there’s something” that her husband BS fixed, or changed or envisioned"
By Naming 2 post offices, really Jane?
Palin and her bunch are for me, a big laugh
ReplyDeleteat their stupidity. Gryphen's blog about
current events, plus his input as only he
can do it and some off the wall stuff,
heck if I were Kimmel, I would be stealing
Gryphen's material!
I'd be honored and humbled if President Obama called me, I guess Bernie wasn't in a receptive mood with "Obama Math", but whatever it was, it'll pass, it always does.
ReplyDeleteSo the President called Bernie Sanders......what do you think he said?
ReplyDeleteWell he told that old Socialist Independent Party Fake Democrat that he has done enough damage to our party. Go find a corner and go die in it.
Sanders is still campaigning (5:36pm) in the Silver Lake neighborhood in Los Angeles.
ReplyDeleteDoes Sanders know he lost?
I'm hoping he knows how long it takes to get from Silver Lake to Santa Monica in rush hour.
DeleteIt is so sad. The sun is setting on the West Coast and Sanders is like a has been boxer who is looking for a fight, any fight and doesn't know when to quit.
ReplyDeleteMSNBC just announced Sanders is going back to Vermont tomorrow morning then will go to Washington DC on Thursday to campaign. This guy is like Sarah Palin, go away, you lost!
ReplyDeleteWell, remember, Bernie has a house there, too. So it's not hard for him to campaign there.
DeleteWhispering to Bernie,
ReplyDelete"Psst Bernie, it is over"
Dont feel bad for Bernie Sanders. There are a lot of options for Bernie to pursue.
ReplyDeleteBernie Sanders's Vermont
The Bernie Sanders Channel
Amazing Sweden with Bernie Sanders
Judge Bernie
😂😂😂😂. That was funny 4:52
DeleteBreaking News
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton wins New Jersey
In the past Trump made fun of the Democratic Party presidential candidates reading from a teleprompter. Tonight he sounds like a robot as he reads from a teleprompter as he speaks from Trump National Golf Club Briarcliff Manor, NY.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump is now welcoming those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system and super delegates. He just said he welcomes them with open arms.
ReplyDeleteTrump is speaking at the Trump National Golf Club. How come Ivanka looks so sad as she stands behind her father as he tries to sound presidential. I think she knows her daddy blew it trying to use his presidential nominee candidacy to protect Trump University by attacking an American judge.
ReplyDeleteIs Bernie Sanders a surogate for Donald Trump? Trump is praising Bernie and bringing the Sanders voters into his camp.
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