Sounds like a quibble to me. Did he have to say the word "acclamation" since the result of releasing his delegates was exactly that?

Unbelievable!!!

Picayune.

I am not his biggest fan, but there are so many very passionate, good people who believe in him with all their hearts, he almost had to do it that way.

Let it go

Bernie is working his hart out to bring as many of his supporters along as he can I am sorry that you are not able to see that.

Most of of are now once again on the same team again, let us go together and make Hillary the next POTUS.
lets all let bygones be bygones

and will WIN IN NOVEMBER!

I know how frustrated you were yesterday.

Today is a GREAT day.

I keep reminding myself that there are a few here are blind with hate for Bernie.

Hiding thread for now.

Now I suspect there will be some people who will forever say that she never "properly" was nominated, and therefore can't be the legitimate nominee, or something like that. I may just bookmark this for future citation.

I think we deserve to have our voices heard. I'm dissapointed in Bernie. In 2008 Hillary lost by less than 1% of the vote. Today Hillary won by a landslide.. I too need and should have my voice heard.

He did everything he could have done to try to unify the party while keeping as many of his supporters on board as possible. This is petty, especially on such a wonderful and historic day.

It was a good moment. I am very content.

Bernie has been a class act throughout the DNC...

Cmon! Bernie did great by Hillary!

This is the time for unity! Hillary and Bernie will be shoulder to shoulder against Trump and we need to be right their with them!

To become the first female nominee of a major party. She did so in epic fashion. It was a bookend blowout. Who cares about the rest at this point.

This is about Clinton and the first female nominee no matter how hard others try to bask in the limelight.

Really shitty remark on your part.

Sanders rocks. Fuck Trump.

PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a move to bridge the divide in the Democratic Pary, on Tuesday moved to nominate Hillary Clinton by acclamation as the Democratic nominee for president.

His motion came after nearly two hours of roll call votes and was greeted with chants of "Bernie, Bernie."

The Vermont has waited 15 months to watch his delegates cast ballots for him at the Democratic National Convention.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/26/bernie-sanders-awaits-roll-call-vote/87561974/

...was so that the votes made by his supporters were acknowledged and not just swept under the rug. I thought it was a pretty awesome way to do things.

Talk about getting cought up in the weeds. It's meaningless.

too many here agree with you it's futile. Besides I hope this stands for hours as a testament of pettiness and sheer mean-spiritedness.

Watch as this gets recs....

as the posts show. And most of those posts are from Hillary supporters.

my five failed alerts last night on the despicable Bernie bashing all failed, including the one saying Bernie was like Ted Cruz.

for posts that did not break the rules, within 5 minutes of each other. There's enough assholery to go around. I am going to use the words of Michelle Obama - when they go low, I'll go high. We are a UNIFIED party now and must move forward to win in November.

I alerted an hour and a half ago.

As for your hides well, all I'll say about those is you also were not aiming for unity last night.

Too bad this "unity" effort has decided to keep the Bernie bashing going.

it was here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2299306


I just happened to keep track of that one...

Admin must have taken it down

I hope.

Madam Secretary, Madam Secretary, I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules and suspend the further conduct of the roll call vote. All votes cast by the delegates will be counted, and that I move Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be selected by this convention by acclamation as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States!

Show me the video where Bernie said that.

and lead to a victory in November?

MR. SANDERS: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I MOVE THAT THE CONVENTION SUSPEND THE PROCEDURAL RULES. I MOVE THAT ALL VOTES CAST BY DELEGATES BE REFLECTED IN THE OFFICIAL RECORD, AND I MOVE THAT HILLARY CLINTON BE SELECTED AS THE NOMINEE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

He did a good thing tonight - - there is no need to be petty and a sore winner. What Sanders did tonight really helped with unity.

This convention is working out better than most of us expected.

I supported Hillary, but near about 45% supported Sanders. Recording that fact makes us stronger, not weaker.

Hell, half the republicans boycotted their convention since they knew their voice would be squelched.

And Bernie is now all in for her! He pretty much sent the message that a person who does not support Clinton cannot claim to be a Bernie supporter.

I was and am a fan of Bernie. He has (as well as many folks here) convinced me to support our nominee.

Period.

Really?

4 recs for a flame fest.

I seek the Grail.

Do you mean the European swallow or the African swallow.

Unity!

We could keep this up for a long time.
nya nya nya

between appeasing his supporters so they come into Hillary's tent and unequivocally supporting Hillary. And when push has come to shove, he has, in the face of boos, been steadfast. He's done everything he can.

The people that are still booing and walking out aren't even Democrats. They came here to throw a temper tantrum, and are using Bernie as platform to do that. He's not responsible for them anymore. He's done everything he can.

This is getting to be fun.
Could it become the new "Thread That Never Dies"?*

*See "Kudzu".

Congrats...

This is getting hilarious.

The pettiness here is breathtaking.

what he's been through this past year... I realize he signed up for it, but I would have thrown up my hands by this time.

A vote by acclamation would have made it as if no one voted, and would have made Bernie's delegate's work meaningless. And that's something I didi't want to see.

I'm sure the plan was discussed and agreed upon by several of the involved parties, and it worked. It was a very touching moment, no matter what verbiage was used, which I can't even tell the difference about.

You can't be serious.

rilly

Absolutely shameful. YOU should have been a bigger person. I can't believe people have recced this thread.

and was gracious in his defeat. Time now is to unite and not divide.

you're making something personal and ugly.

By calling for the official record to reflect the actual vote, he was showing that he accepts the results of the roll call and recognizes that Hillary won.

Earlier, I was afraid that there could be a last stand. It didn't happen. He said the right things. Even his people seemed to be more for unity with the rest of us. I was pleased. Now if we can just stay on the same page to get Hillary elected, flip the Senate to D, turn the Supreme Court to Liberal.

Deliberate shit stirring, hurts Bernie AND Hillary supporters. Just crap.

Are you kidding me? I'll only repeat what someone else wrote earlier..."you could not be any smaller."

-P

On Edit: I've been here for a pretty long time and I have never put anyone on "Ignore." You will be the first....Now if I can just figure out how that is done.

Ever think of that?

They are spoiled brats!

Because the delegates would see that as giving up.

This is really the only way he could do it.

He needed to make sure his voters knew their votes would be recorded and counted while also allowing Secretary Clinton to be nominated by acclamation.

This couldn't have been easy for him, but he did what he needed to do to unify the party. I applaud him for it.

I believe that this was the decent thing to do after having told his delegates that he would do this.

1) As a demonstration of democracy in action, a message that when you vote, your votes ARE counted and they DO matter. It's been a consistent theme and message, consistent with letting Californians have their say too. In America we keep trying to shortcut democracy. It was methodical, and a sacred ritual, when I was a child. Doing this the way he did is a way to honor the process. Treating it as a ritual imbues it with an appropriate degree of respect.
2) Buy-in of the Bernie voters. Seeing the count,going all the way to the end, made it clear that he fought the good fight but didn't win the race. Many of us who were skeptical about the machinations of the elections will remember that at some level there was a fair count, and he did well but not well enough, and there was a clear winner and it's time to support her.
3) Most importantly, a record of the count with Bernie getting 43% gives hope to future progressives, future democratic socialists, and any democrats who question whether it is safe to come out as progressive and left leaning. After thirty five years of propaganda that tried to make "liberal" a dirty word, after decades of equating socialism with communism, here is a clear undeniable proof of the extent of support for those ideals.

I'm very glad he handled it this way.

silly

now. Now.