Former President Barack Obama has purposely avoided endorsing anyone for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. Still, that hasn’t stopped a new and misleading Sanders ad from presenting itself as if the 44th president has suddenly started “feeling the Bern.”
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Joe Biden mopped the floor with Bernie Sanders during the Super Tuesday Democratic presidential primary and collected endorsements from Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, and Mike Bloomberg. So, Sanders (who has been extremely critical of President Obama in the past) responded by coming up with a “magical” and misleading Sanders ad that is deceiving at best and an outright lie at its worst.
“Bernie is somebody who has the virtue of saying exactly what he believes,” Mr. Obama is heard saying in the ad. “Great authenticity, great passion, and is fearless.”
However, what Bernie doesn’t tell you is that the ad was spliced together from words Mr. Obama made about Sanders on 3 different occasions: an interview with Politico in 2016, a 2006 speech then-President Obama made in Vermont to support Sanders’ campaign for the US Senate, and Mr. Obama’s 2016 convention speech when he encouraged Sanders supporters to get behind Hillary Clinton for president.
Yes, with the release of this misleading Sanders ad, Bernie has suddenly wrapped himself in the popularity of Barack Obama in the hopes of garnering personal gain. However, Barack Obama has endorsed no one — not even Joe Biden, his own vice-president.
So, what’s really going on here?
Bernie Sanders and his supporters are making it known that they believe the Democratic National Committee “stacked the deck” against them by ordering Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and the others to drop out and announce their support for Biden.
Author and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson called the unexpected Biden support a “coup” by establishment Democrats to stop Bernie. Others called the endorsements “unfair” and outright “cheating” to help Biden, somehow completely ignoring democracy at work and that this is what voting and politics are all about.
Apparently, the Sanders camp convinced themselves that their misleading Sanders ad — with its perceived endorsement from Barack Obama — would fly under the radar and that no one would recognize Mr. Obama never offered any endorsement whatsoever.
Too bad for Bernie, his plan just didn’t work as expected and now everyone knows his ad is a fake, a fraud, and a phony.
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Too bad for Bernie, his plan just didn’t work as expected and now everyone knows his ad is a fake, a fraud, and a phony. […]- DJ Yep. Just like the man himself – a cynical hypocrite, “a fake, a fraud and a phony.” I was hoping you’d jump on this DJ and once again you did not disappoint. When I first saw the ad yesterday my immediate reaction was Wait. What!?! This smug leader of a non-existent “revolution” or “movement” (he goes back and forth in his description) -a man who actually considered waging a primary challenge against Pres. Obama (the first Afri-Amer. President in U.S. history) in 2012; who literally referred to Pres. Obama as a charismatic failure – this joker has the audacity to throw this fake ad together in hopes of bamboozling enough Dem voters (especially Black voters) into supporting his smug, hypocritical azz over Joe… Read more »