Weirdly, the big turning point is some thousands of e-mails (every thing today is in the thousands whether it is e-mail on closing of a bridge or a party chair ) have been made public by WikiLeaks, one of which reads as follows:
It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.**
This is being broadly interpreted as an anti-Jewish e-mail that to be an atheist would be better than being a Jew, but, I read it the other way around, in that to be Jewish would be better than an atheist. We are talking Southern Baptists here. Do they really interpret having no belief in God is better than being a Jew with a belief in God?*** The person who wrote this might have just Googoled Bernie Sanders to find the result.
And then, no one seems to note that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is Jewish.* At least "they" are not clannish if she is anti-Jewish. No, she is pro-woman. At any rate she knows she can retire from her position with a woman running for president on a major party.
I really wonder what to think of Bernie Sanders. First off he wasn't a member of the Democratic Party. Some like me think it was very nice of the party to let him come in and run for the presidential nomination of their party. Then he spends the whole time bitching. Lost in all this was Obama winning the nomination against the same Hillary Clinton that Bernie lost to using the same rules.
Hillary got more of the popular vote, won more states, and got the most super-delegates. Remember that Obama faced the same obstacles as Bernie, yet Obama won against the same opponent.! Sorry Bernie, but you lost the nomination. You really did. Bernie did win on some things like a plan for free college tuition and some others on the platform so he did get something. Fortunately, Bernie has an even lower opinion of Donald Trump so he keeps saying that Trump must lose. I hope he sticks to it.
Now some of Bernie's "people" want to trash the vice-presidential pick for the Democratic nomination. What's happened to the Republican party Well as Will Rogers said a long time ago, "I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat." Nothing has changed.
Bernie doesn't like the idea of super-delegates, but I don't like the idea of caucuses where only a small fraction of the potential voters actually vote. And if it wasn't for the caucuses, Bernie would not have been anywhere. Caucuses can turn the tide in favor of one candidate while the voters want a different one as shown by Washington State that had both.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz
** https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/new-leak-top-dnc-official-wanted-to-use-bernie-sanderss-religious-beliefs-against-him
*** Though raised Jewish, Sanders says that he is "not particularly religious," nor is he a member of any congregation or synagogue. "I am not actively involved in organized religion,"......"It's a guiding principle in my life, absolutely," said the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate.
"You know, everyone practices religion in a different way. To me, I would not be here tonight, I would not be running for president of the United States if I did not have very strong religious and spiritual feelings."(http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/14/politics/bernie-sanders-religion/)
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