Sanders campaign requests Kentucky vote recanvass

[JDPriestly]

42. It's Hillary who is acting like, as LBJ used to say, a "nervous Nellie"

about her delegates and her votes.

For a "winner," for someone who thinks she is ahead, Hillary and her supporters are being very ungracious, very grasping and very mean.

That meanness, that lack of grace, the grabbing and taunting, say something very bad about Hillary and are repulsing Bernie supporters.

This is a bad sign for Hillary.

You hear a lot about "bad losers," but being a "bad winner," that is a gloating, unkind winner in politics is the worst mistake. You end up alienating people whose votes you will eventually need. Barack Obama set the example of a good winner, someone who reaches out with kindness to those he beat in a contest.

Hillary is making huge mistakes at this stage of her campaign. She will regret the nastiness that she is sponsoring and encouraging. Bernie could still win, and he has definitely done well enough that he should have a say in any White House configuration as well as in the policies that a potential Democratic government follows. And, should she "win," she needs to make clear that there will be room for Bernie and his ideas and proposals in her administration.

This is not a winner-take-all primary. It is proportional and for good reason. If the ultimate "winner" is not inclusive, many in the Party will not support that winner. It is just how life works.

Winners must be gracious.