Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: What's the real reason Bernie requested a meeting with Pres. Obama and Sen. Reid? [View all]Corporate666
(587 posts)and who keeps going "up the chain of command" thinking that if she just gets louder, more insistent, more brash and acts like more of a squeaky wheel, that someone will finally give her what she wants.
I am sure Bernie is going to plead his case to Hillary's "boss" because he hasn't gotten much traction with HRC on his own.
The thing is - and I say this without any particular hatred for Bernie - he just does not have nearly the capital that he thinks he does. He has already lost. He has been beaten fair and square. Hillary doesn't *need* him. I don't think BS understands that. I don't think he understands she doesn't need his voters either.
Unless Bernie is going to threaten to actively work against HRC, then I don't see what he has to offer to Obama/HRC or to the DNC. And if he sits there with Obama and tries to be a hardass and say "I need X, Y and Z in order to work to help HRC", then I think he is in for a rude awakening. Because the reality is that the race is OVER, and whether he does it now or next week or after the convention, Bernie *WILL* be going back to Vermont and he WILL be just another member of the senate, and an insignificant one at that, and he WILL be very much relying on the good will of democrats and their party to give him a voice and give him a role to play in government. As an independent from Vermont, he is a non-entity in the Senate. He's a nobody. So he best be *really* careful about how hard he plays the single pair hand he's got, and be best not be thinking he's got a flush.