Ember writes: "Bernie Sanders is not a lifelong Democrat. He is not an Obama-Biden Democrat. He is not even a Democrat. But that is not stopping the party from trying to make him feel welcome - now that it has stopped him from being its leader."
Some Democrats have rushed to shower Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont with appreciation after he dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
16 April 20
When he was winning primaries, many in the Democratic Party were wary of the Vermont senator. Now, he’s a friend, chess-playing companion and “American original.”
t did not take much for Joe Biden to distinguish himself from his main rival for the Democratic nomination.
“If the Democrats want a nominee who’s a Democrat, a lifelong Democrat, a proud Democrat, an Obama-Biden Democrat,” he thundered triumphantly after his momentum-turning victory in South Carolina in February, “then join us!”
Bernie Sanders is not a lifelong Democrat. He is not an Obama-Biden Democrat. He is not even a Democrat.
