Advice to Hillary in advance of her meeting with Sanders on Tuesday

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117. To be fair...

...Sanders didn't call Hillary unqualified until after her "destroy and discredit" remarks after Wisconsin. Now, even though I disagree with Hillary on a great many things, she is qualified to be president, and no reasonable person (this obviously excludes Trump supporters) can conclude that she lacks the experience required. Many of us feel that it is the wrong experience, but that is a matter of opinion that should hopefully become settled as the party unites to defeat Trump. I disagreed that Hillary was unqualified when Bernie said it, but I also thought it was an "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" moment as I felt Hillary initiated that exchange.

As for trying to flip superdelegates? Yes that was outrageous and it had me SMH. Of course I was pretty quiet on DU about it, other than occasionally declaring that I was waiting until after the June primaries to decide to join such efforts, because the primary season around here got so toxic.

As for the AP, I claim no knowledge of its motives or inclinations. The suspicion I alluded to, however, is present amongst Bernie supporters, who, if the caucuses were any indication are most decidedly not Trump supporters. Hillary has done much to cultivate trust among party leaders and in places like Iowa that are the target of heavy presidential campaigning, but that trust has not "trickled down" to the rank and file in politically unimportant states. As I told my fellow Bernie supporters, Hillary is very, very good at patronage politics, and there are parts of the country where patronage is simply how things get done (NY being one of them).

As for WA, the thing that is most upsetting to us is that we did re-evaluate our process. The voters of the state passed an initiative REQUIRING the state to hold primary elections. The state Democratic Party sued in court for the right to continue the caucuses and allocate delegates thereby. The state party won. So the fact that we use undemocratic caucuses instead of holding primary elections rests solely upon the state party leadership that decided to sue to overturn the new primary elections. Hopefully now that the caucuses delivered a result that the party establishment disliked and the primary would have given the desired result if it was binding, the state party will become more receptive to honoring the will of the state's voters.

We have a really weird situation here in Washington State if you couldn't tell.