I think the last graf in the Guardian article suggests that Jeff St. Clair is closer to the mark than you:
Sanders’ campaign director, Jeff Weaver, told reporters he did not “anticipate we are going to contest” specific results but hoped there would be an investigation into what happened. You know what they say about hope and change. On 2/5/16 8:56 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > Compare: > > Lead paragraph, Counterpunch: > > "Did Hillary Clinton really win the diversionary spectacle known as the > Iowa Caucuses by two-tenths of a percent? Probably not. But we will > never know. Why? Because Bernie Sanders refuses to call the results into > question and demand the release the raw vote totals, which would likely > show the senator won the actual vote by a decisive margin." > > to > > Bernie Sanders wants raw vote count released after tight finish in Iowa > caucuses > Dramatic clash with Hillary Clinton for Democratic presidential > nomination is sign public want change, says leftwing senator > http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/02/bernie-sanders-requests-vote-count-tight-finish-iowa-caucus-clinton > > This is the problem with Counterpunch. They just don't give a flying > fuck whether anything they say is true. > > > > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > (202) 448-2898 x1 > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > In reality, the Sanders revolution was over before it started. The > revolutionary aspiration expired the moment Sanders to run in the > Democratic Party primaries, instead of as an independent, where he might > have proved a real menace to the neoliberal establishment. > > Revolutions aren’t led by well-meaning wimps. Revolutions are about > seizing power. They are about righting wrongs. Revolutions demand fierce > confrontation and, as Robespierre might say, sharply-administered > accountability. But Sanders was never interested in a real revolution. > He’s more Hubert Humphrey than Che Guevara–a timid reformer, an old-time > liberal ranting in the antechambers of a party that has long since made > its Faustian bargain with the agents of austerity. For the Democrats, > there’s no going back from that deal of shame. > > Left and right, the sour mood of the country burns for a true political > and economic rebellion. It may well happen. But look for it out on the > streets, not in the hollow rituals of these elections. > > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/05/when-chivalry-fails-st-bernard-and-the-machine/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
