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Sanders says it’s time to stop looking at the past.

America’s most popular politician – Sen. Bernie Sanders – I-Vt. – appeared on Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Thursday night where he was asked to respond to leaked excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s new book in which she blamed the senator for causing ‘lasting damage making it harder to unify progressives’ as well as accused him of joining the presidential race to ‘to disrupt the Democratic Party’.

Instead of firing back at Clinton the longest reigning Independent senator in U.S. history, explained that he didn’t divide progressives at all.

‘Actually – the case is that the progressive movement today – and grassroots activism, is stronger than it has been in many many years’ Sanders told Colbert.

 ‘As a result of our campaign millions of young people began to vote for the first time – became engaged in the political process .

. . we have got to stand together against [President Donald] Trump’s efforts to divide us up – take on the billionaire class and make that political revolution so that we have a government that works for all of us – not just the one percent’ Sanders explained.

Colbert sarcastically pointed out that those were the exact attacks Clinton was talking about.

‘But I understand’ Sanders continued.

‘Look – Secretary Clinton ran against the most unpopular candidate in the history of this country and she lost and was upset about that and I understand that’ he said. (ed:..ouch..!..eh.?)

‘It is to go forward.

It is to create the kind of nation we know we can become.

We have enormous problems facing us and I think it’s a little bit silly to keep talking about 2016’.

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(ed:..you go you good bernie..!..)

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Source: Bernie Sanders responds to Hillary Clinton’s book criticisms: “But our job now is really not to go backwards. It is to go forward” – Salon.com

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Sanders and several Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign reportedly knew there was a messaging problem.

A new book by two veteran political reporters offers an exclusive look into Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign – including what rival Bernie Sanders really thought of her ‘Im with her’ campaign slogan.

‘It’s so phony!’ Sanders allegedly said when asked to repeat the line during an ad for Clinton after endorsing the Democratic presidential nominee.

According to ‘Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes – Sanders refused to say the ‘I’m with her’ in the script for an ad that highlighted Clinton’s focus on eduction and health care – The Hill reported.

‘It’s so phony!’ Sanders said of Clinton’s infamous campaign slogan.

‘I don’t want to say that’.

Sanders did not end up reading the line in the ad – which ultimately never aired because Clinton staffers believed the Vermont senator was delivering the message as himself as opposed to a surrogate for the campaign.

According to the account in ‘Shattered’ even former-Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau expressed frustration with the Democratic nominee’s campaign.

Parnes and Allen’s new book revealed that Favreau was tapped to help write Clinton’s speech announcing her presidential bid.

The former speechwriter for the prior two presidential campaigns-  Favreau reportedly dropped out of the announcement speech because the campaign did not have a ‘common purpose’.

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Source: “It’s so phony”: New book reveals what Bernie Sanders really thought of Hillary Clinton’s campaign message – Salon.com