Posted on 01/19/2016 4:56:00 PM PST by Kaslin
Jeb Bush must be watching the Democratic primary with unadulterated envy. The Democratic debates have been comparatively civil -- and conveniently scheduled to reduce viewership and impact. Bush has to contend with Donald Trump -- and Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida. The establishment Democrat, Hillary Clinton, has only one serious challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. She doesn't have to calculate which rival -- or rivals -- to attack. In a small field, the more seasoned candidate has the advantage.
And even though Clinton showed a more realistic understanding of what is doable in Washington during Sunday's NBC Democratic debate, the former first lady and former secretary of state is fighting for to prevail in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Sanders is not Trump, but he is as angry as The Donald. The Vermonter's first scalp would be a "corrupt campaign finance system." -- Supreme Court rulings, you see, are sacrosanct only when they uphold Obamacare.
Sanders wants to get rid of private health insurance. During the debate, Clinton deftly reminded him that "even when the Democrats were in charge of Congress, we couldn't get the votes" for a public option. Moderator Andrea Mitchell reminded Sanders that his own state recently abandoned its plan for single-payer health care because it threatened to bust the state budget. Sanders blamed Vermont's Democratic governor for not getting it done. Like Trump, Sanders boasts he can do what mere politicians cannot.
Sanders endorses a minimum wage of "at least $15 an hour." (Clinton supports a $12 federal minimum wage.) That's more than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Does the Democratic base worry about how such an increase might freeze job creation? Apparently not.
On the issue of guns, Sanders had inhabited the center. In 2005, he supported legislation that limited legal liability for gun manufacturers. He explained to CNN's Jake Tapper, "If somebody has a gun and it falls into the hands of a murderer and the murderer kills somebody with a gun, do you hold the gun manufacturer responsible? Not any more than you would hold a hammer company responsible if somebody beats somebody over the head with a hammer." After Clinton hammered Sanders on the issue, however, he announced his support for a measure to make it easier to sue gun-makers.
Political pundits talk about how the GOP has moved to the far right. Sunday's debate showed a Democratic party that has moved to the far left. Sanders wants to eliminate tuition at public universities. (Clinton countered with a pledge of "debt-free tuition" at public colleges.) All that free health care and higher education is going to cost a fortune. No worries. Sanders wants to deliver a "political revolution."
Sanders has tapped into the left's anger at Wall Street. Clinton cannot separate herself from the big banks. "You've received over $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs in one year," Sanders scolded Clinton. Sanders' angry rants would hurt him in an average election cycle. But in 2016, anger is in vogue.
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Now further posts necessary.
Ya say ya wanna revolution oh oh oh oh ya know
Perhaps if the RNC put the debates on the weekend, Yeb would have a chance.
Except Anita Dunn, White House Advisor and Mao lover.
Two socialist duking it out on who can plunder the most...
No thanks Bernie, my family has struggled for 150 years trying to get over the last one. YCGTHYCB!
And I can tell you part of that revolution will be confiscation of your 401K and IRA to feed the black hole of SS.
All of Reagan’s hard work to stop communism, and it ends up being an inside job.
Russian or French?
If he wins, he’ll get his revolution all right.
Sanders is a harmless clown followed by ignorant sheeple. If there are 3 million of them, I would be shocked.
How do you do the guitar intro in writing?
Who wouldn’t vote for their crazy grandfather, LOL
Yeah...blacks are going to vote for the old Jewish guy?
I doubt that’s going to happen.
While attending the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People's Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
After graduating with a political-science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People's History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as "America's greatest Marxist."
This subversive hero of Sanders, denounced even by liberal Democrats as a "traitor," bashed "the barons of Wall Street" and hailed the "triumphant" Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
"Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on earth," Debs proclaimed. "They have laid the foundation of the first real democracy that ever drew the breath of life in this world."
In a 1918 speech in Canton, Ohio, Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky, despite clear evidence of their violent plunder and treachery.
Sanders still hangs a portrait of Debs on the wall in his Senate office. ..."
http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/
While at the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth affiliate of the Socialist Party of America, and was active in the Civil Rights Movement as a student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In January 1962, Sanders led a rally at the University of Chicago administration building to protest university president George Wells Beadle’s segregated campus housing policy. “We feel it is an intolerable situation when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university-owned apartments,” Sanders said at the protest. Sanders and 32 other students then entered the building and camped outside the
president’s office, performing the first civil rights sit-in in Chicago history. After weeks of sit-ins, Beadle and the university formed a commission to investigate discrimination. Sanders also participated in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. That summer, he was found guilty of resisting arrest during a demonstration against segregation in Chicago’s public schools and was fined $25.
In addition to his civil rights activism during the 1960s and 1970s, Sanders was active in several peace and antiwar movements. He was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Student Peace Union while attending the University of Chicago. Sanders applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War; his application was eventually turned down, at which point he was too old to be drafted. Although he opposed the war, Sanders never placed any blame on those who fought and has been a strong supporter of veterans’ benefits.
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