Posted on 10/16/2017 9:11:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DR Jane O’Meara Sanders, the wife and senior advisor to former US Presidential Democratic candidate Senator Bernie Sanders said her husband may consider running again in the next US presidential election.
Speaking in Limerick as part of the inaugural I.NY festival, Dr Sanders said that: “Whether Bernie runs or not, we are going to do absolutely everything to ensure that it is his vision that is carried forward. He’ll determine whether it’s the right thing to do for the country and we’ll determine whether it’s the right thing to do for us.”
Dr Sanders was in conversation in the University Concert Hall with Professor Joseph O’Connor, the author and holder of the Frank McCourt chair in creative writing at UL. She said she would not run herself to become president, and would not to be drawn further on other candidates she would like to see running to become to 46th President of the US in 2021.
She said her “heart goes out” to defeated candidate Hillary Clinton.
“We saw her at President Trump’s inaugural, which was difficult for all of us. I mean it was a hard loss to win the popular vote and lose the electoral college vote to someone who honestly we all felt had to be stopped.”
She added that she and many others believed that the incumbent was “someone we felt would be a very bad fit for the nation.”
From the outset, she and her husband believed that “this is not like any other election” and said that had the belief that “whether you like her [Clinton] or not you have to support her for the country.”
“Secretary Clinton has been vilified since she was First Lady of Arkansas; virtually nothing has stuck. But the cloud has stuck, unfortunately and unfairly. I got a little bit of that during the presidential campaign, but a pittance compared to what she has endured.”
She said she wasn’t “wild” about her husband’s decision to run for the presidency, but said she would support him in whatever he chose to do. “We used to talk about how every Senator gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror and sees the next president. He never had any interest in that.
“But it was very frustrating to be in Congress and see the incremental changes, but people weren’t moving. He felt the best he could do to focus on the issues would be to run for president or have somebody else take that mantle and run, and nobody else was doing it.
Speaking about her husband’s campaign, she said: “It’s not enough to defeat your opponents – you have to destroy them. We don’t do that, have never and will never do that type of campaign.”
Of Irish heritage, she said she had an “idyllic upbringing” in Brooklyn, at a time when pictures of President John F. Kennedy were often hung alongside the Sacred Heart in many Irish-American homes.
Prof O’Connor queried what he should say to his students who wonder why they should “waste” their time caring about real issues when “what electoral politics delivers to you is Donald Trump in America, and Brexit in the UK, and little ugly nationalisms everywhere else.”
“They don’t have the option to throw up their hands in despair, there’s too much at stake,” she replied.
We should do everything we can to insure he gets the nomination. If we can’t beat him we got no business being in business. Start out by saying he would have beaten Trump.
Do it, Boiny. The nation needs a 95-year old Stalinist nutter as President. Larry David needs the work, too.
Oh, aye! The fake Irish are coming out of the woodwork this week.
Billy Boy is comforting the females in the wake of a bit of wind and rain in Dublin this week.
She wants to make sure that his vision is carried forward? I remember reading on the CPUSA site during the campaign that, while Sanders was not the one they were looking for, his movement could be built upon for the revolution.
Are all the Dems over in the British Isles? Hillary’s drunk and falling down stairs in England. Bill’s doing selfies with young girls in Dublin, and Bernie’s wife is in Limerick spewing fantasy Presidential runs.
The first presidential nominee with a walker onstage
if he lives that long . . . he’s very old
Heard on Tucker Carlson tonight that someone has counted 32 possible Democrats to run in the 2020 primary. Bernie’ll be one of ‘em, you can be sure.
Maybe someone can help me here.. What are these people doing in Ireland ?
Isn’t she under investigation? Whatever happened about all that money she embezzled?
Yeah, a communist a**hole as president is just what America needs, Sanders....NOT.
There once was a doctor named Jane
Who promised Burlington College some gain,
She made a bad bet,
The school sank deeper in debt,
and it finally went down the drain.
Trump REALLY needs to bring back industry from China, to America.
Everyone is sold out. Trump ran, on bringing back US industry and production, to America.
Lately he hasn’t said this, as much as before. China continues meanwhile, to gobble up American industry, around the globe.
Trump Sanders might have beat you, if he had been the candidate.
He is also not a globalist.
If he is considering another run, you are about to be flanked by the wrong people.
Just saying. Everyone is selling out America.
Except you, it had seemed.
Start standing up for America.
You said that while you were running. Do it.
That old losing candidate Bernie,
Before he got back in the tourney,
Breathed his last, felt the burn--
That's him in that urn--
And now he's on some other journey.
Hell, Mrs. S will be a convicted felon by the next election and will have lost her right to vote.
What is she drinking? Does Vermont have a lot of Kool-Aid, Vodka (the real Russian stuff since they got married in Moscow and probably brought back a stash of it), or LDS-laced Lotte’s?
‘Tis a fine limerick indeed.
Who with Comrade Fidel loved to journey
Social scams he wrought
But his wife got caught
And now they both need an attorney
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