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Can anyone really imagine Bernie Sanders in the White House?
The Washington Post ^ | November 15,2015 | By Stephen Stromberg

Posted on 11/15/2015 3:37:15 PM PST by Hojczyk

Bernie Sanders speaks passionately about inequality, campaign finance and other serious issues that Americans should care about. Martin O’Malley has a record of progressive accomplishment as governor of Maryland. But can you imagine either in the Oval Office?

Little in Friday’s second Democratic debate suggested that either man’s candidacy is more than a mirage.

Despite Sanders’s rhetorical fire, he once again failed to demonstrate the range or the realism the presidency requires. He began the night with a couple obligatory lines on the Paris attacks, but he pivoted back to his one-note message about economic inequality and billionaires so quickly it was jarring.

Then, challenged to explain how he would make good on his rhetoric, Sanders repeated his lines about leading a “political revolution” in which Americans will press his agenda forward against the wishes of the billionaires. “What we need is leadership in this country which revitalizes American democracy and makes people understand that if they stand up and fight back and take on the billionaire class, we can bring about the change that we need,” he said.

This is not a serious answer to a question about political reality, in large part because the billionaire class is not the only reason Congress wouldn’t ever approve his program. Sanders’s is a version of the same pitch we hear every four years from one presidential primary candidate or another: If we rise up, Americans will realize that they really agree with us, political incentives will reverse and we will have to compromise less. That sort of thinking has done wonders for Republican Party lately.

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To: Bullish

Lol, nothing but net. Good one!


21 posted on 11/15/2015 3:59:58 PM PST by SWAMP-C1PHER (HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
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To: Hojczyk

I couldn’t imagine Obama in the White House either.

I guess I just don’t have enough imagination for horror.


22 posted on 11/15/2015 4:05:51 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Hojczyk

I thought that was Larry David standing in for Bern last night.


23 posted on 11/15/2015 4:05:59 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Captain7seas
I think he would excel as an orchestra conductor.

No, he's too strung out and doesn't like hanging with the brass.

24 posted on 11/15/2015 4:09:23 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Hojczyk

More easily than I can imagine a pro terrorist, but there you have it


25 posted on 11/15/2015 4:11:14 PM PST by stanne
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To: Hojczyk

Hard to beat Santa.


26 posted on 11/15/2015 4:28:26 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Hojczyk

If the Mrs. baked cookies,, maybe it would be an improvement. ;-}


27 posted on 11/15/2015 4:30:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Weekend at Bernie’s!

This guy just looks like he smells like mothballs.

Just a placeholder util Hil gets in.


28 posted on 11/15/2015 4:30:19 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Hojczyk

The only way he gets elected is if The Cheap Labor Express is successful getting their amnesty candidate


29 posted on 11/15/2015 4:38:51 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RitaOK

TRUMP-SESSIONS 2016

I like that ticket!


30 posted on 11/15/2015 4:42:51 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

The Communist part of him yes.....the Jewish Nasty part of him NO WAY, JOSE!!


31 posted on 11/15/2015 4:48:01 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Hojczyk

Heh. Imagine Hillary in the White House and the paradigm of disrespect and national general slowdown that would begin against seniors.


32 posted on 11/15/2015 4:49:31 PM PST by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
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To: Hojczyk

Yes, as the butler.


33 posted on 11/15/2015 5:29:15 PM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

<><<< I like that ticket! >>><

I am happy you do! No political baggage with Sessions. No two year strategy to run. No crap. No rhetoric. Just the head down, the research done and the facts out— with humble giant, Sessions.


34 posted on 11/15/2015 5:33:08 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Hojczyk
Can anyone really imagine Bernie Sanders in the White House?

Yes, I can. There are many rest rooms in the White House. With a lot of training and through the use of illustrated charts, I think he could probably learn to clean many of them. (Though I think we'd have to watch children around him. That's just my opinion.)
35 posted on 11/15/2015 7:23:10 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Hojczyk

Couldn’t imagine Obozo in the Casa Blanca 8 years ago either.


36 posted on 11/15/2015 8:02:25 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: Bullish
No but I could definitely imagine Bernie in the nut house.

For sure. The most extreme wing of the nut house, too.

37 posted on 11/15/2015 8:06:06 PM PST by JustaCowgirl (When its all about Obama, the rest of us generally get a boot to the head --Investors Business Daily)
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