Anyone who aspires to be President of the USA gets vetted, aka the anal treatment, wherein every flotsam and jetsam of his or her life is examined. Anyone, that is, except Barack Obama, which is why the Alternative Media stepped in to do the vetting that the MSM refused to do. (See all the links colored red in our "The Obama Chronicles" page.) Bernie Sanders is no different. In May 2015, the leftwing magazine Mother Jones published an uncritical account of avowed socialist Sanders' early years. The article included a screenshot of a curious essay Sanders had written in 1972...