Bernie's background is interesting.
http://vtdigger.org/2015/07/09/bernie-sanders-early-days-in-vermont-his-life-loves-and-circuitous-route-to-politics/"One period of his life, the years from 1964 to 1971, however, has been left unexplained."
I have read this twice and I am still confused. Your bio is your bio and it should not be that difficult to sort out the truth. How many times has he been married? How did he avoid the draft?
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I'll post it when I get it, something about the grouo not being used for bashing Bernie? Seems like the hosts job IMO, not a jury.
Though I do agree that the article would be better off in GD
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The first one was his college sweetheart (he married and divorced her, she has the same name as the star of Will and Grace, Deborah Messing), the second was Susan Mott, the mother of his son, Levi (he apparently did not marry her, even though the newspaper reported her name at the birth as Susan Sanders), and the third is his present wife, in the photo below with the blue patterened shirt and dark trousers, standing behind the Senator.
The son is in the striped shirt to the left:
It looks like this source (with a number of pictures) got a lot of their detail from VT Digger, which has been covering the Sanders candidacy from the start.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3155396/Bernie-Sanders-1960s-love-life-revealed-wife-woman-son-sugar-shack-home-lived-revolutionary.html
I'm a bit surprised that anyone would consider this thread to be alert-worthy. These details will come out, and many more, too--calling people names for repeating what's in the major papers is a pointless exercise. Nowadays, no one cares about a full grown "love child." And if the marriage, and later, the kid were useful in terms of getting a draft deferment, well, it's not like he was a pro-war type, anyway...he's been consistent on that point, certainly. Bill Clinton put his money where his mouth was, in a well-written letter, too, with regard to Vietnam service, and George Bush went AWOL. Hillary is off the hook, they wouldn't let her serve in any meaningful capacity during that conflict.
It's just weird that anyone would get so angry, especially since VT DIGGER has been pretty kind to Sanders in their coverage. They're not going to lie about anything, but they're not going for the "gotcha" either. Now, the DM, sure, they'd play gotcha all day--but they always have good pictures and a few facts swirled into their innuendo, but we KNOW that about them so we're smart to be en garde. They're very tabloid-y in that regard.
This isn't anything for anyone to get excited about....now, if they found out he was dealing weed and coke back then, that might make the conversation more interesting! I haven't seen a thing pointing in that direction, though, so I suspect people hoping for something on those lines might be disappointed. From what I heard, he was doing basic handyman stuff and trying to be a writer or something--sometimes the truth is boring. We'll see, though. He'll have to get more traction before anyone spends a fortune oppo-ing him in a big way.
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Try as they might, they can't keep a good man down. 
BTW, these two sweet guys are still raising big cats. They insist the mauling by Mantecore was not an attack, but a defensive act as Roy was having a seizure from the flashing lights. It's a form of epilepsy, for those not in the know, and rapid light changes trigger it.
Which is exactly what happened at their show, too many flashing lights. And cats carry each other by the throat, the way that their mothers move them. Roy had a very poor prognosis and had to have a lot of terrible surgery but exceeded all expectations and is doing well, only slightly handicapped. There are a lot of good pictures of the pair at the Daily Mail.
to them and you! Thanks for all you do for HRC. Hitlery! 
It's starting to look like "Gunfight at OK Corral" so we need all the gunfighters we can get! 
Apparently, denying Hillary Clinton the nomination and the presidency is the be all and end all of a great deal of participation around here.
'Someone else' is the beneficiary, electable or not. Reason and rationality have left the building.
Hillary needs to get out her hammer and nails ($), and finish off the irrational exuberance.
This is not 2008.
Who needs a gun? I have superpowers, yallerdawg.
We now have our own "Justice League"!
Great hosts stepping up against the hordes! 
It is a great group of hosts here. We sure will be busy.
are held to that "higher standard"?
We don't get to play like everyone else? 
But two Wrights can make a Airplane 
Alright it seem to me some DUers do like tearing other Democratic's down. I prefer to talk about Issues that relate to the problems which actually have an effect on Americans instead of any candidate's marriage, I may be wrong but I feel that it is in the RePucks interest to have talk of marriage instead of the real Issues.
Someone drops in and complains about what we shouldn't do, how it will hurt us...while actually repeating the same nasty accusation over and over?
Beware the 5th Column.
