Actor and political activist Danny Glover endorses Bernie Sanders

[Uncle Joe]

American actor and political activist Danny Glover threw his support behind U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a move that could enhance the Vermont senator’s support among black voters.

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“Sanders has put forth the most coherent policy changes to achieve full employment,” said Glover. “His economic class-based proposals for change could have great benefits for unemployed and underemployed Americans — especially African-Americans because most Black people in this country are working class and a disproportionate number are poor.”

He emphasized that the senator’s proposals, including free tuition at public universities, expanding Social Security benefits, raising the minimum wage to $15, universal health care and a youth jobs program, “are not only feasible but needed and popular.”

“We must change our national priorities, away from the endless overseas wars that are the main cause of terrorism — therefore begetting more war — and invest in the education of our children and youth,” Glover added. “Here, too, Sanders shows a clear contrast with his opponent, who voted for the Iraq War and has continued since then to advocate a more belligerent foreign policy than that of President Obama.”


http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/actor-and-political-activist-danny-glover-endorses-bernie-sanders

[Electric Monk]

1. 113 recs and counting

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511147755

[Uncle Joe]

2. 117 now that I just added my rec.

[WillyT]

4. HUGE K & R !!!

Thank you for the thread, Uncle Joe !!!

[AtomicKitten]

5. Turns out Murtaugh is, in fact, not too old for this shit.

[onehandle]

6. Another 2000 Nader Endorser for Sanders!

Yay?

[Uncle Joe]

7. Well that's something Danny didn't have in common with Bernie.

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When he decided to deliver an eight-hour, 37-minute speech blasting a deal struck to extend George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, Sanders was careful not to punish his colleagues by keeping them in Washington over the weekend.

“I find it hard to believe when we are talking about massive cuts in programs for working families, when we have a huge national debt, that anyone would be agreeing to lowering the estate-tax rate,” Sanders railed to a mostly empty chamber.

“The Speech,” as it came to be known, turned Sanders into a hero to many progressives, while costing him little goodwill among his colleagues.

His alliance with the Democrats paid off by helping him fend off challengers. Sanders endorsed Bill Clinton and later Al Gore over the Green Party’s Nader, despite lauding Nader as “an exemplary progressive.” The party would usually stand down at election time, leaving Sanders to compete for liberal votes against the likes of the Organic Life party.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511150489

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/02/05/his-most-radical-move/

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. huge! nt

[beam me up scottie]

9. I proudly stand with Danny Glover, actor, activist, and fellow Bernista!

[Uncle Joe]

10. Likewise, beam me up scottie.

[Nyan]

11. Very eloquently put.

Bravo!!!!!!

[John Poet]

12. "Free South Africa, ya dumb son of a bitch!"

My favorite Danny Glover scene:

From Lethal Weapon 2, back when South Africa still had apartheid...