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2016 Postmortem

elleng

(130,953 posts) Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:08 PM Feb 2016

When Bernie Sanders ran against me in Vermont

'The word “complex” does not win applause in a political speech. Nuance is not welcomed. “We need a revolution,” is more powerful than “I have a plan.”'

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/04/when-bernie-sanders-ran-against-vermont/kNP6xUupbQ3Qbg9UUelvVM/story.html

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When Bernie Sanders ran against me in Vermont (Original Post) elleng Feb 2016 OP

Yup. Campaign rhetoric will always be less nuanced than what is delivered after governing. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #1

The author, Madeleine Kunin, was Dep Sec of Education under Bill Clinton before being rewarded with Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Yup. Campaign rhetoric will always be less nuanced than what is delivered after governing. nt

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Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:12 PM

Feb 2016

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

2. The author, Madeleine Kunin, was Dep Sec of Education under Bill Clinton before being rewarded with

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Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:23 PM

Feb 2016

her appointment as Clinton's Ambassador to Switzerland. Oddly those facts are left out of the bio she tags on this piece which reads "
Madeleine May Kunin, who served as governor of Vermont for three terms from 1985-1991, is a Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont, and the author of “The New Feminist Agenda, Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work and Family.”

It seems to leave out some nice gigs she got from Bill and Hillary and that strikes me as intentional. As Ambassador, this is where she lived:
http://bern.usembassy.gov/residence.html

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