Did you ever notice that here we have a 74 year old man with the qualities of youth 40 years younger

[BigBearJohn]

a true leader with a wondrous quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, and a real appetite for adventure -- and he is channeling that passion into an urgent need for change in our nation -- a "revolution" if you will.

He inspires the dreams of our impassioned youth as well as people of all ages and he is an indefatigable champion of human rights, working tirelessly every day to produce the innovative, collaborative solutions we all seek.

It seems that most people get more conservative -- more "careful" as they age, not willing to take on the huge and difficult goals that are often needed to affect real change in a society. Sure, it's easier to maintain the status quo... being careful -- careful to offer only "incremental changes." NOT BERNIE (thank God). He is a tiger. OUR TIGER!!!!

[Agschmid]

1. Sanders has gotten more conservative as he's aged.

Many articles in SevenDaysVT about it, nothing bad about something like that.

[CdnExtraNational]

2. Honest people age more slowly nt

[DrBulldog]

3. Did anyone ever REMEMBER that his opponent recently took a fall ...

... and received an eye-sight damaging concussion that took SIX MONTHS from which to recover?

Tell me again which one is too old and fragile?

[PonyUp]

6. Don't forget the coughing spasms she keeps having. n/t

[mythology]

38. Spoken like somebody who doesn't understand concussions

It's offensively uninformed to say somebody is too slow to recover from an injury, but especially a brain injury.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. great art, thanks for sharing

love it!!!

[BigBearJohn]

30. You are very welcome

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. A 34-year-old youth? Just sayin'. NT

[Javaman]

8. wait till you are his age...

I'm 53 and anyone under 30 looks like a kid to me.

it's not meant to be insulting in the least.

everything is relative.

[SCantiGOP]

7. This reminds me of North Korea

Nothing like a cult of personality to keep the acolytes interested.

[Lizzie Poppet]

18. The exact objection so many have to Hillary acolytes.

Funny how that works...

[SCantiGOP]

20. have to disagree

I have never seen or heard anything like this original post concerning an American politician. Sounds more like Stalin or one of the Great/Dear Leaders from North Korea.

[CalvinballPro]

42. +1

More LefTea Party nonsense. And the scary part is, this is worse than the progressive projection that was put onto Obama 8 years ago.

[SCantiGOP]

43. Great screen name

And welcome to DU.

[olddots]

9. the issues have nothing to do about what age you are

sexual prefetences , education , religion or ethnicity .Some humans are greedy and empathize less than other humans .Nobybody knows why so to simpliy the complexity of life we choose sides .One side wants equality the other side wants to be more equal .
It's pretty simple but we don't get it unless we try .

[DavidDvorkin]

10. On the contrary

He reminds me of a lot of grumpy, lecturing, hectoring, short-tempered old people I encountered when I was growing up. I'm 72; I couldn't stand them then, and I can't stand them now.

[ChiciB1]

13. Apparently YOU Are ONE TOO!

Pot calling kettle BLACK it seems. Maybe people think the same about you.

[DavidDvorkin]

19. My, my.

[Hekate]

25. Heh.

[politicaljunkie41910]

32. Agreed that is what his actions during every debate reminds me of.

For someone who's 74, he looks at least 10 years older to me and all that anger he exhibits during the debates can't be good for his health at 74. I find all the repeated hand raising and waving to be annoying as hell, in a two person debate. The people conducting the debate see him. His behavior is starting to resemble that of Donald Trump, someone else who seems to exhibit the patience and self-control of a 3 year old.

[ChiciB1]

12. I Have To Reply To This BECAUSE My 20 Year Old

grand daughter and my 48 year daughter and I recently had a small "stretching" contest. I don't want what I'm going to say to be considered bragging, just trying to make a point.

Ever since I was very young I played sports and was probably what you would call a Tom Boy. Back then there were few sports offered to girls in school so most sports I engaged in like kick ball, baseball, swimming or track was done after school. And yeah I DID get into some fist fights with a bunch of boys and won!

When I got to high school the ONLY competitive sport that was offered to girls was tennis, and I did a LOT of winning. I did sooooooo much winning you wouldn't believe it, sooooo much winning! THAT was my small imitation of T-Rump in case you didn't catch it. Sooooo much winning, LOL!

I also spent hours and hours at the local swimming pool that I began to take up low & high board diving and loved it. We were required to take P.E back then and we had volley ball and tumbling too. I suppose given the times it was called being involved in sports, not much else. Competition for girls back then WASN'T a big deal.

As the years have gone by I continued to play tennis and jogged when jogging wasn't what you called it. It was was just running. I lived in TX so I rode horses a lot too. After moving to FL I found that bowling was pretty popular and sometimes I bowled on 2 teams a week and I played softball on the weekends. We would go to the Keys on vacation and scuba diving was just something you do. I always had a full time job and before Women's Lib., women did almost all of the house cleaning, cooking and the usual fun stuff! And I had two kids. Before moving to FL, TX seemed liked the last place to hear about Women's Lib and I didn't train my husband in "house husbandry!"

What I'm getting to is this. As I've gotten older I've found it necessary to stay active by exercising, watching my weight and riding bikes. My generation was the one who defined itself as LIBERAL and embraced WOMEN'S LIBERATION! It's just too bad that we have to fight these fights all over again!

Back to the competition with my daughter & grand daughter. What we were doing was seeing who could still touch their toes, sit down and touch their nose to their knees and things of that sort. But because of my years of staying active and even given that I have some scoliosis, degenerative disks and of course the usual elder problem ARTHRITIS we try to stay active or become a prune.

Sure, I'm not able to do things as fast as I once did, but I was the one who could still touch my hands to the floor without bending my knees and sit down and touch my nose to my knees without bending my knees. Neither one of them could do this. Score one for Grandma!

So, yes he's 74... BUT I'm willing to bet that there are many people here on DU that are in my age group who are as active as I am. We know that staying active is good for our health, we have to watch our cholesterol, blood pressure, watch our diets, deal with the aches and pains that come with age and try to keep our brains stimulated attempting to ward off dementia and the horrible disease of Alzheimer's.

We are considered "senior people," but we're still very active and maybe we should remember this too. With Age Comes Wisdom!

Sorry, this does sound like bragging, but I'm just standing up for MY GENERATION! BERNIE IS NOT OLD!

[BigBearJohn]

14. thats my whole point (just in case you missed it)

[ChiciB1]

15. I DIDN'T Miss It... Was Just Re-Enforcing IT!

I always feel the need to defend Bernie because MSM and TPTB are going out of their way to IGNORE him. Not until these debates has he gotten much coverage.

Took the long way around to say, AGE doesn't always mean OLD!

[BigBearJohn]

16. oh

[zappaman]

17. LOL!

[randome]

21. Just marry the guy already!

What's next? Hummingbirds are attracted by his inherent sweetness?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[Uncle Joe]

22. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, BigBearJohn.

[BigBearJohn]

29. Cheers

[Uncle Joe]

31. Cheers

[zappaman]

23. Bookmarking for the next time I hear about "the cult of Hillary"!

[mcar]

24. Perfect!

[Hekate]

26. Oh yeah. That illustration is one for the books. Question: What's with the Little Orphan Annie eyes?

You know -- all white, no pupils or iris.

And Zappa -- please do bookmark; I'm counting on seeing it again.

[wildeyed]

33. I am deeply concerned about the eye thing.

Well that is not the ONLY thing that concerns me about this post.... But where are his eyeballs! WHAT DID THEY DO TO BERNIE'S DAMN EYES!

[senz]

27. Beautiful, BigBearJohn.

Bernie is amazing. I think it's his heart, his love for the people of this country, and for truth itself, that makes him so inwardly ferocious, so willing to push himself this hard and not give up.

He is an heroic human being and we are fortunate.

Thanks for a beautiful OP.

[BigBearJohn]

28. Totally my pleasure

[Octafish]

34. Four States in One Day.

The Vermont senator began his day with an 11 a.m. rally in Youngstown, Ohio. He also planned events in Akron, Ohio, Charlotte, N.C., and St. Charles, Mo., before ending the day of nonstop campaigning with an evening rally in Chicago.

-- http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/14/bernie-sanders-rallies-in-four-states-to-spur-voter-turnout/

[democrattotheend]

35. Did you draw that?

That graphic is really cool! If it's yours you should put it on t-shirts and sell it.

[BigBearJohn]

37. not mine. sorry

[bullwinkle428]

36. KICK-ASS graphic! K&R.

[NCTraveler]

39. It's what money can do for you in this country.

Thankfully we have two candidates that want to afford more people health care. Great day to be a democrat.

[jwirr]

40. I certainly do - I am a 74 year old woman and there is no

way I could do that.

This is a man who has led a very healthy life.

[Dem2]

41. I was thinking this today

He's really young at heart, which is very refreshing.