True story about the primaries: Remember last Spring or Summer when Sec. Clinton

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was playing coy with her announcement and all that? Then for awhile she was the only person presumed to be running. Well, I am one of those many thousands of people who, at a certain point, because so nauseated at it being her instead of Bernie, whom I had listened to with awe for literally years on CSPAN and on cable news. Leading up to this cycle it really seemed he was hitting a very real stride...A very astute and Presidential stride.

And I keep thinking to myself, man, I *wish this guy would run! He would win in a landslide. And the longer it went on with her and Trump dominating the news, I got more antsy. One day, I googled Bernie's office telephone number in Burlington and called them. I don't even know who I might have talked to, but when that poor guy answered the phone I gave him an earful of effusive praise, and I insisted he *HAD to run.

The young man thanked me, took a couple of moments to say they were getting many calls like mine from all over the country, and were taking it under advisement. I only had about 30 seconds I suppose with him, but managed to tell him why he needed to run.

I've been all in since. I was urging him on when he was driving that little red compact car around stopping at curbsides and diners. Just him and a driver in that little car (Jane? Not sure). Lovely, genuine, caring people. Kind people. Real people. Not in it for money, or fame, or power. People with a very real understanding of how people should treat other people, and what the proper role of government actually is by the Constitution, and what it is now and what it could and should be.I have been all-in ever since.

Their STRONG support for Unions is quite in evidence, and not just lip service.

PS: I desperately NEED that Social Security expansion.

[haikugal]

1. Very nice post. Thank you.

[winter is coming]

2. I think his son Levi drove him around a lot in the early days.

Great story, by the way.

There's a lot of talking points going around right now about how Bernie (and we) should give up. I don't intend to do that. The issues that Bernie speaks to are vitally important to me. I want him to take as many delegates to the convention as possible. Even if he doesn't win, the more delegates he takes, the more likely it is that at least some of the Party leadership will realize that same old same old isn't cutting it.

[silvershadow]

5. Yep. Exactly. He *already HAS the power. Know he just needs to see exactly how much

before doing anything. He will go all the way to convention. And if he isn't the winner, he damn well better have some sway. Our party has lost its' way. I'd highly suggest this should be the big wake-up call. I predicted month ago we were on track to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in what should have been a cakewalk year. But that was before the Hill-Bill crew triangulated Trump into the race as a backstop. How clever that was.

[Tarc]

3. Sorry, but, how is this any different from the "Dubya's the guy you can have a beer with" bullshit

that the Republicans peddled back in the day? This isn't a fashion contest or a nicey-nice contest. I'm glad Bernie's warm and caring and nice, but we're electing a President here, it isn't a buddy contest.

Yeesh...

[SheilaT]

6. If you cannot tell the difference between those two stories

then you are completely incapable of understanding anything.

Some of us clearly understood that Dubya was NOT a guy to have a beer with, and a lot of us are behind Bernie.

Hillary sure as hell isn't a buddy, given her willingness to throw women's control over their own bodies under the bus. So fuck her. And fuck voting for the "lesser of two evils". I will vote for the person I actually want as President.

[pacalo]

7. Sorry, but why are you in this thread?

I am SO SICK of Hillary supporters invading every Bernie thread with their negative energy.

[Tarc]

9. Then perhaps you should confine these sorta milquetoast things to the Sanders group?

GDP is free, brah.

[pacalo]

10. Definitely better than posting in a cesspool of classlessness -- brah.

[lostnfound]

8. Is Hillary going to TRY to EXPAND Social Security? NO.

Her priorities will be following Kissinger foreign policy, and maybe getting a few crumbs for particular liberal issues while making deals favored by corporate power. Not moving the goalposts at all; not altering fundamental power balance between people and corporate interests.

[dreamnightwind]

4. Wow, thanks so much for calling them, that's awesome! - eom