Bernie Sanders Means Business With 2016 Presidential Run
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/matt_taibbi_bernie_sanders_means_business_with_2016_presidential_20150429
This is no political stunt, folks: In his newest article, Rolling Stone’s biggest marquee reporter, Matt Taibbi, sizes up Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid for the presidency in the 2016 election and concludes that Sanders is the real deal.
Taibbi makes no secret of his admiration for Sanders, praising his character and motives as a politician and breaking down the reasons the self-avowed socialist will join the ranks of Democratic candidates in the 2016 race (via Rolling Stone):...
Sanders doesn’t have the billionaires in thrall, but as Taibbi sees it, his credibility comes from a more valuable source: actual human beings, and his appeal to same. Further, he’ll be able to make use of his play for the White House as a means to offer “an implicit challenge to the current system of national electoral politics.”
Regardless of questions about his viability or marketability—or perhaps in spite of those more cynical strands of political thought that pundits and candidates follow diligently during election cycles—it’s safe to say that the same cannot be said about what any other presidential hopeful on the 2016 horizon can do simply by making a go of it.
