Sanders' Brooklyn Roots: Profile in Today's NYT.

[Smarmie Doofus]

Uncharacteristically even-handed treatment of the senator. No snide remarks about his "age" his socialism or his alleged "long-shot" status. Plus a cool video of college bud touring the house they shared way back when.

Even the Times is Berning! Strange days indeed.

>>>>Ivor Williams stood on his porch and stared suspiciously at the visitor who was pointing to the attic of his pink and shingled house near Brooklyn College.

“I used to live here,” Steve Slavin explained, to no noticeable reaction from Mr. Williams. Then he uttered the magic words: “With Bernie Sanders.”

“Bernie?” Mr. Williams, a 78-year-old immigrant from Guyana, exclaimed. “I was just watching Bernie on the TV.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton may be a former senator from New York who located her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn Heights, but all it takes to know who really represents Brooklyn in the race for the Democratic nomination is for Mr. Sanders to open his mouth and utter a few syllables.


As Mr. Sanders, a senator from Vermont, draws large crowds on the campaign trail and enjoys an unexpected surge, his Brooklyn accent and upbringing in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Flatbush off Kings Highway have become a particular point of pride for friends, former schoolmates and fellow progressives in the borough wher>>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-100-brooklyn-roots-show-beyond-his-accent.html

[oasis]

1. I like Bernie a lot, but the timing of this puff piece by NYT is suspicious

given their recent "scoop" smear on Hillary.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. They're evening it out a little. He was an non-person ( in the Pravda/Stalinist sense)....

for so long.....even after he started drawing mammoth crowds and rose in the polls.

Relax: I really don't see the Old Gray Lady endorsing a *socialist* (good god!) over a pillar of the $$$ establishment .

Nor twisting their reportage in his favor.

[oasis]

4. Probably manufacturing a horse race between the two.

[elleng]

2. Quite a high school, James Madison.

Some alums, + Bernie: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Chuck Schumer, 4 Nobel winners, +++. Don't know which high school I would have attended, had we stayed in Brooklyn, but THOSE were the days, real public EDUCATION!

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Madison himself might have had a little trouble getting noticed....

... if he was in that kind of company.

[elleng]

7. HAHA!

MAYbe, but he did pretty well in the end!

[LWolf]

8. I grew up in California,

before Prop 13. My public education was broad, deep, and rich.

As a teacher, I'd love to help return us to that before I retire. I'm running out of time.

[oasis]

9. Was that the Jarvis Anti-government/tax cutting legislation?

[LWolf]

11. Yes.

It passed the year I graduated from high school. And the long decline began.

[elleng]

10. So sorry that you're running out of time, LWolf.

It SO saddens me.

We moved from Brooklyn to Long Island, where I attended what was then and still is one of the finest high schools in the country, public. Raised our daughters in DC, they're 27 and 30 now, with little boys. Had to send our girls to parochial and private schools, nothing decent available to us in DC, and now I fear about my grandkids' educations.

[LWolf]

12. I'm 55.

I can teach my middle school students for awhile longer, but I won't be there forever. It's going to take time, a long, long journey back, and we need to start ASAP.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. K And R for the positive tone

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