Bernie Sanders… A Man On Fire!

[MrMickeysMom]

August 23, 2015 12:00 AM By David M. Shribman / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Well, well, well… If it isn't one of the best, "My Point" opinions I've read from him in a while…

EXETER, N.H. — There was a man with a “Stop Puppy Mills” T-shirt and another whose shirt read “National Sarcasm Society.” There was a woman, dressed entirely in white, holding a banner reading “Lead Us to Clean Energy.” There was a man with an Apache haircut. There was even a little old lady in tennis shoes.

This could only be a Bernie Sanders rally.

And the lady in tennis shoes? She was here mainly out of curiosity. She voted for Mitt Romney in the last two New Hampshire primaries.

Then there was the candidate himself. He wore a dress shirt, open at the neck, and his speech started early and ended late. He used the word “billionaire” more than half a dozen times, and he sprinkled his talk with references to “Corporate America.” He spoke about big campaign contributions (he has none, wouldn’t take any) and the “grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in America” (he deplored it) and won his biggest applause when he said, “This is a rigged economy, an economy that is not sustainable, and that is not an American economy.”

But he wasn’t done yet. In the sweltering confines of the Exeter Town Hall — every seat filled, the back of the hall five deep with standees, the balcony jammed and every one of the seven granite steps outside occupied with the devout, the devoted and the determined, all drenched in heavy perspiration — he launched into his speech: full employment, the Citizens United decision, gay marriage, voter suppression, the Trans Pacific Partnership, student debt, climate change, acidification of the oceans, access to abortion, energy efficiency, the criminal justice system, prison reform, mental health and crumbling infrastructure. In one sentence he crammed in the words “racism,” “sexism” and “homophobia.”

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[cantbeserious]

1. No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

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[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, MrMickeysMom.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Another GREAT op about Bernie.

No wonder so many of the other supporters are fit to be tied.

Bernie envy.

[sabrina 1]

4. It was a fantastic weekend for people who actually care about the ISSUES facing this country.

But when I skimmed the Corporate Media, all I saw was a Reality TV Show star who apparently rented an Eagle to pose with him for the cover of Time!

Thank the gods for the New Media!

[SoapBox]

6. Issues...what a novel concept.

Instead of say...power, control and money, money, money?!?!

We desperately need President Bernie Sanders.

[JDPriestly]

5. Impressions from a reporter in a Bernie audience.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[MrMickeysMom]

8. Actually, he's the editor of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette...

I've had my ups and downs with the Op/Ed pages, and I've even called him on a Sunday (much to his chagrin!)

This, plus Al Jazeera's coverage PLUS (as sabrina said) the swell of activity for Bernie Sanders this weekend was a milestone in my little world.

[sabrina 1]

10. Someone famous once said 'when the wolves are at your heels, just keep climbing the ladder'

I think no one does this better than Bernie. He doesn't waste time arguing with the negative campaigners, he just keeps delivering his Progressive message and clearly the more people who HEAR it, the more supporters he gets, across the political spectrum.

Ignore the desperate efforts to try to stop this surge in support for someone who they THOUGHT would fade away in a couple of weeks. And just keep on gathering more support.

And he's doing it without Corporate money, another thing we are told is 'impossible' in defense of those who take that money.

[MrMickeysMom]

11. It seems simple… but one must have conviction to what is true...

… and THAT, sabrina, is the theme of 2015 into 2016… A L L T H E W A Y into this time for us.

When the issues are held true and stated over and over with that same conviction, the issues start to ring a bell for all those people… all this time… who forgot we could have another opportunity to bring this nation back to sanity.

Yeah, I like that metaphor … we're still climbing the ladder, aren't we? And, it ain't the corporate ladder, by a long shot.

[JDPriestly]

12. Yes.

[sabrina 1]

13. It is simple. And repetition is necessary to impress the importance of issues that have

not been addressed by our 'leaders' for so long. I notice some complaining about Bernie repeating the facts over and over again. Well, we have a Corporate Media repeating distortions, covering a Reality Show star rather than candidates or the ONLY candidate who is addressing those issues.

I don't think you can repeat 'Income Inequality' with the statistics to prove it often enough until it becomes part of the political conscientiousness.

We are still climbing, and not far from the bottom yet on many issues, which is shameful really because with every election cycle we have heard many promises but then, not much action afterwards.

And we do have to look at where those candidates asking for our support, have been over the past decades because we need leaders with courage, as the pushback against creating a society where no one is denied rights, where everyone has access to income equality and education and HC etc, will be enormous. So we don't need someone who is going to try to negotiate with the recalcitrant right wingers who view any 'reaching across the aisle' as weakness.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. Welcome to DU, Dash...

Bernie supports everyone… What a concept.

[WillyT]

15. Welcome To DU Dash !!!

[WillyT]

14. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!