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Freddie Stubbs

(29,853 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 11:48 AM Nov 2015

Sanders hesitates on socialism speech

Bernie Sanders’ ballyhooed speech on socialism is now on indefinite hold.

Details about how Sanders would pay for his proposed single-payer national health insurance program to provide Medicare for all Americans have yet to be fleshed out -- even though a July 30 post on his campaign website says the Vermont senator would file legislation on single-payer “perhaps as soon as next week.”

And with two-and-a-half months to go before the first votes of 2016 are cast, the candidate whose raison d’etre is ending income inequality has yet to unveil any details of his tax plan, such as whose tax rates would go up and by how much.

As Sanders attempts to evolve from a niche politician who appeals to a frustratingly uniform group of young, white progressive voters to a major threat to the Hillary Clinton presidential juggernaut, he appears to be stalled on the threshold of mainstream success. Once sure-footed and decisive in expressing his view of the most important issue facing the country, income inequality, Sanders now appears to be holding back, hesitant to put meat on the bones of his big-picture ideas.

more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bernie-sanders-socialism-speech-215965

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Sanders hesitates on socialism speech (Original Post) Freddie Stubbs Nov 2015 OP
bernie enid602 Nov 2015 #1
lol.nt Snotcicles Nov 2015 #2
" indefinite hold"? Autumn Nov 2015 #3
Is this OP for real??? RiverLover Nov 2015 #5
As a child were you ever in a school play and got on the wrong page of your lines? Autumn Nov 2015 #6
I'm rec'g it for the laugh lines in that play. Comic relief at last!! RiverLover Nov 2015 #7
Please proceed, Stubbs. /nt demwing Nov 2015 #4
and more: blah blah blah Hiraeth Nov 2015 #8
knr frylock Nov 2015 #9
kick TSIAS Nov 2015 #10

enid602

(8,652 posts)
1. bernie
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 12:02 PM
Nov 2015

This writer suffers from a mid~20th century mindset. It's too bad he doesn't use his admittedly limited intellectual capacity so he can be with 'the people.' He needs to go to berniesanders.com for enlightenment. He won't want to be left out when the revolution starts any day now.
Hope the sarcasm button is not needed.

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
6. As a child were you ever in a school play and got on the wrong page of your lines?
Thu Nov 19, 2015, 07:49 PM
Nov 2015
I have got to rec this just for the hesitates, the indefinite.
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