Extraordinary Turnout in Denver

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ON THE ROAD
Extraordinary Turnout in Denver

Thousands of cheering and chanting Coloradans – one of the biggest crowds for any presidential candidate so far this campaign – showed up here on Saturday night to hear Bernie Sanders tell them they were sending a message to the billionaire class that “You can’t have it all. This is our country too.”

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“This is an extraordinary turnout,” Bernie said as he surveyed the crowd after climbing onto the Hamilton Gymnasium stage at the University of Denver. Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” played (with the singer/songwriter manager’s approval) as Sanders was introduced to the standing-room-only crowd that spilled into an atrium and a nearby lacrosse field outside.

By the university’s count, 5,500 people were in the gym, atrium and lacrosse field to see Bernie, the candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and a U.S. senator from Vermont.

When the crowd chanted his name, Bernie stopped them. “This campaign is not about me,” he said. “It is not about Hillary Clinton or any other candidate,” he added. “This campaign is about you, your kids and your parents. It is about creating a political movement of millions of people who stand up and loudly proclaim that this nation belongs to all of us and not just a handful of billionaires.”

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Bernie is going to have to book a stadium soon.

[PatrickforO]

2. Just look at the diversity in that young audience!

College age kids and older millenials like my children really like Bernie because he does not make their 'bullshit' meters jump. The guy's genuine and we've ALL been waiting for that for a long, long time. Since before Reagan crawled into the White House like a plague bacillus, or even earlier...before the Nixons moved in with their Creeps and Plumbers.

[Diremoon]

3. Great expectations

Wouldn't it be great if he got the Presidency? I just picture him reversing all of the wrongs that the right have inflicted on this country in the last 40 years.

[jwirr]

4. Slow down. He does not promise to right all the wrongs. He says together we are going to try.

[cascadiance]

5. Neil Young inspires globally, but he motivates the right people in this fight...

... not those that try to hijack his songs like Donald Trump... And for those in Monsanto, too f'ing bad!!!

He's been such a motivator of movements in the past, whether it is this song that they played there...

Rockin' in the Free World

For Bernie's campaign...

The classic studio version...

or early on when he was with Buffalo Springfield and they made the classic "For What It's Worth" then! Here is Buffalo Springfield singing it early on....

He and his songs influence the fight globally... Here's "For What it's Worth" used as the backdrop to Turkey's fight in Taksim Square with video clips to Buffalo Springfield's song here:

... and then later an actual remake that Anonymous pushed out with newer updated words for this fight in Istanbul!

... and more remakes here talking about our recent problems in places like Ferguson, Baltimore, etc. as well...

Neil Young! THANKS for joining the global battle to liberate us all!