Kerry pledges support for Bernie Sanders' Senate campaign in VT

[rox63]

Maybe this will please the lefty freeps?

Sen. Kerry pledges support for Sanders

November 7th, 2005
By Louis Porter

BARRE - Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the unsuccessful Democratic nominee in the last presidential election, came to the Old Labor Hall here Saturday night to rally his party as it prepares for U.S. House and Senate elections next year. Vermont will have open seats in both bodies, meaning the elections in the state might be the focus of national attention.

Kerry and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont were joined on stage by U.S. Rep. Bernard Sanders, another sign that the Independent’s bid for the Senate seat, which will be vacated by Sen. James Jeffords, has the Democrats’ approval.

Sanders, who smiled a lot but didn’t speak from the podium, received one of the loudest rounds of applause from the roughly 300 Democrats who attended the fund-raiser.

Read the rest here: http://bernie.org/?p=96

[JI7]

1. are Kerry and Sander's wearing matching clothes ?

heheh, that's cute.

[karynnj]

2. It looks like it - but not to the same effect

I guess there are limited variations to men's dress casual or Bernie and John called each other and forgot to tell Pat the right color/print shirt to wear. :)

[FreedomAngel82]

10. It is cute

Yay! I like Sanders and I so hope he wins.

[WildEyedLiberal]

3. Nothing will ever please the lefty freeps

But this is still cool. I like Sanders, and I am glad Dems are supporting him and his message.

Also, the Swifties are trying to sabotage Sanders, as well. It's good to see John getting his back against those digusting bastards.

[beachmom]

4. Yeah, there was a Kos diary on this which was actually pretty funny

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/10/20446/468

Because the real Swift Boaters, led by John O'Neill, have only just now resurfaced. And they're in Vermont.

Vermont?


Yes, Vermont.

It's hard to tell what it is that puts these Swift Boat types more out of their element. Is it the fact that Vermont is landlocked? Or is it the fact that nobody can think of a reason in the world why anyone -- even hard-core Republicans -- would need to know what the Swift Boat Veterans think of, well, anybody who wasn't John Kerry.

Not that we needed that, either.

But as implausible as it seems, Swift Boater John O'Neill -- who has made a career, beginning during the Nixon administration, of attacking John Kerry -- has inexplicably turned his attention to... Bernie Sanders.

It's like the spell everyone was under last year has been broken. And O'Neill is being revealed as the joke and hack that he is. Sadly, too late.

[TayTay]

5. O'Neill in Vermont, Hahahahahaha!

Oh gawd, this is so funny. He and his group will be eaten up whole in certain corners of Vermont. (And Bernie Sanders is beloved in Vermont. He is a statewide icon. This is a great way to waste the money of these SBVT bastards.)

I just got back from one of the outposts of the LiberalOasis in Burlington, VT. O'Neill would be surrounded by those nice caring Vermonters and urged to get in touch with his inner feelings, maybe explore his past relationship with his father to try to figure out why he feels the need to strike out so harshly at others. The lovely folks at UVM would invite him in, schedule some time at the Ag fields so that he could get in touch with himself by getting in touch with nature. (Environmental healing, it's very soothing.) Then Mr. O'Neill might be encouraged to take a nice pottery class and work out his feelings of inadequacy and hostility to others in a nice physical form. (Then he could sell the pottery and donate the proceeds to a nice Katrina relief effort.) Who knows, in time, the good co-op farmers and the dairy collective might just name a cheese after him.

I dare say the home state of Ben & Jerry's would be willing to commit some resources to helping these wounded and frustrated survivors of war to heal. Vermonters are among the nicest peole in the country, after all.

[whometense]

6. Agreed.

Campaigning against Bernie Sanders up there (especially as a non-Vermonter) is a big fat lost cause. Vermonters (I lived there for eight years, so I speak with some authority) are hard headed and stubborn people, and they hate outsiders coming in to tell them what to think.

Bernie may be a proclaimed Socialist, but all the good people of Vermont know or care is that he's a damned good representative. Who the hell does that jerk think he is? Has he given up his "law practice"? Does he need a hobby? Maybe he should take up horseshoes instead.

Edited to add: Did you have a good time? How was UV?? I continue to hold a very warm place in my heart for Burlington. Great city.

[TayTay]

7. UVM is awesome. And Burlington is still, AH, Burlington!

My son loved UVM. It is such a great LIBERAL institution of higher learning. They are so warm and caring and nurturing. (It's like falling into this safe, warm cocoon that you don't want to leave.) Great school with great values. As the Dean of Admissions pointed out today (after the all-male ac-capella band serenaded us and the Admissions office gave us good breakfast with Fair Trade coffee, sigh!) UVM graduated two Nobel Peace Prize winners in the same decade.

1999 Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams

It really is one of my favorite places. (It is the rural LiberalOasis after all.) My son was so taken with it and with the natural beauty of Vermont and their wonderful University. Sigh! Of course we talked to my daughter's friend who goes there to study molecular genetics and she was ah stressed with her Organic Chemistry exams, so it's not all sweetness and light. But still.

We should spar there sometime. I just love Burlington. Ah.

Oh, there was a Memorial Service at the Chapel after the Admissions stuff. A UVM grad was recently killed in Iraq. That was so jarring. (Such a lovely family and such a tragedy.)

[rox63]

8. As for a rural LiberalOasis...

...I think the Amherst/Northhampton area of MA also qualifies. Burlington is definitely up there on the list, though. In fact, much of Vermont qualifies. As far as I've seen, VT as a state is split between the rural cranky-yankee types, and the former hippies trying to preserve their tye-dyed world. My Mom comes from the rural cranky-yankee side of the population, having grown up on a farm near Newport, VT, in the so-called "Northeast Kingdom" of the state.

Brattleboro, VT (southeast corner of the state, on the NH border, not that far from MA) is also quite the liberal oasis, if you ever get a chance to spend some time there.

[TayTay]

9. I agree. Which is what makes Bernie so interesting.

He's the only socialist in Congress and he is loved by the crank-yankees. He really threads the needle up there.

Aren't LiberalOases great? They make you feel all warm and affirmed and holistic and necessary. Sigh! It's tough to readjust to normal space after all that caring and nurturing. Sigh! Ahhhh. I really just want to go spa now.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Sounds like a lovely school!

I hope your son loves it there. Sounds like you both already really like it there. And an all male acapella choir singing for you. Ooo. I love choirs and men who sing. Especially if they're someone I would be attracted to. :P

[FreedomAngel82]

12. I think what someone should do

Is make an ad of O'Neill and him with Nixon and Nixon talking about Kerry and how there was nothing on him and how he created the group with O'Neill and show how he's a liar. I still love when Lawrence O'Donnell was on Joe Scarborough's show talking to Pat Buchanan about everything with Kerry and O'Neill was on there and every time O'Neill opened his mouth O'Donnell just kept saying how he was a liar. Of course O'Neill claimed that O'Donnell was a leftist extremist and was being rude. :eyes:

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Oh yes

I think Sanders would make a great senator and I'm excited about his campaign.