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Bernie Sanders seeks U.S. presidency again in 2020


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Posted
11 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

Like pretty much everyone, I like Bernie.  But he's too much of a socialist.  Free college?  Free medical?  Free everything essentially.  And I guess he'd pay for it all by taxing the heck out of rich folks. 

No need. Funding all of the above is simple.

 

 

Posted
2 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

Not sure about that when he spoke at the DNC I knew he would eventually make a good run at it. I don't think I was alone.

Which was far closer to election date than we are now.

Posted
3 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Which was far closer to election date than we are now.

 

Was just saying that nobody thought of Obama as a very strong candidate isn't really true. He was much stronger than any dem out there at this moment.

 

The speech I am talking about was in 2004 so much earlier. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

 

I wholeheartedly agree Bernie would be of the most benefit if he ran as an Independent. 

America's fake liberal party does not need Sanders. Also he's too old at nearly 80! 

Posted
36 minutes ago, mikebike said:

No need. Funding all of the above is simple.

 

 

You do have a point....although I didn't watch the entire video.  If the US gov would cut down on waste, fraud, and abuse, we'd probably wipe out the budget deficit and start paying down the debt.  We should also cut defense spending....but the GOP would probably freak out. 

 

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, mikebike said:

A moderate Rupublican in Dem clothes is not the answer in heartland or the coasts. 45 would crush Klobuchar.

That old saying always holds true. "When the election is between a Republican and a Republican, vote for the Republican." The age of the neoliberal is over IMO.

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Posted

Bernie should have quit while he was ahead … in the polls.

He could have retired from his presidential ambitions as a kind of martyr/saint (even though in my opinion he wouldn't have beat "trump" either in 2016).

Now he's not going to be nominated, and it's not even going to be close.

Sorry for Bernie and his hard core base.

It just ain't gonna happen. 

No, it's not because he's old either.

Speaking of that, assuming Biden gets in, he has a real shot. 

Bernie doesn't. 

 

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Bernie, your moment has come — and gone

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanders-has-one-big-problem-eugene-mccarthy/2019/02/19/f2c90cd4-347f-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html

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Posted
29 minutes ago, DM07 said:

 

For example: how could he not personally oversee the doings of every goddamn staffer in his last campaign!?

:coffee1:

 

 

I've read a few books on political campaigns and in all of them there was a lot of sex going on.

Posted
20 minutes ago, DM07 said:

I think, she is awesome!

But then again: I am not a backwards thinking conservative!

 

I think she's awesome too, but she's also wrong about a lot of things too. Good intentions though and she'll figure it out.

Posted
2 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:

 

I think she's awesome too, but she's also wrong about a lot of things too. Good intentions though and she'll figure it out.

You need people like her (and Bernie 3 years ago) who push the agenda further (to the left) in order the move the DEMs away from being the new conservatives!

If the REPs want to be the party of destroyed environment, people dying of a severe cold, because they ca't pay their doctors, praying "the gay" away and telling women what to do and think...let them be!

I'd rather see some "crazy" ideas that end up in progressive policies!

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Posted
6 hours ago, webfact said:

"Unlike Clinton, he refused to take money from corporate political action committees, or PACs, relying on a flood of small-dollar donations."

That's as a presidential candidate. As a SENATOR, he waddles his way up to the corporate trough just like the rest of them.

Posted
1 minute ago, Hanaguma said:

Good intentions mean nothing. This is running a country!  She has little to no grasp of basic government functions, basic economics, etc.  She will get Trump re-elected if she is given much more publicity. 

 

This is the person who didn't know the difference between cash on hand and deferred taxes!  Loved the dancing video, but ...

 

Congress has about a 10% approval rating and she's the flavor of the month. I tend to like principled people of both parties who more often than not wish to pursue agendas that don't have a snowballs chance in hell of being adopted. Still, it's good their voices are in the mix. There s room for them in a 535 member body. Just as I can like and appreciate what a Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an Antonin Scalia brought to the Supreme Court.

Posted
2 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:

 

Congress has about a 10% approval rating and she's the flavor of the month. I tend to like principled people of both parties who more often than not wish to pursue agendas that don't have a snowballs chance in hell of being adopted. Still, it's good their voices are in the mix. There s room for them in a 535 member body. Just as I can like and appreciate what a Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an Antonin Scalia brought to the Supreme Court.

I agree somewhat, but Justices Ginsburg and Scalia at least knew/know what they were talking about. Rep. AOC is a joke. She doesn't have principles, she has whims.  Doubt she'll make it to her second term without a huuuuge primary fight in her district. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Bernie should have quit while he was ahead … in the polls.

He could have retired from his presidential ambitions as a kind of martyr/saint (even though in my opinion he wouldn't have beat "trump" either in 2016).

Now he's not going to be nominated, and it's not even going to be close.

Sorry for Bernie and his hard core base.

It just ain't gonna happen. 

No, it's not because he's old either.

Speaking of that, assuming Biden gets in, he has a real shot. 

Bernie doesn't. 

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanders-has-one-big-problem-eugene-mccarthy/2019/02/19/f2c90cd4-347f-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html

Says the Klobachar fan... you were anti-Bernie and pro status-quo in 2016 and you were wrong, and you will be wrong again in 2020.

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

You do realize that the current President has "no grasp of basic government functions, basic economics, etc."  He's also corrupt to the core and is a pathological liar.  Even if woefully unqualified, AOC would be an improvement.

She might be but in my opinion we don't really need a "trump" of the left. Let's go for being adults. 

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