BS: Sanders

Subject: BS: Sanders
From: GUEST,#
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 02:49 AM

I got tired of seeing Trump's name as a thread title. This thread title is much easier on the eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 03:36 AM

ooops...hit the wrong button

#, that one got me chuckling...just had to tell you.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 03:57 AM

The USA isn't my country, so its not really my business who they have as president, but what struck me is that these guys are all so old. Sanders 74, Clinton 68, Trump 69. Even Jeb Bush is 62. It that the right age to be writing job applications? Mind you, Jeremy Corbyn is 67, so it happens here too.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: Lighter
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 06:16 AM

Well, there's 44-year old Marco Rubio.

He doesn't believe in evolution or global warming, opposes abortion even to save the life of the mother, wants to replace Obamacare with a "consumer-centered" system virtually identical to the old non-system, says Obama is "intentionally destroying America" so as to make it "like other countries."

Etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 06:22 AM

What's with this 'old' anyhow, Dave? Bunch of wet-behind-the-ears infants!

≈M≈
84 this year

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 07:04 AM

New Hampshire felt The Bern. Sanders 13 - 9 (22 of 24 reporting).

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: akenaton
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 07:14 AM

Good to see a move to Sanders, but he is preaching to the converted just as Corbyn is.
To win the country is a different matter.

At last a politician who dares to speak of "financial equality", good for Sanders, but that is hard to communicate to an electorate most of whom will be worse of financially because of it.
America will gain something and lose something the loss will be that wonderful independence of spirit which most Americans possess.
Do you really want to be like us!! :0)

But a start has been made somewhere so good luck to the lad.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 09:13 AM

By Obama's fifth year many of us were hoping for a more forceful FDR type President.
Sanders fits the bill nicely as a new FDR without money. He is also without an Eleanor but an Elizabeth Warren on the ticket sounds good to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 09:30 AM

Sanders/Warren, I also like the sound of that. At his age selecting a running mate who is ideologically compatible rather than one that is politically expedient would be a responsible move. Long way to go though.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 09:49 AM

I got friends, I do. A number of those are "Millennials" who work and/or own their own business. Some are parents. More than half are Republicans.

They're fed up. They'd like to "Don't Re-elect Anybody" and start over.

The Trump, etc. group is supported mostly by those who either do not want change or want to turn the clock back to an idealized, but nonexistent, past of American striding like a monolith against the Godless Hoards, the factories running around the clock turning out tanks and guns and its young (except for those of the Powers That Be) marching off to Save The World Again.

I don't see that group winning. The truly old don't want another WWII or Depression. The Millennials don't. The Boomers are split perhaps 50-50.

This is a good time in history for the US to break with the past and create a new future.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: GUEST,#
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 09:57 AM

"But a start has been made somewhere so good luck to the lad."

The start was made on October 19, 2015. In Canada. FYI.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 10:24 AM

Warren will not run as VP. She is too valuable where she is.

BTW, keep an eye on Jesse Ventura. (Come to think of it, he'd make a great Secretary of State.) No kidding.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 11:12 AM

Well, the BBC's reporter in North America
is taking this seriously.

is he running for something?

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 08:55 AM

He may be... he wants to get his message out, whether he seriously expects to win or not. I have mixed feelings about him as I don't expect him to win and he would draw enough votes to skew the primaries. I sincerely hope he would NOT run in some 3rd party, as he would make what Ralph Nader did seem mild.

Subject: RE: BS: Sanders
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 03:09 PM

Sanders, interviewed in Arizona. (top of page, many other stories follow it.)

Phoenix New Times interview


...by the way,
anybody else read the Huffington Post about the kind of online posts that Bernie Sanders' son Levi Sanders enters in places like Facebook?
Levi Sanders sounds like he would be right at home in those Mudcat BS threads which Mudcatter Stu has described as a "bear pit."
(Bred and born in the briar patch, Brer Fox, bred and born in the briar patch...)