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And you want to feel the bern?

Wow... Makes you wonder how much of this is really accurate.
 
Hmm the ol activist attack... On a president who threatens the oligarchy... Expected by a newspaper who represents wall street..
 
Bootlace said:
Not really a resume I would consider, but if your bar is low.


Blog: Bernie Sanders before political office
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I must first point-out that I've seen this article before, and it is highly partisan to the point of being a 'hit' piece.

But rather than argue the specifics of the article and it's accuracy, I'll just say "different strokes for different folks". Some of us admire capital accrual, others admire those that attempt to effect social change. I admire both!

It would seem that Bernie took the latter route, and I can admire him for that in the same vein as admiring the President for initially turning down the riches of being Harvard Law Review in the corporate world, for a job in service to his people as a low-payed community organizer on the mean streets of Chicago.

And before anyone here starts beating on Bernie too badly, I'd like to know if you've ever been addressed as "Senator", and if you've ever trounced the Clinton Democratic machine so badly, that you've blown them out winning a state to the point of them having to re-org their campaign staff!

Show me your accomplishments, and I'll take your criticisms more seriously.

And while we're at it, show my how you've remained steadfastly true to your same cause for five (5!) decades!

Then we can talk.
 
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OrphanSlug said:
Wow... Makes you wonder how much of this is really accurate.
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Practically none of it. Although I have to laugh at how the slander makes mention of how Sanders hasn't gotten rich off his time in politics. As if it's a bad thing that a person isn't personally enriching themselves while in politics. Ignore it or laugh at it or send the writer some hate mail. Those are the only three responses that tripe deserves.
 
This is shockingly dishonest. I recognize a couple of the references, and they're quite spun away from reality. The writing about "rape and masturbation," for example, is referencing to a 200-ish-word piece he wrote about relationships as women moved into the work force, which actually has nothing to do with sex at all.

But I would expect nothing else from the American "Thinker" -- one of those loonie hack sources that most reasonable people of any persuasion write off out of hand.

Anyway, there are a whole lot of presently successful people who were not so early in life. And as Chomsky says, this is especially true of activists. Frankly, good for them.

So you're saying Sanders is a bad candidate because he's not obscenely rich, like most of our more do-nothing congress critters are?

What on earth is bad about that?
 
reinoe said:
Practically none of it. Although I have to laugh at how the slander makes mention of how Sanders hasn't gotten rich off his time in politics. As if it's a bad thing that a person isn't personally enriching themselves while in politics. Ignore it or laugh at it or send the writer some hate mail. Those are the only three responses that tripe deserves.
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Practically none of it? Can you refute the claims?
 
is this is an article or a facebook post? who writes this nonsense, i cant even find an authors name, much less a source of any kind, for this information

Investors business daily needs to stick too what it knows best....denying global warming

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The beauty of being a socialist is that you never have to succeed at anything because your lack of success is merely more proof of the vast capitalist conspiracy against you and your fellow travelers.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Hmm the ol activist attack... On a president who threatens the oligarchy... Expected by a newspaper who represents wall street..
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It's not that having worked outside government and politics were all bad...... especially when you are running against the establishment as an angry old man.
 
Chomsky said:
I must first point-out that I've seen this article before, and it is highly partisan to the point of being a 'hit' piece.

But rather than argue the specifics of the article and it's accuracy, I'll just say "different strokes for different folks". Some of us admire capital accrual, others admire those that attempt to effect social change. I admire both!

It would seem that Bernie took the latter route, and I can admire him for that in the same vein as admiring the President for initially turning down the riches of being Harvard Law Review in the corporate world, for a job in service to his people as a low-payed community organizer on the mean streets of Chicago.

And before anyone here starts beating on Bernie too badly, I'd like to know if you've ever been addressed as "Senator", and if you've ever trounced the Clinton Democratic machine so badly, that you've blown them out winning a state to the point of them having to re-org their campaign staff!

Show me your accomplishments, and I'll take your criticisms more seriously.

And while we're at it, show my how you've remained steadfastly true to your same cause for five (5!) decades!

Then we can talk.
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Yep. Trotzki wasn't all bad and a fine socialist professional. ;)
 
Bootlace said:
Not really a resume I would consider, but if your bar is low.


Blog: Bernie Sanders before political office
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Makes him fit in with large percentage of Americans, so he can easily empathize. No problem here. Him smooching up to the race pimp...big problem. It will cost him dearly, for not all of his supporters and young and idealistic. and we realize who Sharpton is.
 
Chomsky said:
Your comparing Bernie to the Red Army?
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No. Trotzki was at the beginning of the experiment. He couldn't have known better.
 
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