He ended it with complimentary things to say about the election of President Obama and also hoped that the trajectory of more women in office would continue. http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/30/sanders-richmond-speech/

of which wouldn't be if Obama didn't decide to sellout and try to pass a trade agreement that gives up American sovereignty.

http://digital.vpr.net/post/bernie-sanders-announce-presidential-run

"His opposition to a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (T.P.P.) shows how he plans to frame this key issue of his campaign."

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/bernie-sanders-obama-sounds-like-bush-and-clinton-117717922196.html

"Sanders also accused President Barack Obama of having embraced the same “disastrous and unfair” free-trade agenda championed by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton."

I'm sure he's counting on running as giving him a wider audience to make the case to the public that TPP must be opposed. It's a good strategy.

and to win he'll need the President's supporters, too.

Your OP is divisive shit.

seriously, otherwise you are making presenting a false debate. It is your opinion that they are sellouts and as thus, you are creating flame bate.

I am glad that both Clinton and Sanders are in the primary.

The obnoxious purity prance on display in the OP is all about the poster's ego, not what Bernie Sanders.

in the name of Bernie Sanders today & to serve what purpose? The nasty bullshit rhetoric around over these politicians is nuts & definitely not helping their cause. Not any of them, I laugh at the die hard HRC supporters that are flipping out bc Sanders is an Independent yet now we have this bullshit going on. It's dumb, childish & stupid.

except that of Team GOP/Nader.

All of the infighting is just dumb.

they think it's already a lock just based on their Facebook friends. If they only knew that trashing us younger minorities that are truly on the fence is not the way to go about it. 2016 will be the first yr my son is eligible to vote & rhetoric like this from either side isn't going to help. Especially as a young black/latino male.

is not who Sen Sanders is but those on DU don't have a freaking clue.

Can't we all just get along?

Sometimes someone has to say the unpopular thing.

...and I'm a big Bernie fan.

While Hillary and Obama are in bed with them...

Who desegregated the military?

Who first banned hiring discrimination on the basis of race, in the federal government and companies that contract with it?

We need a primary, now that Bernie is announcing them we can have a primary. Hopefully Hillary will be able to pull Bernie further to the right.

and all i am hearing is people trying to work up a battle. one thread had a couple posters declaring it was right to be mean. mean works. gotta get mean

wtf... ever

sanders is well liked on du, and it shows the respect he has gotten stepping into this race.

The Strawman Creators Forum.

I would nominate you as a host - this kind of talent shouldn't go to waste.

The Shit Stirrers Board. A place where every shit stirrer can't compete for the most rec's, and may the best stirrer win!

Which is saying something.

Are you guys meeting in a special room to post this crap every hour on the hour.

NOBODY IS COMPLAINING ABOUT BERNIE.

your feelings aren't hurt when someone suggests that you take your command, fold it five ways, and shove it squarely up your ass.

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It seems like you a trying to create a divide where none exists.

If you actually are a Bernie Sanders supporter, and at the moment I kind of doubt that, wouldn't it be more productive to post an OP on why you are supporting him?

Takes away from their conspiracy shit about powerful evil forces in the party preventing anyone from running.

To actually campaign for a candidate is too boring.

For all the Hillary haters, now have someone in your column. I was afraid that if Hillary was the only candidate that some of the haters would short circuit or something.

So now the haters can no longer complain that Hillary is the only candidate in the race.


Hope that now you have a candidate, that should said candidate not succeed in obtaining the nomination, will you vote for Hillary?

We all have been asked the opposite today a couple of times.

I really hope we don't have to deal with this imaginary stuff for the next 18 months. It's starting to seem a bit deranged.

“Washington is broken. My whole campaign has been premised from the start on the idea that we have to fundamentally change how Washington works.”

"we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can."

"I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.
It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth."

Nah, instead we got Bill Clinton 2.0 with more social progressivism.

If he does....then the Democratic Party will abandon him.

No hurry

I think Bernie voted for like 90% of Obama's agenda - if not more.

It's posts like these that makes me want to get behind your cause. Please tell me more...