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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
Tue May 5, 2015, 12:25 AM May 2015

Maddow show May 4: Bernie Sanders talks issues and politics



Senator Bernie Sanders talked about the surprisingly strong fundraising effort for his Presidential campaign. The Senator also drew contrasts between himself and front-runner Hillary Clinton on major national issues.
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Maddow show May 4: Bernie Sanders talks issues and politics (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich May 2015 OP
Can you post this in the Bernie group too, please? marym625 May 2015 #1
sure. Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #2
Thank you! marym625 May 2015 #3
Go Bernie Go! yuiyoshida May 2015 #4
K & R. Truth, integrity, experience and conviction. What a force. appalachiablue May 2015 #5
Yes Rachel, very interesting.... daleanime May 2015 #6
I think Rachel is a solid reporter salimbag May 2015 #7
Yeah. It was a friendly interview. I enjoyed this one. Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #8
I think that neither she nor any other member of the MSM knows how to deal with Bernie's JDPriestly May 2015 #10
Wonderful post, he is compelling, speaks for America for sure. A true American, not appalachiablue May 2015 #14
Thank you for that RoccoR5955 May 2015 #17
175,000 volunteers! Iwillnevergiveup May 2015 #9
175,000, that's an organization like Rachel said! Holy cow- appalachiablue May 2015 #15
Wondering if Bernie with get the corporate MSM attention INdemo May 2015 #11
It would be fun to know... Plucketeer May 2015 #16
K & R !!!! appalachiablue May 2015 #12
*Bernie Sanders 2016 CAMPAIGN PRODUCTS, *Unique, fun* appalachiablue May 2015 #13
I am waiting salimbag May 2015 #18
Bernie hit it out of the park with that one! RoccoR5955 May 2015 #19

salimbag

(173 posts)
7. I think Rachel is a solid reporter
Tue May 5, 2015, 02:15 AM
May 2015

And she seemed genuinely impressed with the number of volunteers for Bernie. I am one. As Rachel says "watch this space"!!!

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
10. I think that neither she nor any other member of the MSM knows how to deal with Bernie's
Tue May 5, 2015, 02:51 AM
May 2015

candidacy and popularity. The space I am going to be watching is on the faces of the MSM commentators and reporters because they are likely to continue to be surprised by Bernie.

His message is so compelling.

I don't think that the powers that be, the people who work for the oligarchs, who lunch with the oligarchs, who party with the oligarchs and who get their information from the oligarchs have any idea as to just how disgusted ordinary Americans are with our current economic situation, with the outsourcing and the export of our jobs and industry, our cost of education, etc. They are going to be very surprised.

Bernie speaks for the real America.

And, just for the record, democratic socialism is not communism. A DUer asked me about that today. Democratic socialists used to believe in violent revolution, etc. but today they believe in social programs sponsored by the government, funded by the government, lots of freedom and democracy along with the capitalist organization of businesses.

When corporations and business treat a people so badly, as badly as we have been treated by our investor class, they have no one to blame but themselves when Bernie organizes the movement he is organizing. That movement is going to be the conscience of the big Wall Street whales or whatever they call themselves. They have been cheating the American people for too long. They have no one to blame but themselves.

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
14. Wonderful post, he is compelling, speaks for America for sure. A true American, not
Tue May 5, 2015, 11:05 AM
May 2015

a globalist elite seeking wealth, power and fame. A rare thing to see in these times-

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
17. Thank you for that
Tue May 5, 2015, 11:29 AM
May 2015

One correction.
Many of us democratic socialists ONLY believe in violent revolution, when all else fails.

I for one am not an advocate of violence, so when things become so bad that I cannot take it any more, I shall leave the country, exiling myself to some place that has more respect for the people.

Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
9. 175,000 volunteers!
Tue May 5, 2015, 02:39 AM
May 2015
This partly negates the disgust I felt seeing nothing about Bernie in the Sunday L.A. Times yesterday.
 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
16. It would be fun to know...
Tue May 5, 2015, 11:21 AM
May 2015

just WHEN and with what fervor the billionaire class gets brave enough to try and buy Bernie as election time draws near. Having bought and brought us to where we are, I doubt they're gonna just slink back under their respective rocks and shrug it all off.

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
13. *Bernie Sanders 2016 CAMPAIGN PRODUCTS, *Unique, fun*
Tue May 5, 2015, 10:59 AM
May 2015


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salimbag

(173 posts)
18. I am waiting
Tue May 5, 2015, 01:25 PM
May 2015

Waiting for Bernie to refuse the donations of big money interests. Goldman Sachs, suck on it! Go Bernie!

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
19. Bernie hit it out of the park with that one!
Tue May 5, 2015, 08:26 PM
May 2015

Just what people need to hear.
And from what I can tell, Rachel is all for him.

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