Work hard to do what is right not just for yourself but for others. Those are the secrets to a truly 'SUCCESSFUL' life in my experience.

It's not what you have. It is what you work for and do and share that matters.

Obama and Biden did have a very tough legacy to deal with these past 8 years. And the Republicans have been just nasty and mean. No doubt about that.

But even Obama could have aimed higher. And I must say that the Bankruptcy Bill which is partly Biden's baby is not good. Not at all.

The last time Joe spoke the truth about Bernie, he had to backtrack a bit. I'm sure Hillary was on the phone, telling Joe what needed to be done. She's probably brow beating him right now.

I think Joe really likes Bernie. This is the second time that he's compared Bernie and Hillary--with Bernie coming out on top and Hillary be cast in a not-so-positive light.

But that's just an assumption. Maybe not as harsh, but along those lines.

On edit, I think you're right coffeecat. Biden came up in a kinda middle class working environment in his younger days, so I think he can relate to Bernie's message 1000%

this year.

The Democratic Party is about doing what is right even when it is difficult, not about settling for what can easily be done. The Democratic Party is about doing what is right for the American working people even when Republicans refuse to do it.

I cannot understand Hillary's constant negativity.

If I had lived the first 70 or so years of my life following Hillary's philosophy of do what they let you do, I sure wouldn't have had the exciting, wonderful life I have had, and I certainly would not be on DU today.

Hillary's philosophy is utterly defeatist. I'm with Bernie. Let's dream big and work hard and see what happens. We may or may not get everything we hope for. But sometimes, and not that rarely in my experience, if you dream big and work hard, miracles happen. Amazing things happen.

When I was a child, my family was poor. I didn't know we were poor, because my parents were very thrifty, and most everybody I knew in the post-war period was struggling. But we were poor. There were people who were poorer than we were, but we were also poor.

My dream was to visit the Parthenon. My sixth grade teacher had taught us about the Parthenon and democracy, and I just got this feeling inside that I wanted to and would one day go there. When I was 21 -- 1964, my husband (he was born even poorer than I was -- barely enough to eat) got grants to study in France, and one of the first places we went was to Athens -- in a DeuxChevaux, a French car that looked and felt when you sat in it like a tin can that moved. We drove down through then Yugoslavia to Athens and spent about three days just wandering around and sitting outside the Parthenon. Just soaking it in.

That was just the beginning of my amazing life. You don't have to have a lot of money. You have to have dreams and work really hard.

Dare to dream. Set your goals, and work really, really hard, and you can achieve at least many of those dreams.

That is fundamentally American -- dream big, work hard and be thankful when your dreams, some of them anyway, come true.

It is distressing to me when I hear Hillary tell me that we in America can't have universal healthcare, can't have free tuition at state schools including colleges and universities and all the We Can'ts she talks about all the time. It is so limiting. Other countries work together and dream and enjoy those very things.

Dream big, guys. Dream big. You only have one life. We only have one country.

For those who don't know about the Deux Chevaux (two horsepower I think), here is a link to a picture of a Deux Chevaux:

https://www.google.com/search?q=deux+chevaux&biw=1005&bih=518&site=webhp&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwi28qm0xaHMAhULwWMKHcLGB4cQsAQIKA#imgrc=l3kiFcnyJuZbeM%3A

Dream big. And vote for Bernie because he doesn't just dream big, he thinks big and he is smart enough and works hard enough to achieve his dreams.