Bernie the Bomber’s Bad Week (Article from the Liberty Union Party)
I found this article from the Liberty union party. It's from 1999 and they bash democrats, but IMO, it is VERY interesting to see their history with him, and the events as they happened back then.
http://www.libertyunionparty.org/?page_id=363
some highlights:
Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office to protest his support of the NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia and the ongoing war against Iraq. Calling ourselves
the “Instant Antiwar Action Group,” we decided to bring our outrage at
Bernie’s escalating hypocrisy directly to his office, an action that resulted
in 15 of us being arrested for trespass.
In August, 1990–after the Bush administration enticed Iraq into
invading Kuwait–Sanders said he wasn’t “going to let some damn
war cost him the election,” according to a staff member who was
present at the time. So Sanders backed the buildup in the Persian Gulf
and dumped on the left anti-imperialist peace movement, singling
out his former allies like Dave Dellinger for public criticism.
Sandoval, an African American faculty member at the University of
Vermont, was amazed that the official party treated her as a nonperson
and Bernie kept outflanking her to her right. She opposed the
Gulf build-up, Bernie supported it. She supported decriminalization
of drug use and Bernie defended the war on drugs, and so on…..
in their Congressional Caucus. Reciprocally, Bernie has become an
ardent imperialist. Sanders endorsed Clinton in 1992 and 1996. In
1992 he described Clinton as the “lesser of evils,” (a justification
he used to denounce when he was what the local press called an
“avowed socialist”). By 1996 he gave Clinton an unqualified
endorsement. He has been a consistent “Friend of Bill’s” from
since 1992. One student I know worked on the Clinton Campaign
in 1996 and all across Vermont, Bernie was on the stage with
the rest of the Vermont Democratic Party Leadership, while the
unauthorized Democratic candidate for his Congressional seat was
kept out in the audience.
Iraqi body count has now passed 1.5 million. Just as he has supported
every bombing of Iraq since 1992. When Clinton sent military
units to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in October, 1994 because Iraq
moved troops inside Iraq closer to the Kuwait border (apparently
about 100 miles away), Bernie supported this because “we cannot
tolerate aggression.”
of Vermont’s nuclear waste near Sierra Blanca, Texas, a low income
border community with a mostly Latino population that is overwhelmingly
opposed to the dump project. Environmental racism and classism
seem not to bother him.
press why he was the only member of Vermont’ s three member
Congressional delegation who had no person of color on his staff.
Bernie responded that “we’re hiring the most qualified people
we can.”
= new reply since forum marked as read
A little coffee chortling there 
laughing.
burnie as in bridges..
Have a great day & Aloha, pandr
And ditto for the great day!
Back to packing up my house...unpacking in Hawaii will be much more pleasant 
it will be so pleasant to do the unpacking.
Get back to packing!
Burnies history... 
He seems to do whatever he thinks he will benefit from personally--a self-righteous, cranky, opportunist. 
Oh that's easy.
The usual steps they take in examining Bernie's past negatives...
Ignore it,
Laugh it off
Deny it
Blame Hillary and/or the DNC for a conspiracy.
Just what we've been saying all along. His supporters will now throw everyone under the bus.
Thanks to lunamagica and sarae!
Really, this is left of the solar system and throws everyone under the bus. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. And don't boot me.
For me it’s just light reading LOL. I’m a strange biscuit… love ya all, mostly 
JULY 21, 2015
Bernie Out of the Closet: Sanders’ Longstanding Deal with the Democrats
by PAUL STREET
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/bernie-out-of-the-closet-sanders-longstanding-deal-with-the-democrats/
“…It’s all very different than the story Sanders tells campus town progressives on the campaign trail. According to that narrative, he has joined with the Democrats only this year and because of his pragmatic calculation that third party candidates cannot succeed under the U.S. party and electoral system. In reality, however, the Democrats have been Sanders’ “closet party” (Miller) for the last fifteen years. He’s really just coming out of the closet now for the presidential race, in a Clinton-welcomed effort to help give the Democrats a much-needed fake-populist makeover for the 2016 elections. The great Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs (whose poster hangs in Sanders’ Senate office) would not be impressed.”
