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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVideo Of Bernie Predicting His Campaign Is Going Viral:
Video of Bernie Sanders Predicting His 2016 Campaign Is Going ViralZach Cartwright | March 19, 2016
Back when Bernie Sanders was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, C-SPAN asked him what his dream president would talk about.
Sanders, then in his mid-forties, began to speak earnestly about how Americans deserve a presidential candidate who would challenge the corrupt Washington establishment and take on the billionaires who run the political process. His response to the question sounded almost exactly like a Bernie Sanders stump speech in 2016:
In our nation today we have an extreme disparity between the rich and the poor, Sanders said. Elections are bought and sold and controlled by people who have huge sums of money.
Sanders then went on to describe his dream president in the short clip that could also be his 2016 campaign platform today:
I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for people who dont have decent healthcare benefits. Somebody who understands that in America today, 50 percent of the people dont even vote anymore, and the vast majority of that 50 percent are poor people and working people who have given up on the system. So essentially, I would like to see a candidate who has the guts to have a vision that America could be a land for all people, not just a land controlled by the super-rich.
http://usuncut.com/politics/video-of-bernie-sanders-predicting-campaignng-2016/
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Video Of Bernie Predicting His Campaign Is Going Viral: (Original Post)
amborin
Mar 2016
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My idea of a dream president too. And he's consistent, not a johnny-come-lately ...
ebayfool
Mar 2016
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ebayfool
(3,411 posts)1. My idea of a dream president too. And he's consistent, not a johnny-come-lately ...
adopting those views depending on the audience. Imagine that!?
JudyM
(29,206 posts)2. Great post. Moving. Nt
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)3. Always the mensch. Sounding the alarm almost forever. K&R