wow that is shitty headline.

He doesn't agree with Bush at all. He is pushing for more full-time jobs for those who are still suffering from unemployment and underemployment.

Politico is a conduit for the Drudge report into MSM.

Bush can now deflect the heat by saying that he really meant to call for more "full-time" jobs.

The headline is misleading.

Horribly misleading headline.

Great comments by Sanders.

He pointed out that people need full-time jobs (because we all know employers are intentionally keeping their employees' hours to 30 so they won't have to pay benefits). Bush just wants to wring more work out of us serfs to increase the wealth of the employers. Big difference.

issue; I'd love to ask #bushCo3-Do You Understand the Problem?
Which Part Time Job do "we" need to give Up to take full time work? There are Many, Many workers Working 15-20+ hours a Week at Two/Three+ different PT jobs = 60+ hours a week.
How much more does #bushCo3 want "us" to work? Or, under the reality of todays working poor...does he want us to work Less (and earn less) by quitting multiple p/t jobs to take a f/t 40 hr week paying crap? I'm confused by his babble....
Did #bushCo3 happen to mention "we" Need Higher wages not more work/hours?
#BushCo3 #Clueless #WagesTooLow

Pls edit it to reflect what Bernie really meant.

It implies Bernie agrees with repug Bush.

Come on, you have to know that headline is misleading.

Many people don't read pass the head. Is that what you intended?

Media bias exists that's for sure.

I don't know what you mean by "is that what you intended"...

I didn't write the Politico article nor did I create this OP.

Maybe if he starts wearing Armani they will stop calling him "rumpled", too.

And you know it.

I think the poster should have made sure that Bernie's position was differentiated from Bush's in the headline.

The way it stands it's misleading and inaccurate, apparently what right wing "Politico" intended.

And, this is from a Bernie supporter who spends more time defending Hillary here because I can't tolerate the never ending stream of childlike Bernie supporter BS here ...

The Democrats need to add his statement to their list and hammer him with it repeatedly.

He does not have his brother's smarmy politician veneer people say the hate but tend to actually go for, and he isn't as smart as people want to assume because he looks geeky and he isn't his brother.

Jr. was a moron, but he was actually disciplined as a politician, and he let Rove handle him and took to what he was telling him.

Or were you unable to get all the way to the second sentence you quoted?

I posted it. No where did I personally use the word defend.

ETA: Also, this isn't LBN. You don't have to use Politico's headline verbatim.

I posted it because I agree with Sanders. Don't be so sensitive just because of my avatar.

This isn't LBN. You don't have to use the headline verbatim. In fact, you could say "Atrocious Politico headline: Berne defends Jeb's..."

But you've been around here plenty long to know that.

right through your tactic. H would be proud.

and it's not yours but you just couldn't wait to put that up there, could you? And from Right Wing Policito, too. But if that's the only way you can get people to click on/respond to your threads I guess that's worth something.

There's two stories here, one is the content that Bernie is commenting on Jebs stupid position, but the other is that Politico frames it with such a bogus title.

We are all on the same side here, eventually.

I can call bullshit when I see it and still remain chill. It's a gift.

50% of people won't read past it is a special kind of sleaze in a class all by itself.
What a fine and proud profession these cretins have mastered.

You can't.

I didn't write the article. I posted it.


I wrote that I had no problem with Sanders opinion.

If a reader can't bother to read the article and only reads the headline, that is their problem, not mine.

You and I are perfect examples of this.

It's Politico's dissembling. She feels no obligation to remark on the quality of their headline, other than at the very end, I'm not smearing him, I agree with his comments, which still does not address the smear in the headline.

of just how far the M$M will go.

I love the false indignation of her/him. I find it quite Hillarian of them.

I am so stealing that. Just thought I'd give you fair warning.

problem solved.

I will honor that request.

Now, real life calls.

Directly from Bernie Sanders website on this very subject,
https://berniesanders.com/news/jeb-bush-says-youre-not-working-hard-enough/

Jeb Bush apparently thinks that the biggest problem facing middle class Americans is that they’re not working hard enough. In a webcast interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader, the former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate said this:


“My aspiration for the country, and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see. Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours … (and) through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That’s the only way we’re going to get out of this rut that we’re in.”

Bernie had an immediate response:


“Unfortunately, Gov. Bush does not seem to understand what is happening in our economy today. The sad truth is that because the middle class has declined over the last 40 years, while almost all new income and wealth have gone to the people on top, Americans already work the longest hours of any people in the western industrialized world. In fact, 80 percent of working men work longer than 40 hours a week. What we need now is an economy that provides decent wages and income for the middle class, not demands that people work even longer hours than they currently do.”

As Bernie says, Americans are working longer hours than anyone else in the industrialized world. Productivity increases won’t change that. For roughly thirty years, workers’ wages kept pace with productivity. That ended in roughly 1980, when conservatives took power and began implementing policies designed to ensure that the wealthiest among us kept the income created by productivity gains for themselves.

A longer workweek isn’t Jeb Bush’s only aspiration for the struggling middle class. He also wants to eliminate the Federal minimum wage, cut Social Security benefits, and raise the retirement age.

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When all you have is to criticize the other candidate using bogus means, it translates that you are clearly understanding the danger a corporate candidacy (which seeks only maintains the status quo), truly is in. There is no inevitable queen, merely the perception her "less than" followers tout, THERE IS A WAVE sweeping this nation. It is so early, it has only just started. Stay in fear, the rest of us are going to end this fear, we are going to support the candidate who will bring about real change. Lip service is so cheap.

On Fri Jul 10, 2015, 10:37 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Politico headline: Bernie defends Jeb's 'longer hours' comment
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251435045

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

This kind of post makes DU suck. This is classing shit stirring, posting fake headlines and barely concealed bashing of a candidate, and then saying hey it's just somebody else's clickbait headline not mine.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:07 AM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: There is a real effort to make Sanders look bad here, just like HRC's hiding out
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: What? This is taking candidate partisanship to the extreme! The post is accurate, and if it isn't "pure" enough for some people, that's too bad.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: An attempt to silence Nancy. hrmjustin
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: The headline is wildly inappropriate, but not at the level of poo-flinging which is my threshold for a hide. The inaccuracy of the headline has been dealt with in the thread. Furthermore, the full quote in the posted piece reflects well on Sanders generally.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: The headline is the headline, not fake and it is not a bad article. Bernie's supporters are in for a rough road. If they think this is bad they may want to move to a sugar shack in VT without wi-fi, newspapers, or electricity.

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

Explanation: The headline is the headline, not fake and it is not a bad article. Bernie's supporters are in for a rough road. If they think this is bad they may want to move to a sugar shack in VT without wi-fi, newspapers, or electricity.

the jurors should at least avoid saying questionable things. Thanks for agreeing it should not have been worded that way.

and a really bad one... Hope someone directed the administrators' attention about that juror...

But they should see it.

that's for sure.

and ask yourself do they support H...yeah.

Read their comments. You may not draw the same conclusions. Actually, I am positive that you will not. That does not change my opinion.

I remember 2008....there is no chance in H ill I will forget the full on press of H's minions. I didn't vote for her then and I won't vote for her now.

Minority and women sites. The PUMAs really turned me sour on H and I begged Obama supporters not to retire her debt. Ugh. That and the Super Tuesday events nailed that coffin shut!!

I do think it was bullshit to post the headline, cause it was prototype politico bullshit.

But, not even close to jury worthy, and part of what has devolved into the Bernie supporters misusing the system.

That said, the last explanation is spot on.

Heads are going to explode if/when Bernie gets to the point that he is a real viable threat, because he is still getting the plucky underdog treatment generally. Such time as he appears to be a truly viable threat to win the nomination, you are going to see FOR REAL negative framining from the Rs channeled through the press, like Gore, Kerry, Dean, etc ...

of course Bernie isn't backing up jeb and they damn well know it. More evidence that the MSM and their corporate masters are shitting bricks over the prospect of Bernie becoming president.

and Bernie is correct. I don't like Jeb, but cherry picking the quote is no better than some of the crap cherry picked about Obama. Bernie is . . . horrors . . . an honest man.

because it is what they want

why is this title written the way it is?

Try harder.

I stand corrected....the first article I read was about how there were no grounds for the allegations of her money being tainted. But the article I just read where they call the Clintons space aliens is more to my liking!


Thanks, I'll book mark the site.

Bernie sanders cares deeply about American workers and bush is a bush. fuck politico. btw I support hrc

Your initial reaction was "Don't shoot the messenger" and all you were doing was transcribing verbatim a headline that somebody else wrote.

You defended that point of view quite vehemently, and ably IMO, until you were overwhelmed by the sheer number of posters who objected.

So my question is, do you really think the original title was a mistake, or were you just bowing to peer pressure when you changed it?

In spite of my avatar there's no hidden agenda here, I'm just curious.