It was really awesome!

I watched the live stream on YouTube. The chat on YouTube was estimating 12,000!

This was as good as watching Bill Clinton on fire in 1992. Bill didn't act like a Democrat when he was elected, but anyway....

record that Bill didn't have, to assure us that he is not just talking, he has walked the walk and has been consistent on his convictions and voted accordingly, for over four decades.

he knows what he believes without having to be programmed... as compared to Hillary (can't find the exact amount she has spent on polling at the moment).

recollection. Yes, Bernie is authentic, and that is what everyone who learns about him, says. He has the record to prove it.

There is no amount of money that can buy that.

are in this photo! I'm going with the official count, more than 11,000!

in Hillary's NH crowd either! OMG, she must have a problem with minorities!!

Btw, are you aware of all the minority groups that have formed for Bernie lately? As they learn about him, they KNOW he is the real deal.

....of Clinton rallies or town halls.

to all the ones about Bernie? Thanks in advance.

primary.

Is that their point?

they are not that big.

Politicians take note.

(know you know that already Sabrina1, you nail the crap.)

I was there. The crowd was hugely diverse.

I personally was there with an Italian immigrant, two Cubans, and a hispanic. I met my friends from Tucson who are black and hispanic. I am bi-racial. The local Sanders campaigner who helped organize the event and who informed us of the delay is black. The young union woman who introduced him was hispanic.

We were surrounded by a sea of racial diversity - Asians, blacks, latinos, whites, etc.

To say otherwise, is just a lie designed to smear Sanders.

are still going to be ignored by a certain few who are not especially interested in facts, but most people do want the truth, since they do not have any agenda other than what is best for this country.

Your OP was amazing!

in 2012. 30% hispanic. Doubt it's changed dramatically in the last 3 years.

http://www.diversitydata.org/Data/Profiles/Show.aspx?loc=1068

And there was A LOT of diversity.

You just don't want to see it.

Go read the top rated OP on the FP for the FACTS.

But hey, don't let the facts stop your from continuing to try to make that talking point stick, it only helps Bernie when people see lies being totally debunked, by MINORITIES themselves.

I am so proud of this candidate, proud that he doesn't ever sink to the level of spreading lies about his opponents, or allowing his campaign to do so either, see McCaskill and Gutierriez and Brown.

It's so refreshing to have a candidate who sticks to the issues and will not allow himself to be dragged into this awful negative campaign dirty tricks, something the public is sick and tired of.

You might have more of a point if you could compare a similar rally for HRC and show the difference. But without a comparison, your insinuation is just ugly.

Not exactly representative of the crowd, so it is pretty obvious what she is doing.

I mean clearly he doesn't support LGBT rights so long as you say it loudly enough.

It's complete BS. Bernie Sanders is not racist. He fought and continues to fight for equality for all Americans. His record is quite clear on that. He was never against it and never had to "evolve". He knew what was right from the beginning and stuck to it despite what smears people try to throw at him.

When Bernie has been president for four years, then you can make that comparison.

Right now, the predictions are that Bernie can't attract a crowd in Red States, only in the NE. Well, there goes that prediction, right out the window!

nonetheless.

Lol! I'm not complaining, people hate the negativity so it's more than likely they are inadvertently helping him, which is cool!

for some additional comparison.

See: http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2008/01/31/75657-obama-rally-draws-13-000-in-phx/

donations from ordinary people and an opposing campaign working as hard as they can to try to derail his campaign, working AGAINST the people. So what IS your point?

is still five and a half months away.

At the pace that Bernie is burning up his competition, I expect him to be speaking in stadiums by then.

coming to hear it.

Poor Repubs, they have no music of their own, so they have to steal ours. Trump AND Rubio, shot down by Neil and Buckwheat for using Liberal music! Lol!

coming to a large venue near you

who hoo!

Been talking to people about him here, and am getting some very positive reactions, many who never heard of him.

But once you tell people about him, show them his record, they are interested right away.

i hope so!

be hosting house parties, meet ups over the next few months also. And I heard he will be speaking by livestream to these events.

and you get to meet him

with. But we will be working to help get him elected regardless.

keep people, especially minorities, in poverty so they have no other options than to become victims of the wealthy who profit from these wars.

I am happy to see that young people are beginning to see the way it all works and are now getting behind the only candidate who might be able to begin to turn all this around.

program, funded by the tax payers to get things moving. It wasn't until then, that I realized we DO have a jobs program, it's called the military, and if you are born poor, you have to put your life on the line for your future. It makes me sick. I've told the story many times that the only recruiters who came to my school were the cops and the military. I objected to the administration who did nothing, but I did have the pleasure of throwing the marine recruiter out of my classroom who wanted a few more bodies for canon fodder.

public schools had to provide info on their students to the Military so that recruiters could pester them starting at age 14 or so, to sign up for Imperial Wars.

If the schools refused, they would lose funding. It was pretty shocking that people who represent us, including many Dems, voted for that horrific 'education' bill.

I remember parents complaining about recruiters harassing them to try to get their children to sign up early for the military when they, the parents did not want this for their children.

Don't know if that is still going on. But it demonstrated the lengths they are willing to go to to get children, naturally the poor, to enlist to fight their wars for profit.

and FUCK THAT. That needs to be an OP right there.

thing to do. As far as I know, it was never removed from the Bill.

I wanted to do that for my son (who is now 16) but he asked me not to. He said he'd rather just tell them "no" himself.

children up for their wars is just sickening, and threatening schools with removing their funding if they refuse to do so, is simply despicable.

Your son sounds like a great kid!

Reading your posts, I am sure you were a jewel in that school.

It's actually nearly impossible to enlist if you come from the poorest 20% of the population.

The military, on the whole, is significantly richer and better educated than the US population.

that would make sense.

But it also means kids in the bottom 20% are essentially locked out of the military, for the most part. Which we should probably re-think, because it can be a really good opportunity.

if we weren't in a state of constant warfare it would be.

I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers on this, but there are far too many poor people, and we also have enlisted indigenous people from other nations, last I checked which was years ago, at least 30,000 poor, indigenous native people from Canada, and/or S. American countries, enticed by promises of college, US citizenship, which doesn't often happen, etc.

The military is an opportunity to die for someone else's profits at this point.

So the poorest of the poor, perhaps not, but that is not my experience. And I am also addressing kids who can't afford college but are qualified really have very little choice given them. That's because college in our country is too damned expensive.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/whos-joining-the-us-military-poor-women-and-minorities-targeted/43418/

But the top 20% enlist at a higher rate than the bottom 20%. The highest representation IIRC is the second poorest quintile, followed by the middle, then the second richest, then the richest, with the poorest quintile last.

Lutz relays that a study done in 1980 found that from 1940 to 1973 blacks were less likely to join the military than whites, while in more recent years, a 2006 study concluded that blacks are overrepresented in the military.

Yup. That's a crucial distinction. African Americans enlist at a slightly lower rate than whites, but tend to stay in the military much longer (and so wind up highly overrepresented among the Staff NCO corps).

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He's so excited and fired up. He bought a carload of people with him.

Great that your nephew was there!

I'm very happy for them especially the 2 who did multiple combat tours. Bernie is speaking to them. You may have gathered Bernie is not my 1st choice but just a smidge I'm glad so many younger folks I know are not only interested but actually volunteering. It's good for democracy.

I saw the same kind of excitement with Obama. It makes people politically aware and interested so they can't get fooled by MSM and Fox New propaganda.

Thank you so much for posting these, I bet he was thrilled.

Bernie

It was awesome!

Go Bernie Go!

The new regime is rising!

nasty tactics are not acceptable at all, but how do your stop them? We have to be ready to react instantly to their attacks, to find out if possible, who they are and expose them.

Unfortunately, our local Dem central committee is part of it, so it seems we Bernie supporters have to work outside of them. What's cool though is one of our active local politicians is sponsoring a Bernie meet up.

change. People are going to work outside them. Things have reached the point where we don't have the time or patience to cater to those who are so willfully blind to the problems people face in this country.

Either join in the effort or get out of the way, because like it or not, the corrupt system we are living under, has to go.

but I don't remember that specific line in any of the patriot songs. It could have been buried in my subconscience. I was just thinking it would be cool to have pipes and drums for a movement march.

Half-Irish here.
Those 2 lines really do sound like an Irish song of rebellion. Will try googling tomorrow.

I think it was about a young soldier named Willie McBride who died in WW1. 'Did they beat the drums slowly, did they ........ Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down'. Can't remember all the words, but her phrase reminded me of that song's chorus.

, written by an Aussie. I'm most familiar with the version recorded by The Fureys and Davey Arthur. (Didn't know that The Clancy Brothers recorded it)

when I Googled her post, that song was what came up most often.
BUT, that song doesn't include anything about a new regime rising. Just sad, mournful stuff about the awful futility of war.

There are several versions by the Clancy Bros, this is one of them, just beautiful, and so sad:

It was freaking awesome! A bit overwhelming for me as I really don't do well in crowds anymore. But I am soooo glad I went.

Go Sanders!

After an event like that, and with the reception he got, the whole state will be abuzz about Sanders. That's the way to the White House for him. When people discuss him, and his campaign, they tend to decide that he's their choice for President.

It is well worth reading as the OP was there and describes the very diverse crowd, and the excitement of the event. Amazing really.

Thank you Bernie Sanders for your moral guidance, your strength and good judgment. You are what America needs.

domestic policies on Social Programs. Are you seriously unaware of the vast differences between someone who supports the Dem Party's traditional, since FDR, policies on Social Safety Nets, and a Libertarian who opposes everything Bernie stands for AND as polls show, the PEOPLE stand for?

Seriously? If you want to have a rational discussion on why Paul plummeted while Bernie continues to rise, let me know. I will be more than happy to have that discussion.

Of course they are completely different in terms of political positions, except maybe on the issue of guns. But Paul attracted students and the disaffected with his talk of revolution. He had huge rallies and devoted followers. He got millions every time he did an online "money bomb" campaign. Paul's popularity eventually died off around the time of the GOP convention, but at this point of the campaign, he was still on the rise, much like Bernie. That link was a story on Paul's record-breaking rally at UCLA in April of 2012. We'll see where Bernie is in April of 2016, and around the time of the Dem convention.

How can they be that out of touch?