Saw it.

And I have granted myself permission to reprise my comment on that thread:

"With Bernie, what you see is what you get.
There's no not-there there.

Unlike us retired seniors who are here nearly every day, and the those who may or may not be paid to be here every day, there are many who may check in only occasionally.

and disagree with his assessment of Martin O'Malley - i.e., O'Malley's falling behind was due to bad strategy and not to O'Malley's strength as a candidate.

I recognize this group is about Sanders and not O'Malley - but I don't think that O'Malley policy-wise stacks up to Sanders....O'Malley is from the 'inside the beltway' crowd.....his rhetoric is good but Sanders has a history or rhetoric and activism to back up his genuineness. The genuineness about Sanders is first and foremost the economy....that's the focus of his campaign. And that's my two cents.

"it's the economy, stupid."

I agree, wholeheartedly, with your analysis.

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Matthew Crenson, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University who is writing a book on the political history of Baltimore, told ThinkProgress the tough-on-drugs policing strategy put in place by O’Malley contributed to the unrest seen in the city today.

“One of the possible costs is that this creates a great deal of tension in relationships between the police and communities in their policing, because it means they’re always hassling people for minor offenses,” he said. “And that could conceivably create the atmosphere in which it’s very easy for a riot to break out when something like Freddie Gray’s death occurs. All the other Freddie Grays who live in segregated neighborhoods in Baltimore rise up and attack the police.”

Since his time as mayor, academics have come to question the effectiveness of the broken windows policing, Crenson said, adding that O’Malley takes credit for improving the safety of Baltimore when the rate of violent crime was actually dropping across the country, even in cities that did not use his style of policing.

“Not only that, but it continued to drop after he was out of office and the succeeding mayor abandoned the no tolerance policing policy,” Crenson said.

Also in the audience at O’Malley’s speech was Tawanda Jones, whose brother Tyrone West was killed by Baltimore cops in 2013.

“My brother was brutally murdered and it stems from him,” Jones told ThinkProgress, pointing to O’Malley on stage. “He locked up 100,000 people for nothing, made all the stop-and-frisk laws, and now our black people get pulled over for doing nothing, just driving. And we still don’t have answers.”

How refreshing, how courageous. I'm there for him.

Bernie is a straight shooter.