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Cheers, Whistles and Bernie Chants greet Sanders at Boston Rally
[font color="navy" font size="3"]Amid cheers, whistles, and chants of “Bernie,” US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont called for the Democratic party to recast itself as the party of the working class, rather than the “liberal elite” during a political rally Friday night in Boston
“And when we do that, when we transform the Democratic Party, we transform America,” the former presidential candidate told a 1,600-person audience in Orpheum Theater. “Because ... on every major point facing this country, the American people do not believe in a right-wing agenda. They believe in a progressive agenda.”
Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with the Democrats, told the crowd filled with young supporters that he plans to introduce legislation on Monday that would make public colleges and universities tuition free.
“Now people say, ‘Well, Bernie it’s an expensive proposition,’... it costs a lot of money, and it’s true, it does,” he said. “How are we going to pay for it? I will tell you exactly and gleefully how we’re going to pay for it. We’re going to put a tax on Wall Street speculation.”
The announcement was greeted with a standing ovation and another round of “Bernie” chants.[/font]
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/31/cheers-whistles-and-bernie-chants-greet-sanders-boston-rally/AJT4goY1EwoNc3hs8nzoSK/story.html
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Re: Obama - The president said that Democrats "have to be in those communities" where voters felt like the party was too coastal, too elitist, too politically correct. "When we are in those communities, it makes a difference," he said. "It's how I became president."
"People feel as if they're not being heard," he said. "Democrats are characterized as coastal liberal latte-sipping politically-correct out-of-touch folks."
http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/16/president-obama-perception-of-democrats
And Bernie is going on yet another tour of Trump country to listen and talk with the people
