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I'm ready for Bernie (Original Post) madokie May 2015 OP
That's what I'm talkin' bout! NYC_SKP May 2015 #1
He' got em riled up Puzzledtraveller May 2015 #2
From my vantage point I don't see Bernie backing down ever madokie May 2015 #3
Been listening in to Lunch With Bernie for a couple of years... chknltl May 2015 #5
Exactly! It's a GOOD sign. First they said he didn't have a chance, but now they are paying sabrina 1 May 2015 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2015 #9
Me too! Enthusiast May 2015 #4
I am so ready for Bernie Lunabell May 2015 #7
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I'm ready for Bernie, too Aerows May 2015 #10
+1000. GGJohn May 2015 #11
me too! liberal_at_heart May 2015 #12
Either be ready for Bernie or be ready for more billionaire corporatism. L0oniX May 2015 #13
I'm ready! bigwillq May 2015 #14
Me, too! merrily May 2015 #15
I'm ready too. HappyMe May 2015 #16

madokie

(51,076 posts)
3. From my vantage point I don't see Bernie backing down ever
Wed May 6, 2015, 10:38 PM
May 2015

He's serious as a heart attack. I'm serious as a heart attack too. Things have got to change. The way it is now sucks for 99% of us out here in the real world. Bernie feels our pain

chknltl

(10,558 posts)
5. Been listening in to Lunch With Bernie for a couple of years...
Thu May 7, 2015, 01:01 AM
May 2015

...he doesn't sound like a quitter to me either. Senator Sanders does understand our pain even though many of us don't understand where that pain is coming from. What's cool about Bernie Sanders is that he is teaching the electorate as he campaigns. He has been teaching those of us who choose to listen for years now, it's sorta the Bernie M.O. .

Should Sanders get the nomination, America is in for the civics/economics class it has sorely lacked since the Reagan Presidency. That's where the change you speak of must come from, it has to come from an enlightened electorate. As you are likely well aware, an education of the citizenry like the one Bernie is gearing up for is one the oligarchs/corporatists don't want America having. Well that's how I see things from my vantage point.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
6. Exactly! It's a GOOD sign. First they said he didn't have a chance, but now they are paying
Thu May 7, 2015, 01:06 AM
May 2015

attention. As usual the political 'experts' inside the DC bubble are so out of touch with the Real World and Real People they have been taken by surprise.

75,000 small donations in less than a week!

Their Corporate candidates raised a lot of money, but only from a handful of wealthy donors.

That makes Bernie the WINNER by a long shot.

I think they were blindsided and are now getting desperate to catch up, which means lots of expensive smear campaigns.

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Aerows

(39,961 posts)
10. I'm ready for Bernie, too
Thu May 7, 2015, 01:37 AM
May 2015

We need some stronger voices - he has never pulled punches about exactly who he is and what he believes in. I like that about him.

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