"Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House"

[pangaia]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s potential bid for the 2016 Presidency was declared over, on Monday, before it even began, because of a key feature of the American political system that makes a person with integrity ineligible for the White House.

According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency.

“Bernie Sanders’s failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected,” said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/integrity-disqualifies-sanders-white-house

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. "Integrity" ain't all that "disqualifies Sanders for the White House".

[pangaia]

3. Thank you for your comment.

[jkbRN]

2. So much for having a democracy.

This just shows unless you are bought and paid for means you have no chance. That is pathetic and shows how ignorant the American people have become.