Gail Collins Column: Bernie Sanders Yells His Mind

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/opinion/gail-collins-bernie-sanders-yells-his-mind.html

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Our topic today is: Bernie Sanders for president?

“My fifteen minutes of fame,” the Vermont senator said gruffly over the phone. Gruff is pretty much his normal way of speaking, but Sanders was actually in a good mood at this point in the conversation. Later, the volume would escalate.

He announced he was running for the Democratic nomination on Thursday, first in an email, then in a makeshift press conference on the lawn outside the Capitol. There are worse approaches. One of the few previous presidential candidates from Vermont was George Dewey, the hero of the Spanish American War. Dewey started his campaign off with a statement that read, in part: “Since studying the subject I am convinced that the office of the president is not such a very difficult one to fill . . .” It was pretty much downhill from there.

Sanders’s beginning was more auspicious. His infant campaign raised more than $1.5 million in donations in the first 24 hours: “Thirty-five thousand donations averaging $43 apiece!”
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