SIMPLY AMAZING: Bernie Sanders FANTASTIC Rally in Binghamton, New York (4-11-16)

[Lodestar]

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Jim Hightower: "It's a joy to join all you corporate greed wackers and fracking butt kickers"

[thereismore]

1. Jim Hightower is a riot and Bernie looks great. He is thriving and getting younger. nt

[SoLeftIAmRight]

2. I got lucky enough to sit next to Jim Hightower and Molly Ivans

while Michael Moore was giving a speech

and the damn thing is - it was in Texas

[Enthusiast]

15. That had to be incredible!

[MFM008]

7. yeah

that's what we said about my dad, he never looked better, and he died suddenly. He was 69.

[BigBearJohn]

3. Oh MY GOD -- "100,000 sperm and you were the fastest" Wish I had 10 friends like Jim Hightower.

Heck, I'd settle for ONE!!!

[silvershadow]

4. Love it. nt

[renate]

5. I wish I had an hour+ to watch this

But if Jim Hightower is involved... I will make time.

Thanks for posting this!

[Lodestar]

6. Jim is just in the first 6 minutes or so.

He's a national treasure cut from the same cloth as Bill Moyers, Molly Ivans, Ann Richards, etc.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

8. Now that was a Bern Berner!

I feel very good about New York - it's a big place, and Bernie's covering it all.

K&R

[Peace Patriot]

9. Josh Fox's intro to Bernie is the best stump speech I've ever heard!

He was absolutely brilliant! He is the leader who rallied people to get frakking banned in the state of NY. He talked about being all alone at first, wondering what one person could do against the power of the frakking industry to stop the devastation of the environment that he loved. Then he found out that his neighbors agreed with him and as everyone started working together, they began their campaign to end frakking. That simple, beautiful and profound message from one person's experience really hit home as the heart of the Sanders campaign.

He had more to say--wonderfully clear, articulate and powerful.

Jim Hightower was also good, in his downhome Texas persona. And Bernie gave a particularly good version of his stump speech, with a lot of detail about frakking and its toxic impacts, immediately on people and water sources, and on methane released into the atmosphere. But Bernie is always good. I never tire of hearing his talking points because it is so unusual to have a major presidential candidate talking seriously about the things that concern ME. I have a feeling of being startled every time. Can this really be happening? Can there really be a major candidate who is running WITHOUT CORPORATE MONEY and saying the things he is saying? Am I dreaming?

Been around a long time. Remember seeing the JFK vs Nixon debates on black and white TV. I was a California Young Democrat and a volunteer in JFK's only presidential campaign. I've heard a lot of great speeches in my time. But nothing moves me like Bernie's stump speech. It's not a great speech per se. It's the nuts and bolts of a fair political process and a fair economy. It's that there is someone saying these things AT ALL, and meaning them. After so many years of vicious Reaganite lies and bullshit, followed by Clinton "triangulation," followed by the pure thuggery of Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld, followed by a president who has disappointed me on so many levels, Barack Obama, and having almost no one speak for my concerns during that time, it is awesome to see it now. I never expected to see it in my lifetime.

[Lodestar]

11. BEAUTIFUL! Thank you! n/t

[Duckfan]

10. That was a great line from Hightower:

Corporate America: "They think they're the top dogs and we're all fire hydrants".

[Enthusiast]

16. It's the truth. Their plans for us are far worse than the abuse they have handed out so far.

We would be lucky if all they did was piss on us. They have already stolen the democracy.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. I think he said, "corporate GREED wackers"

Great video from my old home town!

MMM

[Lodestar]

13. Thanks...changed it. You must be proud of your home town!

[MrMickeysMom]

14. Very much so, Lodestar!

My daddy long ago worked for the Binghamton Press. I lost him when I was young, and my family has always been in the triple city area.

Shouts out to anyone reading this who also knows Greene, NY, about 12 miles from Binghamton. I have some great memories there, too.

[me b zola]

17. "You're beautiful!"

I agree, Bernie is beautiful!