The ONLY major candidate to have "Marched with MLK"

[FreakinDJ]

“Everybody knows what’s happening — who wants to know,” Bernie Sanders wrote in June 1972 in Movement, an irregular Liberty Union Party newsletter he edited. “A handful of people own almost everything … and almost everybody owns nothing. A handful of people make the decisions and the vast majority of people have virtually no control over their lives.” Dating all the way back to the 1960s and ‘70s in Vermont, a formative time for Sanders, the message of the surging socialist presidential candidate has been startling consistent. “The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the vast majority in the middle are having a harder and harder time,” he said — in 1974, and ever since.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/07/bernie-sanders-the-early-years/002279-032662.html?ml=po_g#.Vs2Tyrn2bIU

And what did the Clintons do ....


Why they got richer of course

[riversedge]

1. You could easily built up your candidate without taking a smack at Hillary.

[islandmkl]

4. Hillary shouldn't have taken, via surrogates, a smack at Bernie's civil rights involvement...

oh...but Hillary didn't personally say it, did she? No, somehow Clyburn just felt he had to incorrectly frame some history...all on his own.

I guess, among other things, we have a good sense of how things can change in 8 years...'evolution' so to speak

[Tanuki]

11. What is it that Clyburn said that you object to in regard to "framing history?"

You aren't confusing him with John Lewis, are you? I know that a lot of people here were butthurt when Lewis told his truth about not having seen Sanders anywhere during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

[islandmkl]

12. both, in fact....Lewis' memory and Clyburn's 8-year 'mellowing'...

[riversedge]

21. You missed my point. There is no need to smack down others -Build up your own candidate --that is i

he can stand on his own.

[islandmkl]

2. great pic and link...I have a friend who is an old political hack, so to speak,

and he always talked about elections...and running them with a part of the campaign being designed to appeal to 'the soft comfort of lies'...

you had the LBJ "I'll lie about you and let you spend all your time denying it." to the more subtle "I was there and I never saw you there." which primarily utilizes what would be considered, without inspection, an unimpeachable source.

Bernie is fighting both styles...and luckily, the info/tech age helps in the fight...to the extent the electorate is actually 'connected'...

on edit: I won't alter my original comment, but will agree that that is not Bernie in the photo and he has never claimed it was him...in fact, if you could see a picture of me at that time, you would swear it was me!

[Chitown Kev]

3. lol, even Bernie Sanders and his campaign has acknowledged that this picture

taken in Selma, I believe, is NOT of Bernie Sanders, lol

http://www.snopes.com/sanders-mlk-selma-march/

[islandmkl]

6. you are right about the pic...but not about the quotes...

are the Bernie comments being refuted?

[Chitown Kev]

9. The picture is being used

to buttress this story.

There are pictures of Sanders' arrest in Chicago in 1963 that are fine to use.

[Jitter65]

15. Using that picture is like Ted Cruz antics. It's a lie and the BS campaign has admitted it. nt

[sufrommich]

5. That's not Bernie Sanders.

Sanders didn't march at Selma and doesn't make that claim. This picture has been debunked many times.

[pdsimdars]

7. It outrages me . . .

that the Senators and Congressmen who fought in the Civil Rights movement have turned their backs on Sanders and endorsed Hillary. . . . .
To me, they have lost all the integrity they had. . .how can you turn on a comrade who fought on your side, for your cause and support Hillary who was campaigning for Goldwater who wanted to repeal the Civil Rights Act and re-segregate the south? Where is their perspective? They sold out!

[brooklynite]

8. And what about those African American voters?

Having the TEMERITY to vote for the candidate of their choice?

[mmonk]

10. He went to DC but not that one I believe.

[left-of-center2012]

13. Was HRC a Goldwater Republican at that time? N/T

[Tanuki]

17. No. The March on Washington took place in August 1963, when Hillary was 15 years old.

Goldwater announced his candidacy in 1964. Hillary's father was active in local Republican politics and even ran an unsuccessful campaign at one time to become an alderman, and Hillary did indeed pass out campaign information as a Goldwater Girl during the election. She was all of 16 years old, turning 17 a few days before the 1964 election. Bernie was 22 at the time of the March on Washington, so the more reasonable comparison would be with what Hillary was doing at that age (1969). I don't see why people make such a big deal out of what she did at a young age. I think we have all known people who moved on from the religious, sexual, political, etc. teachings of their family of origin once they grew up and learned more about the real world.

[Jitter65]

18. And that is one of the reasons she became a Democrat. Study the history. She learned what the GOP

was all about...and she became a staunch Dem after that. From the 70's hence.
Lot's of people who are now dedicated Republicans also marched with MLK. For various reasons they became ultra conservatives about most issues and disenchanted with what the civil rights movement became.

[leftofcool]

14. Hello, that's not Bernie

[EffieBlack]

16. This is not Sanders in the photo and this photo is not used in the article you link to

You have inserted this debunked photo apparently to mislead. You should delete this.

Despicable.

[LexVegas]

19. I would question the integrity of anyone that claims that is Bernie Sanders in the picture. nt

[EffieBlack]

20. DU recently blew up with people having fits because a reporter said a photo wasn't of Bernie

Even though he acknowledged that Bernie had participated in the civil rights movement, they accused him of slander, libel, being in the tank for Hillary, and worse, all because he said that someone depicted in a photo taken during a meeting about a sit-in was not actually Bernie.

Where's the outrage now that one of their own has posted a photo that not only falsely claims to depict Bernie, but falsely shows him at a march he did not participate in to make it appear he was with Dr. King?

And to make it worse, this fake photo was not even in the link the OP cites, which means the OP went out of their way to upload and post a photo in a way that suggests not only that Bernie was somewhere he wasn't doing something he didn't do with someone he was never anywhere near, but also misleadingly appears to come from another source.

This is scraping the bottom of the barrel, clearly intended to fool people about Bernie's history - Sanders supporters should call this out.

[riversedge]

22. Your OP is morally wrong and yet you leave it up. Shame on you