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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"He's not your milquetoast left-winger. He's kind of a badass left-winger."
Sanders has been impressive to watch.
Bernie Sanders launches 2016 Presidential campaign
BURLINGTON, Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pulled out all the stops Tuesday at his presidential campaign launch in Burlington, as he outlined his role in "a political revolution to transform the country economically, politically, economically and environmentally."
"Brothers and sisters, now is not the time for thinking small," he told a large crowd at Waterfront Park. "Now is not the time for the same old same old. Now is the time for millions of working families to revitalize American democracy."
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"He's not your milquetoast left-winger. He's kind of a badass left-winger." (Original Post)
NCTraveler
Jun 2016
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villager
(26,001 posts)1. Yes he has. nt
aikoaiko
(34,161 posts)2. And for this I am grateful because we haven't seen a liberal fighter (albeit flawed)...
...like this in many years. We needed to see this even if it is temporarily inconvenient.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)3. I agree with that. Nt
libodem
(19,288 posts)4. Thank you
Very nice of you to bring this out.
840high
(17,196 posts)5. Thank you.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)6. And it can't stop with just him.
To misquote one of hte better political movies I've watched recently (even if the film isn't recent) - you can't be no ghost, you've got to be a spirit.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)8. Like the quote. Nt
herding cats
(19,558 posts)7. We need more like him!
He fights well for what he believes in.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)9. To paraphrase what Elizabeth Warren said last night ....
You can't always negotiate. Sometimes you have to throw a punch