Hillary has served as president once before
President, that is, of the Wellesley College Young Republicans Club.
That was after she worked as a Goldwater Girl and during and before she interned for the House Republican Committee and for Nelson Rockefeller's campaign.
In contrast, no known history whatsoever of Bernie ever having any formal connection to the GOP.
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I knew he was arrested for all the right reasons i.e. civil rights, so googled it ... read first paragraph "It was the late 1950s, and Sanders was still a teenager, running to be class president at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York."
and then posted. Bernie got his start in late 50s, but it took him a few hears to get arrested for all the right reasons.
Thanks for setting the record straight.
seems somewhat sane when compared to The Rest of the Klown Kar Kandidates. 
That is nowhere near sane. The ONLY near-sane Republican to campaign for the Presidency in recent years was Jon Huntsman in 2012.
Huntsman didn't stand a chance of getting the GOP nomination (and didn't). Neither does Kasich.
Bernie has always been proud of the fact that he wasn't a liberal democrat......until 2015 when it fit his purpose!
... all the more reason why Bernie would have been embraced by the "true Democrats" he allegedly represents.
So why so late to the Party - which, according to you, the principles of which he so perfectly exemplifies?
BS is now drawing millions of new registered Democrats into the Big Tent? Really? Do you have a link to the evidence of that - or am I just supposed to take your word for it?
And yes, of course, BS's defeat in the primaries will be because HRC will use the DNC to "rig" the primaries. BS's loss couldn't possibly be due to more Democrats supporting HRC than him.
Ha ha! I am MILLIONS strong!
"If you feel the Democratic Party is not upholding the policies you find to be important, you have choices."
The only choice this election cycle is to vote for Bernie Sanders. He is the only candidate that truly supports the values I always assumed most Democrats agreed with. And the primaries will prove me right.
Please, have a good day!
Not all that much different from the brainwashed teabag crowd. I always assumed they were smarter than that. Very sad. 
Seems like the only people voting with their heads instead of just their hearts are Bernie people. Extremely sad. 
Bernie may be the last bastion against fascism we have left in America. 
...how republicans were attracted to his campaign and were willing to switch parties - even funnier considering how many Sanders supporters came to his defense.
the facts:
As the nation boiled over Vietnam, civil rights and the slayings of two charismatic leaders, Ms. Rodham was completing a sweeping intellectual, political and stylistic shift. She came to Wellesley as an 18-year-old Republican, a copy of Barry Goldwater’s right-wing treatise, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” on the shelf of her freshman dorm room. She would leave as an antiwar Democrat whose public rebuke of a Republican senator in a graduation speech won her notice in Life magazine as a voice for her generation.
read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?_r=0
Clinton’s Thesis on Leftist Icon Reveals Roots
As a former first lady aiming to become America’s first female president, Hillary Clinton has a biography heavy with male influences, including Hugh Rodham, the stern father who raised her as a Republican; Don Jones, the Methodist youth minister who introduced her to the civil rights movement, and former president Bill Clinton, her political and personal partner for more than three decades.
But perhaps more than anyone, it was Alan Schechter, a political science professor who mentored Clinton during her student years at Wellesley College, who had a ringside seat to her intellectual and political transformation amid the turbulent 1960s. A self-described “FDR progressive” raised in Brooklyn by the secular children of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Schechter, 71, met Clinton in his capacity as an adviser to the student government and went on to become a beloved professor who wrote her a glowing recommendation to Yale Law School. As her thesis adviser, Schechter steered Clinton to focus her project on Saul Alinsky, the irascible labor and civil rights activist who pioneered the practice of community organizing with his Depression-era campaign to improve conditions in the Chicago slum made notorious by writer Upton Sinclair.
Her approach was “instrumental, pragmatic, how do you get from point A to point B,” said Schechter, who recently discussed with the Forward his most famous pupil and her 1969 senior project. “She wasn’t studying Alinsky because of her interest in Alinsky and not even, I think, because of her interest in community organizing as such. It was much more that he had a particular approach to poverty.”
With a title taken from a T.S. Eliot poem, Clinton’s thesis, “‘There Is Only the Fight…’: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model,” takes a pragmatic approach to the issue of poverty alleviation. Her question is how best to help poor people in urban areas, and her approach is empirical rather than normative. The paper often takes a no-nonsense tone, as when Clinton sounds a skeptical note about the usefulness of “psychodramatics” in politics, or reminds her readers that discussing Alinsky “apart from his actions is like discussing current theories of international relations without mentioning Vietnam.”
read more: http://forward.com/news/12202/clinton-s-thesis-on-leftist-icon-reveals-roots-00926/
An undated photograph of Hillary Rodham, center, during her days as a student at Wellesley College, from 1965 to 1969.
I'm just scratching my head over why any so-called Democrat would do likewise. 
