If I'm daring to raise my head above the parapet and post an OP for the first time in months...

[JDPriestly]

19. Biden did not discuss one issue.

Bernie will mean change.

Biden will mean more of the same, more corporate funding, more wars, more environmental devastation.

Biden is bound by loyalty to Obama's mistakes.

The Obama/Biden team brought us part-way out of a recession in spite of Republican hate and lack of cooperation.

But Bernie is pointing out the serious problems we need to deal with if we are to proceed.

Obama was rather lukewarm in his support of Social Security. Nary a word about raising the cap on Social Security taxes once Obama was in office. I guess he figured he couldn't win on the issue and allowed himself to give up on it.

But raising the cap on Social Security taxes and raising Social Security benefits are going to be the only way that many people now in their 50s and early 60s will be able to survive.

I like Biden. Everybody does. Who can resist his Irish sentimentality. But, no.

We need Bernie now. We need a person who will focus on the issues, take not corporate money, owe only the American people and who is not inextricably tied, personally and politically to any previous administration.

Biden is a good man, but this is not his time.

This time is for the American people.

And so far, only Bernie really understands what is on the minds of the American people.


In his Brunch with Bernie shows on Thom Hartmann's Friday programs, Bernie has felt the pulse of the American people virtually every week.

No other candidate has done that.

Bernie really is the best candidate for the presidency for 2016 and will make the best president.

Bernie may call on Biden's counsel and expertise, but Bernie is the right person for 2016.

Not Biden.

Only rarely in our history has a vice president been elected to the presidency immediately following his service as vice president.

That is because the American people want change. Our system is set up for change and to allow candidates like Bernie to bring that change.