edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 10 Aug, 2015 09:52 pm
In LA tonight
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMGLPidUMAAdQY9.jpg
hawkeye10
 
  1  
Reply Mon 10 Aug, 2015 10:20 pm
@edgarblythe,
Who ever picks Sanders pics like to get him when it looks like he is screaming. Not sure what is up with that and am watching for more information.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 10 Aug, 2015 10:48 pm
LOS ANGELES – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrapped up a three-day West Coast swing on Monday with a stem-winder speech to an arena packed with sign-waving supporters cheering his call for a political revolution.

He was introduced by comedienne and actress Sarah Silverman. “I give you, if we’re all very smart and a little bit lucky, the next president of the United States,” she said. The crowd roared its approval.

And there were more thunderous cheers and applause when Sanders walked up a catwalk onto the stage and proclaimed, in a hoarse shout, that “this country belongs to all of us and not a handful of billionaires. We need a grassroots political revolution.”

Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena officials said there were 27,500 people inside the arena and watching on giant TV screens in an overflow area outside. The tremendous turnout – five times bigger than the largest crowd any other presidential candidate has attracted – capped a three-day weekend of big rallies that drew 28,000 people to see Sanders in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday after 15,000 saw him in Settle on Saturday.

The rallies provided new hard evidence of a Sanders surge. “This is a campaign that is on the move,” Sanders said, “and, together, this is a campaign that will end in victory.”

He spoke for about an hour about domestic and foreign policy issues.

On foreign policy, Sanders reminded the audience that he voted against the war in Iraq. They cheered. Then he said he spoke with President Barack Obama last week and assured him that he will support an agreement with Iran to stop it from developing a nuclear weapon. There was more applause. But the audience really erupted when he added, “War has got to be the last recourse, not the first.”

He was cheered when he called for public funding of campaigns. “This campaign is not a billionaire-funded campaign. It is a people campaign,” he said. “We don’t take money from billionaires. We don’t take money from corporations. Yet we have received more individual contributions than any other campaign. We don’t have the money but when people stand together there is nothing we can’t accomplish.”

Angelenos approved when Sanders congratulated the city for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He has a Senate bill to put the federal hourly minimum wage at $15 by 2020. They applauded his call for a massive road and bridge project to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure and create 13 million good-paying jobs.

Perhaps the biggest crowd reaction of the night came when he called for tuition-free public colleges and universities, something the University of California system once offered to qualified students.

“The reason why we are doing well in this campaign is because we are telling the truth. We are talking to the reality of American life today. We are talking about a reality in which almost all of the wealth and income in this country is going to the top 1 percent. We are talking about the United States having more wealth and income inequality than any other major country on earth and we are going to change that.”
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 10 Aug, 2015 10:50 pm
You can't put pictures like this up for any other candidate, no matter the party.
https://berniesanders.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/0810151927-1.jpg
Olivier5
 
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Reply Mon 10 Aug, 2015 10:55 pm
@edgarblythe,
Now I love Sarah Silverman even more than before. :-)
RABEL222
 
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Reply Mon 10 Aug, 2015 11:36 pm
@snood,
I think Frank and I are the only ones on the site that dont think Sanders can be elected. If he becomes the dem candidate you will hear communist to describe him from day one and it will resonate with most voters because we have been taught from grade 1 up to graduation that communism is bad. That alone will beat him and produce a conservative Supreme Court. And after watching this court that scares me more than a republican congress.
Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 02:44 am
I think you overate the epithet "commie." The World War II generation has almost died out, and the Korean War generation is well on the way. The veterans of Vietnam are in their 60s or past 70. Most voters alive today did not go through that BS.
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 03:20 am
@snood,
snood wrote:

Frank Apisa wrote:

Disaster looming for Democrat Party...for SCOTUS...and for the vestiges of the progressive agenda.

Self-immolation by people who should know better!


Your air of immutable certainty about this particular thing is bothersome, but even moreso because you seem to think that everyone's going to forget you think Sanders has no chance unless you repeat it every third post or so.


Snood, obviously you have me mistaken for someone who cares if you think that or not...just as Edgar apparently has me mistaken for someone who cares whether he pretends he does not read what I write or not.

Fact is that I repeat what I have to say for the same reason Sanders repeats what he has to say...over and over again.

Because I, as apparently he, think it is important to get a particular message across.

I am sorry you feel the need to suppose that kind of determination is something so negative you have to comment the way you did on it.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 03:31 am
@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:

Who ever picks Sanders pics like to get him when it looks like he is screaming. Not sure what is up with that and am watching for more information.


Whoever picks the pictures of Chris Christie like to get him looking fat. I wonder what is up with that...

...although I suspect it is for the same reason people pick pictures of Sanders looking like he is screaming.

You do, however, find lots of Sanders not looking like he is screaming...and maybe that one picture was used to make a point that doesn't exist.



http://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/bernie_0.jpg?itok=uLwkibG_

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150429103538-bernie-sanders-gallery-photo-5-super-169.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FcwuVk-r6Qk/VUPTFvFZ8FI/AAAAAAAAEyw/I0veO-bPduI/s1600/bernie_sanders_ap_img_0.jpg


http://images.politico.com/global/2015/04/28/152804_bernie_sanders_gty_1160_956x519.jpg


Sanders is a fine human being...and I wish more than anything that the American public would grow up enough to consider him fit for the Oval Office...

...but it is not.

If he is on the Dem ticket...the Dems will lose in a landslide. And it is time for his supporters to recognize and come to grips with that.

To their credit, I suspect the fringe element supporting Donald Trump on the other side WILL come to their senses sooner than the fringe element on this side.

But the loony left has always had more trouble dealing with political reality than the far right.


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Lash
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 04:05 am
@edgarblythe,
Giggling. I think the news media will probably have to respond to what's happening. Twitter is on fire calling out news orgs for the Bernie Blackout. When they finally have to start talking about him, the name recognition is less and less of an issue. That's when he'll start steamrolling.

He really was wonderful last night. BLM activists opened the show; he had reps from the nurses union in Oakland on stage - telling why they endorsed him. I was so damn proud to be on his side last night.
Lash
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 04:08 am
@hawkeye10,
It's part of his charm. He's constantly projecting his voice and jabbing the air like an exasperated professor. I love it.
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Lash
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 04:12 am
@RABEL222,
Suspected ignorance of the masses is no reason to throw your hands up, betray the cleanest politician in modern history, and support a dirty corrupt machine.

I mean - how do you think progress happens?

Get off your ass and educate people. Support the progressive.
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 04:46 am
@Lash,
Quote:
BLM activists opened the show

That story went very wrong....a black campaign staffer opened the show, somebody who supports BLM but who was not representing them.
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 07:13 am
@edgarblythe,
One reason is that Bernie is out drawing not only Hillary but he's out drawing all other candidates and not only that, he's outdrawing them all added together including Hillary.
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 07:15 am
@Olivier5,
Two good comments in a row. I think I'll start voting you up.
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 07:16 am
@Setanta,
Good point.
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 07:22 am
@Lash,
Lash, Rabel and I truly and fundamentally disagree over Hillary and Bernie, it would never occur to me to say Rabel is betraying anything. I'll read anything Rabel feels compelled to write here and know its honest and thought out. Rabel is part of the solution already,
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 07:36 am
Although I will probably be accused of just repeating myself over and over...

...I gotta say that it appears the Democrats have tired of shooting themselves in the foot...

...and are now aiming at the roofs of their mouths.

They appear to have tired of harming themselves...and want to make sure they have inflicted a mortal wound.

Really too bad that!
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 07:39 am
Bernie Sanders' Eye-Popping West Coast Swing: 3 Days, 70,000 Cheering Supporters
Source: Bloomberg

Some 27,000 people descended Monday night on the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, which has hosted acts such as Madonna and Pink Floyd, to hear from a raspy-voiced 73-year-old who has become the 2016 political season's breakout star.

For Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Democrat and self-proclaimed socialist, it was the third staggeringly large crowd in three nights that capped a west coast swing that put his political rivals on notice. From fellow white-haired activists to youth wielding signs depicting him as "Bernie Man," his head grafted onto a stick figure representing the counterculture Burning Man festival in Nevada, his fans turned out in numbers that other candidates might only dream of at this early stage in the race.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-11/bernie-sanders-eye-popping-west-coast-swing-3-days-70-000-cheering-supporters
Olivier5
 
  1  
Reply Tue 11 Aug, 2015 07:40 am
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:

Two good comments in a row. I think I'll start voting you up.

Please don't. I wear my low votings as a badge of honour.

Edited: and Sarah Silverman's sense of humour is pretty close to Charlie's, mind you...
 

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