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Bernie Sandres not qualified to be President

Supposedly satire, but it's really true.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...rs-white-house

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s potential bid for the 2016 Presidency was declared over, on Monday, before it even began, because of a key feature of the American political system that makes a person with integrity ineligible for the White House.

According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency.

“Bernie Sanders’s failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected,” said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible.”

Because of his ineligibility, Logsdon said, the Vermont Senator would be unable to fund-raise the one billion dollars required under the current system to run for President. “The best source of a billion dollars is billionaires, and Sanders has alienated them,” he said. “Clearly he didn’t think this through.”

Logsdon said that Sanders might persist in his quest for the White House despite his ineligibility but that such an effort would be doomed to fail. “Our political system has been refined over the years specifically to keep people like Bernie Sanders out of the White House,” he said. “The system works.”

Andy Borowitz' satire is always pretty much on the button.

I would love to see Bernie make to the white house, sadly I doubt it will happen. but stranger things have happened. what was it 427 votes or something that helped W and the wonderful Katherine Harris steal the presidency?

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Originally Posted by 68custom (Post 288842)

I never thought that Reagan would get elected. Maybe Bernie is the yin to his yan.

Regards,

D-Ray

If Sanders is elected and manages to get his ideas enacted there will really be no point in any body trying to do anything.

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Originally Posted by ZeroJunk (Post 288879)

If Sanders is elected and manages to get his ideas enacted there will really be no point in any body trying to do anything.

Please explain. What ideas are you referring to and what would be the consequences of their implementation?

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Originally Posted by ZeroJunk (Post 288879)

If Sanders is elected and manages to get his ideas enacted there will really be no point in any body trying to do anything.

Sez the guy who quit working years ago. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by d-ray657 (Post 288884)

Sez the guy who quit working years ago. :rolleyes:

Oh, no Don!

All Conservatives bust ass and do a better job of everything than anyone else........even when they don't and never have. What's more is that they are sick and tired of the rest of us riding their coattails, even when it's them that's riding our coattails.

But, I'm sure you've noticed that.

Dave

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Originally Posted by d-ray657 (Post 288884)

Sez the guy who quit working years ago. :rolleyes:

I have never taken a nickel from the government, and there is no way I will ever get back what I paid in even if I get some long term illness.

As opposed to the career path of living you entire life off of some social program, or relying on some social program to support your bastard children.

Or, if you didn't do what it takes to be successful take it from somebody who was and give it to you.

In the meantime convincing your dumb ass that the reason you weren't successful had nothing to do with what you put in to it. You just weren't fortunate.

If you buy in to that it is fine with me, but you have to understand that the end result of that is the people producing the wealth eventually will say screw it.

Then who is going to create the next Apple, the government ?

Now that is comical.

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Originally Posted by ZeroJunk (Post 288950)

I have never taken a nickel from the government, and there is no way I will ever get back what I paid in even if I get some long term illness.

As opposed to the career path of living you entire life off of some social program, or relying on some social program to support your bastard children.

Or, if you didn't do what it takes to be successful take it from somebody who was and give it to you.

In the meantime convincing your dumb ass that the reason you weren't successful had nothing to do with what you put in to it. You just weren't fortunate.

If you buy in to that it is fine with me, but you have to understand that the end result of that is the people producing the wealth eventually will say screw it.

Then who is going to create the next Apple, the government ?

Now that is comical.

If only they would. There's always more coming along. They would not be missed.

Instead they turn into resentful old fucks who scheme to use their hoarded cash to screw the people they hate.