The Sanders Surge

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

I wonder if that was the same concert where he fell off the stage into the orchestra pit?
I know it happened in the UK.

Would be embarrassing to fall after saying something like that lol.

I think so. Chris will know for sure.

[Boreas]

As we may have mentioned here before, it's important to remember that the late Adam Clayton Powell warned us against "Greeks bearing gifts and white men who understand the Negro." But the composition of the audience at the Sanders event is Greenville was so strikingly uniform that it fairly screamed out a message—that populism in America remains vulnerable to coded appeals to racial division and that, in Donald Trump, it has found that its vulnerability to authoritarianism is paradoxically part of its electoral strength. Gently, as in the Clinton campaign, and brutally, as in the Trump campaign, populism in America once again has demonstrated that it is too easily turned into a vehicle of division because the American Dream too often is a gated community of the furious and the deluded.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...nl&date=022316

[icenine]

C. Vann Woodward wrote about this unfortunate mix in Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel.
A biography about an Oklahoman progressive who lived about a century or so ago.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

True!

He wants to minimize the possibility of the rascals running off with the loot and then calling on tax payers to rescue under the threat of "too big to allow to fail".

They do it all the time gambling with depositors money. If the gamble is successful they keep the profit, if not the FDIC picks up the tab.

[Rajoo]

This is how it should be done.

Sanders picks up endorsement of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a DNC member and combat veteran

Gabbard announced that she is is stepping down as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to support the White House bid of the senator from Vermont over that of Hillary Clinton.

On a lighter note, she is far better looking than than DWS.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ombat-veteran/

Edit: Found another picture of her since the one I posted was too large. This picture positively makes her a doll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

[Boreas]

I don't really know anything about Gabbard but she's definitely on my radar now. She was vice chair of the DNC prior to her endorsement. That's "second in command" to DWS.

Unlike DWS, Gabbard did the honorable thing and resigned from the DNC and made her support for a particular candidate public. Wasserman-Shultz, on the other hand, has remained at the helm despite being a longtime and powerful Clinton surrogate.

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

This is how it should be done.

Sanders picks up endorsement of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a DNC member and combat veteran


On a lighter note, she is far better looking than than DWS.

Smarter too.

Carl

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Unlike DWS, Gabbard did the honorable thing and resigned from the DNC and made her support for a particular candidate public. Wasserman-Shultz, on the other hand, has remained at the helm despite being a longtime and powerful Clinton surrogate.

Apparently in DWS's case actions don't count. As long as you don't pronounce the words "I endorse Hillary Clinton" in public, you can claim "neutrality"

[nailer]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

This is how it should be done.

Sanders picks up endorsement of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a DNC member and combat veteran


On a lighter note, she is far better looking than than DWS.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ombat-veteran/

Edit: Found another picture of her since the one I posted was too large. This picture positively makes her a doll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

I think she's separating herself from Clinton with a politically astute/adroit move.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Edit: Found another picture of her since the one I posted was too large. This picture positively makes her a doll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

You coulda gone with this one.