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Post by pieter on Aug 20, 2015 16:10:39 GMT -7
 Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is the junior United States Senator from Vermont and a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. A self-described democratic socialist, he favors policies similar to those of social democratic parties in Europe, particularly those instituted by the Nordic countries. He caucuses with the Democratic Party and has been the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee since January 2015. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before transferring to and graduating from the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Young People's Socialist League, and active in the Civil Rights Movement as a student protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, he participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  Sanders settled in Vermont in 1968, and ran unsuccessfully for Governor and U.S. Senator in the early to mid-1970s as a member of the Liberty Union Party. As an independent supported by the Vermont Progressive Party, Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont's most populous city, in 1981. He was reelected to three more two-year mayoral terms before being elected to represent Vermont's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 1990. He served as a congressman for 16 years before being elected to succeed the retiring Republican-turned-independent Jim Jeffords in the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2012, he was reelected by a large margin, capturing almost 71% of the popular vote. Since his election to the Senate, Sanders has emerged as a leading progressive voice on issues like income inequality, universal healthcare, parental leave, climate change, LGBT rights, and campaign finance reform. He rose to national prominence on the heels of his 2010 filibuster of the proposed extension of the Bush-era tax rates for the wealthy. Sanders is also outspoken on civil liberties, and has been particularly critical of mass surveillance policies such as the USA PATRIOT Act, as well as racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders |
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Post by Nictoshek on Aug 20, 2015 17:21:04 GMT -7
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Aug 21, 2015 7:46:59 GMT -7
But, there is a reason this is happening. Main stream politicians have, for a very long time, ignored the requirements of their constituency. What the people were voting for was not what they got in congress or the senate. Now it doesn't matter what party, Democratic or Republican, they belong to. Their sole motivation is to perpetuate their own existence above all other causes. Very un-American if I may say so. It creates a very explosive situation that a very informed public has become aware of. |
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Post by Jaga on Aug 21, 2015 10:23:22 GMT -7
I like Berni Sanders. He is very straightforward in what he wants and he seems to really care for the people. He does not smear Hillary Clinton or anybody else in order to get to the office. He just wants to use the power he would have efficiently.
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Post by kaima on Oct 20, 2015 23:22:31 GMT -7
www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/benghazi-hearings-cancelled-after-clinton-drops-out-of-racewww.newyorker.com/OCTOBER 20, 2015 Benghazi Hearings Cancelled After Clinton Drops Out of RaceBY ANDY BOROWITZ Borowitz Report OCTOBER 20, 2015 Benghazi Hearings Cancelled After Clinton Drops Out of Race BY ANDY BOROWITZ CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY GUSTAVO CABALLERO/WIREIMAGE/GETTY WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Washington was in turmoil on Tuesday morning as a House select committee abruptly cancelled its Benghazi hearings shortly after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she was withdrawing from the Presidential race. Secretary Clinton’s stunning announcement came at 9:00 A.M., followed by the committee chairman Trey Gowdy’s decision to cancel the hearings at 9:04. “As you know, we have been preparing for this week’s hearings for months,” Gowdy said. “However, after meeting with fellow committee members over the past four minutes, we’ve come to the conclusion that we know all we need to know about Benghazi.” Gowdy flatly denied that the decision to cancel the long-awaited Benghazi hearings had anything to do with Clinton’s sudden departure from the race. “We wish her well in whatever her future endeavors may be,” he said. But shortly after Gowdy’s announcement, Clinton called an impromptu press conference at 9:13 to announce that she was jumping back into the race. “I was just trying to prove a point,” she told reporters, before heading off to campaign stops in Iowa and New Hampshire. Minutes after Clinton’s second announcement, an irate Gowdy called her decision to reenter the race “beyond unethical” and revealed that the committee’s investigators had just uncovered fresh evidence about Benghazi.
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Post by Jaga on Oct 21, 2015 5:28:28 GMT -7
Kai,
this is just a joke, right?
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Post by kaima on Oct 21, 2015 8:08:03 GMT -7
Kai, this is just a joke, right? Yes. |
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Post by kaima on Oct 21, 2015 8:09:25 GMT -7
Kai, this is just a joke, right? Yes. Gotcha!  (American slang for "pulled your leg; you fell for my joke"; short for "got you") |
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