This NY Daily News Q&A exposed this loon as an utter simpleton.
Of course guesser supports this simpleton. Guesser is a moron.
[h=1]Sanders Flubs Daily News Interview[/h]
Also:
Former Congressman Barney Frank: “I was disappointed. It was incoherent. There is power in [Dodd-Frank] giving FSOC the ability to order institutions to divest but you don’t leave it up to them [as Sanders at one point seemed to suggest]. They’ll decide what they are going to do? … And the anti-trust argument is very weak. The American banking system is pretty competitive … It was just kind of incoherent and unfortunately reflected the view that ‘I just have to state these principles and not the specifics.’ … One word I would use to describe his policy position on this very important issue is Trumpesque.”
Of course guesser supports this simpleton. Guesser is a moron.
[h=1]Sanders Flubs Daily News Interview[/h]
Also:
Former Congressman Barney Frank: “I was disappointed. It was incoherent. There is power in [Dodd-Frank] giving FSOC the ability to order institutions to divest but you don’t leave it up to them [as Sanders at one point seemed to suggest]. They’ll decide what they are going to do? … And the anti-trust argument is very weak. The American banking system is pretty competitive … It was just kind of incoherent and unfortunately reflected the view that ‘I just have to state these principles and not the specifics.’ … One word I would use to describe his policy position on this very important issue is Trumpesque.”
This guy has a good grasp on how the constitution works:
Sanders: I would overturn 'outrageous' Mississippi, North Carolina laws
Sanders: I would overturn 'outrageous' Mississippi, North Carolina laws
[h=2]Bernie’s New Jewish Outreach Director: ‘F–k you, Bibi’[/h]
Forum dipshit guesser thought that this was some "hit piece"
Forum dipshit guesser thought that this was some "hit piece"
So the "good man" Bernie the red has decided to cross the picket lines.
Nothing this fucking miserable communist does surprises me anymore, but this is truly disgusting. This piece of garbage openly takes sides in a management/labor dispute in the private sector? Then openly and publicly admonishes the CEO?
Then the commie tweets:
I don’t want the support of McAdam, Immelt and their friends in the billionaire class. I welcome their contempt...
So he's openly hostile to people who head companies that directly employ lots of Americans...and indirectly through various agreements, contracts, servicing agreements with smaller companies.
LINK
What a fucking loser. But guess what? He's beaten the Uberc*nt in seven straight states...and eight of the last nine.
This isn't an accident. This is the dimocrap scum party I've been telling you about for the last 10 years in here. This is not an anomaly...this is the real face of dimocrapism.
As far as the 'income inequality' horseshit he's talking about? Let me tell you...dimocrap scum would love to have the same as everybody else, even if it means them not moving up at all. Just taking you down will make them happy.
Very happy. If they can't have it, nobody can.
dimocraps are scum.
Nothing this fucking miserable communist does surprises me anymore, but this is truly disgusting. This piece of garbage openly takes sides in a management/labor dispute in the private sector? Then openly and publicly admonishes the CEO?
Then the commie tweets:
I don’t want the support of McAdam, Immelt and their friends in the billionaire class. I welcome their contempt...
So he's openly hostile to people who head companies that directly employ lots of Americans...and indirectly through various agreements, contracts, servicing agreements with smaller companies.
LINK
What a fucking loser. But guess what? He's beaten the Uberc*nt in seven straight states...and eight of the last nine.
This isn't an accident. This is the dimocrap scum party I've been telling you about for the last 10 years in here. This is not an anomaly...this is the real face of dimocrapism.
As far as the 'income inequality' horseshit he's talking about? Let me tell you...dimocrap scum would love to have the same as everybody else, even if it means them not moving up at all. Just taking you down will make them happy.
Very happy. If they can't have it, nobody can.
dimocraps are scum.
What’s Socialism, Dad?
Venezuela provides a lesson to anyone tempted to feel the Bern.
By Bret Stephens - Wall Street Journal
May 16, 2016 7:09 p.m. ET
Noah, my 10-year-old son, was reading over my shoulder a powerful story about the state of medicine in Venezuela by Nick Casey in Sunday’s New York Times. We scrolled through images of filthy operating rooms, broken incubators and desperate patients lying in pools of blood, dying for lack of such basics as antibiotics.
“Dad, why are the hospitals like this?”
“Socialism.”
“What’s socialism?”
I told him it’s an economic system in which the government seizes and runs industries, sets prices for goods, and otherwise dictates what you can and cannot do with your money, and therefore your life. He received my answer with the abstracted interest you’d expect if I had been describing atmospheric conditions on Uranus.
Here’s what I wish I had said: Socialism is a mental poison that leads to human misery of the sort you see in these wrenching pictures.
The lesson seems all the more necessary when discredited ideologies are finding new champions in high places. When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died in 2013, an obscure U.K. parliamentarian tweeted, “Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world.”
The parliamentarian was Jeremy Corbyn, now leader of the Labour Party.
Let’s not stop with Mr. Corbyn. In its day, Chavismo found champions, apologists and useful idiots among influential political figures and supposed thought leaders. In Massachusetts there were Joseph P. Kennedy and Rep. Bill Delahunt, who arranged a propaganda coup for the strongman by agreeing to purchase discounted Venezuelan heating oil for U.S. consumers. The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel extolled Chávez for defying the Bush administration and offering “an innovative four-point program to renew and reform the U.N.”
Up north, Naomi Klein, Canada’s second-most unpleasant export, treated Chávez as heroically leading the resistance to the forces of dreaded neoliberalism. Jimmy Carter mourned Chávez for “his bold assertion of autonomy and independence for Latin American governments and for his formidable communication skills and personal connection with supporters in his country and abroad to whom he gave hope and empowerment.”
There are lesser names to add to this roll call of dishonor— Michael Moore, Sean Penn—but you get the point: “Democratic socialism” had no shortage of prominent Western cheerleaders as it set Venezuela on its road to hyperinflation, hyper-criminality, water shortages, beer shortages, electricity blackouts, political repression and national collapse. Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, gained prestige and legitimacy from these paladins of the left. They are complicit in Venezuela’s agony.
And so to the U.S. election, specifically the resolutely undead presidential candidacy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The Sanders campaign is no stranger to accusations that its brand of leftism is cut from the same cloth that produced Chavismo.
“Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Mr. Sanders complained in September, noting that they “tried to link me to a dead communist dictator.”
The senator protests too much. As mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, he boasted of conducting his own foreign policy, including sister-city relations with Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua and Yaroslavl in the Soviet Union. On a 1985 trip to Nicaragua, he lavished praise on Daniel Ortega’s communist regime—Chavismo’s older cousin.
“In terms of health care, in terms of education, in terms of land reform . . . nobody denies they [the Sandinistas] are making significant progress in those areas,” then-Mayor Sanders told one interviewer in 1985. “And I think people understand that and I think the people of Nicaragua, the poor people, respect that.”
If Mr. Sanders ever rethought or recanted those views, I’m not aware of it.
But the point isn’t what Mr. Sanders may have thought of the Sandinistas in the 1980s or the Chavistas in the past decade. It’s that the type of socialism that the senator espouses—$18 trillion in additional government spending over the next decade, accusations that Wall Street is a criminal enterprise and the continuous demonization of “millionaires and billionaires”—is not all that different from its South American cousins.
Democratic socialism—whether Chavez’s or Sanders’s—is legalized theft in the name of the people against the vilified few. It is a battle against income inequality by means of collective immiseration. It is the subjugation of private enterprise and personal autonomy to government power. Mr. Sanders promises to pursue his aims on the Scandinavian model, as if that was a success, and as if Americans are Scandinavians. It wasn’t. We aren’t. Bernie’s Way paves the same road to serfdom that socialism does everywhere.
That’s a fact Americans might have learned after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. We didn’t. Take the time to tell your kids what socialism is, and does, before they too feel the Bern.
Venezuela provides a lesson to anyone tempted to feel the Bern.
By Bret Stephens - Wall Street Journal
May 16, 2016 7:09 p.m. ET
Noah, my 10-year-old son, was reading over my shoulder a powerful story about the state of medicine in Venezuela by Nick Casey in Sunday’s New York Times. We scrolled through images of filthy operating rooms, broken incubators and desperate patients lying in pools of blood, dying for lack of such basics as antibiotics.
“Dad, why are the hospitals like this?”
“Socialism.”
“What’s socialism?”
I told him it’s an economic system in which the government seizes and runs industries, sets prices for goods, and otherwise dictates what you can and cannot do with your money, and therefore your life. He received my answer with the abstracted interest you’d expect if I had been describing atmospheric conditions on Uranus.
Here’s what I wish I had said: Socialism is a mental poison that leads to human misery of the sort you see in these wrenching pictures.
The lesson seems all the more necessary when discredited ideologies are finding new champions in high places. When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died in 2013, an obscure U.K. parliamentarian tweeted, “Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world.”
The parliamentarian was Jeremy Corbyn, now leader of the Labour Party.
Let’s not stop with Mr. Corbyn. In its day, Chavismo found champions, apologists and useful idiots among influential political figures and supposed thought leaders. In Massachusetts there were Joseph P. Kennedy and Rep. Bill Delahunt, who arranged a propaganda coup for the strongman by agreeing to purchase discounted Venezuelan heating oil for U.S. consumers. The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel extolled Chávez for defying the Bush administration and offering “an innovative four-point program to renew and reform the U.N.”
Up north, Naomi Klein, Canada’s second-most unpleasant export, treated Chávez as heroically leading the resistance to the forces of dreaded neoliberalism. Jimmy Carter mourned Chávez for “his bold assertion of autonomy and independence for Latin American governments and for his formidable communication skills and personal connection with supporters in his country and abroad to whom he gave hope and empowerment.”
There are lesser names to add to this roll call of dishonor— Michael Moore, Sean Penn—but you get the point: “Democratic socialism” had no shortage of prominent Western cheerleaders as it set Venezuela on its road to hyperinflation, hyper-criminality, water shortages, beer shortages, electricity blackouts, political repression and national collapse. Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, gained prestige and legitimacy from these paladins of the left. They are complicit in Venezuela’s agony.
And so to the U.S. election, specifically the resolutely undead presidential candidacy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The Sanders campaign is no stranger to accusations that its brand of leftism is cut from the same cloth that produced Chavismo.
“Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Mr. Sanders complained in September, noting that they “tried to link me to a dead communist dictator.”
The senator protests too much. As mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, he boasted of conducting his own foreign policy, including sister-city relations with Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua and Yaroslavl in the Soviet Union. On a 1985 trip to Nicaragua, he lavished praise on Daniel Ortega’s communist regime—Chavismo’s older cousin.
“In terms of health care, in terms of education, in terms of land reform . . . nobody denies they [the Sandinistas] are making significant progress in those areas,” then-Mayor Sanders told one interviewer in 1985. “And I think people understand that and I think the people of Nicaragua, the poor people, respect that.”
If Mr. Sanders ever rethought or recanted those views, I’m not aware of it.
But the point isn’t what Mr. Sanders may have thought of the Sandinistas in the 1980s or the Chavistas in the past decade. It’s that the type of socialism that the senator espouses—$18 trillion in additional government spending over the next decade, accusations that Wall Street is a criminal enterprise and the continuous demonization of “millionaires and billionaires”—is not all that different from its South American cousins.
Democratic socialism—whether Chavez’s or Sanders’s—is legalized theft in the name of the people against the vilified few. It is a battle against income inequality by means of collective immiseration. It is the subjugation of private enterprise and personal autonomy to government power. Mr. Sanders promises to pursue his aims on the Scandinavian model, as if that was a success, and as if Americans are Scandinavians. It wasn’t. We aren’t. Bernie’s Way paves the same road to serfdom that socialism does everywhere.
That’s a fact Americans might have learned after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. We didn’t. Take the time to tell your kids what socialism is, and does, before they too feel the Bern.
and you know what Scott, our educated and taxpaying and patriotic Jewish demographic will support him by a significant margin should he win the democratic nomination
being a friend of Israel doesn't help Republicans
they even gave their vote to Obama for heaven's sake, the democrats can dump on y'all just like they do African Americans my friend, it don't matter
being a friend of Israel doesn't help Republicans
they even gave their vote to Obama for heaven's sake, the democrats can dump on y'all just like they do African Americans my friend, it don't matter
This week’s announcement of the closure of Vermont’s debt-burdened Burlington College brings to mind the famous quote from Britain’s legendary Conservative Party prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, that the real problem with socialist governments is that “they always run out of other people’s money.” Coralee A. Holm, the college’s dean of operations and advancement, released a statement claiming that the institution had “struggled under the crushing weight of the debt” related to a $10 million purchase of property — a purchase made in 2010, under the leadership of former Burlington College president, Jane Sanders, the wife of the socialist U. S. senator and Democratic presidential contender, Bernie Sanders.
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...ington-college-lesson-financial-mismanagement
Bernie Sanders' candidacy is a first for Jews. Why isn't he talking about it?
Historic nature of his presidential bid is drawing a shrug from his co-religionists in Florida, the first state with a large Jewish population to hold a primary
Richard Luscombe in West Palm Beach, Florida, andBen Jacobs in Washington
Monday 14 March 2016 19.52 GMT
Bernie Sanders may be the first credible Jewish candidate for president in American history but, to the heavily Jewish Democratic electorate in Florida, he might as well be chopped liver.
Eight years after both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama rallied Democratic voters with the historic nature of their candidacies – Clinton as the first credible female candidate for president and Obama as the first credible African American – the historic nature of Sanders’ candidacy is drawing a shrug from his co-religionists in the first state with a significant Jewish population to hold a primary. Florida goes to the polls along with Ohio and other key states on Tuesday.
Even though Jewish voters are disproportionately Democratic and almost 70% of Jewish votes nationally went to Obama when he won re-election in 2012, Sanders has not campaigned in Palm Beach County – home to more than a third of Florida’s estimated 640,000 Jews – once.
Although he did pay a brief visit to Miami, about an hour south of Palm Beach County, he has ignored this vote-rich area where a disproportionate number of residents are – like the Vermont senator – elderly Jews originally from New York City.
As one voter there, retired hotel investor Michael Slosberg, 77, who moved to West Palm Beach from New York eight years ago, said of Sanders: “We haven’t seen the guy or heard much from him. We know where Hillary stands and I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t win Florida.”
Part of this is statewide strategy. While polls have tightened in other states holding 15 March primaries such as Illinois, Clinton has maintained an overwhelming lead in the Sunshine State. It also may have to do with Sanders’ own awkward relationship with his faith and heritage.
Although Sanders had a bar mitzvah growing up in Brooklyn and spent time in his 20s living on a kibbutz in Israel, he isn’t observant and has shied away from discussing his faith. He has often awkwardly referred to himself as “the son of a Polish immigrant” at times on the campaign, including his victory speech in New Hampshire. While technically true that Sanders’ parents emigrated from an area now part of present-day Poland, this was strange and jarring to some Jewish voters, since Jews in Poland before the second world war were victims of constant antisemitism and occasional pogroms and would likely not have considered themselves Polish.
Asked about this faith in an unusual moment at a recent Democratic debate, Sanders was firm: “I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of who I am,” he said.
“Look, my father’s family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical and extremist politics mean. I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny child when my mother would take me shopping, and we would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler’s concentration camp.”
He concluded: “I’m very proud of being Jewish and that is an essential part of who I am as a human being.”
Rabbi David Paskin, who leads the congregation at Temple Beth David, a conservative synagogue in Palm Beach Gardens, said of the Vermont senator: “Does he or does he not make a big deal of his Jewishness? I was happy with the way he described his Jewishness. He really is a reflection of 87% of the Jews in America, secular Jews who are biologically Jewish but don’t express it in any significant way.
“There’s something to be said for us as a Jewish community to have arms open enough to embrace his Judaism or his lack of wanting to talk about it, because those are the Jews we have in the world. Does it make him more qualified? No. But would I like to see a Jew in office? Damn right I would.”
To others, the fact that Sanders’ religion is a non issue is important in and of itself. Steve Cohen, a Democratic congressman from Memphis, told the Guardian: “It’s wonderful that it has not been raised as an issue and shows how far America has come.”
To Cohen, who is supporting Clinton, the fact that Sanders’ faith was not an issue represented how much “Jews have assimilated in the United States and the country has accepted the fact that we are a land that welcomes immigrants and multicultural society”.
This was echoed by Aaron Keyak, a top Jewish Democratic strategist and principal at Bluelight Strategies, a Washington consulting firm. “You know we all have pride in the fact that Bernie Sanders had gone farther than any other Jewish candidate, but maybe it’s a sign of progress that his Jewishness isn’t playing a prominent role in [whether] people are supporting him or not.
“In a way, it’s a sign of progress that a Jewish American is running for president and it’s not the first identifier but when he’s quoted in newspaper,” Keyak suggested. “For a people that have been persecuted throughout history and have had governments seek to murder us and destroy our tradition, in that sense it is real progress.”
Polling bears out that Sanders’ politics may be a bigger obstacle to his electoral success than his religious background. According to a June 2015 Gallup poll, 91% of Americans say that they would be comfortable voting for a Jewish candidate for president. However, only 47% would vote for a socialist.
Professor Ira Sheskin, director of the Jewish demography project and a professor of geography at the University of Miami, noted though that regardless how frequently Sanders attends synagogue, his message is deeply influenced by Judaism. “The role of man is to repair the world and make it a better place, and charity, helping the widow and the orphan, those are kind of core Jewish values generally no matter how religious people are,” Sheskin said. “After all, Bernie Sanders is a secular Jew, he’s not at all religious, but he knows exactly what tikkun olam and tzedakah are, and his opinions fit within that.”
Historic nature of his presidential bid is drawing a shrug from his co-religionists in Florida, the first state with a large Jewish population to hold a primary
Richard Luscombe in West Palm Beach, Florida, andBen Jacobs in Washington
Monday 14 March 2016 19.52 GMT
Bernie Sanders may be the first credible Jewish candidate for president in American history but, to the heavily Jewish Democratic electorate in Florida, he might as well be chopped liver.
Eight years after both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama rallied Democratic voters with the historic nature of their candidacies – Clinton as the first credible female candidate for president and Obama as the first credible African American – the historic nature of Sanders’ candidacy is drawing a shrug from his co-religionists in the first state with a significant Jewish population to hold a primary. Florida goes to the polls along with Ohio and other key states on Tuesday.
Even though Jewish voters are disproportionately Democratic and almost 70% of Jewish votes nationally went to Obama when he won re-election in 2012, Sanders has not campaigned in Palm Beach County – home to more than a third of Florida’s estimated 640,000 Jews – once.
Although he did pay a brief visit to Miami, about an hour south of Palm Beach County, he has ignored this vote-rich area where a disproportionate number of residents are – like the Vermont senator – elderly Jews originally from New York City.
As one voter there, retired hotel investor Michael Slosberg, 77, who moved to West Palm Beach from New York eight years ago, said of Sanders: “We haven’t seen the guy or heard much from him. We know where Hillary stands and I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t win Florida.”
Part of this is statewide strategy. While polls have tightened in other states holding 15 March primaries such as Illinois, Clinton has maintained an overwhelming lead in the Sunshine State. It also may have to do with Sanders’ own awkward relationship with his faith and heritage.
Although Sanders had a bar mitzvah growing up in Brooklyn and spent time in his 20s living on a kibbutz in Israel, he isn’t observant and has shied away from discussing his faith. He has often awkwardly referred to himself as “the son of a Polish immigrant” at times on the campaign, including his victory speech in New Hampshire. While technically true that Sanders’ parents emigrated from an area now part of present-day Poland, this was strange and jarring to some Jewish voters, since Jews in Poland before the second world war were victims of constant antisemitism and occasional pogroms and would likely not have considered themselves Polish.
Asked about this faith in an unusual moment at a recent Democratic debate, Sanders was firm: “I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of who I am,” he said.
“Look, my father’s family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical and extremist politics mean. I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny child when my mother would take me shopping, and we would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler’s concentration camp.”
He concluded: “I’m very proud of being Jewish and that is an essential part of who I am as a human being.”
Rabbi David Paskin, who leads the congregation at Temple Beth David, a conservative synagogue in Palm Beach Gardens, said of the Vermont senator: “Does he or does he not make a big deal of his Jewishness? I was happy with the way he described his Jewishness. He really is a reflection of 87% of the Jews in America, secular Jews who are biologically Jewish but don’t express it in any significant way.
“There’s something to be said for us as a Jewish community to have arms open enough to embrace his Judaism or his lack of wanting to talk about it, because those are the Jews we have in the world. Does it make him more qualified? No. But would I like to see a Jew in office? Damn right I would.”
To others, the fact that Sanders’ religion is a non issue is important in and of itself. Steve Cohen, a Democratic congressman from Memphis, told the Guardian: “It’s wonderful that it has not been raised as an issue and shows how far America has come.”
To Cohen, who is supporting Clinton, the fact that Sanders’ faith was not an issue represented how much “Jews have assimilated in the United States and the country has accepted the fact that we are a land that welcomes immigrants and multicultural society”.
This was echoed by Aaron Keyak, a top Jewish Democratic strategist and principal at Bluelight Strategies, a Washington consulting firm. “You know we all have pride in the fact that Bernie Sanders had gone farther than any other Jewish candidate, but maybe it’s a sign of progress that his Jewishness isn’t playing a prominent role in [whether] people are supporting him or not.
“In a way, it’s a sign of progress that a Jewish American is running for president and it’s not the first identifier but when he’s quoted in newspaper,” Keyak suggested. “For a people that have been persecuted throughout history and have had governments seek to murder us and destroy our tradition, in that sense it is real progress.”
Polling bears out that Sanders’ politics may be a bigger obstacle to his electoral success than his religious background. According to a June 2015 Gallup poll, 91% of Americans say that they would be comfortable voting for a Jewish candidate for president. However, only 47% would vote for a socialist.
Professor Ira Sheskin, director of the Jewish demography project and a professor of geography at the University of Miami, noted though that regardless how frequently Sanders attends synagogue, his message is deeply influenced by Judaism. “The role of man is to repair the world and make it a better place, and charity, helping the widow and the orphan, those are kind of core Jewish values generally no matter how religious people are,” Sheskin said. “After all, Bernie Sanders is a secular Jew, he’s not at all religious, but he knows exactly what tikkun olam and tzedakah are, and his opinions fit within that.”
