Sen. Bernie Sanders Speaks to the CA Democratic Convention

[bluesboy25000]

Damn I love Bernie Sanders.

[avron44]

he loves his country

[avron44]

yikes this video says may 2nd, 2011 and bernie says official unemployment is 8.9 perenct and it's nov 2011when i'm writing this and unemployment is actually higher yikes

[DPEGSB]

Oh Bernie, how we in California could use you. Dianne Feinstein wishes she was half the Senator that Bernie Sanders is.

[shotsky94]

commie sanders

[grandfoundation1]

ALL I GOING TO SAY IS.... thank GOD FOR SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS.

To HELL WITH THE COMMUNIST CORPORATE REPUBLICANS.

[slut4berniesanders]

I love him I love himmmmmmmmm. there is nothing I would not do for this man.

[rareone4]

@slut4berniesanders

Same here, I love this man with all my heart. He's always been an inspiration to me.

I really want to see him run for president in 2016.

[nadine2justice]

Hi Laniduke,

Do you really believe the insurance industry is out for our best healthcare of all Americans? Socialized Medicine for ALL.....we the people should decide not the Corporations of America...aka Republican Party of America...welcome to the 1930's again...

[resotar]

a true American hero, a statesman

[laniduke]

What part of the non-profit sector or government do you work for? You have a totally unrealistic way of looking at the world. It's working people who make the money that the politicians steal to pay off other non-workers.

[MrLespunk]

Bernie, Wish there were more politicians like you in America! Your respected and ass kicking style is the trademark of a true American politician.Keep your head up.

[blueskiesblue]

Extremely good explanation of WHERE the GOP wants the Middle Class to go: Hell.

[joanogiff]

Why is Bernie the ONLY politician that "gets it?" Everything he says is absolutely what I believe and want for my country!

[Cobaka420]

Brilliant Mr. Sanders.

[joanogiff]

Bernie is sharp as a tack and he speaks truth. I would vote for him in a heartbeat!! He is not pimped out by a party, corporations, PACs or lobbyists. With all the loonies that have glommed on to the Libertarian movement, or what it has become, I no longer have an interest there. Bernie is THE MAN. The Democrats have wimped out to the bullying of the GOP. I have had it with the "system." INDEPENDENT says it all. He is the one! I find myself agreeing with every word he says! That NEVER happens!

[LeeFoxRox]

The left looks at the gap between the poor and the rich and does their best to tear down the rich and make everyone feel the same misery.

The conservatives look at the gap between the poor and the rich and do their best to make sure the poor have opportunities to make themselves rich too.

Which makes more sense to you?

[TheDecidicator]

@LeeFoxRox Opportunities? Like ending head start, breaking up organized labor negotiations, eliminating Pell grants, creating regressive tax structures?

What "opportunities" are you talking about???

[LeeFoxRox]

@TheDecidicator

When all you can do is vomit more class warfare rhetoric instead of actually answering a simple question, you reveal that you are an ideologue parroting propaganda and not an objective, thinking individual.

Care to try again?

[TheDecidicator]

@LeeFoxRox - - - Sure, I'm willing to try again. When you pull your head out of your butt, let me know and I will try again...In the mean time your question is ridiculous. The left is not trying to tear down the rich and is not trying to make everyone miserable. And the Conservatives are not looking at any "gap". BTW, when did you stop beating your domestic partner?

[LeeFoxRox]

@TheDecidicator

All you have is insults?

Fail.

The left is not trying to tear down the rich?

*laughs*

That's all Bernie Sanders had to offer as he ramped up the class warfare rhetoric he is wont to spewing and hypocritically, fallaciously charged Republicans with.

Not once did he mention anything about helping poor people set up their own businesses and making themselves independent of government hand outs.

[soopercali]

@LeeFoxRox What are you smoking? The conservatives have been in power for most of the past 30 years and the poverty rate has gone steadily up -- which might inspire a thinking person to rethink his theory.

[laniduke]

@soopercali Wrong! The left has been controlling most of the government, growing government as a burden on the backs of the working poor. Most of the "civil service" are leftists -- one of Bush the Younger's main flaws was retaining far too many of Clinton's appointees, who continued to promote "same old, same old" steal money from poor people's pockets to waste on fat cat politicians and programs.

[CalGeekGrl]

@LeeFoxRox YOU are wrong. The RICH look at the difference between the Rich and the Poor and try to INCREASE that gap,. Have you had your head buried in the collective butts of Faux News and their predecessors for the last 30 years? Actually, this war started in the mid 19th Century and has NOT ended. Usually it's the war of the RICH ON the poor to keep them in their "rightful" places and to ADD to their ranks.

[LeeFoxRox]

@CalGeekGrl

*chuckles*

You have your history mixed up. (Another public school victim?)

It's not the rich holding the poor down.

It is democrats that founded and used the KKK as their terrorist arm to keep down minorities and anybody else that opposed their bigoted policies.

It is democrats that have opposed the major civil rights reforms proposed by Republicans for the last 150 years.

That's just one reason why Martin Luther King Junior was a Republican.

Care to answer the question now?

[zcodez]

@LeeFoxRox The parties have changed their agenda over the years. Lincoln would not recognize the Republican party today. Yes there were folks on both sides that were in the KKK. We aren't talking about what happened long ago, we are talking about what is happening now and how the Republican agenda is destroying this nation. You said, "It is democrats that have opposed the major civil rights reforms proposed by Republicans for the last 150 years." These reforms would take away civil rights.

[LeeFoxRox]

@zcodez

We are talking about what is happening right now...

Republicans are fighting to protect individual liberties for All Americans.

democrats?

Are killing privacy rights by forcing card check to replace secret ballots.

Are killing parental rights by digging deeper and deeper into what you are allowed to feed your children.

Are killing the ability to provide for yourself and your family by continually making it harder and harder to create and run your own business.

I can easily go on.

[Neosaigo]

@LeeFoxRox LOL Republicans protect civil liberties? You need to pay more attention to politics and stop watching FOX "news".

Neither Democrats and Republicans are protecting our civil liberties. Except the Democrats always turns out to be the lesser of the two evils so to speak.

[LeeFoxRox]

@Neosaigo

Fail.

My television does not even pick up Fox.

The next time you hear about new rules for what you are allowed to eat, what our children are to be taught, how you are allowed to defend yourself, who you are allowed to work for, etc. look at the letter before the names of those advocating those rules.

If you're honest, you'll acknowledge that almost all of them are D's.

Then you can come back and tell me about paying more attention to politics.

[Krow147]

@LeeFoxRox 3 Words: The Patriot Act.

I'm somewhat curious to hear who these people who are advocating controlling "what you are allowed to eat. . . who you are allowed to work for, etc."

Regulating what schools teach children and deciding how you're allowed to defend yourself seem necessary to me.

Especially the defending yourself part, people shouldn't be able to open fire on somebody who grabs a purse.

[LeeFoxRox]

@Krow147

Spoken like a a classic clueless left wing ideologue.

If you aren't aware of the vast array of democrat attacks on personal liberty you must be willfully uninformed. Even the main stream media is reporting it.

Since you clearly do not understand the phrase "self defense", I'll help you out. You can't shoot somebody for stealing your purse since they have not attacked you.

P.S. Calling up the Patriot Act proves my point that the left is anti-Liberty. Obama renewed it.

[Krow147]

@LeeFoxRox You didn't give me any examples of left wing people advocating controlling those things. The fact that Obama renewed The Patriot Act doesn't actually say anything about the left. Obama does not represent the left of America. He's a centrist, even if he's far to the left of you, he's a centrist.

And you're right, I took the self defence idea too far. I'll fix it: I don't think people should be allowed to open fire on somebody who punches them.

[LeeFoxRox]

@Krow147

Obama a centrist?

*chuckles*

A centrist does not nationalize car companies, banks, and health care, or take companies to court for creating jobs.

I'd be happy to offer you many examples of left wing politicians doing their best to restrict your freedoms but YouTube doesn't allow the posting of links.in comments.

Feel free to look up Jan Perry and Bernard Parks (LA City Council members) and their ban on fast food restaurants to educate yourself about just one example.

[CalGeekGrl]

To continue on the same thread: You must simply be one of these things: 1. Appallingly stupid. (And that's giving you the benefit of the doubt.); 2. APPALLINGLY LAZY. (e.g. learned nothing in school and has learned nothing about history since.) (To be continued)

[CalGeekGrl]

(cont) 3. A golden-kneepad suck#ss who is just kissing the collective *sses of the old boys network with the scant hope that they might let you in if you suck good enough.; 4. Rich already and so sure of your and your classes own superiority and complete ignorance and prejudice that you simply have no clue about anyone's reality but your own.

[CalGeekGrl]

(cont) Of these, the last two, imho, are the worst to be in because you SHOULD know better. Option 1 means you are pathetic and to be pitied and no 2 is just about as bad but for that you can only blame yourself for buying into the Rethuglican cant that is full of lies and damned lies. So, good luck with that buddy. Hopefully, your delusions will start ending soon but if they don't, I'd really like some of those drugs you've been taking in your kool-aid.

[nadine2justice]

JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE !!!!



[nadine2justice]

Single Payer !!!!!!!

Come on people open our eyes and hearts.

Health care for all !!!!!

[laniduke]

@nadine2justice Health care for all in the hands of the government means adequate health care for fewer and fewer while paid administrators leach more and more money out of the system.

[nadine2justice]

Senator Bernie Sanders for President !!!!

[MyRepresentativeOrg]

"Financial Reform Bill of 2010 gave Commodities Futures Trading Commission a MANDATE to end Wall Street speculation on Oil futures!

[MyRepresentativeOrg]

Time for the Democrats to be straight forward about what they stand for

[1946Priss]

A "NEED to Understand"....

[formerroadie]

@laniduke, how do you explain the fact that we export more oil than we consume? You conservatives are destroying this country.

[formerroadie]

@laniduke: you are a moron.

[jstnxprsn1]

laniduke - You are a stupid Koch Sucker Don't you understand that oil drilled in this country gets sold on the world market to the highest bidder? We don't get to use it, the oil companies do, to make obscene profits. You support that, fuckhead. Use your brain.

[jstnxprsn1]

The lesser of two evils is still evil. Do NOT vote for evil.

Bernie Sanders 2012

[laniduke]

@jstnxprsn1 So do not vote for Bernie.

[vermontmcintyre]

"In 1964, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he worked as a carpenter, filmmaker, writer and researcher, among other jobs. Sanders's political career began in 1971...." ~ Wikipedia

The rest of your stuff is just opinion, so I won't bother. His back story is pretty interesting. Full disclosure: Yes I'm a fan, and yes I voted for him.

[laniduke]

What we need are more refineries as well as more drilling permits. Gasoline refined to meet EPA standards for the West Coast does not meet the standards set for middle America or the East Coast.

[laniduke]

A vote for Bernie is a vote for bankruptcy. The crooks are in the government and unions, bleeding the life out of the middle class and creating wage slaves. The oligarchy is bureaucracy. No one should be allowed to hold a government job until he or she has worked in the private sector a minimum of five years. Bernie has never held a real job where he had to work for a living. The real class warfare is between working folks and government.

[sophielago]

@laniduke

and too much of govt is part of or indebted to the oligarchy.

[joanogiff]

@laniduke Be specific and explain how the wealth has "trickled down" to you? How many billionaires do you hang out with? Are YOU a millionaire? If not, you are working against your own self interests. I would be remiss if I did not try to help you. My father thinks as you do and he is struggling, 80 years old, and squeaking by on Social Security. He is also a very legalistic religious zealot and ANGRY.

[CalGeekGrl]

@laniduke That's a stupid idea just like all of your other ones.

[MyRepresentativeOrg]

"What to do about the Income Gap?" Looking for your to present a solution!

[MyRepresentativeOrg]

"Crooks on Wall Street" were facilitated by the Government! We need to "End Crony Capitalism"

[MyRepresentativeOrg]

"Undoing some of the damage from the Bush Administration"

[laniduke]

A vote for Bernie is a vote for bankruptcy.

[CalGeekGrl]

@laniduke @laniduke I am simply going to reduce myself to something you can understand: BOO!!!! HISS!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE A MORON!

[Lightmane321]

Would someone please tell Mr. Sanders to run for President

[jimbainsmail]

Bernie Sanders is obviously brilliant. He totally agrees with me. This is the best concise analysis of the current mess and how to fix it that I have seen.