2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders picks up megaphone, walks union picket in Cedar Rapids
Wow such listening! :
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. Bernie Sanders grabbed a sign and then a megaphone as he walked a labor picket line Friday night.
Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, joined perhaps 100 Cedar Rapids-area union workers in an informational picket outside Penford Products, a corn processor where the Bakers Confectioners Tobacco Grain Millers union local 100G is negotiating a new contract with the management.
Sanders strolled up to the picket shortly before 5:30 p.m., picked up a sign stapled to a long stick and marched with the crowd to a park across the street from the plant.
I want you to know being out on a picket line and standing with workers is something I have been doing for my entire life, Sanders told the crowd. I did when I was mayor of the city of Burlington, did in Congress, did it in the Senate. This is what I do.
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https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/639979477238308864
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)The more I see and hear him, the more I like him! He really is the people's candidate.
Go, Bernie!
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)Who said he would put on some comfortable shoes and walk the picket line.never happened.
Go Bernie!
lark
(23,099 posts)He truly cares about workers, unfortunately the president doesnt make the ecoonomic health of workers his priority, that's TPP.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)More than just another empty campaign promise.
Bernie is the Real Deal.
I would be proud to march with him,
and I hope that President Obama is feeling more than just a twinge of shame.
lbrtbell
(2,389 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)is such a backstab.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Yallow
(1,926 posts)Doing this.
I will bet she will walk a picket line before the primaries are over.
I am still putting up all 20 Bernie signs I bought around my neighborhood.....
Eko
(7,289 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
kath
(10,565 posts)I hear ya.
Good to see someone walking in them, rather than talking in them.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Yep, bet he didn't have to look for comfortable shoes, he has 'em!
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)And probably well worn too....
Stark difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)But be careful, I have been told on DU that you can't use President Obama's own words against him. And I have been told that anything Hillary said or did over a year ago is ancient history and doesn't count anymore. And I have also been told that when Hillary disagrees with the President it's because they have an agreement and it is just part of a long term strategy.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)you are NOT getting my vote this election.
Of course, if it wasn't on his twitter feed or on his campaign website it might not count as supporting the unions.
jalan48
(13,865 posts)SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)silenttigersong
(957 posts)THE REAL DEAL
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Especially for someone who will NOT negotiate away a "Public Option" for universal health care.
Feeling the Bern here!
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Low 90s temperature, with the sun just beating down all day.
K&R.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Bernie is going to win the Iowa caucus.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)when was the last time any candidate for potus did this? I can't remember.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)DrBulldog
(841 posts)People JUST LIKE HIM.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)what a champ!
Volaris
(10,271 posts)Will be when the historians put the pen to the paper.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)and that's on the level.
Regards,
First-Way Manny
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Go Bernie!!
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)good good person he is.
think
(11,641 posts)ciaobaby
(1,000 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)They think all unions are evil.
delrem
(9,688 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)And how could can anyone walk a picket line when they have to have their unpaid interns using a rope to keep the great unwashed at a proper distance?
You Bernistas are just so unfair. I may cry!
(Sarcasm)
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)and it is the side of the workers, not the union-busting owners nor the oligarchs who finance the other candidates' campaigns.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)I think I learned to walk the lines when I was about 8.
We need this man.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)this should really gall them.
So fantastic to see this.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Real honest leaders do it.
*Feel the Bern*
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)President Sanders!
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)He IS one of us!!!!!
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)a man sitting in the Congress of this country saying folks--------------------this is what I am "all" about, and it is to you the middle class worker, the working poor ------------------------- I stand with YOU.
And that is why he cares about the ISSUES------------------you and me and our ISSUES
It is not just talk, he walks the walk and he talks the talk
Honk----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)#FeelTheBern!
Faux pas
(14,678 posts)Dedication! Feeling the Bern
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Is there some rationale behind that?
cali
(114,904 posts)I really don't get your hostility toward Sanders.
Why not just speak into the microphone? I would think his voice would be clearer and just as loud.
No hostility towards Sanders - I just notice weird things sometimes.
azmom
(5,208 posts)DrBulldog
(841 posts)A couple of years ago, while working in an IT shop filled with highly-skilled technical people, a college-educated woman colleague of mine said, "Why do we need unions, they seem to cause so much trouble." I said to her, "Today your boss could fire you with no notice for no reason, is that correct?" She replied, "Well, yes . . .". I said, "Well, if you belonged to a union in this company, that would be nearly impossible." She stared at me for a few seconds, then her eyes began to widen. That was the moment the truth hit her.
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)I love seeing him standing up like this!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Just kidding, there's no question who I'm voting for.
BERNIE!!!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Wow...