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March 20, 2016

That post was up for months and they still claim it wasn't anti-Semitic.

Not one of them objected and when it's posted here they alert on it because they don't want anyone to know what went on at that site.

March 15, 2016

Bruce Springsteen had a few words to say about Wall Street vs Main Street, health care and poverty.

Like Bernie he sees what's happened to our country and has been an outspoken advocate for those among us who are almost too beaten down and tired to fight anymore.

With the E Street Band and some help from Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, they totally rocked 'The Ghost of Tom Joad'.

For all my fellow Bernistas, enjoy:


February 19, 2016

Larry Sanders did not call Bill Clinton a rapist, the NY Post is tabloid trash.

He was faulting the media for their coverage of the Clintons, here is the original article:

“The media have a lot to answer for, I think, you don’t get that detailed discussion. You get: ‘Is Hillary a nice person? Is Bill really such a terrible rapist or is he a nice rapist?’ It’s at that level the discussion—so you can imagine that people could have a pleasant opinion but not based on the actual policies.”

Larry is at pains to point out that they have real respect for Hillary. (The Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/19/bernie-sanders-s-brother-he-backs-class-warfare-bill-clinton-was-worse-than-bush.html


The Post edited the comment, this is how they "reported" it:

“Is Bill really such a terrible rapist — or is he a nice rapist?” Larry Sanders told The Daily Beast, asking the question he said is on most people’s minds when it comes to the former president, whose wife, Hillary, is in a showdown with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.


This kind of right wing trash doesn't belong here, it smears both Bill Clinton and Larry Sanders.

February 7, 2016

We're touchy because there have been anti-Semitic posts and threads about Bernie already.

Links to Stormfront, FrontPageMag, Tomatobubble and other anti-Semitic sources have been posted and defended because they were "educational".

Bernie's been called Israel's #1 shill, a "crusty Jew", and accused of having a nest egg waiting for him in Israel among other things.

I'll take your word for it because I've never seen you attack Bernie but others have and will continue to do so.

January 14, 2016

Bernie Sanders Rejects Theocracy, Defends Church State Separation

Bernie Sanders Rejects Theocracy, Defends Church State Separation
January 9, 2016
by: Michael Stone

Rejecting the Republican dream of a Christian theocracy, Bernie Sanders tells supporters it is “dangerous for governments to get deeply involved with religion.”

Justin Scott, an Iowan who takes his politics seriously, asked the Democratic presidential candidate for his thoughts on politicians who “base a lot of their legislation on their religious beliefs” at a recent campaign event in Iowa.

Sanders answered:

Religious freedom in this country is part of our Constitution, and all of us agree with that. And you have many different religions, and people have the right, in this country, to practice the religion that they believe in.
But we also have a separation between religion and state. We know how dangerous it is, historically, for governments to get deeply involved with religion… Let’s not confuse and merge religion and state. That is not what our Founding Fathers wanted, and they were right.


Sanders is right. The attempt by today’s Republican party to “confuse and merge religion and state” is dangerous, un-American, and a repudiation of the secular values upon which this nation was founded.

This is not the first time the progressive candidate has championed secular values. Earlier this year, in an uplifting viral video supporting Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, the presidential hopeful declared:

The problems we face did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.


***

Sanders is a friend to freethinkers, and the enemy of conservative Christians. Religious News Service describes Sanders as “unabashedly irreligious” and “the anti-Bible thumper,” noting:

Sanders is the presidential contender most willing to dissociate himself from religion. Though he identifies as Jewish and by Jewish law is Jewish, he has freely acknowledged that he is not a religious person. He scored a solid zero from Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition in its most recent scorecard and a 100 from the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Scoring a zero from Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition is a badge of honor, and should be a ringing endorsement to the ears of every humanist, every atheist, every freethinker.

More: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/01/bernie-sanders-rejects-theocracy-defends-church-state-separation/#sthash.c7iYfb7W.dpuf


It's refreshing to finally have a presidential candidate who won't pander to the bible thumpers!
December 24, 2015

"Sanders, like almost every other Big Jew in America, is also a rabid Russia basher"

That's what you linked to, on a liberal political board.

And 11 people rec'd it.

Take note of their names, everyone, and remember them.



*note to jury, that quote is from the last link, check it out if you don't believe me.

December 24, 2015

Interesting to see which posters rec'd this and also used anti-Semitic dog whistles in the past.

Looks like your "horrific rhetoric" found its target audience, congratulations.

I wish I could say I was surprised to see Holocaust denying neo-Nazi propaganda sites linked to here, or to see who rec'd them but I learned long ago not to expect too much from folks.

As if linking to Stormfront to smear a Jewish candidate wasn't bad enough, now we're going to tomatobubble for opposition research.

According to Hillary supporters on DU Bernie is Israel's #1 shill, a pro gunner that thinks women enjoy being raped, racist, gun nut, scheming little sneak, drooling, sweating old fool, scumbag, pandering phony braggart with some kind of emotional instability, tool for the NRA, Republican man with his head between women's legs, who protects the minutemen militia, pedophiles, racist cops, has rape fantasies, thinks that orgasms prevent cancer, wants the guns in the streets, is supported by Stormfront and whose supporters are groomed by psychopaths.

So I guess I can't really blame you, why wouldn't you think your disgusting op would be welcomed with open arms?


A sincere thank you to the Hillary supporters who spoke up and didn't rec this thread.

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