Ich bin ein Vermonter.

[Jackpine Radical]

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Sen+Bernie+Sanders+VT+Addresses+Ben+Bernanke+icjNRvVf76ll.jpg

[madmax]

1. You are looking at one man in the Senate

with a titanium spine. Senator Sanders a man of principle, a rare breed in our capital today.

[gateley]

2. And a true man of the people. nt

[cali]

3. Me too.

Really.

[Octafish]

4. Ich auch.

He's standing up to the tyrants of today, the self-claimed Masters of the Universe.

[JuniperLea]

11. Bernie has the power!

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. That's what moral character looks like.

I hope that he, and Sherrod Brown, and yes even Mary Landrieu, get a thank-you email from all of us. And I hope some more senators show up to help him.

[calimary]

14. Mary Landrieu, of all people.

Imagine that.

I guess file it in the "broken clocks are correct twice a day" file.

[upi402]

6. seconded, +1,000 n/t

[SpiralHawk]

7. Ich auch

[ipfilter]

8. Gut gemacht Herr Sanders!

[jannyk]

9. and us!

[dennis4868]

10. And if that vermonter....

Gets his way and there is no deal the lowest tax bracket goes up 50% on January 1 and lots of people don't get UI....I have not been watching bernie today. What's his tax plan thY can not only pass the house but also overcome a repub fillubuster in the senate?

[BrklynLiberal]

12. My hero!!! Great and eloquent man.

[madmax]

13. The letters he's reading

are heartbreaking, I can relate them to an earlier time in my life.

'Salt of the Earth'

M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink of the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
Spare a part for his wife and his children
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth

And when I look into the this faceless crowd
A swirling mass of gray blue
Black and white
They don't look real to me
In fact, we all look so strange

Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading but get gamblers instead

Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio

And when I look into this faceless crowd
A swirling mass of grays and
Black and white
They don't look real to you
Or do we look too strange

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the three thousand million
Let's think of the humble of birth

[Krakowiak]

15. Same.

[Cleita]

16. Ich auch!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. Attention Freepers a-lurkin' nearby:

THIS is a socialist.

Hope this clears things up. I doubt it, but still...

[frylock]

18. ich auch!

:applause:

[WillyT]

19. Me Too !!! - K & R !!!

:patriot:

:kick:

[SpiralHawk]

20. Were can you buy an "Ich bin ein Vermonter" T-shirt? or ballcap?

Flag of the Green Mountain Boys

[Jackpine Radical]

21. If I had a properly entrepreneurial mind,

I'd already have them up on Cafe Press.

I'm afraid this is a 2-day wonder, though.

[ExTheUnknown]

22. Except Bernie is not from Vermont

Just ask any native Vermonter and they will say flatlander even if you hail from
a state with bigger and more mountains.

[SpiralHawk]

23. But Vermonters chose Bernie to stand up for them, and for America

They voted for him, fair and square. They want him to deliver this message.

They have elected him again and again...

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[rox63]

27. Vermonters have granted Bernie status as a Vermonter

By repeatedly voting for him. Even some conservative Vermonters vote for him, because he's honest and real about what he stands for.

[Faryn Balyncd]

24. Ya!

[Bozita]

25. America's Senator, ... Yes, he is!

[Jackpine Radical]

28. The best we got.

[Mira]

29. Fabulous post for a hugely courageous fellow American K&R