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tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 10:58 PM Apr 2016

Born and Raised in New York, CBS News takes a Glimpse at Bernie Sanders' Early Years in Brooklyn



CBS News take a brief historical trip to Bernie Sander's hometown and speaks with him about his childhood, the early death of his mother, his family's struggles with finances and how some of these difficult issues helped to forge his beliefs as a candidate. There are also some early pictures from his childhood and family.
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Born and Raised in New York, CBS News takes a Glimpse at Bernie Sanders' Early Years in Brooklyn (Original Post) tomm2thumbs Apr 2016 OP
sounds like financial stuggles were especially rough tomm2thumbs Apr 2016 #1
Lovely man! National treasure. nt thereismore Apr 2016 #2
he is definitely that! Wish the piece was a bit longer. bbgrunt Apr 2016 #3
I have a feeling the history books will be quite kind to him in the decades yet to come. nt silvershadow Apr 2016 #4
Wait a second...no belittling his "underdog" status, no "He can't win", no playing the Gene Debs Apr 2016 #5
K&R! This was great, thanks for posting! Rhiannon12866 Apr 2016 #6
Hometown Boy, Now Man Done Good (Real Good)! LovingA2andMI Apr 2016 #7
It's pretty clear Iwillnevergiveup Apr 2016 #8
he looks like my sweet dad, thin, young, burning with justice and all for those who needed roguevalley Apr 2016 #9
Bernie seems to approach politics as an artist does his or her art. JDPriestly Apr 2016 #10
a nice glimpse of his story hopemountain Apr 2016 #11

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
1. sounds like financial stuggles were especially rough
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 10:59 PM
Apr 2016

I didn't realize he not only was born there, but had lived there through 18 or 19 years old. That's a true native of New York!

 

Gene Debs

(582 posts)
5. Wait a second...no belittling his "underdog" status, no "He can't win", no playing the
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:05 AM
Apr 2016

evil socialist card...this was on a mainstream network news program? It must have aired at 3 AM.

LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts)
7. Hometown Boy, Now Man Done Good (Real Good)!
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:30 AM
Apr 2016

Let's hope NYC/NY Remembers He Is a Native Son of the State and Have Bernie's Back in New York's Democratic Primary!!

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
9. he looks like my sweet dad, thin, young, burning with justice and all for those who needed
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:43 AM
Apr 2016

a hand. I love this man.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
10. Bernie seems to approach politics as an artist does his or her art.
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:56 AM
Apr 2016

Art is the artist's life, as politics, the public service of politics seems to be Bernie's life.

Public service seems to be Bernie's fate, his destiny, just as art was the destiny of Michelangelo or Da Vinci or Van Gogh.

I write this after hearing him talk about the democracy he experienced with his playmates as a child. Even then, he was interested in how people work together to achieve things.

I have two children. Before they were five or six, each of them knew the direction that their lives would take them. I have a lot of stories to prove them.

My youngest, in her late thirties, came home to look for a "book" that she wrote when she was maybe in the fourth grade or so. When she found it, she laughed out loud and said (and I paraphrase in the interest of privacy so that you won't know what her profession is) "this book contains the basic theory of my field, the theory behind my work."

I had never thought about it, but she was right. She did not have to learn the theory of her field, of her work. She was born knowing it in a sense.

I suspect that Bernie understood the human interactions that we call "politics" and was determined to serve others and make a difference at a very early age.

Bernie's political career is what religious people refer to as a "calling."

I think it is clear that Bernie has the "calling" to be president of the United States now. I think it can and will happen.

There may be surprises in store for all of us. Let's wait and see.

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