Bernie Opponents: Here' s a Gift. An Expose of Sanders' past. His Dirty Little Secrets. Have Fun.

[Armstead]

Last edited Wed Jan 20, 2016, 08:13 PM - Edit history (1)

Since the meme of the day is that Bernie hasn't been "vetted" yet, and the GOP will smear him (if Clinton is unsuccessful in her attempts), here's a little present to help make you lives easier. Something to give you a head start.

An article about his early life before Washington. "Bernie Sanders Has a Secret" The reporter attempts to dig up dirt on him.

Sanders lived hand-to-mouth and collected unemployment for a while. He was kind of quirky and a bit obsessive about politics.He was a "shitty carpenter." He was not very successful in business. His early campaigns were a disaster. He was more politically strident as a young socialist. He wrote some odd articles about sex and power.

HE WAS NOT MARRIED TO THE MOTHER OF HIS SON. (The same son who accompanies him on his campaign).

Wanna make a big deal out of any of it? Have fun.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927?o=0

[peacebird]

1. Some folks also criticise him for saying he has 4 children, when only one is his biologically...

Me, I love that he considers them all equally his kids!

[Mnemosyne]

22. Something most step-kids hope for when young. I did. nt

[99th_Monkey]

2. Bernie once tore all the labels off his pillows too

the ones that say "Do Not Remove".

Shameful I tell you.

[kath]

4. he is the WORST!! tell everyone!

[restorefreedom]

11. tore off the labels? well that does it.

i can't support such flagrant dismissal of the "established" rules.

[Armstead]

13. It was a communist protest

[Warren DeMontague]

15. THERE ARE NO TAGS ON THESE MATTRESSES

[PatrickforO]

27. Oh, geez, THAT does it!

I just can't see anyone who purposely disobeyed the written instructions on a bedding label in the White House...

I mean, what if he tears labels off furniture and stuff there?

Forget emails and pay-to-play allegations...this LABEL-GATE is the very end. It will destroy him as soon as Rove gets hold of it.

Yep, Bernie's done. Stick a fork in him.

[99th_Monkey]

29. Shhhhh. David Brock might hear you. n/t

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. It's sad that anyone would think any of this would go anywhere ...

though I doubt that will/would give republicans pause to air it out.

And when they do, Democrats will laugh; republicans will be outraged; and, independents will say, MEH.

[draa]

5. Did someone hijack your account 1SBM.

You didn't leave Hillary's camp did you? You were pretty set on her getting the nod. Are you still supporting her (I'm sure you are)?

[Armstead]

8. 1SBM is generally fair minded

[draa]

10. Oh yeah, I know that, he's normally not like the rest but I've had a couple of heated conversations.

He's a passionate defender of his candidate and that's all you could ever ask for as a Democrat. eom

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. I've never been in Hillary's camp, and have never supported her ...

(unless, you consider my NOT being a Bernie supporter, makes my a HRC supporter)

In fact, I donated to Bernie's and O'Malley's campaigns; but, have not donated to HRC ... nor, do I plan to during the primaries.

But even though I don't support her, I can soberly read the polling data and read the moves of the republicans, and come up with the conclusion that the numbers say she is the likely candidate ... and the republicans think so, too.

Living in Arizona, I doubt my primary vote will count, as I suspect the primary contest will be all but over before our primaries. But that will not stop me from doing my current Voter registration stuff and stuffing envelopes for generic Democratic mailers and local candidates I will be able to support.

[draa]

12. That's cool Man. I'm just confused I guess (no surprise for me lol).

[panader0]

31. I have a new opinion of you.

Cochise County here.
Bernie will be the candidate.
Thanks for your activism.

[1StrongBlackMan]

32. Cochise County? Damn ... I'm sorry ...

A couple of years ago, I did some consulting work for a Fire District down there. I was surrounded for 4 days by very active members of the republican party.

I couldn't wait to get back to my purplish Tucson!

Did they ever resolve the systemic non-counting of Reservation votes?

[panader0]

34. Well, at least it's quite beautiful.

No Reservations in Cochise County.

[1StrongBlackMan]

37. Yes ... it's pretty country. I play golf at San Pedro, whenever I get a chance ...

And I have a bunch of friends on the base in Sierra Vista. I'll probably be down that way in May. Maybe we can turn one or two up?

No Reservations in Cochise County.

Really? I thought there was a big to do about an under-count of Native American votes in Cochise back in 2014. Perhaps, I'm mistaken.

[panader0]

39. I could turn one or two up.

I'll be gone after the 25th to my daughter's wedding in Vegas.
I'm about ten miles outside Sierra Vista.

[1StrongBlackMan]

40. Okay ... it should be before the 25th. I'm working to lock in another contract ...

I'll know in mid-April.

I'll PM you when it gets closer.

[Mike__M]

6. Those insufferable Jewish carpenters

who can't make it in their craft, so they turn into raving socialists.

[RiverLover]

7. LOL!!

Jesus, that was funny!

[Mike__M]

24. ii707

back at ya

[Smarmie Doofus]

16. Sounds like friggin' Lincoln.

At least up to the link.

No... I'm not interested in "the rest of the story."

[Matariki]

17. Does this link start in the middle of an article?

This appears to be the first sentence: "Riggs said she was just doing her job and that she had done nothing illegal."

Who is "Riggs"?

edit - thanks to the OP for fixing the link!

[Armstead]

18. Good Catch....I linked to Page 2...Fixed it in the OP

[Matariki]

19. Thanks!

I thought I was either missing something or the author was a crappy writer!

[dinkytron]

20. I heard he once scribbled on a penny.

[FrodosPet]

23. And rumor has it that he described a Boston Red Sox game to a friend...

... without the express written consent of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball.

[notadmblnd]

28. You want to know what I heard that he did?

He bought a homeless man who had no shoes good boots to keep his feet warm. I'm telling ya, it's that kind of stuff that just makes you want to

[Matariki]

21. The end of that article is great!

I liked the whole article, but that last paragraph made me smile.

[sorechasm]

25. I like the story of him traipsing around in his Bondo Blue volkswagen without windshield wipers for

interviews:

Sanders was “not a politician,” he said at the start, but he nonetheless possessed characteristics that would make him a successful one. He could be prickly and yet captivating. He had a way of being somehow simultaneously doom-and-gloom and inspirational. Even though he considered his personal life off limits, he still relentlessly solicited attention, sending to newspapers and radio and TV stations onslaughts of typewritten press releases that could read like screeds. And even though he had little appetite for chit-chat, he still loved to campaign, and he did it tirelessly — traipsing around the state in his drab blue, Bondo-bound Volkswagen bug without working windshield wipers, showing up at newspaper offices and asking to be interviewed, visiting prisons and power plants, talking at schools and churches and inside people’s homes, and talking and talking and talking.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927#ixzz3xqDIjBGL

[sorechasm]

36. Also, he always had "the consistency of a piston."

The rest of the article reads like the Sandburg's Lincoln: spartan home, avid reader, appeared to be without direction for much of his early life, unlikely hero, dedicated to the singular cause of humanitarian justice, a slow starter in politics, but once he started talking, he talked and talked and talked with an infectious mission.

I'm sure that sounds like propaganda to his detractors. It may be that the writer was also a Lincoln admirer and wrote about Bernie within that frame. Regardless, it appears to be true.

[PatrickforO]

26. OMG!

Stop the world! Bernie has (gasp) a child out of wedlock!!!!

And he wrote some strange stuff (gulp!)

And he (sharply indrawn breath and gnashed teeth) copulated with a woman to whom he was NOT MARRIED!!!

OMG!

I just don't know what he can possibly say to such allegations.

[Kalidurga]

30. HE WAS NOT MARRIED TO THE MOTHER OF HIS SON.

I triple dog dared Hillary supporters to keep going with that. They stopped. It was an issue for about 5 minutes here. I would triple dog dare Republicans to make political ads about it. Seriously I triple dog dare them. My parents were not married. My mother was born 7.5 months after her mom and dad got married. She was a big premie of course. Half my cousins were conceived and/or born out-of-wedlock. All of my children were born out-of-wedlock all three of them. I will never get married. I don't know how many families are like mine, but I suspect there are a whole lot of them and they will not take kindly to this attack on their parents, their children, or someone attacking them for having children outside marriage.

[Autumn]

33. Why do those "shitty carpenter" always have this Democratic Socialism stuff going on???

HE WAS NOT MARRIED TO THE MOTHER OF HIS SON???

[Armstead]

35. I think being a carpenter is the kind of lifestyle that is attractive to lefty types...

but it requires a set of skills that many people (myself included) do not possess.

Just a theory.

[Autumn]

38. I don't know, the carpenters that I know are republicans or libertarians

The mechanics seem to be Liberal though.