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LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
Thu Apr 14, 2016, 12:21 PM Apr 2016

Bernie Sanders in New York, Pressing fight against status quo

Article is from the NY Times (Yeah, they're finally paying attention): Bernie Sanders, in New York Presses Fight Against "Status Quo":

Locked in a fierce fight with Hillary Clinton to win the New York primary, Senator Bernie Sanders took his plea for a political revolution to the heart of Greenwich Village on Wednesday and heaped particular scorn on Wall Street to the delight of several thousand jubilant supporters.

Speaking on a cloudless night in Washington Square Park, the famed arch dramatically lit behind him, Mr. Sanders said he drew inspiration from the trade unions, gay rights activists and others fighting to “change the status quo.”

He repeatedly denounced “corporate greed and the rigged economy,” taking aim at the big banks just to the south, and said that defending the interests of regular Americans was the abiding cause of his presidential campaign.

“It is about creating a government that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors,” Mr. Sanders said, one of several negative comments or insinuations that he lobbed in Mrs. Clinton’s direction. “This campaign is sending a message to corporate America: You cannot have it all.”

I got the link from Robert Reich's Facebook page. Prof. Reich prefaced the link with his own remarks:

An estimated 27,000 people crowded into New York City's Washington Square last night to hear Bernie. He and Hillary Clinton will debate again tonight -- the final debate before the important New York Democratic primary next Tuesday. Almost every political operative I speak with tells me Hillary will win the primary (Independents are excluded from voting), but the political operatives have been proven wrong again and again this year.

What do you think?




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