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Chemisse

(30,806 posts)
2. I *love* how they said nobody could have predicted such a thing.
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 07:15 PM
Aug 2015

Ummm, WE did. Anybody who wasn't paid to be in denial about Sanders could see that potential was there.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
8. Yes, we did. That's because they are so out of touch with the PEOPLE! They are all scratching their
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 09:38 PM
Aug 2015

heads, but the PEOPLE knew all along that all they needed was someone to stop up and speak for them. Bernie chose to do that and for that we should be eternally grateful.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
9. Or pretending to scratch their heads.
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 09:55 AM
Aug 2015

It's hard to overestimate how cynical the game is.




No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.


Lily Tomlin

to the late, great Jackpine Radical.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
10. LOL! When announcing this, the Des Moines Register called him a liberal REVOLUTIONARY.
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:28 AM
Aug 2015

Not someone with revolutionary ideas or positions, mind you, but A Revolutionary. Che would kill himself laughing.

When does a revolutionary run for office in the US as a Democrat?

And, btw, when was there a conservative revolutionary? The war of the redundant adjectives rages on.

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