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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is and continues to be critical of President Obama [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)108. But it hasn't completely controlled the Party until 1992.
NOW... It does.
Study: "Trade" Deal Would Mean a Pay Cut for 90% of U.S. Workers
http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/the-verdict-is-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-a-sweeping-free-trade-deal-under-negotiation-with-11-pacific-rim-coun.html
65 percent of working families are living from paycheck to paycheck
http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/10/why-conservatives-old-divide-and-conquer-strategy-%E2%80%94-setting-working-class-against-the-poor-%E2%80%94-is-backfiring/
Billionaire wealth doubles since financial crisis
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/11/12/Billionaire-wealth-doubles-since-financial-crisis/5011384268135/?spt=hts&or=12
95 percent of the economys gains have gone to the top 1 percent
http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/10/why-conservatives-old-divide-and-conquer-strategy-%E2%80%94-setting-working-class-against-the-poor-%E2%80%94-is-backfiring/
The Top .01 Percent Reach New Heights
http://www.demos.org/blog/9/13/13/top-01-percent-reach-new-heights
US Wealthy Have Biggest Piece of Pie Ever Recorded
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/11-6
Rates of unemployment for families earning less than $20,000 - have topped 21 percent
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JOBS_GAP_RICH_AND_POOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-16-08-11-23
Gallop: 20.4% of Americans now going hungry.
http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/12/20460846-1-in-5-americans-struggling-to-put-food-on-the-table?lite
New Rule (Passed by Congress and signed by President Obama) signals Kiss of Death for Pensions
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100694955
Obama Appoints Bain Capital Consultant Jeff Ziets to Top Post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662209
Obama selects former Monsanto lobbyist to be his TPP chief agriculture negotiator
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662210
The Totally Unfair And Bitterly Uneven 'Recovery,' In 12 Charts HuffPo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662029
Larry Summers Gets 'Full-Throated Defense' From Obama In Capitol Hill Meeting
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014553343#post1
Wall Street will get away with massive wave of criminality of 2008 - Statute of Limitations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022516719
Income gap widest ever: 95 Percent of Recovery Income Gains Have Gone to the Top 1 Percent
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/10/one_percent_recovery_95_percent_of_gains_have_gone_to_the_top_one_percent.html
Older Workers:.Set Back by Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/booming/for-laid-off-older-workers-age-bias-is-pervasive.html?smid=tw-share&_r=3&
THIS ^ does NOT happen by accident.
It is the result of carefully planned and implemented Economic Policy.
It requires careful preparation, marketing, buying the right politicians, message control, courts packed with Conservative Corporate Rights Judges, and the marginalization and suppression of any opposition.
[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center] [center] [/font]
[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]
You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]
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I hope he runs for President in 2016 - to offer an alternative to the bipartisan consensus on
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2014
#1
Given that almost everybody agrees with Sen. Sanders on basic economic issues - even many rank and
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2014
#35
Explain how corporate money 'allows' us to 'ignore reality'. What reality? We are not ignoring
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#78
wmws is correct and in case you haven't noticed, the ThirdWay corporate garbage that has
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#140
Counting votes means nothing if both candidates are corporate-bought.
woo me with science
Jan 2014
#113
Because they are given no choice. See Buono in NJ, deserted by her own party
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#163
The billionaire purchased austerity propaganda policy mill '3rd Way' is a product
Dragonfli
Jan 2014
#112
Lol. long before Obama became President, he was corporate friendly in a way that Sanders
cali
Jan 2014
#11
bzzzt. yet another fail. but I am delighted to watch your, er, antics. Most amusing.
cali
Jan 2014
#12
"Trying to use Bernie to burnish President Obama's liberal credentials is dishonest. "
Kolesar
Jan 2014
#6
Why? All I'm doing is setting the record straight. Yes, Bernie supports the President
cali
Jan 2014
#21
no, the president's pro corporate policies are the problem- not bernie's opposition to them
cali
Jan 2014
#28
You are missing Joe's point. I love Bernie and he phrases things better than anyone on income
stevenleser
Jan 2014
#53
Precisely! Any anonymous internet schmuck can piss and moan about what they perceive ...
11 Bravo
Jan 2014
#122
So..sometimes he is critical where waranted...and sometimes he is supportive where it is warranted
SunsetDreams
Jan 2014
#38
Sen. Sanders has been both supportive and critical of President Obama and this seems fines to me.
underthematrix
Jan 2014
#48
All who disagree with Obama on policy are haters who do so on racist grounds
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#80
Evidently there are some here who believe six impossible things before breakfast
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#105
Bernie continues to represent the best interests of the american people, Obama doesn't always
on point
Jan 2014
#71
I would hope Senator Sanders would not be critical of President Obama unless promoting/
indepat
Jan 2014
#104
Your divisive propaganda was once again thoroughly debunked by ProSense and others.
great white snark
Jan 2014
#119
That subthread between Prosense, JoePhilly and 1SBM pretty much demolished this OP
Number23
Jan 2014
#128
you don't understand politics and how things work in the real world. But then again a comforting
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2014
#159
In a democracy, it is the peoples' responsibility to hold public servants accountable.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2014
#162