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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Got Rich Selling Books (just the facts) [View all]Nuggets
(525 posts)116. Yeah right.
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Jim Webbs SOTU response 2007
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Anthony Weiner was the one who started talking about Medicare for All
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Funny how you stopped "taking him at his word" when something substantial is discussed...
Tiggeroshii
May 2019
#105
Anyone can read things from a wish-list. I guess I just have higher standards...
NurseJackie
May 2019
#128
Sounds so trumpian! Just another thing trump and Sanders have in common, They need
lunamagica
May 2019
#89
So we simply ignore what candidate's own words & claims. Thats the same thing TRUMP people do.
oldsoftie
May 2019
#42
That's fine. Criticize him for that. Not for what labels people choose for him.
Tiggeroshii
May 2019
#81
Sanders praising Fidel Castro & Ortega, declining to condemn Maduro & Chavez tell us enough.
oldsoftie
May 2019
#134
You dont believe him on most things, why suddenly do you believe him on that?
Tiggeroshii
May 2019
#95
You dont believe him on most things, why suddenly do you believe him on that?
Tiggeroshii
May 2019
#97
Many of the books he "sold" were purchased by his own campaign to give out free....
George II
May 2019
#6
Look at the OP, $444,900 was spent by the Bernie 2016 campaign on "books" purchased from....
George II
May 2019
#21
No it's not good enough George. Click on the links for the Verso Books expenditures for his book
Autumn
May 2019
#58
The two transactions. They don't say when the books were delivered to the campaign.
George II
May 2019
#62
Years ago when I worked in midtown Manhattan, there were guys like this every few corners:
George II
May 2019
#72
But if course there is a lot of wiggle when people are posting and pushing "alternative facts"
Autumn
May 2019
#33
It only works that way if Bernie has mastered the art of time travel. But don't let that
Autumn
May 2019
#41
Apparently so. It's an end run around the law. Senators are prohibited from receiving honoraria...
George II
May 2019
#57
Got a link to that George? I got the book when I donated. I didn't buy any tickets to
Autumn
May 2019
#24
But you essentially "bought" the book anyway, you wouldn't have gotten it if you didn't contribute.
George II
May 2019
#60
Well I didn't get a private meeting and a promise to vote for legislation I was lobbying
Autumn
May 2019
#66
I did. Are you naive enough to believe in time travel? Cause that's the only way the OP works
Autumn
May 2019
#71
That's the book that YOU received, not necessarily what the $445K was spent on.
George II
May 2019
#80
Guess what George? That's the book he had published by Verso Publishing, the one he gave to his
Autumn
May 2019
#88
The Democratic Party's infrastructure didn't write the three books that made him a millionaire.
Autumn
May 2019
#113
Jim Webb. The guy who decided not to run in 2016 because he was "not comfortable"
Autumn
May 2019
#117
Convenient. You bring him up, I point out a fact about him and I'm taking the focus off your opinion
Autumn
May 2019
#122
What's not kosher is the book the OP is lying about Bernie making money off wasn't written
Autumn
May 2019
#44
That's what I read in some scholarly articles and at least one eye witness account
Uncle Joe
May 2019
#125
I don't think so. Seems that candidates can't get royalties from what the campaign buys.
Honeycombe8
May 2019
#54
The problem you have is that the book that the campaign spent $444,937.50 on in 2015 ,
Autumn
May 2019
#15
If Bernie spent $444,937.50 of his campaign dollars on his book "Our Revolution" that's a
Autumn
May 2019
#17
I also wonder if the "Bernie Standard" has been applied to other prior candidates who wrote books.
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2019
#61
He has every right to earn money; it's just a shame he refused to do so when his kid was on welfare
LongtimeAZDem
May 2019
#22
Neither reaching, nor smearing. He put his own aspirations above providing for his child, and
LongtimeAZDem
May 2019
#39
Since you seem to have a singular negative focus here you have earned an ignore.
CentralMass
May 2019
#50
I'm not the one creating an OP filled with lies that Bernie scammed money in 2015
Autumn
May 2019
#78
Oh, I don't wonder about some things ... but I can't safely say what those are here.
KPN
May 2019
#135
It's just sad to see all the devisiveness that's created by these unfounded attacks on Bernie.
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2019
#103
BS did receive royalties for the sale of an updated version his old book in 2016.
lapucelle
May 2019
#106
I'm surprised that a book which has sold 26,000 copies qualifies as a best-seller. Frankly,
lunamagica
May 2019
#137