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King: Why Bernie Sanders Is The Best Candidate In The Running For The White House - NYDaily
King: Why Bernie Sanders is the best candidate in the running for the White HouseBy Shaun King - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, January 15, 2016, 11:03 AM
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Today — on what happens to be Dr. King's birthday — I am proud to endorse the presidential candidate who I believe most embodies the values and ideals of the man who scared the hell out of the American government and was assassinated in 1968 after so bravely fighting against the Vietnam War and for income equality.
As a general rule, I don't trust many politicians, but I trust Bernie Sanders — the man walks the walk and talks the talk. He is, without a doubt, the most consistent politician in America and has been fighting for universal health care, access to education, equal pay, equal rights and the complete overhaul of how we do justice in this country for his entire career. I dig it.
Twelve months ago, I'll be honest with you, I could fit all I knew about Sanders into a few sentences. It went something like this:
“Hey Shaun, what do you know about Bernie Sanders?”
"The senator in Vermont? The disheveled dude? He's the real deal. Not in it for the money. Heard him on TV a few times kicking knowledge about income inequality and he was the truth. I keep hearing that he's a socialist."
That's it. That's pretty much everything I knew about the man.
I didn't know he was born and raised in Brooklyn.
I didn't know anything about his volunteer work in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement.
I didn't know he was one of only two current senators to attend the March on Washington.
I didn't know anything about his eight years as mayor of Burlington.
I didn't know that he went against the Democratic establishment and endorsed Jesse Jackson for President in 1984 and 1988.
Jackson actually won Vermont in ’88 with Bernie's help.
I didn't know he is the longest serving Independent congressman in American history.
I didn't know he bravely voted against the Defense of Marriage Act when such a thing was actually controversial.
I didn't know he voted against both wars in Iraq.
Now I know.
But even more than who he has been over the past few decades, it's who Sanders is right now, at this pivotal moment in our country, that hooked me. It wasn't love at first sight, either...
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More: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-bernie-sanders-best-candidate-president-article-1.2498007
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Most Excellent, and Honest.
Now I know.
But even more than who he has been over the past few decades, it's who Sanders is right now, at this pivotal moment in our country, that hooked me. It wasn't love at first sight, either...
But even more than who he has been over the past few decades, it's who Sanders is right now, at this pivotal moment in our country, that hooked me. It wasn't love at first sight, either...
From OP.
Thanks for the thread, WillyT. 
