The red-baiting of Bernie is getting ridiculous.
This whole notion that Bernie being an "OMG SOCIALIST OMG he volunteered at a kibbutz OMG" is going to hurt him in the general election is based on a false premise. The GOP already calls Democrats "communists" and "socialists", Obama is constantly called a Communist despite being a fairly establishment, pro-corporate president. the kind people people scared by the word "socialism" will not be voting Dem anyway.
The Establishment is either chasing after potential Dem voters that don't actually exist, or, more likely, are using that as an excuse for the status quo.
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I hoped it wasn't a new form of masterbating... 
And can you get it in a gloss or matte' finish, or just flat?
After college, Sanders lived briefly in an Israeli kibbutz known as Kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakim (KSH), which was co-founded by Aharon Cohen, an Arabist who was a harsh critic of Israeli policy and was arrested for spying for the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Sanders stayed at KSH as a guest of the Zionist-Marxist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair (HH), which pledged its allegiance to the Soviet Union; some left-wing groups described HH as Leninist and even Stalinist. HH made it plain that its cooperation with Zionists was a temporary expedient designed to help pave the way for a socialist revolution; that it viewed Israel's independence as a transitional phase in the development of a bi-national socialist state which would ultimately end Israel's existence as a Jewish entity.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2266
According to an Accuracy In Media report, Sanders during the 1980s "collaborated with Soviet and East German 'peace committees'" whose aim was "to stop President Reagan’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.” Indeed, he “openly joined the Soviets’ 'nuclear freeze' campaign to undercut Reagan’s military build-up.”
In an August 8, 1985 interview on a Vermont government-access television station, Sanders discussed his recent trip to Nicaragua and drew parallels between the Castro and Ortega regimes. "In 1961," he said, "[America] invaded Cuba, and everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world, that all the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro. They forgot that he educated the kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society. You know, not to say Fidel Castro and Cuba are perfect -- they are certainly not -- but just because Ronald Reagan dislikes these people does not mean to say that the people in their own nations feel the same way.
I think I need to start self flagellation for being so wrong to support Bernie
I have 2 small flags outside my front door. One of them is the Chinese flag.
Am I a RED COMMIE !!!!!
I guess I'll stop caring and go start some self-sufficient commune in the middle of nowhere because we can't change anything, it's all hopeless and we just have to let Capitalism destroy the world.
I heard his middle name is Hussein 
A self-proclaimed socialist (who happens to be Jewish) was at a Kibbutz in Israel for a few months. STop the PResseS!!!!!
maybe my correspondent thinks we're still fighting the cold war. 
Man, it is exhausting today.
I was born in the 60s and I'm Jewish.
We're going to start simply with wikipedia: A kibbutz (Hebrew: קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ, lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural kibbutzim) is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania.[1] Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises.[2] Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism.[3] In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a kibbutznik (Hebrew: קִבּוּצְנִיק
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
Interestingly they've become more privatized, as has Bernie for that matter.
The point is that in the 60s it was not at all unusual to spend time on the Kibbutz - many Americans did just that for a few years after college etc. It was a very idealistic time. I'd be more surprised if Bernie hadn't spent time there given his leftist positions.
As others have already told you, the republicans are so out of touch that they think Obama is a communist. In fact they think liberal and communist are interchangeable terms. These are not bright folks we are dealing with. They will red-bait Hillary as well eventually - when they get tired of rehashing all the Arkansas stuff (and that can keep them busy for years). This is not a reason to walk away from Bernie. As you saw in the debate last night he is incredibly bright and calm. He is proud of his status as a democratic socialist and has never hid it. Maybe folks (including here on DU) will finally learn what the words capitalist, socialist, and communist really mean if he is our candidate. And they will hear much better ideas than they would from his competition - who will just keep selling out to the highest bidder.
Do you have any idea how cray cray you sound?
Armed revolutionaries, iron curtain, violent overthrow of the government, etc when referring to Bernie's supporters?
And of course, that heresy killed Obama's chances at being elected president, right?
as being 'unelectable' ... like Hillary would have a cake-walk in the GE.
Of course they know better, but they're doing it anyway, because their owners
are telling them to do that.
I think it's foolish and despicable.
And she is voting for Hillary 
We generally think Bernie is a one trick pony. Not much you can do to convince us otherwise.
It's the establishment calling for their worst nightmares.
It can't happen soon enough.
I'm sure it's not intentional.
Excellent research, kudos.
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