Bernie reminds me of those Japanese soldiers that emerged from the jungles decades after the war

[Cali_Democrat]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders-idUSKCN0Z126B

Sanders not ending campaign in Thursday's video speech: spokesman

Bernie Sanders does not plan to suspend his campaign and endorse presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a video speech to supporters on Thursday, focusing instead on ways to pursue his policy agenda and reform goals, a spokesman said.

Sanders, who has resisted pressure to exit the race and back Clinton in a show of party unity since she clinched the Democratic nomination last week, will address supporters nationwide on a video live stream on Thursday night.

That raised expectations Sanders might formally pull the plug on his campaign. But spokesman Michael Briggs said on Wednesday the speech will focus on how Sanders' supporters can keep the fight alive on priorities such as raising the minimum wage and reducing the influence of big money in politics.

"Tomorrow night, no, he's not ending it," Briggs said of the campaign. "We're working our way through that, how to go forward on that front. This message to supporters is going to be a lot broader than that."

The fight continues!!

60 years after the war ends, two soldiers emerge from the jungle

The two old men apparently declared they were soldiers, and the story they told when they emerged from the dense jungle of a Philippine island was yesterday the talk of the nation they claimed to have fought for.

According to reports, the Japanese men, who are both in their 80s, said they had been hiding on the island of Mindanao, which is 600 miles from Manila, since before the end of the second world war.

The Kyodo news agency identified them as Yoshio Yamakawa, 87, and Tsuzuki Nakauchi, 85, and said they were former members of a division whose ranks were devastated in fierce battles with US forces towards the end of the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan

[MariaThinks]

1. Good analogy

[redstateblues]

2. Bernie who?

[SirBrockington]

3. lol

[tonyt53]

4. Pretty much so.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. He reminds me of the American Revolutionaries who got their asses kickd repeatedly

but fought on to win another day.

[CorkySt.Clair]

9. Were the revolutionaries 75 years old?

[TheSarcastinator]

10. Ignorance and Ageism

Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old on July 4, 1776, genius.

Way to represent your candidate, though! Onward, brave internet warrior for the status quo.

[CorkySt.Clair]

11. That's one. How old were the rest?

Jefferson and Washington were in their 30's and 40's, as were most of the rest.

As to your other comments:

[TheSarcastinator]

12. Wow: what shameful BS

So Franklin wasn't vital in the War for Independence? You DO know that he essentially secured the French blockade that won us the war nearly single-handedly, dontchya, you astute history scholar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War

"Benjamin Franklin served as the American ambassador to France from 1776 to 1785. He met with many leading diplomats, aristocrats, intellectuals, scientists and financiers. Franklin's image and writings caught the French imagination – there were many images of him sold on the market – and he became the cultural icon of the archetypal new American, and even a hero for aspirations for a new order inside France.[1]"

Your ageism is astonishing bigotry. Keep up the good work!

Hey: don't forget to mention that none of the Founding Fathers were Jews, either: that will fit right in with your M.O.

[CorkySt.Clair]

15. Pointing out facts is "shameful bs"?

And Washington and Jefferson weren't vital in your eyes?

You guys are so funny.

[brooklynite]

6. FWIW - the Nakauchi/Yamakawa story was never validated...

The last know "straggler" was found in Indonesia in 1979.

[BobbyDrake]

7. The media just can't quit Bernie Sanders!

They're devoting space in every Clinton article to his embarrassing display of befuddlement.

[catnhatnh]

8. And some posters on this board

remind me of Joseph Goebbels...

[okasha]

13. The difference is that there was compassion for those men.

In a day or two, commentators will be referring to Sanders' "quixotic quest," his "eccentric persistence" in. a race he lost, his status as a "stalking horse for Trump."

[oasis]

14. The soldiers had no way of knowing when it was over. Bernie does.

[blackspade]

16. What a dispicable comparison.

But not unexpected from the Clinton Bunker.