Massive crowd turns out for Sanders

[PowerToThePeople]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/15/politics/iowa-state-fair-live/index.html

Trump and Clinton may have drawn large crowds, but according to CNN's Eric Bradner, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders drew the largest crowds of the afternoon, at least so far.



Sanders appeared on the Register's Soapbox, where he presented his progressive platform: shifting wealth from the top 1% of earners to the lower and middle classes, equal pay for women and greater benefits for new parents.

"When a woman has a baby in this country, regardless of her income, she should be able to spend three months with that baby, loving that baby, getting to know that baby. That's a family value," he said.

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[cantbeserious]

1. Go Bernie Go

eom

[Fawke Em]

2. The Des Moines Register tweeted that at his event.

He's also winning the Democratic vote in the Iowa State Fair Straw Poll.

https://sos.iowa.gov/statefair.html

It saddens me to see how many people are voting on the Republican side, especially for Carson and Trump, but I guess a true state fair draws a more rural crowd, which traditionally votes more Republican.

[Fawke Em]

3. Did you see the guy in the crowd with the

Oligarchy Response Team shirt?

I did find out those shirts were given to people crashing ALEC events.

Appropriate.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. That's great!

https://twitter.com/heyrubino/status/462405745837744128

[Fawke Em]

8. I wish that was a real government response team.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Sanders is sounding economically more and more like the Canadian federal NDP and Alberta NDP government.

Which is a great thing.

[Picking Dem]

6. Is Sanders anything like Notley?

Could Bernie pull a Notley in this case? Maybe.

[Fred Sanders]

9. That is a great comparison....the main difference is socialist Notley had the entire socialist NDP behind her.

There are other differences, but the fact that political revolution can happen in a flash is clear enough from what happened in Alberta and what may be happening federally.

[George II]

14. A Rob Ford?

[Picking Dem]

17. Your comparsion to Rob Ford is closer to HRC....

Than Bernie..

[hootinholler]

38. Holy shit!

You've scraped the bottom right out of that barrel and now are working with the dirt underneath the barrel.



Rob Fucking Ford?

[sabrina 1]

7. Everywhere he goes he attracts the crowds.

Beat everyone in the straw poll also.

Time for the Dem party to start backing him. HE represents Dem Party, the party of the PEOPLE, more than anyone else in the race.

He's doing it without any help from them so far, and without help from the Corporate Media and without Corporate bribe money.

Imagine if the party were to get behind him.

If they don't, the people will do it for them.

[George II]

15. From the Daily Caller:

"the straw poll has a small sample size and likely says little about how Iowans will vote in February’s all-important caucus"

[Picking Dem]

18. Source is from that little bow tied creep's website.

Fucker Carlson.

Ever heard of him? Of course not.

[demmiblue]

20. Citing The Daily Caller?! That is certainly telling. n/t

[Live and Learn]

26. Sounds like sour grapes to me. nt

[Duval]

22. Bernie needs to have excellent

Security! I worry about him in those throngs of people. And sabrina 1, the DCCC and DSCC are wondering why I haven't been giving recently. Ha, I've been giving what I can to Sanders. The Dem Party will have to take notice sooner than later.

[Fawke Em]

10. Bernie is the new Churchill.

All babies look like him!



:large

[DhhD]

12. Bernie is so correct. It takes about 3 months for an infant to start sleeping all night long.

Parents that sleep all night long can get up and go to work rested and happy. Some workplaces are letting mom bring babies, up to six months old, to work with them. The baby gets use to others being around, just in time to place the baby with day care workers at age 6 months. Happy and Healthy!

[azmom]

28. Yes, he is. I tried returning to work after my

Daughter was born, but I was a mess. Luckily, I was financially secure enough to stay home with her. Best decision in my life. Everyone should have a chance to do that.

Babies for Bernie!

[appalachiablue]

21. +1

[Live and Learn]

27. LOL! nt

[Armstead]

31. I fucking love that!

[Fawke Em]

36. Definite Halloween costume idea!

I know this is Photoshopped, but in real life, you could just get that fake cobweb stuff and strand it around a baby headband in large puffs, put some glasses on the kid and pull their little stretchy "yeans" (my daughter's word for "jeans" when she was a toddler) up high and, "Voila," you have Bernie.

[jalan48]

11. The corporate media and our corporate candidates/leaders have been telling us for years

that the electorate is conservative and wants less government and fewer government programs to help citizens. It's a lie, and the enthusiasm Sanders is getting is because of his message which is supposedly way too liberal and radical for the average American. Americans aren't all that conservative, Wall St. and their corporate media is though.

[Ed Suspicious]

13. What I've been seeing and I love it is that people are beginning to strongly call out the bullshit

GOP hate/fearmongering talking points. Socialism they cry? People scream back look around! There is socialism everywhere, asshole!

[George II]

16. Clinton calls them out daily and has been doing it since before the campaign began.

[Picking Dem]

19. So when is she hitting the TV circuits

to talk about issues? Inquiring minds wants to know.

[George II]

25. I don't know what you mean by "TV circuits". If you mean repeated appearances on the Ed Show....

...(which now has been cancelled) like Sanders has done, she isn't.

[Live and Learn]

29. She's keeping them secret along with her emails.

Just joking!! Couldn't resist.

[L0oniX]

39. No no no ...she's sitting on the fence waiting for the right wind.

[cascadiance]

23. So, is she trying to call foul on the media's notion that Americans don't want a "socialist"?

Is she trying to point out to the corporate media that their depiction of Americans not wanting a socialist is a false one, or is she trying to distance herself away from any kind of advocacy for socialism that more of us are wanting the way they want her to do?

[George II]

24. No.

[cascadiance]

32. So then you and Clinton are NOT calling them out in this way then...

What they are you claiming that Clinton is calling them out for?

[George II]

33. Look up a few posts, and watch the news. And she's on cspan too, to head off the obligatory...

...."corporate media" excuse.

[cascadiance]

35. Look up WHAT sir! You need more than what you are saying...

Calling the media for WHAT? I see nothing descriptive in this thread, and if you are asking me to look it up through google, you need to say what it is you claim she is calling them out for, or that's a completely meaningless statement of yours.

[George II]

37. Look up your screen a few posts above these, right on this screen.

[JDPriestly]

43. Why don't you post some of her TV appearances in Video & Multimedia here.

Let's see her call them out. Everything she says is phrased in no-calling-out language. It doesn't work for most Americans.

She is friends, personal friends, with everybody who fires, hurts, maligns, kills, cheats and steals from ordinary Americans. That's not what I call calling them out.

[George II]

45. I was responding to THIS: "GOP hate/fearmongering talking points.", not your off-base twist of...

...what I was saying.

At least try to be a bit genuine about your comments to my posts, please.

[cascadiance]

46. The focus of that post was that the media's depiction of "socialism" being a "problem" is crap...

... and that Bernie still continues to help his followers and those that he appeals to understand more and more that socialism is a "solution" that is already around us in so many ways now too, and not a problem.

You replied to that message that Hillary was "calling out the media" in undefined terms as if to say she was also doing the same things that Bernie was, when you weren't specific in that post as to what she was calling them out for. I was just trying to confirm whether you were saying she was calling them out in the same way, and if not what she was calling them out for. Apparently the way you've responded, she's calling them out for something else, but that something else is something that you don't care to define.

[JDPriestly]

34. So, is that what Hillary is doing in those $200,000 a throw speeches to the likes of Goldman

Sachs? Calling them out daily?

Are you serious?

I don't think that is what banks and corporations pay the big bucks for: getting called out.

Puhhlease. That is about as far-fetched as it gets.

[L0oniX]

40. $200,000? Hell ...they show up for wedding cake too...

[JDPriestly]

42. I saw another picture of Bill groveling under Bush's hand on him. Disgusting. I'm sorry.

But the rest of us cannot afford to be friends with these bigots, liars and cheats.

If Hillary wants to do it, that's her business, but I won't vote for her for president.

[Facility Inspector]

47. Now watch this drive

google bush clinton golfing.

Too lazy to open a photo hosting account.

[SidDithers]

49. ...

Sid

[punguin54]

30. You can almost hear the cocks and clintons soiling their trousers

[George II]

44. I hope you enjoy your brief stay at DU.

[L0oniX]

48. He's certianly pissing off the right people.

[Uncle Joe]

41. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, PowerToThePeople.