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Bernie Sanders

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts) Wed Feb 3, 2016, 04:50 AM Feb 2016

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BERNIE SANDERS KNOWS WHAT TIME IT IS NewYorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/bernie-sanders-knows-what-time-it-is?mbid=nl_160202_Daily&CNDID=29030193&spMailingID=8500752&spUserID=MTA5MjQwNjAzNTIwS0&spJobID=860227442&spReportId=ODYwMjI3NDQyS0

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BERNIE SANDERS KNOWS WHAT TIME IT IS NewYorker (Original Post) Voice for Peace Feb 2016 OP

I hate blind links but this one was worth the read. OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2016 #1

I appreciate the link Mufaddal Feb 2016 #2

Irritating isn't it... SoapBox Feb 2016 #3

Out-of-touch seems to put it mildly Pastiche423 Feb 2016 #4

OffWithTheirHeads

(10,337 posts)

1. I hate blind links but this one was worth the read.

Reply to Voice for Peace (Original post)

Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:24 AM

Feb 2016

Mufaddal

(1,021 posts)

2. I appreciate the link

Reply to OffWithTheirHeads (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 3, 2016, 11:17 AM

Feb 2016

but I wasn't a huge fan of the article. The author seemed cynical and out-of-touch.

The voters who so overwhelmingly backed Sanders in Iowa were mostly white, and many were college students—they are people for whom you might expect the future to look bright. And yet they have turned to a man who talks incessantly about the crisis from which the country has recovered.

Even faulted the use of the Simon & Garfunkel track. For real?

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)

3. Irritating isn't it...

Reply to Mufaddal (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 3, 2016, 11:33 AM

Feb 2016

When the state IS overwhelmingly white.

And complaining about college students? Complaint because these Americans got their butts out to caucus?

Stuff like that makes me crazy.

Pastiche423

(15,406 posts)

4. Out-of-touch seems to put it mildly

Reply to Mufaddal (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:09 PM

Feb 2016

I came here with the same paragraph.

51% of young blacks are unemployed. I don't call that anywhere near recovery.

Benjamin-Wells doesn't have a clue.

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