Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBernie and Jane Sanders house: A guided tour
There are family photos on all the walls of the Sanders five children and seven grandchildren, a clutter of knickknacks on all the shelves, and piles of mail, magazines and the stuff of daily life everywhere else.
In the room adjacent to the kitchen, the floor is covered with grandchildrens toys: drums, a keyboard things that make noise that their parents prefer stay here rather than come home. In the dining room, Sanders moves a miniature Nativity scene out of view. Weve hardly been home since Christmas, she says by way of explanation. Nearby is an antique sculpture of Don Quixote, which she asks that I not write about as a metaphor.
But its not the statue that cries out with symbolism. Its the framed prints on the walls nearby all scenes from the White House. They were commissioned and sent as Christmas cards every year of the Clinton presidency, and they bear the signatures of both Hillary and Bill Clinton. Which means Jane and Bernie Sanders sit in their dining room and gaze at greetings from the Clintons.
I guess maybe we should do something else with those, she says. Then she explains, proudly, that they were among the first things that her daughter, now a professional woodworker, custom-framed by hand, and you get the sense they arent going anywhere.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-jane-sanders-house-guided-000000739.html
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Now four mansions...that's impressive.
leftcoastmountains
(2,968 posts)Yeah and it's not much of a tour. Some of it seemed a little snarky to me.
But I thought I would post it anyway. I was impressed that Yahoo
put this article up. Anything about Jane and Bernie!
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)we call a Primary.
I saw a video of a street "barker" with photos of the four mansions asking people who they thought would live in them? They mentioned all of the candidates...then he blew them/us all away...they are the Clinton Mansions. I had no idea.
Get it...MSN=Jane and Bernie so poor
A member of the unwashed masses = Clintons Mansions so effete
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)She doesn't have a phony face, nor phony mannerisms either. She's not trying to impress. If anything, she seems just a little unsure of herself.
What a nice couple.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)I love how real they are.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)a tasty morsel for the brocklies and rovians.
don't bother reading. not intended to offend you, leftcoastmountains. i appreciate your informative posts - however, yahoo newz is the phony plastic cheez of nez & not informative.
jillan
(39,451 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)It's very homey without artifice or pretension, just like Jane and Bernie.
Thanks for posting this, I actually enjoy home tours.
senz
(11,945 posts)BTW, which mountains does your username refer to? Sierra Nevadas? Cascades? The coastal range?