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snagglepuss's JournalTimes of Israel: Sanders’s Israel criticism has some US Jews feeling the Bern!
April 17, 2016,
Bernie Sanders "unprecedented questioning of Jerusalem’s policies will likely play into key Jewish vote in upcoming New York primary"
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is not right all of the time,” said the Vermont senator at the debate. “We cannot continue to be one-sided.”
He criticized Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for not saying that she would do more to promote Palestinian rights when she addressed the powerful right-wing American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby in Washington in March.
“If we are ever going to bring peace to that region, which has seen so much hatred and so much war, we are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity,” Sanders said.
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In other countries the remarks would have been considered run of the mill, said Daniel Sieradski, national organizer of the group “Jews for Bernie” which has 8,000 supporters on Facebook.
“But because the discourse in American Jewish politics has been pulled so far to the right in the last couple of decades, Bernie is being made to sound like some anti-Israel extremist,” he said.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/sanderss-israel-criticism-splits-jewish-american-vote/
Fact: Bernie Sanders Got More Done in the Senate than Hillary Clinton!
THIS IS COMPARING THE FIRST 8 YEARS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SENATE LEGISLATIVE RECORDS
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I’m a progressive, but I’m a progressive that likes to get things done,” said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the first primary debate. Nevermind that the things Clinton helped ‘get done’ — the disastrous Iraq war, the Patriot Act — should have never been done, the purpose of this jab was twofold:
Leverage her status as a Washington insider to present herself to voters as a pragmatist uniquely qualified to get things done as president.
Draw a contrast between herself and her main rival, independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who she insinuated is a progressive that does not get things done.
This line of attack works because it plays on a common stereotype that socialists and progressives are more interested in ideological purity than in making real-world progress, but when we compare the first eight years of their respective Senate legislative records, it turns out Sanders got more meaningful legislation done than Clinton.
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As a Senator, Clinton sponsored three bills that became law:
The first of these renamed a highway in New York state, S.3145
the second renamed a post office in New York City, S.3613
and the third established the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in Troy, New York S.1241.
During Sanders’ time in the Senate, he sponsored two bills that became law:
The first of these renamed a post office in Vermont. S.885
The second increased compensation for disabled veterans and their families. S.893.
While Sanders chaired the Senate’s Veteran Affairs committee during the 113th Congress (2013-2014), 13 of the committee’s bills became law. That may not sound like a lot until you realize that the Senate Veterans Affairs (VA) committee only passed 8.5 bills into law on average during each of the past 20 Congresses and that these 13 bills became law during the second least productive Congress in American history.
Sanders’ most significant achievement during 113th Congress was passing a $16.3 billion bipartisan VA reform bill that expanded existing and created new health care facilities, allowed veterans to go outside the VA system to private health care providers when wait times are too long or if a veteran lives more than 40 miles away from a VA facility, and made it easier to fire VA officials.
Sanders was so effective as a legislator that the (right-wing) Veterans of Foreign Wars awarded him its highest honor in 2015.
How many bills did Clinton successfully shepherd into law as the chair of a Senate committee? Zero. Clinton did not chair any Senate committees during the three Congresses she served in because she did not accumulate enough seniority.
If you are looking for a presidential candidate with a proven record of beating partisan gridlock to get meaningful legislation passed in Washington, D.C., then Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders deserves your support.
https://pplswar.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/fact-bernie-sanders-got-more-done-in-the-senate-than-hillary-clinton/
Some of Bernie's accomplishments: In the Senate Bernie was known as the Amendment King.
Go to 4:15 in the video.
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In a nutshell this is why the Hillary Camp is going berserk over Bernie's Vatican conference.
A female president means diddly-squat! Britain's first female PM wrecked Britain!
Promoting Hillary because of of her gender is nonsensical. Margaret Thatcher wrecked Britain for everyone but the wealthy, those with lots of money benefited, everyone else suffered.
One of the strongest similarities and the most worrying is that Hillary, like Thatcher is a war hawk, with no problem unleashing the dogs of war and cosying up to brutal regimes.
Hillary has shown her hand, she will do nothing to change the status quo and the status quo isn't acceptable.
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/09/the_woman_who_wrecked_great_britain/
OP got hid because ONE letter in Hill's name was changed. Was it the letter or the subject?
I changed one letter in Hillary's name to "k" and that got my OP hid. Interesting that no one takes exception to Shillary but this seems to have struck a chord. Now it could be that Camp Bansalot just doesn't like the gist of the OP which is that Hillary's gender is meaningless given that Thatcher was Britain's first female PM and not only she wrecked the country for all but the rich but also was a hawk who didn't think twice unleashing the dogs of war and cosying up to brutal regimes.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511759614
19 Examples of Bernie Sanders' Powerful Record on Civil and Human Rights
Here are 20 ways Sanders has stood up for civil and minority rights, starting in the early 1950s up to the present year.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/20-examples-bernie-sanders-powerful-record-civil-and-human-rights-1950s
WooHoo! BLACK MEN FOR BERNIE CONVOY ARRIVES IN NJ!
I thought it was just two guys. Wrong and as these guys have painted their cars. THat is a labor of LOVE!
https://www.facebook.com/craig.kupper.9/videos/587564434755218/
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