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In reply to the discussion: THREE MINUTES OF TERROR For The Koch Brothers As Bernie Sanders Storms Sunday Show [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It's a genuine effort to get the most experienced potential candidate to run. Bernie Sanders has more national and international experience than any other potential candidate.
Hillary served in the Senate only a short time. She lived in the White House and met a lot of people and was Secretary of State for four years, but Bernie Sanders was the mayor of a city in Vermont, then served in the House and Senate. He is the ranking member of the budget committee and understands the details of our policies.
Bernie Sanders is really the most serious of the candidates. He does not require 200 advisers to tell him what to say. He speaks for himself from his own knowledge.
I want Bernie to run because I want honest government. I want Bernie to run because he is on the side of the middle class and does not get paid $20,000 just to give a speech. I want Bernie to run because he understands veterans' issues and the real cost of war. I want Bernie to run because he is genuinely intelligent.
And most of all, I want Bernie to run because he would appoint good people to offices like Sec. of State, Sec. of the Treasury, etc. He would appoint qualified people who would not necessarily, not all of them, be part of the usual crowd that the Clintons and Obama have appointed and who made the mess we are in as a country.
It isn't a matter of hating Hillary. It is a matter of wanting a better future for our country than Hillary and her tried and tired cronies can deliver.