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In reply to the discussion: I hope that Bernie is capable of being shallow. [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)I'm not aware of a single successful candidate in US presidential history who "ran as himself" in the puerile way you seem to want it.
Or was Jimmy Carter really some folksy down-home peanut farmer with just some aw-shucks-golly-gee...nuclear engineering degree?
FDR, using painful mechanical contraptions to stand up at campaign stops so the public wouldn't see him in a wheelchair, and standing before corporate executives berating the Hoover administration's obstruction of free trade rather than telling them to stop exploiting workers.
John F. Kennedy talking all about how the Eisenhower administration was soft on the Commies, that was legit?
Just stop using the word "concern" as a magical talisman to avoid having to make intelligent arguments.
Bernie Sanders has a lot more work to do than "being himself," and I seriously hope he can count on better advice than that even if not mine in particular.