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KingCharlemagne

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12. Bernie can win because he offers the disenfranchised and marginalized 'hope'. What

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #11)

Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:26 AM

Jun 2015

does your preferred candidate offer but more of the same tired old politics of triangulation that harms the working class while feathering the nests of the booboisie?

No, I'm referring to your demonstrated proclivity for taunting us all with stories of your wealth and privilege (taking a political tourism junket to Iowa, for Christ's sake, while children are going hungry in this country), while you rub our noses in the fact that we are perpetually on the outside looking in.

That makes you precious.

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My, aren't you precious? - nt KingCharlemagne Jun 2015 #10

You prefer to ignore history? brooklynite Jun 2015 #11

Bernie can win because he offers the disenfranchised and marginalized 'hope'. What KingCharlemagne Jun 2015 #12

Do you have proof of that statement showing the wealth of a DU'er? Jumpin Jack Flash Jun 2015 #14

He (or she) has publicly announced it over and over again here and is KingCharlemagne Jun 2015 #15

So this particular DU'er knows nothing of the poor and the middle class Jumpin Jack Flash Jun 2015 #16

I guess I am...that's why I supported Elizabeth Warren in 2012...and Alan Grayson in 2008 brooklynite Jun 2015 #17

Out of curiosity, how many other people have you slammed for taking a vacation? brooklynite Jun 2015 #18

Sorta like Hillary in '08, huh? LondonReign2 Jun 2015 #13

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