2016 Postmortem

Uncle Joe

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Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:55 PM

Feb 2016

Thanks for the thread, Octafish.

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Bernie Sanders is the kind of Democrat we used to have more of. [View all] Octafish Feb 2016 OP

Bernie Sanders type politician is normal in Europe gyroscope Feb 2016 #1

Reagan and his ilk made ''Liberal'' into a perjorative. Octafish Feb 2016 #10

And Obama says Reagan is his hero gyroscope Feb 2016 #22

Mr Sanders is still a Democratic Freshman. FarPoint Feb 2016 #76

Yup. hifiguy Feb 2016 #2

THEM! Octafish Feb 2016 #11

I knew I was forgetting someone I had a lot of admiration for. hifiguy Feb 2016 #13

Allard Lowenstein Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #38

Sanders is Democrat In Name Ony MohRokTah Feb 2016 #3

He told you that personally, did he? EmperorHasNoClothes Feb 2016 #5

Since he is currently raising money for an independent run for re-election as Senator,... MohRokTah Feb 2016 #9

OK, so, EmperorHasNoClothes Feb 2016 #12

Go look at what he has said about the Democratic Party over his career. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #15

That's what I thought. EmperorHasNoClothes Feb 2016 #23

Dissent is disloyalty. Party before principles. Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #40

+1 Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #32

You should know more, then. Here: Bernie Sanders�s New Deal Socialism Octafish Feb 2016 #17

I don't read anything you post. eom MohRokTah Feb 2016 #18

But yet here you are in his thread. nt malokvale77 Feb 2016 #25

I never claimed to have read the OP. eom MohRokTah Feb 2016 #28

I get it, rant instead of being informed with, you know, facts. Javaman Feb 2016 #36

Facts? MohRokTah Feb 2016 #41

Let me know if ignorance is bliss. Octafish Feb 2016 #35

So why are you even a participant in this thread? nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #43

Read the subject line, opened the thread, saw who posted it, made my response. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #44

So after you opened the thread you knew who posted it nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #47

Nope, I post in it. eom MohRokTah Feb 2016 #49

And the rest of us get a good laugh nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #50

I merely posted the truth. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #51

Let's be precise, what you believe to be the truth nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #52

No, it is abslutely the factual truth. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #53

The party leadership said he was a democrat and welcomed to run as such nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #55

Jury results. Agschmid Feb 2016 #65

Every post I make is alerted on. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #66

The party is a corrupt turd whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #19

Thanks for outting your true self. eom MohRokTah Feb 2016 #20

My true self is whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #24

Yeah. Gotcha. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #27

Haha... whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #34

He's been caucusing with the liberal parts... Bohemianwriter Feb 2016 #59

I think I'd put Hubert Humphrey's pic there instead of JFK dragonfly301 Feb 2016 #4

Speaking as a Minnesotan of a certain age hifiguy Feb 2016 #14

Remind Al Franken of that.... tokenlib Feb 2016 #29

Oy. If Wellstone were alive it might have been him in Bernie's place. hifiguy Feb 2016 #30

Franken has been friends with the Clintons going way back Mnpaul Feb 2016 #57

Humphrey was a great Democrat, ruined by LBJ Octafish Feb 2016 #37

I sometimes imagine how different our world might be if Robert Kennedy had lived. tclambert Feb 2016 #46

So, dynasties are OK as long as you like the family? brooklynite Feb 2016 #48

Yeah. Seeing how the Kennedy brothers worked to advance Democracy and Peace. Octafish Feb 2016 #56

No, family based dynasties generally don't work out for long. But I wouldn't object to a guy tclambert Feb 2016 #60

And Hillary is the kind of Republican we used to have more of. earthside Feb 2016 #6

Seriously, she'd make a good nominee of the former, adult Republican party. hifiguy Feb 2016 #16

Hillary Clinton's Ghosts: A Legacy of Pushing the Democratic Party to the Right Octafish Feb 2016 #54

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #7

Austerity is UNDEMOCRATIC: Consider President Clinton and the Chilean Model Octafish Feb 2016 #58

Bernie is the heir to FDR not the heir to corporate oligarchs. libtodeath Feb 2016 #8

Government by Goldman Sachs Octafish Feb 2016 #61

Yes I've always said UglyGreed Feb 2016 #21

Seems Bernie understands New Deal economics. Octafish Feb 2016 #62

Bernie represents the principles and integrity of the New Deal; policies and programs that made the amborin Feb 2016 #26

A Fair Deal between Capital and Labor. Octafish Feb 2016 #63

this should be its own OP amborin Feb 2016 #75

I really long for those days. Sigh. Punkingal Feb 2016 #31

Me too Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #33

We did Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2016 #39

The way it happened was sickening. Octafish Feb 2016 #71

Jimmy Carter Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2016 #74

On Jeopardy they just said that Kennedy's campaign used "High Hopes" as the campaign theme song. tclambert Feb 2016 #42

JFK Continued the New Deal as the New Frontier Octafish Feb 2016 #69

Thanks. I wish we had more Kennedy democrats like you and Bernie. tclambert Feb 2016 #73

The more I read into income inequality and poverty nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #45

From 2013: The Shocking Redistribution of Wealth in the Past Five Years Octafish Feb 2016 #68

Among many other pieces nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #70

People do know the system is rigged. Octafish Feb 2016 #72

Bernie said John F. Kennedy made him sick. boston bean Feb 2016 #64

Thanks! That's not the whole story, though. Octafish Feb 2016 #67

The great liberal Democrats from the NE and Midwest used to be the majority. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #77

It is interesting that the article would use BlueMTexpat Feb 2016 #78