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In reply to the discussion: Is Bernie taking a cue from Hillary? [View all]beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)191. ^^^ THIS ^^^
But I truly object to you helping to push false memes about someone who has basically spent his whole life standing up for and with average people and the disadvantaged and minorities and women.
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Why is it embarrassing? To who?? She listens to the people at her Town Halls! Now it seems
riversedge
Aug 2015
#72
How could this politically insensate criticism not be applicable to ANY candidate?
sibelian
Aug 2015
#238
And there have been post after OP, lamenting, mocking and deriding HRC's use of polling ...
1StrongBlackMan
Aug 2015
#63
Yes. My concern day one. Hence walking away. Being provided omalley stuff and saying...
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#44
as long as we do not expect sanders to hold our hand. yes. i listened to 2012 a couple months ago
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#99
Women don't want a man to hold our hand, we want a feminist who has always fought for us.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#103
ya. asking he speak up for planned parenthood is holding womens hands. got it. now done.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#108
Nope, Bernie has been fighting for women for decades, just like lgbt people and poc.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#112
Noted. I have quite serious misgivings about Hillary, due to her quite COGNIZANT
djean111
Aug 2015
#8
It's unconstitutional to put someone in jail as a result of his or her inability to pay a fine.
Vattel
Aug 2015
#9
I wasn't sure if you posted that it does indeed happen regardless of constitutionality
Raine1967
Aug 2015
#196
Cool. I am not trying to dissuade you of your support. I want to make that clear.
Raine1967
Aug 2015
#234
You had no idea that this happens all the time- it was spotlighted in coverage of Ferguson. Jeeze.
bettyellen
Aug 2015
#57
That's weird, I thought being dead broke she must have lived in a friends broken van
Dragonfli
Aug 2015
#102
Your comparison of millionaires to a once homeless person is disgusting.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#122
THEY ARE AND THEY WEREN'T LIVING IN A VAN LIKE THE POSTER YOU COMPARED THEM TO.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#128
everyone knew exactly what clinton was saying. they walked out of the wh broke.... in debt.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#164
"her attempt to look like she related to struggling people?" cali started with this. she started
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#171
It is a disgusting subthread because it shows how far some will go to support Hillary.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#173
So you're okay with what Maggie said about Campaign Zero shilling for Bernie?
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#203
Then surely, homelessness like us mere mortals was involved, missed meals too
Dragonfli
Aug 2015
#133
It is just numbers on paper to them, numbers that appear to have grown considerably
Dragonfli
Aug 2015
#148
So you do not believe she has accumulated great wealth and think she is still "broke"
Dragonfli
Aug 2015
#152
what part of a 2 million dollar estate, unlimited earning potential, a sizeable pension,
cali
Aug 2015
#158
Please enlighted me. When was Slick Willie "kicking republican ass"? Passing the end to Welfare?
Vincardog
Aug 2015
#187
since you seem incapable of responding to actual questions Ignore is my friend
Vincardog
Aug 2015
#192
I used to maximize my meals by pouring a can of soup over some rice when I was dead broke..
frylock
Aug 2015
#137
The same! (or sometimes beans in the rice with a flavor cube instead of soup)
Dragonfli
Aug 2015
#160
It's not funny. This is what Sanders should have learned from Ferguson if he'd been paying attention
bettyellen
Aug 2015
#34
That is a band aid on a bigger issue- jailing people for parking tickets! Disturbing to see it's
bettyellen
Aug 2015
#47
Nope- the constitutional issue is greater- and would be a quicker fix than waiting for people to
bettyellen
Aug 2015
#115
i swear i read here on du that blm was upset that sanders was concentrating on financial matters
questionseverything
Aug 2015
#229
"... he suggested Mike Brown needed higher education". What was the context? Link?
GoneFishin
Aug 2015
#199
I thought some of them might criticize Campaign Zero but to accuse them of this...
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#75
I can't believe others in this thread aren't calling her out over this.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#91
please post any evidence that your attack on black activists has any connection to reality.
cali
Aug 2015
#113
uh, you theorized that they're astroturf for Bernie's campaign. that is an ugly attack
cali
Aug 2015
#165
So the Campaign ZERO Ferguson activists don't know what they are talking about?
virtualobserver
Aug 2015
#65
Educate yourself: Campaign Zero: A 'Blueprint for Ending Police Violence'
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#92
You don't even know about Campaign Zero and you're claiming others don't know about Ferguson?
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#104
From your post #36 where you called them clueless shills for Bernie, where else?:
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#119
In reading the comments--it seems that SC Bernie fans do not know that Hillary does Town Halls
riversedge
Aug 2015
#66
Your post makes it pretty obvious you haven't been listening to Bernie for the last decade
tech3149
Aug 2015
#93
This is goofy. I'll bet if you asked HRC if she knew about CDOs and tranches,
libdem4life
Aug 2015
#118
You are distorting a lifetime of work on these issues because of a few holes of knowledge about...
Armstead
Aug 2015
#157
You have serious misgivings because he can't be on top of everything? No one in that video had
ancianita
Aug 2015
#145
Know why they're more aware than he? Because they are not out there running a campaign.
ancianita
Aug 2015
#162
Bernie Sanders is stupid and uninformed and doesn't know or care about issues
Armstead
Aug 2015
#166
You should add the sarcasm smilie or the alerters will get your post hidden.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#168
Well I'm hoping any jurors will read my response to you and see through any attempt to hide it.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#172
How about your claim that Campaign Zero is astroturfing for Bernie?
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#216
Sure, lol! That's why your posts were hidden, for "criticizing" Bernie.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#223
I like the way Hillary is handling her campaign, by having townhall meetings, she is able to hear
Thinkingabout
Aug 2015
#176