"God Bless Bernie Sanders" by Jacob Heilbrunn

[jillan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/god-bless-bernie-sanders_b_795318.html
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There was something stirring about watching Bernie Sanders engage in his filibuster. Not the bogus filibusters that the GOP has relentlessly deployed over the past two years. No, Sanders offered the real thing. Real rhetoric, real passion, real indignation. Not artifice, not calculation, not capitulation. Instead, it was old school, just like the man himself.

The contrast with President Obama could hardly have been starker. Today Obama, fresh from having attacked his own base, wheeled out Bill Clinton, his former chief detractor, to help make the case for the tax-cut package, which, incidentally, Clinton truthfully labeled a stimulus bill. There was something stimulating as well about watching Clinton, a seasoned pro, return to the political fray. It even looked as though the two men were trading places.

The example of the cantankerous Sanders should serve as an object lesson for a White House that is trying to triangulate its way out of electoral disaster. Sometimes it's worth taking a stand. Sanders didn't just do that. In pointing to the gross disparities in wealth in the United States, he did something else. He told the truth.

[aquart]

1. Amen.

[OHdem10]

2. It is authenticty, Stupid. Authenticity is the "it' needed

by every leader. If more politicians could learn
this.

[avaistheone1]

4. I think you are absolutely right.

Authenticity is something we rarely see in politics. Bernie Sander is who he says he is, and he does what he says he will do.

He sees his primary job as doing the best possible job for the people of Vermont and of this country.

[Jefferson23]

3. I love this guy. n/t