Bonnie Jene LETS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT BERNIE SANDERS: WHO’S QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT?
Is Bernie Sanders qualified to be president, when his entire reason for running – Hillary voting to topple Saddam and taking bank and PAC money – is based on attacks which also apply to him?
Is Bernie qualified after voting to topple Saddam in 1998, five years before Hillary did?
Is Bernie qualified after giving speeches to Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and taking their money, and repaying them by deregulating the OTC market which caused the 2008 crash, and then lying about it all?
Is Bernie qualified after he spent all day showing the NY Daily News that he has no clue about virtually any policy topic, because he has done as little policy homework as Donald Trump has?
Is Bernie qualified when he central policy theme – breaking up the banks – is rooted in complete and total ignorance of the Dodd-Frank system which already regulates those banks?
Is Bernie qualified when he makes incessant demands that Hillary be transparent, and then hides his financial records so no one knows how much he invested in dirty drug companies and fracking companies?
Is Bernie qualified when he’s incapable of treating women with respect, even his own wife?
Is Bernie qualified to be the Democratic nominee after his relentless campaign to attack the Democratic party, attack party rules, attack party delegates, attack the party chair, attack party allies like Planned Parenthood and Dolores Huerta, illegally burglarize party computer servers and then sue the party when he gets caught, try to primary Democrats out of office, and refuse to help elect the Democratic Congressmen he needs to pass his nutty socialist programs?
Is Bernie qualified when his sleazy campaign has been caught cheating on FEC rules, taking illegal foreign money, sending thugs out to intimidate caucus voters, cheating the system to bring Republican voters in to our primaries and keep Democrats out, falsely claiming veterans endorsed him, illegally preventing Spanish-speaking voters from getting voting instructions in their own language, and launching attacks on Hillary in conjunction with the GOP and Rove and the Kochs and their PACs?
Is Bernie qualified after his endless stream of dishonest smear attacks, blaming Hillary for everything from the BP oil spill to the collapse of the auto industry which began in the 1970s?
Let’s ask the voters of New York who’s qualified. The state that sent her back to the Senate by a margin of 67 to 31 because they saw her performance in the Senate.
Dawn Dickson Bonnie Jene, BRAVO! I’m definitely borrowing!
To Bernie supporters, tell me one thing – just one – that Bernie yells about that we haven’t ALL thought about. Break up the banks with legislation? Gee, you think? Free tuition? Who wouldn’t want that? Single payer? Hell, yes! Denmark and Norway manage it? Thanks for telling us, Bernie!
Its not that we don’t know any of this. We know the billionaires are stepping on our necks and strangling us. The only thing Bernie does is scream about it at the top of his lungs, and tell us that he’ll lead an overthrow to fix it, while no one else cares, and does anything. No, its just that no one else is foolish enough to yell about revolution.
What I’m shocked about are the numbers of people falling for this. A revolution? Seriously? WHAT revolution? When he’s asked how to implement free tuition – not even how he pays – he righteously goes on about how he, Bernie, will blow into Washington with hundreds of thousands of angry millennials at his back, demanding not to have to be in debt for life to get an education. Unlike his rabid fans, this didn’t make me cheer my tv screen and fling my arms heavenward with rapturous joy thinking our savior has arrived, blow the horns! I thought “So? Does this guy really think that righteous indignation is going to make these clowns in Washington give a rat’s ass and legislate what he wants?”
It has nothing to do with wanting what he espouses. He has zero chance of enacting any of it. He’d spin his wheels and go exactly nowhere. He’s an angry, old, thin-skinned agitator with few friends in the beltway. He’s excellent at shouting and getting people riled up. It pretty much stops there unless he’s preaching to a friendly Congress.
Speaking of which, we actually CAN change things. The boring way, by voting out Teabaggers and voting in Progressives. We outnumber them. But here’s the catch: we have to show up to vote. Vote until we get them out and reasonable people in. But, I guess that’s not exciting enough for millennials and antiestablishment spoilers. You know, the ones who, by refusing to vote actually HELPED elect the idiots now governing us, and now want to shriek that overthrow is the only way! No, its not. You just want the French Revolution because its more exciting, and you’ve allowed yourself to be conned that its going to happen by being led by an old, white Jewish guy from the northeast who’s been shouting for 40 years. It would be funny if it wasn’t so ludicrous. Try voting for the nominee instead of threatening to act like petulant toddlers if Bernie doesn’t clinch.
But, when no one vets your comments or holds what you say up to the light of day, or holds your feet to the fire because they’re too busy shredding the other candidate, you can get away with squawking about whatever you please.
Here’s what Bernie and his rabid zealots are pissed off about: they want more attention, but on THEIR terms. The ones that hold Bernie up as the pillar of virtue who will lead the way and save the day by toppling Washington with a wave of his hand, bringing about revolution. We won’t even discuss his investments, or his fundraisers for high end donors.
And, now desperate because he can’t catch Hillary in the primaries, the man who swore up and down how he would NEVER, EVER run a negative campaign, now screams HILLARY is unfit to be the President?