2016

We are all just this screwed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and our muddled, perverted democracy

May 1, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

We are all just this screwed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and our muddled, perverted democracy
By Patrick L. Smith, Salon

(May 30, 2016 05:58 am) — The consensus is not complete, but it will be soon enough. Bernie Sanders is not going to make it, as some of us forecast many months ago (and as a lot of Hillary Clinton supporters, having pitifully diminished aspirations, assumed from the first).

The dream now being all but definitively over, we must look to the post-Sanders period in this political season. What did he get done, what mark does he leave and where lie his failures? In all cases, why have things turned out as they have?

The best reporting on Bernie Sanders over the years

April 30, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

The best reporting on Bernie Sanders over the years
By Sarah Smith, ProPublica
(April 30, 2016 4:07 p.m.) — Bernie Sanders became the first socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and ran successfully as an Independent for the House of Representatives and then the Senate. Now, the Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton has young voters “feeling the Bern.”

The political career of Bernie Sanders nearly ended before it began. In the early 1970s, he lost his first four races — two for the Senate and two for governor — running on the ticket of Vermont’s radical Liberty Union Party, while espousing positions such as ending the Vietnam War and abolishing the CIA. But when he ran as an Independent for mayor of Burlington in 1981, the socialist Sanders beat the five-term Democratic incumbent.

Not burnt-out yet: Bernie Sanders comes to Purdue

April 28, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Not burnt-out yet: Bernie Sanders comes to Purdue
By JARRED MEEKS City Editor

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (April 28, 2016 10:30 a.m) — Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said real change can never happen from the top down on Wednesday at the France A. Córdova Recreational Sports Center.

“Change takes place when we are prepared to stand up and fight for that change,” said Sanders. The most serious crisis we face, according to the senator, is the notion that the American people aren’t capable of bringing about change.

“We are going to change the status quo,” he added.

Why Bernie Sanders will, should and must stay in the race

April 27, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Why Bernie Sanders will, should and must stay in the race
By JIM HIGHTOWER, Salon
(WEDNESDAY, APR 27, 2016 07:59 AM EDT) — Surprisingly, this week’s prize for “Stupidest Political Comment in the Presidential Race” doesn’t go to Donnie Trump or Ted Cruz. Rather, the honor goes to the clueless cognoscenti of conventional political wisdom. These pundits and professional campaign operatives have made a unilateral decision that Bernie Sanders must now quit the race for the Democratic nomination. Why? Because, they say: “He Can’t Win.”

Actually, he already has. Sanders’ vivid populist vision, unabashed idealism, and big ideas for restoring America to its own people have jerked the presidential debate out of the hands of status quo corporatists, revitalized the class consciousness and relevance of the Democratic Party, energized millions of young people to get involved, and proven to the Democratic establishment that they don’t have to sell out to big corporate donors to raise the money they need to run for office.

Hillary Clinton wins 4 states; Bernie Sanders looks ahead: April 26 primaries results

April 27, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Hillary Clinton wins 4 states; Bernie Sanders looks ahead: April 26 primaries results
By Douglas Perry, The Oregonian

(April 27, 2016 6:30 AM) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has won the Connecticut primary, the Associated Press reports. With 84 percent of precincts reporting, she won 50.3 percent of the vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 47.9 percent.

Clinton had a big night, winning four of five contests. As a result, the window of opportunity has all but slammed shut on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s underdog bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Connecticut: Hillary Clinton 27, Bernie Sanders 25
Delaware: Hillary Clinton 12, Bernie Sander 9
Maryland: Hillary Clinton 59, Bernie Sanders 32
Pennsylvania: Hillary Clinton 95, Bernie Sanders 67
Rhode Island: Bernie Sanders 13, Hillary Clinton 11

Bernie Sanders suggests Elizabeth Warren as possible VP pick

April 26, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders suggests Elizabeth Warren as possible VP pick
By Allen Cone, UPI.com

(April 26, 2016 2:26 pm) — Bernie Sanders is far from securing the nomination for the Democratic presidential nomination but he thinks Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren would be a good choice as his running mate.

The Vermont senator was asked to look ahead on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday — the day of primaries in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Rhode Island.

Yes, Bernie’s Plan to Make College Free Would Be a Gift to Rich Kids. That Doesn’t Make It a Bad Idea

April 22, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Yes, Bernie’s Plan to Make College Free Would Be a Gift to Rich Kids. That Doesn’t Make It a Bad Idea.
By Jordan Weissmann, Slate
(Friday, April 22, 2016 5:37 pm) — Nobody would ever accuse Bernie Sanders of trying to coddle the rich. But some certainly think his plan to abolish tuition at public colleges would end up wasting a whole lot of money on them. Hillary Clinton, for her part, likes to say she’s “not in favor of making college free for Donald Trump’s kids.”1 This week, meanwhile, a new report from Brookings confirms that getting rid of tuition entirely at state schools would disproportionately benefit upper-income students.

Does that really mean abolishing tuition at State U. is a terrible idea? Not necessarily. The fact that free college would benefit everyone from Trump to the people who clean his towers might actually be an argument in its favor.

Bernie Sanders slams New York’s closed primary

April 19, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders slams New York’s closed primary
By Kate Linthicum, LATimes.com

(Tuesday, April 19, 2016 9:09 pm) — Bernie Sanders criticized New York’s closed primary, decrying the fact that 27% of New Yorkers were ineligible to vote in Tuesday’s primary election because they are not registered with either major party.

“That’s wrong,” Sanders told a crowd at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. “I would hope that in future primary elections in New York state, the officials there make some fundamental changes about how they do business.”

Attacking Bernie Sanders Over His Visit With The Pope Is Garbage

April 17, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Attacking Bernie Sanders Over His Visit With The Pope Is Garbage
By Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com

(April 17, 2016 12:08 a.m.) — Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a big weekend, jetting off to the Vatican to deliver a speech at a conference there, and even getting to meet Pope Francis himself, and to hear Sanders’ opponents tell it, this makes him history’s greatest monster.

According to online critics, Sanders flew to Rome on the Marie Antionette Express, murdered the environment, crashed the Vatican like some drunken neighbor peeing in your barbecue pit, stalked the Pope, and claimed he was now an honorary Pope, too.

Crowd cheers as Bernie Sanders joins Verizon workers’ picket line in Brooklyn

April 13, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Crowd cheers as Bernie Sanders joins Verizon workers’ picket line in Brooklyn
By Reuters
(Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2016 1:47 pm ET) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders paid an impromptu visit to a Verizon workers’ picket line in Brooklyn on Wednesday after being endorsed by New York City transit workers as he tried to wrest a bit of union support from rival Hillary Clinton.

The Brooklyn-born Sanders addressed an enthusiastic crowd of striking workers from Verizon Communications Inc as “brothers and sisters” and thanked them for their courage in standing up to what he characterized as corporate greed.

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