The Bare Bones of Life
Sanders to stay in race ‘until the last vote is cast’
By Allen Cone, UPI.com
NEW YORK, (May 5, 2016 01:45 pm) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders vows to remain in the primary race “until the last vote is cast” in June.
Sanders said in an interview Thursday with NPR it’s a good thing that he’s staying in the race. Rather than preventing voters from supporting Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, he is boosting the political process.
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Teenager takes life-sized Bernie Sanders cardboard cut-out as her prom date
By Helena Horton, telegraph
(May 4, 2016 4:19 pm) — At the grand old age of 74, it’s probably been a long time since Bernie Sanders attended a prom in the flesh.
Sanders supporter Chloe Raynaud didn’t care about age – or whether her date was a human being – when she chose her prom date.
She was having issues finding an actual human to take, so brought along her favourite Presidential Candidate instead.
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Sanders’ Indiana victory breathes life into waning campaign
By Andrew V. Pestano, UPI
(May 4, 2016 10:45 am) — WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) — Bernie Sanders caused an upset for Hillary Clinton by winning the Indiana primary on Tuesday and although the Vermont senator is far from a nomination victory, he vows the race is far from over.
Sanders received 43 delegates to Clinton’s 37 delegates after securing victory in Indiana. Polls showed the Sanders campaign trailing Clinton days ahead of the primary, so the victory came as a surprise to many.
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Fighting words from Bernie Sanders: “I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re wrong.”
After winning in Indiana, Bernie Sanders says he has no plans to quit the race
By The Associated Press, Salon.com
(May 3, 2016 10:28 PM) — Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that his primary bid against Hillary Clinton was far from over, pointing to his victory in Indiana and strength in upcoming races as a sign of his durability in the presidential campaign.
“I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re wrong,” Sanders said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from New Albany, Indiana. “Maybe it’s over for the insiders and the party establishment but the voters today in Indiana had a different idea.”
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This Is Why Hillary Clinton Can’t Tell Bernie Sanders to Drop Out
By Pema Levy, MotherJones
(May 2, 2016 06:00 am EDT) — Hillary Clinton’s lead in delegates over rival Bernie Sanders is now almost insurmountable as they move toward the conclusion of the Democratic presidential primary contest. But Clinton has not called on him to drop out of the race, for one simple reason: the example her own campaign set in 2008.
Eight years ago this month, Clinton was trailing hopelessly behind then-Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. On May 1, 2008, Clinton loaned her bankrupt campaign $1 million (following at least $10 million in earlier loans).
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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?
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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.
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proposed was called ‘socialist.’ Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country was ‘socialist.’ https://publicskeleton.com/media/?p=973″ type=”image” alt=”20160429_1032 Noam Chomsky says Bernie Sanders’ policies are actually mainstream (Salon).jpg” ] Bernie Sanders isn’t a radical: Noam Chomsky is exactly right regarding how mainstream Bernie’s policies really are
By Sean Illing, Salon
(April 29, 2016 10:32 am EDT) — Lost in the discussions about Bernie Sanders’s “socialism” is an obvious and important fact: What he’s actually proposing is not only not radical – it’s mainstream. Sanders decided not to dodge the “socialist” label and instead own it by contextualizing it in the broader American tradition.
He even gave a sweeping speech in which he grounded his philosophy in the tradition of FDR:
“Almost everything he [FDR] proposed was called ‘socialist.’ Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country was ‘socialist.’
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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.
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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.
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