Oh man did the press #FeelTheBern this morning during a breakfast give and take interview:
What does Bernie Sanders think of the media’s performance so far this campaign? Barely adequate. The huge speaking fees Bill and Hillary Clinton have accepted? Wrong question, he says; you should be asking why anyone pays them. How about primary debates? Sanders says the entire system should be redesigned to bring Republicans on stage with Democrats.
http://www.latimes.com/...
Clinton has yet to put herself in the situation that Sanders eagerly embraced Thursday morning, as he engaged in a frank give-and-take with reporters over breakfast. He delivered some lines it would be hard to imagine Clinton ever uttering — not because they reflected his socialist outlook, but because they were so blunt.
“Campaigns are not baseball games,” Sanders scolded. “What did I read in the paper today? Gov. Bush is getting a new campaign manager. You know who cares about that? About eight people in the world. Nobody cares about that.”
“I think the Republicans, frankly, have gotten away with murder. I think people really do not know what their agenda is.”
Sanders went on to express irritation with the way journalists slap the "socialist" label on him, as if his embrace of policies common in the democracies of western Europe makes him a radical outlier.
“It is not a radical agenda,” he said. “In virtually every instance, what I am saying is supported by a significant majority of the American people. Yes, it is not supported by the Business Roundtable or the Chamber of Commerce or Wall Street. I maybe old-fashioned enough to believe that Congress might want to be representing a vast majority of our people … and not just the Koch brothers and other campaign contributors.”
He suggested that if the media are going to refer to him as a socialist, journalists also should affix the label of “capitalist” with every mention of his rivals.Bernie is a breath of fresh air amidst the stale warmed over rhetoric retreads by the republicans. i think he could and should give Hillary a run for her money. i do like the idea of a woman at the helm given the complete mess the men have made of it even when we get a good guy he's out flanked by those who oppose in Pres.'s case his own party failed to have his back politicians succumb to republican hyperbole hearing that some of the votes they need are influenced and support the lies of right wing propaganda they distance themselves instead of supporting and as if that's not bad enough the other side pledges to obstruct at every step he makes and still look at what he's able to do.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/15/a-long-list-of-president-obamas-accomplishments-with-citations/
Romney and others saying he's the worst foreign policy Pres. ever so their alternative and interpretation of the best is us back to surging thousands of troops all over the middle east as if they don't already hate us for the intrusive audacity to change thousands of years of tradition into the failed democracy and Christianity we have now no wonder they want to kill us.
American electorate too gullible we fall for labels and innuendo and most egregious right wing republican lies we have allowed them to win the war of words it's like G W Bush so in artfully said "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on"
even if we elect Bernie i believe he'll run into that same red brick wall of republican resistance in favor of allowing Koch money to buy them and the WH. Hillary too would get the same treatment with all the republican trimmings Benghazi, emails, speaking fees are they jealous because none of them with their billionaire benefactors can command that kind of money for 45 min. speech???
