close to it. He really didn’t offer much new or helpful.

He looked and sounded good, though and even displayed a sense of humor you don’t see when he’s waving his arms around and yelling at the sky.

He just doesn't engender much trust.

He didn't do much with the messaging platform Maher gave him.

I wasn't impressed.

So I'm not seeing this as 100% recompense. Maybe 80-85%.

I would have said, SHUT UP BERNIE, YOU'RE SO INSIGNIFICANT

For a while, I had a streak of getting in the first post on these little press releases....





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

When I had the driving school, I didn't just tell you about how you could crash and die. I actually taught you ways to not crash and die.

In the real world, no one in congress is going to be paying attention to sanders unless and until sanders is able to generate his magical voter revolution in the real world. I admit that I never considered sanders to be a serious candidate and never understood sanders appeal. sanders has no significant legislative accomplishments in his time in Congress in large part because sanders never bothered to attempt to get his fellow members of congress to support his programs. In the real world, it takes hard work and getting along with people to get major legislation passed. I was not surprised with sanders admitted that he does not try to get along with his fellow members of congress and that he was not good at pleasantries

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Shortly before their primary.

I read the transcript of it. They asked him what he would do about the big banks, and once he had said 'break them up' it was obvious he hadn't the slightest idea of how to do it, or really, even why it was a good idea. It was his signature issue, something he'd talked about for years, and he sounded like some young fella trying to bullshit his way through an oral for a course where he'd skipped all the lectures and done maybe a quarter of the reading.

It was pitiful. You could see even the reporters asking questions felt sorry for the old fella....





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

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I appreciate the link to relevant materials.

And agree 'this is what happens when the dog catches the car'....

I was shocked at how unprepared sanders was to answer what I considered to be easy questions.

My only exposure to the fellow had been a few friendly interviews conducted by Ms. Maddow. He said things that, as a man on the left end of things, I enjoyed hearing. On closer examination as the campaign began, he lost all charm very quickly. In my 'adventurous youth' I had no patience with campus Marxists, and have even less for them now.







"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

Can you join the team and help fix the problems? Or is showing up on TV more important to you that the American people?

that ice is cold and salt is salty?

Bernie expressing common knowledge and/or common sense is not some big news.