As Michael Savage has said for years:
Posted on 08/02/2015 7:14:51 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Southland group's goal: Sanders as president
By Phil Kadner
About 50 people gathered Wednesday in a banquet room at a Flossmoor restaurant to launch a ""political revolution."
It's a grass roots movement for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate who embraces single-payer national health insurance, tuition-free public universities for all, increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour and taking control of the federal government away from billionaires and corporations and returning it to the people.
Mention to these folks that the Vermont senator has been called a socialist, and instead of protests, you're likely to bring a smile to their faces.
"If that means someone who stands up for the middle class, the working people and the less fortunate, than he is certainly for social reform," said Barbara Murphy, a Park Forest resident and founder of Chicago Southland for Bernie Sanders. "He supports health care for everyone. Education. Dignity in retirement. Bernie Sanders is a man of integrity, the most consistent candidate in the presidential race, a principled man who isn't being bought by the corporations but is relying on average Americans to turn this country around."
The gathering at the Flossmoor Station Restaurant was one of 3,500 across the country on Wednesday, according to the Sanders for President campaign. It said more than 100,000 people were brought together to hear Sanders speak during a webcast and eventually encouraged to reach out to their friends, neighbors and co-workers to sign up millions of others to make Sanders the Democratic nominee in 2016.
Darlene Obejda, 67, the hostess of the event, called Sanders a "democratic socialist because he believe in democracy for the people, not for capitalism and corporations." A retired social worker,
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As Michael Savage has said for years:
I’d support Sanders for president.
“Colonel” Harlan Sanders, that is.’
But he’s passed, so alas...
I’ll just call Bernie, “Colonel President Sanders”!
Elect Sanders and we will be as successful as Venezuela
When you see Sanders 2016 bumper stickers on the rattle traps driving around Flagstaff, Arizona (the liberal bumper sticker capitol of the world), you know that Slick Willie’s wife is in heap big trouble.
Zero% chance.
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