Bernie Sanders will move our country in the right direction
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard represents Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional district.
Last week I spent time with one of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ most trusted advisors — his wife, Jane. During her visit to Hawaii, we visited with veterans, Native Hawaiian leaders and community members from across the state.
Jane listened carefully to their concerns, answered their questions, and relayed the priorities and initiatives that Sen. Sanders has been committed to for decades — pay equity, taking care of our veterans, ensuring access to higher education and protecting our great nation.
Many people have asked me why I stepped down from my position as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee so I could endorse Bernie Sanders for president.
In that position, I had to remain neutral, but I grew increasingly frustrated that the most important question of war and peace was not being discussed.
Having served in a medical unit while deployed to Iraq, I saw firsthand the cost of war every single day.
My experience drove home the need for a commander-in-chief with the military mindset and sound judgment to make the hard decisions about when it is necessary to use our military power, and just as importantly, when not to use that power.
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In the wake of the horrific terrorist attack in Brussels that killed more than 30 people and injured nearly 300, we are reminded of why we need a strong commander-in-chief who will take action to defeat groups like ISIS and al-Qaida that continue to wage war against us, but who will stop the unnecessary regime-change wars that not only cost our country dearly in lives and American treasure, but actually end up undermining our national security and strengthening our enemy.
The failures of past U.S. interventions in Iraq and Libya that resulted in failed nations and the strengthening of groups like ISIS and al-Qaida have taught us how important it is that our commander-in-chief have a military mindset, objectively analyze a course of action, and have the foresight to consider both intended and unintended consequences.
I am confident that Bernie Sanders has the intelligence, foresight, military mindset and good judgment to make sound decisions when it comes to the most important question of war or peace.
Bernie Sanders voted against the Iraq war. He has made it clear that he will take the strong and coordinated action necessary to defeat the terrorist organizations that are waging war against us, but that he will not continue to waste our precious resources on interventionist wars of regime change and nation-building overseas.
He will instead use those resources to protect and rebuild our own country right here at home.
We have a clear choice when we go to caucus this Saturday, March 26.
Hillary Clinton has a consistent record that troubles me and so many others who have experienced the cost of war. Her support for the Iraq war, leading the military overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and pledging to continue to escalate the illegal, disastrous war to overthrow the Syrian government are red flags that should be carefully considered by every voter.
If we continue these same failed strategies, we will continue to see the same outcomes.
We owe it to our nation’s sons and daughters in uniform, their families and our country to elect a commander-in-chief who will keep America safe and usher in a new era of peace and prosperity.
I’m asking you to stand with me in support of the person I believe will utilize his experience, intelligence, military mindset and proven judgment to move our country in the right direction.
Please stand with me in supporting U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders to be our next president and commander-in-chief.
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Tulsi supporting a complete socialist confirms that she just isn’t ready for prime-time.
I don’t support Tulsi or Bernie but her comments surely made sense. What makes you say that she’s isn’t ready for prime-time? Is it because she supports Bernie or is it because you don’t agree with her comments and if it is her comments, where do you disagree. Supporting a complete socialist doesn’t justify your statement.
Tulsi has cojones. A rebel. Thank you Tulsi. Go Bernie. Go Tulsi.
Tulsi is backing the only candidate who would ever consider her for a VP post. That alone is why Bernie Sanders is unqualified for the office of President of the United States.
You’re obviously blinded by your bias. Anyone who watches this video of Tulsi speaking about her personal experience of the cost of war, and her endorsement announcement of Sanders, can see her sincerity in endorsing him because Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who will stop unnecessary wars of intervention to care for our veterans and USA.
Rep Tulsi Gabbard: Honoring Veterans, need to go beyond lip-service to action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iueHI_AGnpU&lc=z134z3gqyye1dnwag04cfjmjfymdffc4bjo
The Judgment to Lead: Why I’m Endorsing Bernie Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UM8F4EuUbw
You’re obviously blinded by your bias. Anyone who watches the videos on Tulsi Gabbard’s youtube channel of her speaking about her personal experience of the cost of war, and her endorsement announcement of Sanders, can see her sincerity in endorsing him because Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who will stop unnecessary wars to overthrow governments (Iraq, Libya, Syria) to care for our veterans and USA.
check out:
Rep Tulsi Gabbard: Honoring Veterans, need to go beyond lip-service to action
The Judgment to Lead: Why I’m Endorsing Bernie Sanders
Rite, why would that make Bernie unqualified? Tulsi sure would be a lot better than Sweet Sara, a previous VP pick. Can you be specific?
The fatal flaw in socialism, which it shares with other ideologies, is the belief in an abstract system.
Reality is more complex. Ideologies are good for describing a situation but seldom work as a solutions. For that we need to touch reality itself, not our crude theories of it.
Sometimes this is simply called “common sense”.
Hilary has a quilt of little ideologies that she has patched together for her political goals.
Ted is a “conservative”: ideology comes first, possibly before reality.
Bernie is a “rationalist”, a more flexible ideology, but one that eventually contradicts itself and leaves its practitioners stranded.
Donald Trump is not an ideologue. He claims to be a “common sense” conservative. I think this is part of his attraction.
He may be flawed, and make mistakes, but he has sense of reality that is not built on a fabricated ideology.
It shows in his more remarks about everything from Planned Parenthood to George Bush and the Iraq war.
He upsets the ideologues on all sides, from the campus Marxist feminists to the GOP country clubbers.
Like Sarah Palin Tulsi Gabbard has not been vetted. Having Tulsi who is still belongs to Chris Butlers ultra conservative cult a heart beat away from the presidency is an uncomfortable feeling.
agree. Tulsi makes very good comments. USA cannot afford to waste treasure and lives in futile wars.
lol, just shows you are not ready for reality yet. Go back into your insulated republican bubble.
Vote for Bernie if you want more government expansion where taxpayers foot the bill for everyone’s medical bills, college tuition and welfare for illegal (undocumented) aliens in our country.
Yet there was an article that showed that Bernie’s budget would result in the largest surplus. But no need to deal with the national debt, right?
we want more government if it helps average Americans. Assuming government can do nothing is wrong. We need common projects to be carried out. I like that Bernie, a Jew, is daring to stand up to Israeli lobbyists who own Congress and Hillary. Even Trump has to bow low to them.
Yes Allie, the Donald was initially standing up against Israel, but it sounds like he has really bowed down before King Bibi. A pity.
Just a bunch of BS from the Dems who are hell bent on destroying America. What we need now is a powerful leader to help us regain
pride after 7 years of weak leadership and bad legislation. So if you really want to help America VOTE FOR TRUMP. Unless of course your on welfare and food stamps and want the government to change your diapers
Yes we really need to bring back GW Bush. Now thee was strong leader. lol
BOOM – dropped the Bush card! Game over.
Bernie and Trump are both half right and half wrong. Trump is correct that big Gouverneur is not the answer and that the private sector and free markets are the job creators. Bernie is right that Walk St and the greed of the top 1% must be curbed. Neither understands that one of the main functions of high taxes on top income brackets is to curve job creators to keep money in their businesses, putting more people to work, improving standards of living and reducing demand on ineffective regulation and undignified handouts.
We need to encourage the creation of jobs and strengthening of education and civic institutions through return to very high top personal income tax rates (80-90% on income above 1-2 $million/yr) that existed throughout the 1950s and 1960s – back when there was upward mobility and a strong middle class. We also need a robust inheritance tax.
Those held back by intergenerational poverty and the shrinking middle class won’t be lifted up under our current tax code that allows the fruits of their labor to be efficiently extracted by the 1% into private bank accounts and the luxury economy, and to be passed on to undeserving trust fund brats. Affirmative action and social welfare not very effective and can breed the kind of resentment, but without them America would be like France after the revolution, except instead of pitchforks our people have assault weapons. Year by year, the US is degenerating back into a robber-baron ruled feudal aristocracy. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The real hope for resl change will be when Sanders supporters and Trump supporters realize they are on the same side, and have been manipulated into hating each other by the liberal and conservative political and media “elites”. Only when their shared values and patriotic energies are joined together, as happened after the great depression, will the American dream be reborn – but this time not just for Euro-Americans, but for the whole country.
The key to achieving this is uniting behind the tax policies that worked for nearly 40 years curbing greed and putting capitol and profits to their best use. This is how to make America great again.
Sorry for the typos, my aging eyes, the tiny font and a devilish autocorrect are gettong the best of me. Waiting on a new larger tablet…
While I don’t think Sander’s specific policies are viable, he is right that opportunity for many in the middle and lower classes is fading, that banks are actually much worse than they were before the recession, that our infrastructure needs serious reinvestment, that international trade hasn’t been mitigated in the cost to less educated workers, college is simply too expensive and that the political elite shouldn’t be allowed to buy elections. How he solves these problems I don’t necessarily agree with, but I feel his heart is in the right place at least when you view the ideological core of those beliefs.
Plus he won’t get us into another ground occupation like Cruz or Hillary.
That said, I’m still in the Johnson Camp, but Sanders from an ideological view point is better than the other three.
How did Hillary get the United States into a ground war? Let’s not forget Bernie Sanders voted to fund everyone of those George W Bush invasions.
When she voted for the Iraqi Occupation despite knowing the intelligence was terrible.
Sanders voted against the war. Don’t forget that.
Misinformation. The 2002 Act was to pressure Iraq to allow weapons inspectors full access to the entire country. It also called for Bush to get UN approval for an invasion. Because the UN took too long to come to a decision Bush actually invaded using the 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force an act Bernie Sanders voted for.
It is difficult to vote to leave troops over there with no way to get home. Does not make the war right.
Congress halted funding to the Vietnam War which forced Nixon to end the war. Bernie voted to fund the Iraq war. He is and has been a big Middle East hawk.
I agree with her: Hillary is the usual slave to Israeli right wing interests and she has nothing but a poor record in foreign affairs. Gabby is right to point out how disastrous two lost wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were to the USA. That said, Hillary has a decent domestic agenda.
Guess you haven’t been keeping up with the news. Bernie is a cheerleader and military hawk for Israel
Peanutgallery, Tulsi has thrown Hawaii’s President Obama under the bus by saying that Sen. Sanders, as President, lead the Country in the Right direction. All these 7 plus years, Rep. Tulsi and Sen. Bernie believed that Obama led the Country to the Left. President Obama is not Socialist enough, they believe.
I agree. Naive at best. She contradicts herself all the time. Hanging out with R’s one minute, bashing Obama the next. Now supporting a socialist?
I have had my doubts about Tulsi, but I sure agree with her on this issue. Tulsi may yet be another Patsy Mink, who often stood up to the establishment. Thank you Tulsi.
Oh please THEY are the establishment, WAKE UP time for some Real Change
TRUMP 2016
Apparently, you didn’t listen to Donald Trump’s interview with the Washington Post. The guy makes Sarah Palin sound like an intellectual. He’s completely clueless on domestic and foreign policy. He substitutes simplistic, impractical bumper-sticker slogans for actual workable solutions to the problems facing the country.
I’m a Democrat, but I hate to see GOP engage in self-destruction. It’s not good for the country not to have a viable alternative (emphasis on viable) to Democrat policies. There are some bright people in the Republican Party that have worthwhile ideas for voters to consider, but they are being undermined and marginalized by Trump, the clown prince of American politics.
Bright people in the Republican party? Who are they? First to be dumped in the last election was a gov. from Utah, who sounded like he had some brains, but who else?
I agree. The establishment argues to vote for Hillary because she has more foreign affairs experience than Bernie. But it’s judgment—not just experience—that matters most. Bernie has far better judgment than Hillary. He has committed to stay out of these stupid regime change wars in the Middle East that strengthen the terrorists and waste money we need to invest in programs at home. Hillary’s “experience” is not something I want to repeat. We saw by what happened in Iraq, Libya, and the now 5-year civil war in Syria which has allowed ISIS to gain a foothold (and will take over if we “succeed” in overthrow Assad) that her judgment is not only flawed but dangerous. I am proud of Tulsi for taking a bold stand. Her courage is a breath of fresh air in a stale Washington.
I agree. The establishment argues to vote for Hillary because she has more foreign affairs experience than Bernie. But it’s judgment—not just experience—that matters most. Bernie has far better judgment than Hillary. He has committed to stay out of regime change wars in the Middle East that strengthen the enemy and waste money we need to invest in programs at home. Hillary’s “experience” is not something I want to repeat. We saw by what happened in Iraq, Libya, and the now 5-year civil war in Syria which has allowed ISIS to gain a foothold (and will take over if we “succeed” in overthrow Assad) that her judgment is not only flawed but dangerous. I am proud of Tulsi for taking a bold stand. Her courage is a breath of fresh air in a stale Washington.
DUH You forget that Sanders and Clinton were in office and have been the problem for the last 15+ years so what makes you think they will change anything??? Its time for a TRUMP presidency to get America back on track. Look what you Dems have done to Oahu with your stupid RUSTING RAIL and the worst business climate in The entire 50 state. Oh but you have increased the welfare rolls and food stamps now a single mom with 5 kids ( and 4 boyfriends gets $60,000.00 THOUSAND A YEAR ON WELFARE and if you get a job in Hawaii she would be lucky to get 36,000.00. Agreat job the dems have done here if your a loser & on public assistance
The Donald? Really? Bet you watch professional wrestling a lot. lol
Shame you are so negative on the rail. I have been to Washington DC and it sure is nice to have their rail. Same will apply to Oahu someday. Just build it already and extend it to the UH and through Waikiki.
Gridlock is unacceptable!
Bernie??? I have watched all the debates and try to keep up with the candidates’ remarks and from I gather his Administration would be identical to Obama’s except more liberal. More freebees, paid for by that 1% which would include the Clintons and their family.
More Freebies? Less for the military industrial complex. More for the working stiff who hasn’t seen a pay increase since Carter.
Representative Gabbard,
You and I rarely agree politically. Regardless, I admire you, your integrity, and willingness to to use your own judgement and moral compass instead of simply following orders from the DNC. That is so rare in a politician from any party.
A couple of years ago, when the coral bleaching disease on Kauai reefs was discovered, you came out to investigate yourself and with a mask and snorkel looked for yourself. I remember this so well for a couple of reasons. 1) there was no media coverage 2) it was a cool, overcast, choppy day and you were about 3/4 mile off shore. I was very happy to be in my warm dry car with a sweat shirt on that day.
That is to say, I am proud that you represent us and thank you for your integrity and wish you a long and happy career in politics. Likewise, I disagree with most of Bernie Sanders positions, but I believe he is the only ethical candidate currently running for president.
Representative Gabbard is the rarest of politicians and I think we should celebrate her and support her via our contributions and votes.
(I have no contribution to Representative Gabber’s campaign and any familiar with my commenting history will find that very easy to believe)
Gabbard is a rare bird in the political arena who clearly cares more about telling the truth as she sees it than her own political future. It’s no secret that the Clintons keep an enemies list (google “Hillary’s hit list”) and Tulsi has now made that list. No scared ’em!
I disagree with many of Sander’s specific policy positions, but the foundation for those positions aren’t things I can disagree with. How he attempts to solve the problems is our contention, but not why he thinks they need to be solved.
That is a big gap from someone like Cruz or Hillary who doesn’t even view such problems as problems and Trump, well, he’s more flip flipper than Romney or Bill Clinton, so it’s hard to even know where his positions are at any point at time.
What specifically do you disagree with? That there is a more efficient way to provide health care to the nation? That the middle class has been squeezed since Uncle Ron and it needs to be built up now? Free Trade is not really free?
While I am not a Hillary supporter, it is unfair to mention her in the same sentence as the Canadian. Ted is a fraud on the American public.
Pushing higher effective tax rates will cause more corporations and individuals to relocate reducing tax revenue and frankly, this notion of free college doesn’t incentivize students to use their time there effectively. Higher college costs do push students to get out faster even though they unfortunately reduce access. Single payer isn’t a bad idea, but there is zero chance we will get that in the US with our current political parties. Single payer is not a healthcare provider. Single payer is just a unified system of payment for such care. That care can come through a UK socialist system or through a private set of providers. Don’t confuse the two.
Choyd, If Bernie increases taxes it will be for reasons that will benefit business. Employees need a well educated work force. I think the US might be lagging of the world in this which would not be good. Universal health care would reduce significantly one of the major costs of employment in Hi. Workers Compensation insurance, not to mention health insurance itself. Business would not have to pay probably 50%+ of their current WC costs plus not having to pay for medical insurance for employees. I think most businesses wouldn’t mind paying a bit more in taxes. They are getting a steal of a deal.
One should never say never. Bernie just might ignite a revolution in this country that will push this country ahead.
Whether or not they relocate, they will have to pay US taxes on income earned on the US, or they can go to jail or have assets seized. If an ultra rich person wants to leave the country in an effort to extract maximal wealth from employees and not invest in the US economy, I say, “Don’t let the door luck you on the way out.” We still have a huge economy and if any greedy fool turns their back on that, there are 5 more ready to take his/her business. We need to get the wealth back into the productive economy, not swiss banks and hollow luxury economy. This will only happen when we repeal the misguided Reagan income tax cuts for the ultra wealthy.
As soon as college becomes “free” you will see college costs escalate thru the roof. Somehow funding people to get a degree in fill in the blank studies does not seem like a wise policy.
While I like Bernie better than Hillary, Bernie is part of the PROBLEM. How long has he been in politics ?
TRUMP 2016 ! Time for some REAL CHANGE !
Come on get with the program. The Republican establishment want to get rid of the Donald so much so they are willing to support a Canadian. I think Lindsey put it best. A gunshot to the head vs poison.
Poor republicans. This is what you get when you abandon republican values.
I vote independent for the Person not the Party. Trump has a good shot at knocking Hilary off her perch. Time for Change !
Be carful what you wish for. Republican presidents have generally been on a downward slide since Eisenhower so the next republican president could end up making G W look good.
Of course if you don’t mind huge deficits with nothing to show except a rotting wall, well go ahead and vote for him. Don’t complain when the country rots from within.
Well said Boots. Did you know tax rates on the ultra-rich were above 90% under Eisenhower, with a booming economy full employment, a strong middle class, state of the art infrastructure and affordable education and health benefits? We can do it again if greed is curbed through sound tax policy, not to raise federal revenues and redistribute wealth, but to force business owners to keep wealth in their companies and the productive economy. Job creators create the most jobs when they are forced to invest in their own businesses, not in yachts and a fourth vacation mansion.
I agree we cannot continue to spend trillions of dollars overthrowing brutal dictators in the middle east while our own roads, bridges, and water systems fall apart. Yes, crush the terrorists but stop trying to police the world.
JM, I agree. When Obama took office the stimulus he should have done would have been what FDR did with the WPA and CCC. And, build our infrastructure like Eisenhower. Not sure where he got his advice from but he missed a great opportunity. But, it’s never too late–Make America Great again!!!
Did this women every serve a full term as a neighborhood board, city council.etcetc.? Stepping stones to power. Pushing ALL IN,on this one. The river card will pound you.
Between serving a full term in the State legislature and a full term in Congress, she served two deployments to the Middle East. It’s a testament to Gabbard’s character that she came home from war determined to speak out against unnecessary wars of intervention. We need more veterans in congress.
Tulsi pretty much Nailed it when it came to describing Hillary’s involvement in the middle east I on the other hand would have included her Boss!!These two are the very ones responsible for the fall of Iraq and our little friends..ISIS !
Bernie has a good chance of taking Hawaii because Hillary is not known as a trust worthy person. But in the Big picture!! Bernie will not get the Democrat Nomination……It’ll take a miracle!
Miracles have been known to happen.
It would be neat if Hawaii goes for Bernie. One step at a time.
VOTE TRUMP TO SAVE AMERICA’S PRIDE AND FUTURE! We are not and do not want to become a socialistic country so NO to Sanders and the scammer Clinton as well as Hanabusa and Tulsi both are sad sad stories but fit in Hawaii after 30+ years of Democratic destruction of our island.
Wow.
I probably would have listened to the Donald until he started kissing Bibi’s butt. What an about face. No telling where he will end up.
But go ahead and vote for the candidate that leads all others in lying. We really don’t have enough lies coming from our president. lol
I know that socialism has never worked, but this is a “new” kind of Socialism… this new and improved form of Socialism will work where all the others have failed. Trust me, I’m a politician. LOL.
Oh my! Have you written letters to Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, and a number of other countries that come in above the US on indices like percentage living in poverty, educational efficacy, infant mortality, (a general index correlated to the health of a society) health care, percent incarcerated, employment, etc. that their Social Democracies aren’t working? I’m sure that they would be more than happy to be informed. Be sure to include information about your doctorate in International Political Science. That will get their attention
But you don’t have to look that far afield to feed a confirmation bias. I had a professor once who liked to say that FDR saved America from Communism by making America a Socialist nation. There are some grains of truth there and one can see the artifacts of the 30s today. Social Security, Medicare, family aid, and even constructs like Pell Grants, RTTP, (that many of us called “Dash for the Cash”) the G.I. Bill, and more.
The schools and politicians of America during the Cold War era did a really good job indoctrinating Americans to fear the external threat while ignoring the internal ones. While Americans were looking under their beds for communist infiltrators, we were quietly falling victim to exactly what Dwight Eisenhower warned against; the development of an oligarchy beginning with the “Military-Industrial Complex.” We’ve become a nation where the lives and rights of determination of the many are controlled by the few. I believe what we have today is a far cry from the nation envisioned by John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and the other 18th century luminaries who sought to shape our future.
Those countries that you list do not have 10 million illegal immigrants, most from a neighboring third world country. Our situation is more complex.
The fatal flaw in socialism, which it shares with other ideologies, is the belief in a procedure by which we can solve our problems, one that starts with abstract theories and works down from there.
Reality is more complex. Ideologies may be good for describing a situation but seldom work as a source for solutions. For that we need to touch reality itself, not our crude theories of it.
Sometimes this is simply called “common sense”.
Hilary has a quilt of little ideologies that she has patched together for her political goals.
Ted is a “conservative”: ideology comes first, possibly before reality.
Bernie is a “rationalist”, a more flexible ideology, but one that eventually contradicts itself and leaves its practitioners stranded.
Donald Trump is not an ideologue. He claims to be a “common sense” conservative. I think this is part of his attraction.
He may be flawed, and make mistakes, but he has sense of reality that is not built on a fabricated ideology.
It shows in his more realistic remarks about everything from Planned Parenthood to George Bush and the Iraq war.
He upsets the ideologues on all sides.
Gabbard is wrong about Sanders about moving our country in the right direction. There is only one direction for Sanders and that is LEFT, far left.
Really?!..
(Rolling on the floor..laughing myself silly)
For how many decades has the U.S. used its military to overthrow leaders of foreign countries who are not to our liking? How much national treasure, human life, and moral authority has the interventionist foreign policy cost our nation? If Bernie Sanders can do nothing else, ending the arrogant and disastrous policy of interventionism would make it possible for us to take care of our own country.
Sanders is not a veteran of military service. How does one have a “military mindset” if they’ve never served in the military?
True retire,he was actually a “conscience objector”. So for Gab to say he has the military mindset, it’s oxymoronic. Now when Tammy Duckworth ,a real Iraqi veteran , that survived 2 leg amputations, says she endorse Clinton, well that says alot.
Perhaps, but Clinton isn’t a veteran either.
Clinton is a veteran of Benghazi and Tammy supports her. Very sad.
Just look at Obama.
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Based on looks you gotta go with Tulsi and Melania.
Like Bernie, dislike the grandstanding Gabbard.
Totally Agree!
mr. sanders has no foreign relations or policy background. how he thinks he can step into this complex situation ( he doesn’t even have a “policy”). a “military mindset” ? what is that? we have a military for a reason – so what is his military mindset? the argument for mr. sanders in light of the very very complex and dangerous terrorist situation requires some tough decision making – and that is what mrs. clinton is willing to do. since i am not a military expert or foreign affairs expert (and having served doesn’t make ms. gabber one, either) i would try to discern which candidate has the support of military leaders. i think if you did a little scratching below the surface you would find that mrs. clinton has that support.
and while i don’t doubt mr. sanders’ intelligence, ralph waldo emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Bernie’s comment that the majority of new income goes to the top 1% is untrue and misleading – just like our local politicians. We have over 6 million new jobs added back since the depression – those jobs create income for average folks.
it would be classic and tragic if the “cult” made it into the white house in the form of a gabbard vp
If anyone at the national level ever “vets” Ms. Gabbard, there will be a lot of disappointed people that support her. Scary stuff about the Butler cult. A lot of Kool-aid drinking over there – and not the good kine!
While Hillary Clinton panders to certain elements within our society to garner their votes, there are residents of large areas of the world that she cares nothing about, even encouraging their misery and deaths through her actions. She is insensitive to the suffering and death of these people. How many more $ billions are we going to spend, how many more of our armed personnel and the indigenous people in these countries have to die or be maimed for life by our fomenting of unnecessary wars around the globe? Representative Gabbard has clear vision when she asserts that Senator Sanders will only send American military personnel to fight when America’s security is threatened. There are pressing needs at home that have been neglected while we have gone abroad to agitate radical elements to attack us.