During Sunday night’s Democratic debate, socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — in an apparently desperate attempt to pander to minority voters — uttered the most outrageous racial statement of the entire 2016 presidential race.
And critics pounced immediately.
“When you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in the ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor, ” said Sanders, implying that poverty only afflicts people of color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHfH0WABTY
Of course, there are millions of people of all ethic backgrounds living in poverty, and Sanders is facing a backlash for his insensitive — and some say racist — comments.
@CapehartJ @docrocktex26 He knows that ppl of all races are living in poverty, right? He should get out of VT more
— voteDEM2016 (@JSoltis) March 7, 2016
@Kite_Tales @shoe0nhead morons who live and breathe identity politics
— Nihil (@Ex_nihilo_0) March 7, 2016
If you were puzzled as to why the Black vote is so solidly behind Hillary, Bernie’s commentary on ghettos should provide clarity. #DemDebate
— Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) March 7, 2016
The Census Bureau’s five-year American Community Survey, covering 2007 to 2011, found the white poverty rate was 11.6 percent. In 2013, there was an estimated 18.9 million low-income white people in the United States.
Bernie Sanders is a communist with an arrest record. Is this really what the democratic party has devolved to? Their other candidate may be indicted soon for her e-mail server problem……almost forgot to mention that. Is this really as good as the democrat party can do?
Besides being nuttier than a fruit cake, Bernie Sanders is also a card carrying communist trying to spread his ignorant lies in the United States of America. I’m white with Blonde hair. News flash for Bernie, I was raised on a horse & cattle ranch in S. Dak, there were no electric lights, no running water, no inside bathrooms, no radio, no TV, just a log cabin heated with a coal stove, located on the Sioux Standing Rock Reservation, as half of my family were native American Sioux. If I were raised like that today the HCS would take me away from my family for being so poor. However, we loved growing up there, we didn’t know any difference between rich & poor. Bernie is full of it, pandering to the Blacks for their votes, I wonder if he realizes they hate him for being white and much as the whites hate the blacks. Nothing will change that issue in this lifetime. It’s take 4 generations for the Sioux to stop hating the whites, and that isn’t completely over yet either! 🙂
Ok, I’m living with a budget, by Bernie’s socialized standards, I’m rich enough to budget so I don’t over spend. Hmm, is this a race issue when we’re not suppose to be racist, Bernie?
As one with “Blackfoot” blood/heritage my daughter received a very cool reception at a Sioux gathering in Mankato, Minn. about 6 months ago. She was bragging about being a native American–Blackfoot to these Sioux native Americans. I had to give her a brief summary on the historical relationship between Blackfoot and Sioux.
And what would that information have been?
I love your comments, as we grew up on a farm next to the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the Pendleton Oregon area in Eastern Oregon. We had the essentials to survive in the way of food, shelter, clothing as essentials. No TV, Radio if we had time to listen on Sunday afternoon. Chores early morning and evenings,
home work if we had lights, as power was not always available and was unreliable in the countryside.
We didn’t think we were poor, but the country of today would assume that we were below the poverty line of today! We are proud of our parents and their struggles in our behalf, and we are friend of the great confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation that was the first to become Independent from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. They are wealthy and healthy today due to the strength of character of their Tribal Chieftains that were well educated and determined to succeed, and so they did it to the Max!
I have read all of the information about Hillary and her Email crap. The woman should be eliminated from running for president. She endangered our security. She seems to think she above the law and the rules of security. She signed a statement about security. Do we want a person who has no common sense about the responsibility these positions require.Is she so out of touch with realty that she thinks she can do as she pleases? The woman is a liar, a thief,and a bigger phony than Trump or even Obama. Bernie is just and old communist who needs to give it a rest. The democratic party is ridiculous and the Republicans are just about as bad. It has come to the point when you vote you hold your nose and pray.
This is about elite in high government positions. The establishment wants to keep power but it is not enough in America. They want to control whole world and they already start doing this. Look at European Union. They already are under control of Obama. What Obama order to Merkel she is following his orders even if it is against will of population. Whole Europe is already under Obama command. They destroyed Middle East because they thought that they can control them too. They destroy Ukraine to have access to Putin. They would try very much as next task to destroy him, but this would not be easy. They do not care about regular people. They want to keep us near poverty level. It easier to control poor population. WE, regular people do not have access to freedom , democracy ,justice.
Take another look at Cruz…he doesn’t fit in the group with establishment candidates. Senator Ted Cruz has only been serving in the Senate for 2 brief years, and has used that time to make good on what he was sent there to do for us. He was elected there on the wave of change that we (concerned citizens) mounted.
His background is one of Constitutional lawyer, taking cases to the Supreme court to fight for Constitutional rights, and for the most part he won his cases.
Not only does he believe strongly in the Constitution but he has great plans to undo some of the damage caused in the past 7 years!
Whites hate blacks? News to this white guy, and all the others I know. Sure, there are a few nutjobs out there with all different skin colors, but that’s about as bigoted a blanket statement as I’ve seen in a while. But, hey, free speech…
I agree with you! What crap! I have a mixed ethnic heritage plus a grandson who is the same plus half black! It is very sad that ANYONE makes assumptions about how others feel, based on RACE!!!!
The Black community was coming around just fine until the result of the O. J. trial set them back another 100 years.
He also could not hold down a job until he got elected. He has been on the government dole ever since. He could not go into the private sector and succeed that is why he is an old Soviet Union Communist.
Well.. When the Republican party turns our party back on Trump and put Romney in. We will all see the Federal government has nothing to do with by the people for the people. No matter what puppet THEY decide to be the president for us.
I’ll agree if they stoop to that level there will be hell to pay. But elections are won by the one with the highest number of votes. I could care less if a RINO got the Nominee if everyone would just vote for them and no one else so that neither Clinton or Sanders gets elected. If I have to have Status Quo over more of the Leftist BS… Give me the RINO.
Oh sure, give us another “socialist/national socialist” choice like in 2012! How ’bout the GOP field someone who isn’t a RINO?
The good news is that, at least this year, people are getting involved early enough to do more than just whine about the bad options in November. Doesn’t mean we still won’t end up choosing the candidate we disagree with least, but there are (or at least were) some options to vote for with enthusiasm. After the last two debates, not so sure that’s still the case…
Rhinos: Cruz-n-Crash, Rubio-bobo, Bush-nut, McCain, and quite a few more charlatans who have managed to fool many of us for years.
Take another look at Cruz…he doesn’t fit in the group with establishment candidates. Senator Ted Cruz has only been serving in the Senate for 2 brief years, and has used that time to make good on what he was sent there to do for us. He was elected there on the wave of change that we (concerned citizens) mounted.
His background is one of Constitutional lawyer, taking cases to the Supreme court to fight for Constitutional rights, and for the most part he won his cases.
Not only does he believe strongly in the Constitution but he has great plans to undo some of the damage caused in the past 7 years!
The Republican Party of today is a Disaster! Trump talks to the People, and we voted for him to take this country back to our roots, not over the cliff with the Traitor Hillary Rodham Clinton!
We the People have spoken, but the RNC says NO? Who do they think they are to choose for us someone that carries on in the same RIP OFF the American workers by continuing the status quo in D.C.?
We will have our day regardless of the Thugs and slick politicians that get elected then turn their backs on the People, as we are only “Tax Units” to them. we supply the funds to pay the Nations Bills, But the Bills never get paid, why? The Congress is Rich, they voted all the perks for themselves! The Democrats rammed Obamacare down our throats on a One Party Vote! our grandchildren are living with their parents even though working fulltime and supporting their children and cannot afford the Obamacare insurance so they are fined $8,000.00 on their Tax Returns for not buying unaffordable insurance!
If this is not Insanity, What is?
Insanity is believing a majority of “We the People” have spoken on anything this election season so far. You might have, and one of the candidates has a plurality of delegates, but that’s a LONG way from a majority of anything. Not even sure that any one candidate has won a majority of the popular vote in any state yet on this side.
So get as many pejoratives, CAPS, and punctuation??!!!! as you want in the message – yelling and gesturing doesn’t change the facts which aren’t even in yet…
And don’t believe that crap about the RNC forcing this on anyone. I’m no big fan of party politics, but the RNC appears to have been driving straight down the middle on this election, not favoring any one candidate over the others. The Intellectual Conservative know-it-alls and the media, on the other hand, …
Obamacare hurt only and only hard working people. They already enslaved middle class people. They still want to expand all branches of government so we can work till death and feed establishment on all levels. Local branches are getting bigger and bigger every year too and we working more and more and we are poorer and poorer every year. Revolution is our solution.
Daniel-
i’m sorry for what they’re going through. As to the fine, i’d refuse to pay it and demand a court date. Upon arriving in court, trial commencing, show Article 1, Section whatever which says that “All bills for revenue(aka taxes) MUST originate in the House of Representatives,” then show where D’ohbamacare originated in the Senate, and claim that D’ohbamacare is Unconstitutional, ergo Unlawful, ergo Illegal, ergo Criminal, and you’re not ABOUT to endorse criminality on the part of criminal, Oath-breaking, treasonous Current Occupant Unconstitutionally sitting the office of the presidency, nor his lickspittle, sycophantic, oath-breaking CongressCretins who can point to NO part of the Constitution which contains the word “health,” or even the IDEA that any American can be compelled to purchase anything at any time for any reason from anyone, much less a privately-held insurance corporation.
i’m tempted to say “then flip the prosecution off and walk out of the courtroom,” but that would likely get you a citation for contempt – which, although you may righteously FEEL contempt for the whole business, is not prudent to display openly.
Unfortunately opinions are like a-holes and every has one. Bernie Sanders is a Socialist and that is not the same as a communist and if you bothered to read you would know that that is what we already are in America and most of the western developed countries. We all practice some forms of Democratic Socialism. I guess a lot of you are still in fear from the red propaganda. Watch the movie Trumbo. Not much has changed. So far Bernie ranks higher than any other candidates from either party on ethics. The Democratic debates have remained intelligent and civil unlike the Republicans who have stooped to school playground bullying. Bernie has managed to be a gentleman and take the high road at every debate with Hilary. He’s had the courage to speak truth to power on our corrupt election system and our bought and paid for politicians by corporations and the wealthy. Go ahead! let your fear get the best of you and keep voting against your best interest. Keep voting for lower taxes for the rich and perpetual war. It’s all working so well for our society isn’t it!
The guy has been in politic’s all his life and he’s corrupted like the rest of the them. Run this country like a business not a free for all.
Socialism and communism are cheek by jowl, and just because we could be classified as “democratic socialism” doesn’t mean we’re okay with the status quo, much less that we want the country to progress in that direction. The Republican of today stands where the Democrat of yesterday feared to tread. What do the five worst cities financially, most of the ten most violent cities, and the ten worst-funded counties have in common? A long line of Democratic mayors.
Islam is the mother of all socialism. The only difference between communism and is islam has a god and for communists the state is their god. Here money is the elected officials god which has been increasing since the industrial revolution when the cartels, monopolies gained control of all the money in circulation at that time and then got control of the money supply by the creation of the fed res system. It has been down hill ever since except during WWII when the bankers expanded the money supply in order to mobilize to defeat the Axis govt. FDR did try to help out during the GD, but he probably was a socialists at heart? Govt is the kingdom of man unlike Christianity which is the kingdom of God. Christianity is all about how we are supposed to behave, while our Constitution is all about how govt is supposed to behave. The bible is about our human behavior and the Constitution needs honorable, well behaved people that are willing to accept their role as public servants instead of rulers of the kingdom of man. The form of govt we have is made in the image of God with three branches instead of three persons. Thus is, while not perfect, a superior form of govt. And we do have some freedoms. I think we are in a transition back to our political roots that existed prior to the industrial revolution. Sweat shops, child labor and other sins of capitalism, moneyism, show that man only needs a motive, a spark to .dish out injustice to their fellow humans.
Eric-
There has never been a truly Communist government on the planet. Ever. The closest they EVER got was Socialism, which they CLAIMED was the last step before Communism.
I haven’t made this comment for awhile now, so I guess I will start it back up again since you asked that question ………. the o turd is planning to declare martial law and NEVER leave the rainbow house !!!!! THAT is why they didn’t bother to find viable candidates to run on the demon crap side !!!!!! they don’t need to, because it won’t matter who will win, even if Donald Trump wins, he won’t take the office because the squatters won’t leave !!!!! that is why the turd is riling up the blacks, why he is bringing in UN ‘police troops’ and illegal terrorist invaders ….. they are his army, just chomping at the bit to start the war that will end all wars, here in the USA, against the, they PRAY, disarmed legal citizens of the country so that they can be the masters and WHITES be the slaves !!!!!!!!!
Big fan of conspiracy theories, eh?
If there was any hint of that happening, I doubt seriously it would last more than a day. There are too many of us who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic, to let that continue. Yes, he’s done all manner of extraconstitutional activities while in office, but that’s an order of magnitude or two above anything so far. That’s the kind of stuff that civil wars are born from.
I’m not saying it hasn’t crossed his mind or the minds of the sycophants he surrounds himself with; it may well have. There’s no way this decade that such an act would go unchallenged, by force of arms if necessary. Not even the Secret Service would stand for that. Come noon on Jan 20, 2017, he’ll be out or he’ll be perp walked out in cuffs with no chance of a pardon, assuming the outcome mirrors participation in the primaries and caucuses so far…
DL-
Maybe you haven’t heard about the 100,000 Muslims per year that have been smuggled into this country via modified UPS planes landing in small airports, the passengers thereof loaded into Homeland Security busses and whisked off elsewhere.
D’ohbama is fully-aware that Americans will not take kindly to Unconstitutional orders, especially from a Current Occupant not only not qualified for the office, but one routinely violating both his oath of office as well as making several treasonous gifts of arms, ammunition, training, funding, and transportation to avowed enemies of the United States – i’m talking both ISIS(ISIL) and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, while simultaneously making it extremely difficult to obtain firearms and ammo HERE, the DHS having bought up virtually all that’s available AND the production runs to come for a few years, yet. In my estimation, it’s entirely possible that a Treasonous, Oath-breaking Criminal Occupant of the White House would have little compunction about training and arming an army of Jihadists RIGHT HERE in America.
Your right about all of it
MDubya, I think the answer to your question about what the Democratic has evolved to is definitely yes. The Democratic party is nonexistent and has been for some time. In fact I feel the Republican party is going the same way, that is if it hasn’t already. As you say, Sanders is a Communist. Hillary Clinton is, too. And I was under the impression that a person with a criminal record couldn’t be elected president. Then look at the way Trump is being treated by his own party. Like him or not, he’s the front runner and from what I’ve read, the RNC won’t allow him to be nominated even if the people of this country, the ones here legally, vote for him. Something is terribly wrong and there’s a good chance we won’t be able to fix it. I sincerely hope I’m wrong about that but I still have a very uneasy feeling that Obama will be staying in office.
In 2012, I had about three candidates I was debating between. they all threw in the towel before the primaries got to my state. This year I was debating between three candidates (Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Ben Carson) again. And yep, again! Still want to tell me I’ve got a say in who runs the country?
You still have a say. Mine are gone also, but I have the advantage of not yet having cast a primary vote for one of those. And I live in Ohio with far too much inside knowledge of the current administration to vote for the current governor. That doesn’t leave much, but I still get a say in the outcome, or at least get to help choose who it won’t be.
If you voted before Carson got out of the race, that still doesn’t mean you have no say. It means that your say may have been drowned out as mine has been in previous years. However, this time, there is the possibility that none of the candidates will have a majority of delegates committed to them by the start of the party convention. After the first votes don’t identify any candidate as the nominee, the delegates are released to vote for whoever they think should be the nominee. No, it still won’t be any of your three or mine because they didn’t get enough delegates to be considered before they dropped out. But your delegate will still be there representing you. Make sure that delegate knows what you think.
So, when you voted, did you note the names of the delegates? If not, you can probably still find out who it is and pepper that person with mail.
Then Bernie in his ads boasts of being poor in Brooklyn 60 years ago. His only use is taking votes away from Hillary. The system is rigged. However, Bernie isn’t the answer. Bernie represents Vermont. A mostly white state with plenty in poverty. Vermont changed when leftist elitists moved there from NYC and Boston.
Donald Chump Trump ….The worlds Rasist Bafffon is the best Republicans got….Chickens has come home to roost. .
Hillary is a communist also but she prefers the term progressive as do most Communist Party USA members as they know they will not get elected by exposing who they truly are; once they gain power they rule as the communists that they are! REVOLUTION will be the SOLUTION, Armr===============================?! America is now the “TRANSFORMED AMERIKA” that our Muslim-Marxist jihadist had forewarned back in 2008 but no one had thought that it was going to be for the worse so his supporters are getting the TYRANNY that they deserve! It will become haedcore tyranny once they disarm “US” WHICH they will since Scalia was murdered! Gun control will be the last nail in the coffin of this nearly dead Republic that is on life support!
this is what the commucrat party is.
God help us all if this man is elected president.
Unfortunately this is true across the board. It’s slim pickings for ANY good choices.
Exactly right – the bum from Geritol Junction never even earned a regular paycheck until age 40, which is when he began his journey as a career politician.
I am completely surprised how anyone can support either dumbocrap candidate, one is an ignorant socialist, and the other an old fraudulent, lying socialist. But with all the “free” stuff they are promising the ignorant low information voters either one could be the death blow administered to our great country.
This man is running to make Hillary look better. I guess you gotta look like a moron to do that.
My ancestor were tenant farmers, never owned any land, my mother had a 4th grade education because she quit school to help my grandmother take in laundry and keep old people to try to make a living for 9 children. I was the first generation to graduate high school. They didn’t have welfare so they had to work a garden, hunt, salvage fields after the farmer had picked his field. My mother stayed with and fed an old lady, that she was so scared that she would die. My mother was just a child taking care of her. This is what poor is.
He lives in Vermont, one of the poorest states in the union (but highly taxed!) . And the state is predominantly white.
Please don’t elect him. How can a commander in chief be a draft dodger in the Vietnam War? He should not be eligible for the office.
Has anybody asked what Bernie’s net worth is and how he got it ? I agree any draft dodger should never be allowed to run for any office and actually get paid for it
From what I read, he has a net worth of over a million dollars…..most in his wife’s name. How did he accomplish that with honest investments. Surely, he didn’t invest in any those rich, corrupt corporations.
Hi, Cheryl, are you not aware that the draft you support is “involuntary servitude”? The founders, honest, liberty loving men, were totally against it, and rightly so.
how can a person be “Commander in Chief” if he/she has never been in the service?! That should be a requirement to run for President, that you had served at least one term in the armed forces! One ad is saying that the job of being President of the US is the hardest job in the world. Ok, how can Hillary handle the hardest job in the world if she could not handle the job of Sec. of State?
Been waiting for the Bern to cut his own throat, and guess what! Anyway, if either he or Hillary happen to become the nominee, god help the USA! If one of them should actually be ELECTED President, we are DONE! TRUMP 2016!
Hey Bern! learn when to shut up, that was a costly statement!
The facts are that anybody who is elected the next president will continue to do what all politicians have done including Donald Trump who is had his hands in the pockets of Democrats for years!!! Do people really believe that a billionaire was never struggle with any of the struggles we have can feel the pain we’ve been through. Answer that is of course not . If we ever get a farmer or truck driver in office and packed the Senate with mothers and fathers who struggle every day to make there mortgage payments by food clothing for their children we might actually get somewhere. Wake up America were at the short end of the stick now and I don’t think we come out very good
Well I don’t about you but I have had 8 years of BS from that so called President we have now ,and if you want 4 more years of the same BS then you vote for Hillary.
Never happen because I don’t care how poor you are, within 18 months of being elected to Congress, you’re a millionaire. That’s how corrupt our government is, Repub or Dem.
All these jerks that support either the ugly hag or ranting old man have no love for their children and the world they will be living in . They have been feeding you a load of crap and throw you a bone for your votes for years.. Why are all the worst cities to live in ruled by the Dems. They control you. You are still slaves for them. As for the other end of voters you are the ones with money who think you are hot sh..t When the grids go out we will all be one class. Hope that makes you happy.
Unbelievable!! Even tho he was tring to say something else. What an oopppps moment. Not even promising free free free for all wont help him now. Hey blind supporters open your eyes and brains. Obama promised free free also. Have you gotten it yet??
Bernie Sanders has never worked a day in his life. He has been employed by the government and we all know what they do, nothing! Of course, you could also say that maybe it is because these are the people that work and don’t expect the government to pay them for doing nothing. Whichever it is he is really way out of touch with reality, like most of the government employees, they live in an alternative world, Washington, D.C.
Bernie Sanders has never worked a day in his life. He has been employed by the government and we all know what they do, nothing! Of course, you could also say that maybe it is because these are the people that work and don’t expect the government to pay them for doing nothing. Whichever it is he is really way out of touch with reality, like most of the government employees, they live in an alternative world, Washington, D.C.
Dave you are an idiot.
Dave is one of the “free S#@t” voters that the liar and draft dodger depend on to get elected.
So e-mail server should be a disqualifying issue? Many other Secretaries of State used private e-mails. So Democratic candidates are making force promises? How about Republican candidates promising to have Mexico build walls, ban a whole religious group from coming to US, and “make America great”? We are already great and loved under President Obama. Check the unemployment rate etc.
Isis loves obama, no one else loves obama.
Dave; you are a typical libtard drunk on obama-hillary kool aid. You’re either on welfare, employed by the gov. or an “activist” of some kind. All of which are useless
Sanders and the other socialist democ-RAT are both IDIOTS, COMMUNISTS, ALYNSKI-ITES and LIARS.
That or completely delusional and out of touch
I said it before and I’ll say it again. Bernie is just smoke & mirrors to deflect attention from Hillary’s crimes against the American people. Don’t be fooled!
Why would any self respecting black person or any other minority person want to listen to this insult to their intelligence,Sanders is insulting them and i hope that they can see it.
Bernie, please stop pandering. Get your facts straight. More whites live in poverty than blacks.
Please go tell the poor whites of Appalachia that they aren’t poor. Go up a creek valley and see the poverty. But then again, both black and white in this area are desperately poor. Poverty knows no race barriers, it afflicts all.
I’ve spent summers of my youth visiting my clan from east Tennessee. No central heat, no a/c, no electricity, using horses to do a lot of the farm work because you didn’t want to waste using the tractor unnecessarily. No indoor plumbing, wood burning stove to cook on. Not a lot has changed. They just pulled a mobile home next to the house and moved in there. They do have electricity now. and LP gas to heat and cook. But almost nothing else has changed. We help as we can. When they will accept it.
Hey Bernie, … Since when does wealth and poverty know the color of skin? View us on the web.
A Hell of a claim from somebody that did not earn a paycheck until after he was 40, and not due to prejudice; more due to the Laziness that infects all progressives. They prefer to steal from the productive People.
Bernie is just running to make an interesting campaign for Hillary. He is really for her all the way. Might even have donated to the Clinton Foundation. He may have been chosen by them and coached by them. Think about it people. How would anyone watch debates with no debaters? How would she be able to get in front of the press so often without him. Does anyone trust politicians still????
There will be more poor whites-and blacks, Latinos, and Asians- when Bernie’s tax plans are implemented.
Bernie doesn’t understand that there are some white people still alive who lived in an urban tenement during the Great Depression and finally worked on a farm as a teenager just to have enough to eat. He also doesn’t understand how that experience can teach a person how to work toward financial independence. I will be 90 in a few months and still work very hard every day, even though I don’t need to. I want a president whose administration can create an economy with decent jobs instead of mailing welfare checks. Half of the jobs created last month were near the bottom of the wage scale.
Stupid is as Stupid does. This is one pathetic fool.
The Democrat/Progressive/Socialist party~~the party of minorities and unions. Ever wonder why our national debt is 19 TRILLION dollars, and your taxes are so high????
Oh, I didn’t know this when I was newly divorced living on a limited alimony settlements of $350 per month and cleaning houses for another $300 or so while I went to college full time paying my own way without loans or grants. The VA helped me with my books. That was it. Yes, Bernie Sanders. I am as white as the day is short and I have been poor. Now I’m not. I know which is better.
He must no know many white people, you cannot single out races, we all suffer from the same in one way or another.
Tell that to those who live in West VA?? Hillbilly types, or live int trailer parks nationwide
Or Low Income housing Today nationwide.
Hillary Clinton is the direct opposite. She goes around poor mouthing like she is broke , my butt. Voters are to lazy to fact check her claims.
Broke people don’t have a mansion , in the Hamptons, or a home in DC. What a bogus liar she is. Bill & Hillary make in speaking engagements
than I have made in my lifetime. The Clinton Foundation is bringing in huge amounts of money from across the globe, which should be illegal. She sold billions of dollars, of weapons, to foreign countries, not the small arms , she wants Americans not to have. She is definitely PRO weapon , when the foreign countries send the Clinton Foundation tons of money. She , has murdered, stolen lied, and is a traitor , to America. Why is she not in Prison, So if This looney, lying slick tongued , witch according to one of her former employees.
Well, lets see, I grew up eating beans, cornbread, rice and what ever meat us kids hunted or fished. We used a quarter acre of our grandmothers home for a garden for veggies and melons. My clothing was handed down through more than a few cousins before I got to it. Before school I fed chickens and other chores. After school we worked in the garder pulling weeds and killing insects (no chemical fertilizers or insecticides). We had an old push mower we dragged around town to make extra money for groceries we couldn’t grow. The little extra we could pinch off it would let us go to the movies once in a while. This was in the 60’s so long hair was a fad we fell into easily. We were dirt poor. So Sanders, you can kiss my lily white backside.
I don’t know where Bernie Sanders gets his figures because I am white, through and through and I am dirt poor!
If other white people are as SICK of this race-baiting and pandering GARBAGE put out by the Commucrats, they will send Bernie a message loud and clear by NOT voting for him in any more primaries. He’s such a nut case he was bound to implode sooner or later, but was REALLY hoping he’d beat out HILLARY because I can’t IMAGINE he could possibly win in the general. Of course I thought the same thing about Obama–he’s a Communist, obviously HATES this country, and what kind of IDIOT would vote for him? And just look what happened! Ole Bern is in good company–he’s the IDIOT’S idiot!
I am white and living paycheck to paycheck I did not ask to be poor
After watching the debate last night I must say that there are far more interesting bits of information you ought to be advertising. Yes, you are advertising for an evil (don’t use this word lightly) Clinton legacy and yes, lets hope NOT future (as she claims to be interested in). As an empath, I don’t feel any thing that she espouses, to be genuine or authentic.
Of course she did not want to talk about the Clinton legacy of the 90’s. How many times has she changed her positions? Her record speaks for itself; her cold hearted thirst for greed for power is frighteningly sad. She has made extremely costly mistakes: for one, the war. She definitely does NOT care about you or the four people who she let die—her words not mine. Name one thing that she or her husband have done that has helped YOU? Just one. Of course if you are one of those not struggling from week to week, then you can name a lot of things she has done for you as your coffers have only gotten bigger; while betraying the middle class.
Sanders took it easy on Clinton in my opinion. For example, what do you know about the Clinton connections to GMO’s? How come you are not calling the Clinton’s on this? This is a HUGE issue not only for the US but for our world; Monsanto is strategically killing off people and destroying the Earth; and the Clinton’s are deeply involved in legally defending the ruthless destruction. By the way, Senator Sanders, is the person who introduced legislation to stop Monsanto evils and GMO’s. If you are not familiar with GMO’s, I encourage you to get yourself educated; ignorance is NOT bliss.
There are so many other points of information you could honestly be focusing on from the debate than consciously deceiving people to believe that Senator Sanders is saying that white people are not struggling. Many differences between these two choices would actually help awaken people to the truth of their very real differences. As Jesus said, “It is the truth that sets you free.” If you throw the truth away, I am left assuming that you don’t want to be free? I don’t know about you? But for me, if you don’t have inner integrity you have nothing.
Let me point out that there is NOT one other person running for President of US, that yes, was arrested because he stood up for injustices again black people and those who were not being treated equally under the US constitution: just so you know, he was picketing with Martin Luther King, Jr. on behalf of the black people that matter, and ALL of the people that matter; all of the middle class people that are so close to poverty that is is not even necessary to say, “I am white and living paycheck to paycheck.” Bernie was addressing a specific question and in specific context. I actually lived in the deep south for 7 years, and experienced what Bernie was addressing–racial profiling, etc… It was painful, deeply painful for me to experience the systemic racism.
Senator Sanders is our only hope for the kind of revolution that is needed in this country. The Clinton’s, number one are only hungry for power (not the power of Love). Check out the number of “suicides” of body guards, and staff that were whistle blowers of their corrupt illegal behaviors. Hint: go to media sources that are actually telling you the truth; not what you want to hear. There are many on the internet. While you are looking, don’t forget to investigate Bill Clinton’s deviant sexual behavior. One wonders what kind of deal has been struck in that “marriage?”
We all make mistakes. I used to be a Hillary supporter until I actually found out the truth. The Clinton’s make a mockery of our constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For the record, I do know Senator Bernie Sanders, and actually worked for him in the 80’s when he appointed a commission to study and make recommendations to end violence against women and children in Burlington, Vermont. Under his intelligent and compassionate leadership every recommendation was implemented; including training the police force in domestic violence intervention and treatment for perpetrators. Now, that is something to be proud about in the 80’s! he knows how to do what needs to be done! And he will do it for this country, I am counting on it.
I wonder if your caught his short response about fracking? He said “No, I do not support fracking.” That was straight and to the point. Clinton’s response, what was that? She went on to name three conditions, none of which are in existence or able to be enforced NOW. Once again, she was afraid to say what she really believes, or she gave the “politically correct” response. So hard to know where one stands when they have to check the polls before they can make a decision; it can be blinding to be seeking power so much that you are not able to speak your truth. I don’t trust people like that. I would definitely take Trumph over Clinton for that reason. Sure we would disagree; but I would know he was speaking from his own consciousness in a genuine and authentic manner.
Is the reason Blarney is not poor because he is white?
Is the reason Blarney is not poor is because he is white? White magic made him not poor?
White people can’t jump, white people can’t dance, white people can’t be poor…White Privilege my ASS!
It appears to me that Sanders is being deliberately distorted & ridiculed in some feigned angry comments. He does not write the debate transcript. His point is about black poverty PLUS their de facto segregated “ghetto” circumstance. A difficulty is (apparently) for many/most whites in understanding/”getting” this double whammy plight also known as empathizing/feeling. Now here’s MY OWN VERY SUBJECTIVE, IF NOT NASTY INTERPRETATION OF UGLY REALITY: The dislike of Sanders Jewish ethnicity and socialist-democratic political ideals is perhaps what is driving so many absurd comments. If not true about you, then I sincerely apologize.
I grew up poor and I’m white. But I didn’t stay poor. I got a job and I showed up and did it to the best of my ability. I went to school on grants and scholarships. What time I wasn’t studying I was working. I didn’t stay poor because I did something about it. I worked to better myself.
I’m tired of Democrat politicians coming out with plans of compassion which do nothing more than keep people in poverty. Hard work can improve a person’s life. Socialism just works to make society less productive and less prosperous. Maybe Bernie should study an accurate history of the Soviet Union and its collapse.
I read a comment by propain jane that said because bernie the idiot is racist and that is why she was voting for Hillary. Do you know that hillary only likes you for a vote. She is the BIGGEST LYING PIECE OF CRAP OUT THERE so if you think voting for Hillary you deserve to live in the projects because if you did any studing oh yeah that’s why you live in the projects. I AM NOT SAYING ALL BLACKS BECAUSE I HAVE PLENTY OF FRIENDS THAT ARE BLACKS WHO HAVE GREAT JOBS AND ARE BUYING NICE HOMES. SO GET AN EDUCATION AND MOVE OUT OF THE CITIES WHERE THERE ARE NO JOBS IN YOUR VOCATION AND FIND A NICE TOWN TO LIVE AND WORK IN, BUT YOU SHOW UP WEARING YOUR PANTS DOWN TO YOUR KNEES AND TALKING CRAP YOU WON’T GET A GOOD JOB WEATHER YOUR WHITE, BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW IT DOESN’T MATTER YOU HAVE TO ACT AND DRESS FOR THE JOB. SHOW THEM YOU HAVE RESPECT FOR YOUR SELF. I PRAY THAT YOU HAVE GOOD LUCK AND GET OUT OF THE BIG CITIES WHO WONT GIVE YOU A SECOND LOOK.
Sanders and Clinton, what a pair for the domocratic election! Neither one is a good candiate! White people cannot be poor- are you kidding! There are plenty of poor whtes, unless he himself has no idea what it is like! beacuse he has not been without.
The Democratic debates are worthless. They talk about regulating this & that when everyone knows it only creates more bureaucratic oversight committees which are non-productive administrations that pay people millions of dollars in salaries that continue to add to the National Debt which is BANKRUPTING AMERICA.
I am white, and living in poverty standers. My mom is white on social security, and is living in poverty standerds. So are many others. Sanders either has never been poor, or has forgotten what it it like to be poor as a white person. He is very ignorant when it comes to the realities of the poverty level, and of the fact that poverty runs on all races.
i certainly consider consider myself to be poor NOW, what with being nearly 8 grand behind in RE tax payments while simultaneously not having enough to get current with the utility bills – and multiple health problems i can’t afford to attend to, either!
The thing is, over the last couple of days i’ve listened to what Sanders has to say – and it’s persuasive! He claims to want the kind of socialism that works(ed) in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
i think it’s possible that he may simply not understand that socialism was tried in this country before it’s founding:
One group of colonists came over on the British Aristocracy plan; a “governor,” a few aides, maybe his wife/children, some soldiers to enforce edicts, and the rest – the poor or indentured servants. IIRC, the plan was to clear land together, prepare the land together, plant together, tend the gardens together, and share equally once the harvest came in(after the aristocracy skimmed off their portion, natch!). Sounds great, right?
In actuality, here’s what happened: those who wanted to do little work did, figuring, “hey, no matter what happens, i’m going to get an equal share – why work hard?” The diligent, OTOH, saw the slackers and said “Hey, if they’re not going to work hard, neither am I,” and slacked off, too.
Result? Approx. 90% of the colony
STARVED
TO
DEATH
that first winter. That’s a particularly hard way to go, especially when snow-bound.
Next year, different plan; everyone got their own plot to work, and were allowed to sell off what they produced or created, invented or made with their own hands. Result? Prosperity!
Here’s one of the reasons why Sanders’ ideas are plausible, however: consider the reign of Quaddafi. Here’s what his people got…
Free healthcare
Free education
Free HOUSES(yep, under Quaddafi, everyone got their OWN HOUSE, no charge)
Generous grants if, for example, you wanted to start any kind of farm, whether fruit, vegetable, or animal, AND he’d give you seed, or stock, or saplings to get it going.
The largest and perhaps most unique man-made project in history: the creation of a river from which all the farms could irrigate their crops.
All you had to do was be loyal to his dictatorship, apparently – oh, and turn in any potential troublemakers to be tortured and murdered, and turn a blind eye to the financing of terrorist acts around the globe…
Sanders apparently thinks that he can fix social security for many years by simply lifting the “cap” on the “contributions” the wealthy make; iirc, currently the guy who makes a hundred grand a year pays in the exact same as someone who makes a hundred mill or more. He apparently also believes that he can do this with fiat paper currency, as he (wisely, imo) does not address the outright criminal theft-by-deception that’s part and parcel of ALL fiat currencies worldwide.(the banksters routinely murder those who threaten their schemes.)
But consider the following:
“Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff — watch out!”
— Walter E. Williams(1936- ) Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
“Once the government becomes the supplier of people’s needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.”
— Lawrence Auster, Political commentator
“Southerners did not stop with an open defense of slavery. They went on to attack northern society for its ‘wage slavery’ and ‘exploitation of workers,’ using arguments repeated by socialist critics of capitalism. The southern writer who developed these arguments most extensively was George Fitzhugh, a Virginia planter and lawyer. His two books were provocatively entitled Sociology for the South: Or the Failure of the Free Society and Cannibals All! Or Slaves Without Masters. In them, Fitzhugh defended slavery as a practical form of socialism that provided contented slaves with paternalistic masters, thereby eliminating harsh conflicts between employers and allegedly free workers. ‘A Southern farm is the beau ideal of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slave … is far happier, because … he is always sure of support.’ … ‘The best governed countries, and which have prospered the most, have always been distinguished for the number and stringency of their laws,’ he wrote; ‘liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct.'”
— Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Source: Emancipating the Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War (Chicago: Open Court, 1996), p. 23
“The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is unapproved of not only intellectually but also morally.”
— Joseph A. Schumpeter(1883-1950)
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942
“A Communist is one who studies Marx and Lenin; an Ex- communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
~Ronald Reagan
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism.”
— Karl Marx(1818-1883) German philosopher, father of Communism, co-author of the ‘Communist Manifesto’
“The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about ‘social justice’ all you want. But what (death) taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.”
— Thomas Sowell(1930- ) Writer and economist
“But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
— Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Never forget that any government big enough to give you all you want is also big enough to take all you have.
And one last one, for now:
“We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House… The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.”
— Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation, 1954
Source: stated to Congressional Reese Commission investigator Norman Dodd
But IME and FMO, most will not see the bars of the prison ’til the doors slam shut and and the key is thrown away; there’s a REASON why socialism is seductive, but just like a woman who’s been willingly seduced, she’ll often be abandoned on the morrow, pregnant or not, and left to fend for herself.
Historically, socialism works until the architects thereof run out of OPM(other peoples money), at which point the problem is blamed on “reactionaries” or “enemies of the Revolution” or “rebels” or what-have-you, then the exterminations begin, as in the Soviet Union or Maoist China or any of a dozen other, smaller countries(Cambodia, Cuba, ad nauseum).
My favorite type of governance is that ideal described by Jefferson:
“That government is best which governs least.”
—Thomas Jefferson
…and…
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.”
— Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1801
Neighbors neighbors.
They call us hate mongers.
They say we are prejudiced.
They say we are biased! They say that we hate the minorities! The minorities.
Understand the term, neighbors.
The minorities.
Shall i tell you who the minorities are?! We, we, we! We are the minorities! Because patriotism is a minority.
Because love of country is the minority.
Because to live in a free, white America seems to be of a minority opinion! Let me tell you something, neighbors.
I want you to dwell on this, just dwell on it.
Who sold us out? Who stabbed us in the back? Well if it’s a minority opinion that we have to survive, then we are the
minority.
And this minority will not stop until it is the majority! This minority will not give up the fight! This is the promise and
this, this is the legacy!
Is he serious? White people can’t be poor? Is there a law or something that says white people can’t be poor? If so, there are a lot of people breaking that law. Perhaps he thinks that being poor is only a black privilege, HA, HA. Statements like that suggest that Bernie is seriously out of touch with reality.