Any excuse to travel by Amtrak to D.C. again is fine by me.

right along with the Repukes.

to turn this good idea into an attack on our democratic president did it?

Do you people think you are helping Bernie saying shit like this about President Obama?

Just damn!

if he is honest that the opposition put the brakes on a lot of his agenda. pointing this out is not saying shit about the president. being a little thinned skinned aren't you ?

we wouldn't be in this position.

... Being the first President in several generations to get some meaningful health care reform passed?

... Eliminating Don't Ask, Don't Tell in the DoD?

... supporting the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the rich?

... proposing raising the minimum wage?

... supporting increased regulation of green house gases?

... proposing free community college for all Americans?

... directing immigration reform through executive action?

... proposing massive infrastructure investment to create jobs and improve America?


Yeah, the dude doesn't give a SHIT about democratic values.

... & Don't Ask, you list things the President has proposed, and things he's supported. But what has he ACCOMPLISHED?

Oh, and if the TPP passes, don't be surprised if the ACA is challenged in an Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

Don't get me wrong here, I'm about 80% behind Obama, but this trade deal he's pushing scares my socks off. It's kind of like a smart bomb, that can be used to break everything that he's built, and I'm utterly mystified that he can 't see that for himself!

Without a Congress to pass his agenda, that's what a President does. They advocate, they promote.

That will be same no matter who the President is, or how progressive they are.

posters post to "help" one candidate or another. It's a discussion site, not a recruiting and proselytizing site.

Of course there are some paid posters. Bit the are trolls, few and far between and obvious.

but if I can get there, I would gladly join the walk on Washington, just like I did in '63.

To be a fly on the walls of various offices.

Can you imagine if this gets going?!?!?!

If we parked a thousand cars on the George Washington bridge and threatened to leave them there for a month, in 29 days we would have whatever we decided to ask for.

Public Option, anyone?

My inner 16-year-old conceived the idea of maybe 3 to 5 cars driving round & round…

There are so many ways to jam up the system a little bit here and there.

So many people that the media wouldn't be able to ignore us and the people won't leave until legislation is enacted that will strip away the power that the rich have in influencing politics (including a constitutional amendment.)

[font color=white]......[/font][font size=4]Obama's Army for “CHANGE”, Jan. 21, 2009[/font]

[font color=white].....................[/font][font size=4]"Oh, What could have been."[/font]


He turned his back and left them standing in the street all during "Teabagger Summer".
Obama's Army milled around for a while, decided that no help was coming from the White House,
and decided they would have to do it themselves,
so they started OWS with the certain knowledge that NO help would come from the White House.


Can you imagine the effect if Obama had called on his Army to:
*go to Connecticut and camp out on Lieberman's yard?
*go to Arkansas, and camp on Lincoln's yard?

Come to Washington, and sit On the Capitol Steps.
He HAD an army that would follow him anywhere,
and this is what he did to the people who would fight for him.

Pretty disgraceful. "Hope, change," and "yes we can" went to hell pretty quickly.

Just the sound of it makes me chuckle! Some of 'em here are just freakin' WUNNNNderful! I happen to like SalmonChantedEvening, too. That's a great one! There's a bunch of 'em I really like, and of course I can't remember any at the moment...

It's from an old Buick wagon I used to drive. My friends always laughed at it and called it the Hooptie Wagon. I used it when I registered here, just for shits and grins.

Thanks! Makes me grin, too!

That as soon as the election was over, they forgot how to campaign to the people.

Not a lot of connections.

Walked into an epic mess of epic proportions.

It adds up.

present themselves very quickly...surprise! They come in all jazzed from the Power of the People, and quickly are consumed by the massive Bureaucracy of the Government. It's a completely different set of rules, and typically takes about 4 years to figure it out, especially if you're going into enemy territory.

Once elected, it was Wall St pulling the puppet strings.

He just surrounded himself with the worst corporate goons in the party as a means of bringing the party together. I think I literally shouted and punched the wall when I heard that Rahm Emmanuel was going to be COS. See also Suskind's book "Confidence Men."

...personally he will go down as one of the biggest political disappointments of my life.

I support Sanders. I support President Obama. Sanders also supports President Obama.

I may go to this march to support students and young people. Not to trash President Obama.

I've always contented that the reason one puts down another is to try and make themselves look better. Accordingly, some of you who are trashing Obama are trying to do the same for your candidate. I'm 67years old. In my lifetime, no president has done more for the middle class than Obama.
As far as Sanders goes, lets see if a march happens. It would be a good test and gain great attention. Lets see it happen.
Build up, not tear down.

Glad you're here! I'm only five years behind you and I feel the same way you do. It's a shame that only after he's gone (either from the job OR from our midst) will anyone really appreciate all he tried to do.

And yeah, he wasn't perfect. He hasn't been perfect. But THERE IS NO PERFECT!!!!!! You go looking for perfect and you'll be searching til you drop over dead of old age. In my lifetime, no president has done more, or TRIED to do more for the middle class. And at the same time, in my lifetime NO president has been up against this kind of relentless, venomous, virulent, and truly toxic opposition. AND STILL, despite everything, he still has more to show for it than anyone else - with far less obstruction to face Every Damn Day!!!!

His only mistake, I think, was naiveté about what he was facing. He gave his enemies far more respect, and consideration, and wiggle room than they deserved. FAR more. He was careful and respectful and even-handed, and every time he extended his hand, they spit in it. Or they shat on it. He should have known that was coming - but when you're looking for only the good and what CAN be done, you probably aren't wired to see that. He expected that if he fought fair, they would, too. Cuz that's just how it's supposed to be. He should have known better with this bunch of piss-ants and Sore Losermen. He expected adults. What he GOT was a bunch of spoiled, unruly, snot-nosed, entitlement-drunken, tantrum-throwing adult-size five-year-olds.

Thank you calimary. I totally agree. From day one of his first term(a fact I'm sure you know) the despicable GOP was busy planning their agenda: NEVER, EVER, agree with Obama on ANYTHING, period. NEVER give him ANY victories.

In 1968, many progressives stayed home instead of voting for Humphrey because their candidate McCarthy lost in the primaries. Thus Richard Nixon won. Some progressives need to grow up too.

To reiterate what you wrote, no one is perfect. For anyone to fight through all the shit he has had to, to get anything done is amazing. And yet he achieved a lot. Ditto on everything you wrote about the GOP.

Obama was not prepared for the economic meltdown and his appointment of Geithner was the perfect indication of that. Obama had and has a love of style and G must have represented style to him, but Geithner shouldn't have been allowed within 1000 miles of Washington or given any responsibility at all in the handling of the mess that he helped create, maybe an ambassadorship in Outer Mongolia.

But that said, Obama got a lot done in the first couple years when he had Congress with him: Wall Street Reform, Student loan reform (somewhat), credit card reform, the ACA, Fair Pay Act, Expand the GI Bill of Rights, Re-authorized CHIP, made the sentencing for crack and powder cocaine more equitable, helped the 9/11 first responders, ratified the START Treaty, repealed "Don't ask don't tell," cash for clunkers, the stimulus, extended the National Service program, saved GM.

And there was a lot more that he helped with during that time and afterward. So his administration was definitely not a waste of time. Just imagine where we would be now if Romney or McCain had been control. It's significant that since 2010, after Republicans regained control of Congress or enough control to stymie anything the Dems tried to do, not one bill of significance passed. Anything significant has come from the states and continues to come from the states.

Bernie is like a breath of fresh air and new HOPE.

We didn't turn out to vote in 2010 or 2014.

“I'm not going to give you anything; you have to make me do it."
But despite polling showing massive support for progressive policy, it was "off the table" (see single payer). So I suppose taking to the streets is what is needed?

Excellent!

We now have Bernie.

talk about getting in the streets.

He's got the true, unstoppable coalition for the 99%.

I like that optimism in this article..."the message is bigger than the messenger."

... I think his campaign will help to build the movement we need to accomplish our goals ... and his!

The more attention for his common sense message Bernie gets, the more the "Democracy" movement will grow and become
a strong voice in are currently center right dominated national dialogue.

A good example is "scrap the cap." The discussion on Soc Sec has been dominated so long by corporatists, that the majority of Americans don't even realize there is a simple and just "tweek" to social security which will ensure its benefits to everyone in perpetuity.

would gladly join them.

K&R

Bernie could make something big happen and I hope he does

...and the rest of the corporate puppets in that wing of the Democratic Party that are even more scared than the Republicans...

They know that not only are the true progressives willing and able to start demanding that their voice be heard, but now a true alternative to the 3rd Way is emerging as a candidate. HRC and O'Malley can no longer take the progressive's votes for granted.

Count me in!!

I wouldn't be surprised if republicans passed a bill saying people owing money on student loans are not eligible to vote.

would be surprised to learn that a lot of rank and file Republicans are very open to voting for Bernie. They are just as tired of all of the crap as the rest of us are. IMO Bernie would get a lot more support from grass roots Republicans than you might think..

Let's scare them shitless!

Other candidates for POTUS can spend a billion dollars on 30 second, bullshit ads if they like. We'll be in the streets, so have at it.

We have to be on the look out for some type of sabotage coming from the MSM. The Dean scream should be a lesson for us all right now. They will do anything to derail momentum.

It would be a shame if people fell for it.

another 50 dollars to Bernie's campaign!

More Americans, especially people around my age, have to figure out that it isn't just presidential elections that count. I'm sick of all the emphasis on presidential elections when there are equally-powerful bodies of government. If people continue to look for heroes while not voting in every election, we'll keep on with the current make-up of Congress, and it won't matter which Democrat becomes president.

And I am voting for Bernie Sanders.

We've got to win congressional, state, local elections. We exert our will through voting and winning at every possible level. Merely projecting all the country's problems onto the presidency is fantasy.

I would march on Washington for this!

I assume he will organize this march, since he brought it up.

However, neglected demographics should always march.

they'd shit then if a million showed up, but until not so much.

They're "TERRIFIED" in about the same way as Democrats are "TERRIFIED" about a Sarah Palin run.

They know that marches do nothing. Canvassing does. So the more Democratic activists can be sucked into doing non-productive things, the better it is for Republicans.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

I will be apart of that MARCH

K&R

think that the MSM and the pundits except for a few have not figured Sanders out yet, and those that have see something, know that he is issues and only issues.

I want to be a part of that something, just like when Bobby Kennedy was running (he went out to the rural countryside in the Appalachians mountains and saw that there was a need to change) and I was going to vote for him....................history said otherwise

Go Bernie

I wonder if the apolitical among the hippies and communes will attempt to undermine this enthusiasm?

You know, some folks wonder if hippie culture and communes were created by The Right Wing, so as to take the wind out of the sails of the anti-war movement of the 60's: http://www.quora.com/Did-the-CIA-create-the-hippie-movement-of-the-1960s

today's right vs left to the 60's.
The anti war movement was not liberal as the word is used today.
The support for the war was not all conservative as the word is used today.
Hippies were non political if IIRC.
They wanted an alternative lifestyle.

I'm in!

You might -- might -- get a million young people to march on DC if the glitch in their X-Box game isn't fixed soon, but I doubt it. A million certainly aren't going to march in DC for some populist oaf. He doesn't scare Republicans at all. But neither does Clinton for that matter.

They don't need any grand marches or radical movement statements. They do need to show up to the polls and vote in much higher numbers...then those things will take care of themselves.

It is time for a real progressive populist movement, but the message needs to be clear and not overly complex and it needs to be repeated over and over to drive it home into the minds of the people.

Then Bernie will win