{"id":186288,"date":"2014-03-09T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/09\/run-bernie-run\/"},"modified":"2014-03-09T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T00:18:00","slug":"run-bernie-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/09\/run-bernie-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Run, Bernie, Run!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/178717\/bernie-sanders-i-am-prepared-run-president-united-states\">Bernie Sanders runs for President<\/a>, he has my vote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bernie Sanders says he is \u201cprepared to run for president of the United States.\u201d That\u2019s not a formal announcement. A lot can change between now and 2016, and the populist senator from Vermont bristles at the whole notion of a permanent campaign. But Sanders has begun talking with savvy progressive political strategists, traveling to unexpected locations such as Alabama and entertaining the process questions that this most issue-focused member of the Senate has traditionally avoided.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In some senses, Sanders is the unlikeliest of prospects: an independent who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate but has never joined the party, a democratic socialist in a country where many politicians fear the label \u201cliberal,\u201d an outspoken critic of the economic, environmental and social status quo who rips \u201cthe ruling class\u201d and calls out the Koch brothers by name. Yet, he has served as the mayor of his state\u2019s largest city, beaten a Republican incumbent for the US House, won and held a historically Republican Senate seat and served longer as an independent member of Congress than anyone else. And he says his political instincts tell him America is ready for a \u201cpolitical revolution.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to see someone who does more than pay lip service to liberal policies, and Bernie would do that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how serious he is.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, he does not even have an Act Blue page set up for the 2016 Presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Bernie Sanders runs for President, he has my vote: Bernie Sanders says he is \u201cprepared to run for president of the United States.\u201d That\u2019s not a formal announcement. A lot can change between now and 2016, and the populist senator from Vermont bristles at the whole notion of a permanent campaign. But Sanders has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}