Colonel Sanders built his empire by starting with a single restaurant.  Let’s help Bernie Sanders build his base by starting with a Senatorial vote.  It could be the start of something big.  Bernie in ‘08!

Bernie Sanders brings common sense to complex issues.  I listen to him often on “Brunch with Bernie” with radio’s Thom Hartman. Each week, he speaks truth and wisdom.

Thanks Bernie for your good work.

Bravo Senator Elect Sanders! Now prosecute the Neo-Con war co-conspiritors...They have wrecked Iraq and Lebanon killing hundreds of thousands of civilians...we must stop their dark agenda

What now? “Pelosi and Bush are Burying the Hatchet”?http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061...n_go_pr_w h/ bush??What does she mean she’s not going to impeach Bush? She and the creep are “settling their differences,” what? Who in the world does she think she is? First off, she’s not even chosen yet to be the Speaker of the House. Sorry, Nancy, but there’s actually a process and competition for the position. As well, we the people have not spoken on the matter yet; though CNN and FOX and the others have weighed their desire for her quite heavily. The Democrats have been put in power on a mandate of the people to investigate the actions of this Administration which has steered the nation nearly off a cliff, and she’s to set the process of restoring America’s standing in the world and our quality of life, security, and health at home. Pelosi is there because we the people want our Constitution and Bill of Rights restored as of 4pm, friday afternoon, January 5th, 2007. We the people put the Democratsi in charge of the House because we want to get to the bottom of the massive number of deaths in the Gulf Coast which is directly connected to the Administration’s handling of the matter. Katrina was not just a glass of spilled milk, it was negligence to the worst degree demands independent investigation. We the people put the Democrats in power because we no longer want to be dependent on foreign, filthy and archaic Gas & Oil for our energy needs, and we are not going to be happy with simply raising the standard automotive mpg from 21mpg to 25mpg (1925 Ford Model T got 25 mpg). We want alternative energies now, not because we are dreamers, we want it because it is cheap, clean and fucking available. We the people put the Democrats in charge in charge to investigate why the Administration scared the bejeezus out of all of us with the notion that Sadam was minutes away from nuking Disneyland and the rest of America, when in fact we all now know that it was a bold face and well planned out lie. More than that, we now know that the small group in the Administration have had plans for invading Iraq since at least 1999 when they pressed Bill Clinton with the idea of Iraq invasion and US hegemony of the Middle East. We know about the Bush White House meetings with Oil executives and their 2000 pre-invasion plans for private profit pipelines throughout the region. We the people did not put Nancy Pelosi where she is today so that both she and Bush can feel comfortable together at dinner parties. We the people want transparency in government and we want results. We the people put Democrats in charge of the Congress so that we can IMPEACH BUSH!

Speker of the House Kucinich sounds much better than Pelosi. This guy is ready to clean the House. Pelosi is readying to go to dinner parties with Bush.?

As an American residing abroad I am proud we now have Bernie Sanders in the Senate If only there were more like him, but if there were where would they have to go to be elected?

Senator Bernie Sanders, your the man!

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Much of the $45 billion migrant workers take out of this country will go to buy products American Companies manufacture, either here, by American workers or by outsourced labor.  Besides, my math says it’s still only 10% of the taxpayer dollars sent to fund the fiasco in Iraq.  What were oil co. profits last quarter?  How much did the savings and loan scandal cost each of us?  How many American companys reap huge government subsidies?  Let’s get real.  If those poor dirt farmers didn’t get a little help from us to raise their children, our government would send that $45 billion to the middle east to murder others.

Bush and Pelosi Sell-Out Middle Class

By Krissah Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer

Immigrant workers are sending more money than ever to their families in Latin America, but two new studies show that only a small portion of the billions of dollars directed there has gone to economic development.

A report released yesterday by the Inter-American Development Bank estimates that immigrants living in the United States will send $45 billion to family members this year, representing a steady increase from about $2 billion in 1980.

Are we not draining our economy with illegal immigrants and work visa programs that promote the sucking sound of U.S. dollars to Mexico and Latin America? Are we not enabling the ruling class of Countries like Mexico to abuse their people by promoting unregulated cheap labor to flow in our Country, while they send the money back home?

When Congress and the President talk about Immigration reform, what about the trade deals that destroy working class people in all the Countries and create this race to the bottom? If we merely legalize cheap labor ( work visa program) through Immigration reform that Bush and Pelosi are working on together, this will be one more nail in the coffin for workers and small business.

As a former resident of Burlington, VT during Bernies’ reign as Mayor, I’m glad to see that he’s now supporting raising the minimum wage.

I love Bernie, and always will - but was very dismayed during his tenure as Mayor for his ‘fix’ on wages in that state.

Congrats Bernie! And congrats to all Vermonters who have always been able to see thru the fluff and vote for a true American Patriot.

Re:  John Earl #5725

I am dreaming with you.  Dennis Kucinich would be as good as Ralph.  But I am still dreaming.

March 26, 2006
America’s legacy from G Herbert Walker B will be long term.  The (un)Patriotic Act was made permanent, not merely extended.  The two Supreme Court appointments are supportive of large corporate power.  The Iraq war will damage America’s international standing and relations for decades.  In the meantime, the Democratic party seems unwilling to organize and stand in favor of workers and women.  It was the teamsters Union that delivered Wisconsin to the Democratic party in 2004, yet it is Republicans taking steps to reduce immigration into the U.S.  The Democratic party squashed Paul Hackett in Ohio, and is running a traditional Republican look-alike against Santorum for Senate in Pennsylvania.  The Democratic party’s best future prospects are younger faces and energy from Jack Carter (Nevada) and Russ Feingold (Wisconsin).
s/Allen, a former Reagan Republican

No attacking Sanders for agreeing with the majority of Democrats for the same reasons they did regarding it being a waste of time and energy to follow Russ Feingold off the cliff regarding censure, which is nothing but a slap in the wrist?!?

If not, then I expect not only to not hear/read “progressives” attacking Democrats, but supporting them for actually thinking ahead to an ability to actually achieve not only putting an end to Bush’s destroying of our rights, freedoms, economy, Bush’s push for never ending war. For Democrats to recognize that it’s far more important to take back the Congress and to have Representative John Conyers replace Sensenbrenner as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and have the ability to call for an investigation and impeachment.

If not, then the so called “progressives” are just the republican’s favorite sheeple.

Howard Dean AND BERNIE IN ‘08, if we can convince Howard to quit wasting his time on the same people who helped the media shoot him down in ‘04.

Although I have confidence in Bernie’s grassroots organization’s ability to overcome the b.s. his wealthy opponent will undoubtedly spew, us non Vermonters must financially support Sanders. Monitoring the elections themselves will be very important.

Wow! What a delightful interview with a real American hero. Would that there were far more Bernie Sanders’ in Congress. He speaks my mind extremely well. I think he also speaks to the real interests of the American people.  Go Bernie!!

This article leads off: “Editor’s note: When Bernie Sanders won election as Vermont’s sole member of Congress in 1991, he became the House of Representative’s first Independent in 40 years.”

When I went to school, the Senate was part of Congress.  I count Vermont’s representation in Congress as 3.  The editor’s note is as stupid as the the statement that the USA is a democracy, when it is actually a (nominally) democratic republic.  Vermonters who live in towns with a town meeting form of government know the difference; most USAns are clueless, believing the endless propaganda foisted on them by their governments, schools, and the press.

My intial point is trivial by itself.  The issue of democracy is much more important, and so is the need for accuracy in the media.  If an editor can totally blow a simple statement of fact that should be known to any US elementary school graduate, how can we trust the press to be at all accurate on more complex issues?

I wish we could look into what happened to Paul Wellstone.  When you defy Cheney it could be fatal.  I with Bernie Sanders well as our country is in desparate need of people like him.

I see that everyone questions the morality and legality of Bush’s Iraq invasion and its ulterior motives. but I do not understand the apathy and lack of movement to stop the genocide that is being inflicted upon Iraqi people because of US-Brit aggression.
And why do we need inquiry? what is there to not understand about the Iraqi or any other US ( direct or sponsored) war - be it in Middle East or South America or Asia. It is all about supremacy and total disdain and prejudice for other countries and cultures.

Jeez, if the truth isn’t apparent to anyone reading this… Just look at the potential republican opponent Bernie will face soon, his name… “Rich Tyrant” ...oops, I meant, Tarrant.

Bernie Sanders for President!!!

-Registered Independent in Chicago

Politcians like Bernie are Americas only hope..Problem is Bernie’s seems to be the only one!
The only one that as not been brought off by corporate influence and partisan politics that is.One that seems to put he interests of the average guy at the top of his to do list.
As we all know, washington is awash in “dirty money”.So, the priority is the protection of those who have it against those who don’t.
If you were a weatlhly politcian,(most of whom are i might add). Whos interests are you going to protect?
THE DECEPTION OF DECMOCRACY: PLEASE READ BELOW.
The constitutional system was originally designed “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority,” in the words of the leading framer, James Madison. Political power, he explained, must be in the hands of “the wealth of the nation,” men who can be trusted to “secure the permanent interests of the country”—the rights of the propertied—and to defend these interests against the “leveling spirit” of the general public. If the public were allowed to participate freely in elections, Madison warned his colleagues, their “leveling spirit” might lead to measures to improve the conditions of those who “labor under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings.”

Who’s going to make the “Third Party Independent “ tee shirts? I’ll buy some.

I’d like to see Sanders and Nader on an independent ticket for the Big Show!

You may say I’m a dreamer…

Bernie is a true statesman in that he cares more about his country than getting his face on TV.  Because if you don’t agree with this president you don’t get a whole lot of press these days. Thank God for him and news outlets like yours that know what fair and balanced really is.  fair and balanced

Cheney to add what is posted above when Sec of defense rewrote laws that required Army Corps of Engineers to do certain work be open for bid. The KBR got a lot of that work and when Cheney who only had government work on his resume became head of Halliburton which then bought KBR but like Cheney’s record of mistakes KBR had an asbestoes problem which was costly.
Cheney also armed Saddam & Osama and then for the almighty buck did business with the enemy , Iran

Forget about why we went to war. It was about the oil/$/control issues of Bush & Co. If you want to get some inside poop from a scientific viewpoint go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288 263801
If you are part of the power establishment that voted us into an un-necessary conflict you’ll likely piss & moan that the truth finally came out despite a 911 Commission (Whitehouse/Whitewash) Report
If you are a human being it should make you sick to your core, and if you are a patriotic American it should make you furious.

Cheney Guilty of Far Worse Than Treason!!  Shine the Light on Oct. 9, 2004 Meeting at Middlebury College in Vermont!!!  That conference called, “The Privitization of National Security,” was coordinated by none other than Republican architect of the Cheney-Bush administration, Princeton’s George Schultz AND by Democratic Party and Wall Street’s own “Felix the Fixer” Rohatyn!! 
If you check the record of the Pinochet Fascist Coup in Chile in Chile in 1973, you will find this same “pro-fascist” dynamic duo Schultz and Rohatyn hard at work together. (I wonder if they ever will apologize to the new President of Chile for their support of the Fascist Coup which killed Chile President Michelle Bachelet’s father among thousands of others?)
So what does this have to do with Cheney?  As Casey Stengel used to say, you can look it up and check the record.
Before leaving office as Secretary of Defense in 1992, Cheney gave a multi-million dollar contract to none other than Haliburton Corporation to “study” the privitization of aspects of U.S. Defense.  Guess who later became the head of Haliburton and then later the President of Vice?  You guessed it right… Dead-eye Dick!!!
At the Middlebury College conference of 2004, the theme was summarized by Peter Feaver, the Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke Univeristy who stated at one point, “In fact what we’re seeing is a RETURN TO NEO-FEUDALISM. If you think about how the EAST INDIA COMPANY played a role in the rise of the BRITISH EMPIRE, there are similar parallels to the rise of the AMERICAN QUASI-EMPIRE.” (emphasis added)
So, there you have it all in the nutshell!!  What Dick Cheney has been up to since 1991, and still today, has been to take the power of government away from the nation-state and transfer the power to shoot to financier interests owned and used by the imperialist financier class.  So, if you carry out torture, kill, maim, and loot- the nation state would not have the power to stop you.  That is an immediate threat to civilized forms of life, inside the U.S., and around the world, today!! 
I call upon Bernie Sanders and all other people independent of Fascist Republican George Schultz and equally Fascist Democrat Felix Rohatyn to put an end to this NOW!!  Reverse all legislation and actions which has perpetuated this intrinsic corruption and attempted destruction of the Constitution and well-being of the United States of America.
The executive Intelligence Review of Lyndon H. LaRouche has the full documentation of everything stated above and it is in the process of being published and widely ciruclated very soon.  Gerald Pechenuk cities12345 at yahoo dot com

Bernie: go for it, all the way!
Neither party has any interest in serving the people--only themselves-- and we need all to wake up to this fact.
The only thing that can save America now, difficult as it may seem, is a third party. Read Howard Zinn in the Progressive, or on the website Common Dreams, on how we are so vulnerable to outrageous lies and political manipluation, not just recently, but over many years.
Power to the People!
“Never underestimate what a small group of people dedicated to a cause can accomplish.” -M. Meade

I lived in Burlington, VT when Bernie was mayor - I still have a “Bernie” button that I wear because you just can’t find this kind of ethical, balanced, down-to-earth person in politics anywhere.  I live in Brooklyn, NY now but I’m going on Bernie’s Web site right now and giving him some money for his senate campaign, although I’m confident that his character, his ideals and the public trust he has garnered will win out over Tanner’s pocketbook…

Since it is not easy to be Conservative (re a sustainable environment & economy)/Radical (paying attention to the roots of problems)/Liberal (keeping an open mind for better ideas), I’ve decided being Independent rather than a Party Pooper is a very good idea!

I wish we could get a decent interview like this on TV!  I emailed COA News http://coanews.org to see if they can do this.  They provide video online.  If anyone is into online video they offer a Free “Video Alert Service”. Once a week, they send email subscribers their latest news videos for free. Through-out the week they scan their list of independent media affiliates and feature the best independent news and public affairs video available.

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Among “the rich”, those of us in the middle class must include the fund managers of our 401k investements, retirement plans, mutual fund investments, etc. We demand unreasonably high returns from these vehicles and in turn fund managers make unreasonable requests of public traded entities. In the end, the demands come full circle and we find our benefits cut, our retirement plans eliminated, and our jobs lost through redundancy. A lot of what’s making this country is sick is akin to an autoimmune disease. In part, we’re killing ourselves.

Not to say for a minute that the truly rich do not have undue influence.

Hello Burnie… Love What U R Doing

U Sound Like A BUFFALO

http://www.TheBuffaloParty.com

Thank U 4 All Your Work

Roger, Moscow, VT, USA, Earth

Nice interview.  Clearly, we need more representatives like Bernie Sanders.

But why would Sanders and John Conyers waste their time putting together a committee to investigate the question of “Why we went to war?”

With all the dissembling, finger-pointing, stone-walling and butt-covering that would surely accompany such an endeavor, what’s to be gained?

It took 40 years to expose the facts behind the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.  All we’re going to get out of a comprehensive investigation of the run-up to the Iraq War is an 800-page document whose facts will be more or less self-evident and which no one will bother reading.

Latest Polls show 50% for Democrats, 39% for Republicans.

Now if 50% of the voters will vote for a party with NO leadership, No platform, NO programs how many would support a party with all three??

It is time to break the two party lock and time for Independents to get together and form that centre party.

Just imagine how uncomfortable Fox “News” is going to be when it announces Sanders victory in Vermont. The righties are finally going to hear truth spoken to power....

Damn, why in the hell aren’t there more people like Bernie Sanders running in this country? Why in hell do people vote for anyone other than Bernie or someone like him? Oh, the rich don’t like Independents anymore than they do Democrats, not good for their tax breaks as it were!