It is damn official! We now have a challenger to Hillary….Vermont’s Bernie Sanders…..who made it official yesterday on the shores of Lake Champlain………
“Thank you all very very much for being out here today. Let me just make a brief comment and take a few questions. We don’t have an endless amount of time. I have to get back.
Let me just say this. This country today in my view, has more serious crises than any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
For most Americans, their reality is that they are working longer hours for lower wages. In inflation-adjusted income, they are earning less money than they used to, years ago, in spite a huge increase in technology and productivity.
So, all over this country, I have been talking to people, and they say, “How does it happen? I’m producing more, but I’m working longer hours for lower wages. My kid can’t afford to go to college, and I’m having a hard time affording health care. What happened, while at exactly the same time, 99 percent of the income being generated in this country is going to the top 1 percent?”
Read the rest of his announcement speech………
But if reading some of the best words you will ever read is too much a chore…..or if you are just too damn lazy to read the whole thing…..then……watch the video…….
announcement made by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders that he intends to campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2016.
Bernie will be the recipient of many negative ads……slogans and labels will be thrown at him endlessly look at every issue he puts forth he is the exact person for the American people……
If the American people voted for issues instead of some beauty contest then Bernie can be easily elected our next president……I expect to see Hillary hit on every issue Bernie raises….but without the passion. She will chip away on the edges of these issues but there will be NO specifics and no total commitment.
Any thoughts?