I'm not saying that Bernie Sanders is not the best candidate to run
against Donald Trump. But even Bernie has "gone along" with
congressional actions that were detrimental to peace in the Middle
East.
I will campaign for him and support Bernie as long as he is able to
keep the Democratic Wolves at bay. If the Democrats play their games,
and block Bernie Sanders, and if Bernie Sanders decided to run as an
Independent, then I would support him there, also.
I would certainly have higher expectations than I did in 2008, when I
voted for Barack Obama. Obama turned out to be our first Oreo Cookie
President. Other than Color and Morels, Barack Obama became as good a
Republican as was Bill Clinton.
I would like to believe...but can't quite do so...that Americans have
learned that ending prejudice is not a matter of Color. It is a
matter of Compassion.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/5/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interestingly, all of those young independent journalists, whom I hear on my
podcasts, including the two people on Trueanon, who define themselves as
Marxist Leninists, are ardently supporting Bernie. So are older people like
Michael Moore and Katie Halper. So are most of the podcast guests. The only
people who haven't verbally committed to him are Brian Becker, John
Keriakou, and Matt Taibbi, and, of course, Chris Hedges. The reason for
everyone's support of him is that they see him as the leader of a movement,
and they believe that he is the only electable candidate who is truly
honest. They're not talking about third party candidates at this point
because they know that there's no chance of electing one of them, and they
still see electoral politics as the only realistic avenue toward change.
Their faith and desperation are real.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2020 12:41 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Bernie Sanders: War in Iran Would Be Bigger
Disaster Than Iraq
Although I will vote for Bernie Sanders in our upcoming presidential
election...given the opportunity...nonetheless, I have strong doubts that he
has developed a foreign policy that will ease international tensions and
promote Peace and democracy. If Sanders is frozen out of the election
process, then I probably will vote for the Socialist Democrat candidate.
And before anyone tells me that this is throwing away my vote, I would
remind you that in 2008, I voted for Barack Obama...most assuredly a wasted
vote! In 2012 I voted for Bernie in the primary, and after the DNC did the
hatchet job on him, I voted for Jill Stein. Again, not a throw away vote.
A throw away vote would have been a vote for Hillary Clinton. Had she won,
her foreign policy was every bit as hawk-like as is Donald Trump's. My vote
for Jill Stein was my way of saying that I believed America could be better
than it was.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/4/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bernie Sanders: War in Iran Would Be Bigger Disaster Than Iraq By
Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast
03 January 20
Sen. Bernie Sanders has pleaded with President Trump and Republican
lawmakers not to go to war with Iran, warning that military action
would prove to be a bigger disaster than the war in Iraq. In a video
posted to Twitter early Friday, hours after the Pentagon confirmed it
had carried out a deadly Trump-ordered drone strike on Iranian general
Qassem Soleimani, the Democratic presidential hopeful urged the
president to get off the path to war. Sanders explained that he
opposed the war in Vietnam as a young man, and that he helped lead the
effort against the war in Iraq. "That war was the worst foreign-policy
blunder in the modern history of the United States," said Sanders,
referring to Iraq. Sanders went on: "I'm going to do everything I can
to prevent a war with Iran, because if you think the war in Iraq was a
disaster, my guess is that war in Iran would be even worse... So let's
work together and prevent that war, and if people want to criticize me
for that, go for it, that's OK, I don't apologize to anybody."
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