What Jane did to Burlington College is what Bernie would do to America.

[YouDig]

It's a perfect example of #bernienomics. Come up with some grandiose plan that anyone who can add and subtract knows won't work. Promise to pay for it with fictitious income streams.

And it ends in bankruptcy.

Good thing the damage so far has been limited to a small college in Vermont. The other good example of #bernienomics in action is when Vermont tried single payer, but they at least had the good sense to give the whole thing up before it even started.

Lucky for us, Bernie's not getting anywhere near the presidency.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What Bill Clinton did to Monica Lewinski is what Hillary would do to America.

See how that works?

[6chars]

8. not sure i can visualize what you are saying

Hillary receiving fellatio from America? Nope, not seeing it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I'll explain the analogy using small words that are easier to understand.

The spouse of a candidate did a bad thing, and we are expected to attribute (sorry, that's a big word) some sort of analogous (sorry, that's another one) behavior to the candidate. In an attempt to save Burlington College Jane Sanders (with the help of the college's board of directors and lawyers) took out a loan that ultimately the college couldn't repay. Obviously this must mean Bernie is fiscally irresponsible and will make America go broke. Bill Clinton had an illicit relationship with a naive young intern. Obviously this must mean Hillary is going to screw America. Both conclusions are stupid. See how that works?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. brilliant

[6chars]

18. Got it.

On the other hand, while Hillary is unlikely to have a relationship with a young intern, it is not unreasonable to say she shares a professional and intellectual partnership with her spouse, and people have said the same about Bernie and his spouse. Such partnerships have pros and cons, and inferences based on them are only speculative, but that never stops anyone.

[Live and Learn]

50. +10,000 Well played. nt

[libdem4life]

54. Written like a champ!!!

Something about certain posters...no screen names...but they/we know who they are...that stinks to high heaven. I respect a well-thought out opinion regardless of the preferred candidate. But these one-liner declaratives seem to emote from the part of the brain not bothered with passing through the frontal cortex.

[msanthrope]

63. Clenis Envy. nt

[Duckhunter935]

64. Watch those big words, lol

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. Bill gave Monica a good five-cent cigar.

[notadmblnd]

31. Bill conned her into smoking his 5 cent cigar

[libdem4life]

59. These just almost write themselves. ..LOL

[TheBlackAdder]

66. WAIT! People disassociate HRC from WJC's terms, yet somehow Jane S. will have more influence?

.


Is that what this stupid OP is implying...

That somehow, Jane Sanders will have more influence on the government than Hillary Clinton did years back?



When people bring up Hillary's influence, during the Bill Clinton terms, we're told she wasn't a real factor.

Why the freakin' change?


.

[SFnomad]

23. A post I would expect to see on Free Republic or Luciferanne ... not on DU. Then again,

BS cheerleaders sound a lot like right wingnuts far too frequently.

[Live and Learn]

51. If you were talking about the OP, I would agree. nt

[SFnomad]

55. Nope, I was talking about the post I replied to ... but you already knew that n/t

[Live and Learn]

61. Oh yes, you're one of those attack and then be surprised when someone attacks back people. nt

[SFnomad]

67. Attack back? That's what you call your swing and a miss? n/t

[Live and Learn]

70. Wrong again, I never swung. nt

[Miles Archer]

34. CURSE you, V.O., you BEAT ME TO IT. Well played.

I saw the thread title and my first thought was "Not THIS bullshit again." My second thought was what you posted.

Then my third thought was the OP and a replay of my first thought.

[mainer]

2. And what Hillary did to Iraq and Libya ...

do you really want to go there with this OP?

[QC]

3. Silly thread, but I must admire your work ethic!

Member since: Mon Apr 18, 2016, 06:35 PM
Number of posts: 1,390
Number of posts, last 90 days: 1390
Number of hidden posts: 6

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Strange, isn't it, how many new members signed up

at about the same time...

[QC]

10. And all say the very same things at the very same time, too.

This is indeed a wondrous coincidence!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Must be today's Brocking point.

[QC]

27. We never have to wonder what Mr. Little Bit Nutty & a Little Bit Slutty

has to say, do we?

Goebbels would be envious of the message discipline we're seeing here.

[puffy socks]

28. I love that that is the only line

you have left!
Hillary won!


Deal with it

[Broward]

38. Here's another one.

[notadmblnd]

33. parents really want em out of their house

obviously working overtime to make them happy.

[QC]

53. God knows these kids have a hard row to hoe.

[notadmblnd]

69. I know what you mean.

the minute my house is paid for, I'm packing up and moving out on the kids.

[puffy socks]

4. Jane does their taxes

No wonder they don't want to release them
She's incompetent.


Is she in charge of the campaign's financing?
That would explain the flood of FEC notices of illegal contributions.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I didn't realize Jane was a candidate.

[puffy socks]

25. He said he'd release his taxes

She does them. They're having them looked over...for months now.


And he hires family members to run his campaign including the financing.
If she has been hired after showing her incompetence at Burlington she shouldn't of been hired in the first place will show yet more poor judgment on Bernard's part.

She has spoken for Bernie on multiple occasions and she is as fair a target as Bill Clinton is...which obviously gets your goat.

[libdem4life]

65. A couple of comments/distinctions :

1) Jane Sanders. PhD, tries to start help a college for local young people. Financing goes awry. Pretty common for 80 percent of new ventures. Bernie decides to run for office and goes to the most qualified person to manage his campaign...Jane. Campaign Managers get paid. Donors know that.

2) Bill Clinton. Ex-lawyer, addicted to philandering, no conscience about it.
.even in the Oval Office. ..somebody let her in a number of times...routine...and it wasn't to give him a manicure. Lied out his ears and got impeached creating a Global Media Event.The CF is born. Suddenly they are rich. The entire family and some Good Friends are paid handsomely. A couple of her speeches equal the net worth of the other candidate

No, we don't want to go there with spouses, and this is why . On a scale of 1-10, Jane is maybe a 2. The other is an 11

Post Fail

[coco77]

43. Desperation much?

you need to be worrying about what Bill will be doing,he is going to be a problem whether she wins or not on the campaign trail or the Whitehouse.

[puffy socks]

56. No desperation

Hillary won
Bernie lost

[coco77]

58. No good comes from a liar and cheater..

Winning in her case is losing.

[puffy socks]

60. Yeah

The whining and lying and drama will continue from the Bernie camp because.....
Hillary won!
yaHooooo! I'm thrilled about it!

[zazen]

5. what's weird about these pathetic smears is how worried the posters are about Sanders

If Clinton clearly was the inevitable nominee, why bother?

No need to respond to me--you're now on my growing Ignore List.

Have a nice day.

[CrowCityDem]

26. Fair is fair. If Bernie is still a candidate seriously running, he gets treated like one.

[AgingAmerican]

6. According to Repubicans

Of course Republicans also claim Hillary had Vincent Foster murdered.

Her supporters are getting very desperate for 'material' to attack with...

[jonmac511]

12. so

Bernie's such a terrible candidate that instead of criticizing him on all the things that make him a terrible candidate, you'd rather drag his wife into this? I think maybe you should ask yourself what makes him so terrible because you obviously have no solid reasoning behind that opinion. I'm sure that dragging a candidates spouse into the debate would hurt Secretary Clinton much more than Senator Sanders. Of course, anytime someone brings up Bill, they get blasted.

If this is the reason you tell people to not vote for Bernie,I feel confident that you'll have about the same success rate as trying to sell Hillary on her own accomplishments, none. Instead of worrying about how Jane will somehow figure into how Bernie does while president, look around and see the damage Bill has already helped create. Weak sauce here.

[YouDig]

13. His wife is a top political advisor of his.

Bill Clinton presided over the best economic performance in the last 50 years.

[jonmac511]

16. sorry but

Really, should I list Secretary Clinton's political advisor and try to figure out how many ways they would destroy the country if they had their way? Clinton's great economy was completely hollow and based mostly on fraud and the unsustainable and extremely faulty tech bubble. His policies have had direct and o going effects on the current situation this country finds itself in. The whole Bill was a great president, just look at the economy while he served, argument is easily debunked by spending a day in the real world in 2016.

[dmosh42]

15. Another of many bullshit posts!

[nc4bo]

19. You know there are these things called Boards of Trustees, right?

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/education/2014/08/15/financial-questions-dog-burlington-college/14117505/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. No, no, you don't understand! Jane did it all by herself!

She locked all the trustees and lawyers and accountants in the basement and took out the loan all by herself for the express purpose of destroying Burlington College! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Or so the brockpuppets would have us believe.

[Hydra]

22. If you have nothinig, make it up

Straight out of Karl Rove's playbook.

[Henhouse]

41. Jane's plan from your link...abject failure....

The first plan was promoted by Jane Sanders, who served as president from 2004 to 2011 and who, in her last years, championed the move from the college's diminutive headquarters in the Colodny building at the top of North Street to the capacious diocese property....

"The projections show enrollment growing approximately 20 percent per year ..." wrote the consultant, the PFM Group of Boston, "a five-year growth rate of over 100 percent," adding that revenue would grow 187 percent and expenses 148 percent. "One key assumption in the revenue growth is that it assumes one to two million dollars per year in capital campaign gifts between FY11 and FY14."

The consultant recommended that the agency approve the college's proposed financing, partly because of the "transformational nature of the project" and "the collateral value of the property being purchased." The report, however, noted these risks:

• "Debt coverage requires meeting growth projections, especially enrollment growth;

• "Debt coverage requires successful capital campaign without an established institutional history of philanthropy."

Sanders resigned in September 2011 and eventually was succeeded by Christine Plunkett, who had served as chief financial officer. In the fall of 2012, Plunkett and academic dean Stephen St. Onge spent about a week in China in hopes of laying the groundwork for a new enrollment stream. The results were limited to one Chinese student who attended Burlington College for a year, Plunkett said, and that strategy has been given up.

[nc4bo]

47. She did it alllllllll by herself. What a dictator! nt

[AZ Progressive]

24. What is so grandoise about Bernie's plans?

Universal Healthcare - This map shows all the countries around the world with universal healthcare. We are down there with the middle east and africa in terms of healthcare coverage.

Free education: Bernie's proposal is only for public colleges, and California used to have free education (and still does for low income students.) College used to be very low cost:

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And why can France and Germany have virtually free education, while America can't?


Source: http://www.nonprofitcollegesonline.com/global-tuition/

Paid Maternal Leave:

[Blue Meany]

39. You do understand, don't you, that we have free college and health care that, we'd have to

stop building missiles and aircraft carriers? And if we cut our military, we might not have the power to push neoliberal policies that make it easy for US corporations to extract resources from around the world and send American jobs overseas. Now think about this carefully, do you want your children to have a life like those in socialist Denmark and Sweden or do you want them to proudly make it on their own, paying their own way, working three jobs so that they can afford to pay their fair share of taxes to support our military and corporate overlords.

[seabeyond]

29. There own damn finances says the same, believing 1 tax return. Or running the campaign finances. Nt

[gollygee]

30. I've been reading a bunch of stupid anti-Clinton threads

So I guess I was due to stumble upon a stupid anti-Bernie one.

[hobbit709]

32. "There's desperation in the air. It stains all your clothes and no detergent gets it out"

[emulatorloo]

35. Garbage flamebait. UnRec n/t

[jillan]

36. How very Republican of you to go after a candidates wife

There are two sides to the story. If we are fortunate enough to have Bernie as our candidate Jane will be given the opportunity to tell her side of the story.

Shame.

[anotherproletariat]

37. Lucky indeed. He has shown in these last couple of months that his temperment is also something

we don't want anywhere near the presidency. Being motivated by revenge is not the way to graciously govern.

[nc4bo]

48. LOL!

for one od the most uncreative rehashed bullshit talking EVA!

[Vinca]

40. One word: bullshit.

[coco77]

42. Not recommended!

[beachbumbob]

44. More true than not..sanders always been pie in the sky

Grandiose plans...no way to pay and little support...

[AZ Progressive]

57. Because we need to give 1/2 of our tax money to the military industrial complex!

We can't afford to give our tax money back to the people in the form of benefits like in Europe!

[AtomicKitten]

45. Oh look. This election season's "whitey tape."

[GreatGazoo]

46. I'm going to miss your unintentionally funny posts

[reformist2]

49. Are you actually a Bernie fan, doing some sort of double-reverse psychology thing?

Because your posts are so over the top, they would make even JaneyVee embarrassed!

[cantbeserious]

52. Reliably Spreading Establishment FUD - Meme 25

eom

[AgingAmerican]

62. What Bill Clinton did to Monica

Is what Hillary will do to America....

See how goofy your 'logic' is?

[cliffordu]

68. Ah, bullshit

[barrow-wight]

71. Sounds like another Bernie we've all known.

[realmirage]

72. They can't even figure out how to print their taxes

But they wanna run a country

[B Calm]

73. Another display proving that Hillary supporters do nothing but INSULT. What a shame,

you should consider self deleting the op.