'From the bottom of my heart': Bernie Sanders bounces as health scare fades

[Hassin Bin Sober]

'From the bottom of my heart': Bernie Sanders bounces as health scare fades


https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/bernie-sanders-post-heart-attack-bounce/index.html

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez capped her debut on the Iowa hustings in support of Bernie Sanders last week with a blunt call to action.

"This is not about something that we allow to happen to us. We don't let this race happen to us," she said at a rally for the Vermont senator in Council Bluffs. "We don't watch the presidential race. This is not a movie, this a movement."
And yet, there has been a certain cinematic quality to the last six weeks of Sanders' second Democratic presidential campaign. Nearly sidelined, or worse, by a heart attack in Las Vegas on the first night of October, Sanders has charted a remarkable revival. It's been powered by a run of invigorating endorsements, new poll results that showed him gaining steam in New Hampshire and Iowa, and the sense -- fueled in part by the massive crowds that welcomed him during recent rallies in New York and Minnesota -- that his "political revolution" was, after a trying summer, back on the march.
There are also, as Sanders joked following his Saturday climate summit in Des Moines, the stents to thank.
"I've got three arteries that are working right now -- that's pretty good," he deadpanned, while practicing mid-range jumpers on a basketball court at Drake University. "Better than one blocked artery, so I'm feeling really good."

[ehrnst]

1. I guess AOC didn't read Jane O'Meara Sanders' tweet from Election Day, 2016

Could be because Jane deleted it not too long after, but the responses to it remain, so we can all still see it.

Link to tweet

How we voted not as important as that we voted. Head & heart at odds for many. Whatever result, we'll work toward a better future together.

This statement by AOC certainly doesn't seem to back up the sentiment expressed by Jane in that tweet:

"This is not about something that we allow to happen to us. We don't let this race happen to us," she said at a rally for the Vermont senator in Council Bluffs. "We don't watch the presidential race. This is not a movie, this a movement."

[George II]

2. Why is she out in Iowa campaigning for BS if "We don't watch the presidential race"?!

[Skidmore]

3. +1 nt

[flor-de-jasmim]

6. I think she means that

... one should not passively watch a prez race as if it was a TV show. We work actively to get the outcome we want.

[ehrnst]

16. So, I guess that she doesn't agree with Jane Sanders. (nt)

[sheshe2]

8. Interesting...

She is on one of the prestigious committees to Impeach trump, yet is in Iowa campaigning.

Oversight Committee’s AOC is focused on how many are implicated in impeachment: ‘How big does this get?

Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is a member of the House Oversight Committee which is one of three committees leading the impeachment inquiry.

snip

“They know exactly what this testimony and what these depositions are adding up to and that, frankly, it is revealing a very disturbing sequence of events and very likely abuse of power and breaking of our oath to the Constitution of the United States,” she said.


“First and foremost, I think what’s important to acknowledge that the president has committed crimes in public,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “This is something that we know.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/oversight-committees-aoc-is-focused-on-how-many-are-implicated-in-impeachment-how-big-does-this-get/

[ehrnst]

15. Yes, the impeachment inquiry is in full swing.

Imagine the reaction if a more "centrist" Dem rep on the oversight committee was out endorsing Biden...

[NurseJackie]

4. That particular tweet was basically "giving permission" to vote third party.

I can read between the lines... and so could anyone else who followed Jane. It was a despicable thing for her to do. Unforgivable.

[myohmy2]

5. "We don't watch the presidential race. This is not a movie, this a movement."

...AOC is right, this is a movement, not a movie...

...and it's not about Bernie, it's about us...

...the establishment is scared of what we're building...millions upon millions supporting systemic change...demanding the old order be torn down...

...trump was faux change...trump was the system distracting us with faux populism...many know that now...the old order is rapidly fading and the old way of doing business is gone...

...Bernie, AOC, personifies this new order...a new order that will re-establish the dominance of the 99%...a new order that will do everything necessary to re-build the our middle-class...rebuild our faith in our institutions...rebuild our place in the world...

"The billionaire class is afraid."...as well they should be...

...we can do it...

[TexasTowelie]

9. .

[sheshe2]

10. ;)

[crazytown]

11. "a new order"?

Yikes.

[TexasTowelie]

12. If there is going to be a new order then here is my preference:

[crazytown]

13. +1

[ehrnst]

18. Sounds like that Justice Democrats goal of "rebuilding the Democratic party from scratch"

Which requires demolition first...

[ehrnst]

17. "demanding the old order be torn down..."

...that's rather vague...

...can't imagine why...


...

...and it's not about Bernie, it's about us...

...others feel differently...



...you'll be OK when he doesn't get the nomination...

[Act_of_Reparation]

21. Except Robespierre actually killed people.

So no.

[BannonsLiver]

24. Did someone say New Order?

[ritapria]

7. New Fox News NV. Poll : Bernie has a fighting Chance

Biden 24% Bernie 18% Warren 18% Buttigieg 8%

[ehrnst]

19. FoxNews. (nt)

[LanternWaste]

22. Buffalo Bills had a fighting chance in Super Bowl XXVII too.

Buffalo also had cheerleaders that pretended life was good when they were down 52-17.

I s'pose that's their job.

[Xandric77]

23. Bounces, without citing a poll

they just wanted to say he's bouncing.

[Uncle Joe]

25. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread Hassin Bin Sober.