Damn, Bernie Sanders collapsed to the floor. Just on MSNBC .

[Auntie Bush]

They don't know the cause yet. I sure hope nothing happens to Bernie...we need him!
Pray for Bernie. He could use it.

[salin]

1. immediate prayers for Rep. Sanders.

[bear425]

2. Oh, no! Sending good thoughts his way. n/t

[salin]

3. kick

hoping for a quick update and reassuring words that Bernie Sanders is okay.

[cali]

4. No, no, no, no

I can't bear the thought of anything happening to Bernie.

[Auntie Bush]

8. I can't stand the thought either. I hope MSNBC ....Update now!

Ambulance crews there now.

[Totally Committed]

5. OMG...

There is not word anywhere, even on MSNBC.com about this. Sending all good thoughts and energy his way. We cannot lose this man!

TC

[Straight Shooter]

6. Oh.

Noooooo. Please let him be all right. :cry:

[kentuck]

7. I hope Bernie is OK ?

We need him in the Senate of the United States.

[ProSense]

9. Some news

I pray that he'll be okay

U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders Collapses in Vt.
By WILSON RING, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago

RICHFORD, Vt. - Rep. Bernie Sanders collapsed Sunday while attending the funeral of a Vermont National Guardsman killed in Iraq.

Sanders left the service while it was still going on in the gymnasium at Richford High School, then fell to the floor in the lobby. Ambulance crews were attending to him.

There was no immediate word on his condition, or what prompted the collapse.

Sanders was attending the funeral of a National Guardsman who was killed in Iraq late last month.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060205/ap_on_go_co/congressman_collapse_1[/div}

[Botany]

14. Get well Bernie!

Rep. Bernie Sanders collapsed Sunday while attending the funeral of a Vermont National Guardsman killed in Iraq.

You are more of a leader then * could ever be .... i betya that was not his first funeral.



Thoughts & prayers!

[Catchawave]

15. Good thoughts are with Rep. Bernie and his family

Thanks for the news update....and for the fallen soldier too ---> :cry:

[ewagner]

10. Crap!

Nothing on either MSNBC.com or CNN.com... :grr:

[laheina]

16. They might not have anything to report yet. nt

[wiley]

11. Maybe Overwhelming Grief?

at the senseless death of someone he quite possibly knew?

I pray for them all!

[Auntie Bush]

18. I was thinking the same thing...over whelming grief. I've heard

he has attended quite a few funerals. How much grief can ones heart take? MSNBC just said they still have no new news.

[wiley]

22. His wife has the flu and the gymnasium was very hot

I think he'll be just fine. Thank God!

[globalvillage]

12. God Bless you, Bernie.

Hope you're OK. Prayers and best wishes.

[Nutmegger]

13. My thoughts are with him

Truly a person who believes in us, the working folk.

[welshTerrier2]

17. he's OK ... maybe the flu ...

source: http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4458150

U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., collapsed Sunday afternoon while attending the funeral of a Vermont National Guardsman killed in Iraq.

Sanders left the service while it was still going on in the gymnasium at Richford High School, then apparently fell to the floor in the lobby. He lay on the floor outside a restroom for a few minutes before being helped into the restroom. Ambulance crews attended to him for more than half an hour and then he walked to the ambulance unassisted.

"I feel all right," he told reporters as he left the building. "My wife had a flu. I'm fine."

Sanders was attending the funeral of Army National Guard Sergeant Joshua Johnson of Richford who was killed in Iraq late last month. <skip>
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[Radical Activist]

20. I hope he's OK

Having him in the Senate gives me more hope than anything else happening right now.

[Mojambo]

19. Whenever a true progressive like that goes down

It makes you wonder.

Get well soon Bernie, we need you BAD.

[AtomicKitten]

21. Sanders is a true patriot IMO -- wishing him a speedy recovery. (nt)

[incapsulated]

23. Get well, Bernie

I hope he's ok. He's a good man and a patriot. :patriot:

[democrank]

24. That was quite a scare.

Our local news said he was hoping to be back home in time for the Big Game.

[Douglas Carpenter]

25. a good time now to make a contribution to Bernie's race

https://secure.bernie.org/page/contribute

About Bernie - link: http://bernie.org/?page_id=35

"On January 3, 1991, when Bernie Sanders was sworn in as Vermont’s sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, history was made. Sanders became the first Independent elected to Congress in 40 years. He has since been re-elected seven times and is the longest-serving Independent in the history of the House of Representatives.

Before being elected as Vermont’s lone Congressperson, Sanders served as the first Independent Mayor of Burlington from 1981-1989. In his four election victories he defeated Democrats and Republicans and, in 1987, defeated a Democrat backed by Republicans. As Mayor, Bernie helped make Burlington one of the most exciting and livable small cities in America. Under his administration the city made major strides forward in affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, childcare, women’s needs, youth programs, the arts and in creating a people-oriented waterfront. The Sanders administration also created sister-city programs in the former Soviet Union and Nicaragua. Politically, with Sanders as Mayor, Burlingtonians created the Progressive Coalition that became the third political force in the city. The Progressive Coalition became the forerunner of the Progressive Party of Vermont, currently the state’s third party.

In 1986, Sanders ran for Governor of Vermont. He lost, but his 14 percent was, up to that point, the highest vote for a non-Democrat, non-Republican in modern Vermont history. In 1988, he ran for Vermont’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and lost again in a nail-biter. The winner, former Republican Lieutenant Governor Peter Smith, received 41 percent of the vote while Sanders, an Independent, received 38 percent and the Democratic candidate Paul Poirier received 18 percent. The importance of that election was that Sanders put to rest the so-called “spoiler” argument, having received far more votes than the Democrat. In 1990, Sanders ran for Congress again. This time he won, defeating Smith by 16 percentage points. The Democratic candidate came in a distant third.

As a member of Congress, Sanders has approached his responsibilities from several perspectives. First, as Vermont’s only representative in the House of Representatives, he has worked hard to protect the interests of the people of his State. Secondly, in a Congress heavily dominated by corporate interests, he has attempted to force discussion on issues that the representatives of Big Money would prefer to ignore. Thirdly, he has worked successfully to pass legislation that is improving the lives of people in Vermont and throughout the country.

Bernie Sanders believes that in the richest nation in the history of the world, all Americans should enjoy a decent standard of living. He believes that it is unacceptable that millions of people are forced to work for sub-standard wages and lack health care, decent housing and educational opportunity. He regards it as a national disgrace that the United States has, by far, the highest rate of child poverty of any industrialized country and a childcare system that is abysmal. He regards it as unconscionable that the United States remains the only country in the industrialized world which does not have a national health care system guaranteeing health care for all, and that millions of seniors lack the prescription drugs they desperately need.

Most of Sanders’ energy has been devoted to issues that affect the needs of the people that government often ignores - working families, the middle class, the elderly, children and the poor. In a nation in which the wealthiest one percent own more wealth than the bottom ninety-five percent, and where the CEOs of major corporations earn 500 times what their employees make, Sanders believes that the middle class and working families of our country need all the help they can get. Sanders has also been strongly involved on environmental issues, and in protecting the rights of women, minorities and the gay community. He has also been one of the leaders in Congress in opposition to the war in Iraq.

When Sanders took office in 1991, he was concerned that there was no organized group in the House of Representatives to represent the economic interests of the average American. Along with four other members of the House he founded the House Progressive Caucus, which has now grown to 56 members. Sanders chaired the caucus for its first eight years. In the last three years, he has been ably followed in that position by Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Barbara Lee (D-CA). The Progressive Caucus, on a wide variety of matters, has helped lead the effort in Congress to protect the interests of the ordinary citizens of this country who cannot afford to contribute large sums of money to buy political influence. They have also played an active role against the war in Iraq.

During this session of Congress Bernie has been a leader on a number of fronts. Click here to read about the issues that he has focused on during his years in Congress.

*More information about Congressman Sanders can be obtained from his political autobiography, Outsider in the House by Bernie Sanders and Huck Gutman, Verso Press, 1997. Other books that describe his political career as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont and candidate for Congress are: People’s Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution by Greg Guma, 1989; Challenging the Boundaries of Reform: Socialism in Burlington by W.J. Conroy, 1990; Socialist Mayor: Bernard Sanders in Burlington, Vermont by Steven Soifer, 1991; Making History in Vermont: The Election of a Socialist to Congress by Steven Rosenfeld, 1992."

https://secure.bernie.org/page/contribute

[wicket]

26. Get well Bernie!

See you in the beer hall in September! :D