{"id":21551,"date":"2016-04-30T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21551"},"modified":"2016-04-30T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T20:21:09","slug":"bernie-or-bust-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/30\/bernie-or-bust-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Bernie or Bust&rdquo; Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I became a fan of George Takei as Lieutenant Sulu, Helmsman of the Enterprise in <em>Star Trek<\/em>.&#160; That continued through his support of LGBT people, the Occupy movement, and most recently, Bernie Sanders.&#160; Beyond question, fellow progressives, George is clearly one of us.&#160; However, in the face of movement toward staging a write-in campaign valled \u201cBernie or Bust\u201d, George endorses a far better slogan.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0430VoteBlue\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0430VoteBlue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0430VoteBlue.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing for me to say here \u2014 nothing more to describe or explain. The message that activist George Takei sends out in this video to progressives, Democrats, and liberals around the country, is simple and clear. Here is the full transcript [<em>click through]<\/em> followed by the video,,,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/4\/28\/1521218\/-George-Takei-discusses-Bernie-or-Bust-and-once-again-he-is-spot-on\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sNtTQ8ijJMQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bernie says that on Hillary\u2019s worst day, she\u2019s infinitely better than the Republican.&#160; \u201cBernie or Bust\u201d helps the Republican <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">only.&#160; That\u2019s not what Bernie wants.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I became a fan of George Takei as Lieutenant Sulu, Helmsman of the Enterprise in Star Trek.&#160; That continued through his support of LGBT people, the Occupy movement, and most recently, Bernie Sanders.&#160; Beyond question, fellow progressives, George is clearly one of us.&#160; However, in the face of movement toward staging a write-in campaign valled <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/30\/bernie-or-bust-bites\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}