{"id":31237,"date":"2018-01-29T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31237"},"modified":"2018-01-29T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:42:34","slug":"bernie-on-face-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/29\/bernie-on-face-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie on Face the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday Bernie Sanders appeared on Face the Nation.&#160; Despite repeated attempts by the host to get him to commit to a 2020 Presidential bid, Bernie kept refocusing the discussion onto the things that he wanted to discuss.&#160; His ongoing refusal to let the media play him is one of the reasons he remains one of my favorite politicians.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0129Bernie\" 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=\"0129Bernie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0129Bernie.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) brushed aside talk of his own potential 2020 presidential bid in an interview on CBS&#8217;s Face the Nation Sunday, but insisted that whoever does run must &quot;focus on the needs of workers&quot; and &quot;be prepared to stand up to the one percent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What we need to do as a nation, whether I run or no matter who runs, is revitalize American democracy and create a government that actually works for working people, and not just for billionaire campaign contributors,&quot; Sanders said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/01\/28\/sanders-whoever-runs-president-must-fight-workers-and-take-1\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MaIsa4RBdXQ\" target=\"_blank\">video of Bernie&#8217;s appearance<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MaIsa4RBdXQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Note that one of items Bernie stressed is that we all need to work together to elect Democrats.&#160; He did this because he is smart enough to know that the Democratic Party is far superior to and the only viable alternative to the Republican Reich.&#160; So the next time you&#8217;re tempted to call the Democratic Party foul names or support false equivalence, listen to Bernie.&#160; If more had done so in November, we wouldn&#8217;t have this mess.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Bernie Sanders appeared on Face the Nation.&#160; Despite repeated attempts by the host to get him to commit to a 2020 Presidential bid, Bernie kept refocusing the discussion onto the things that he wanted to discuss.&#160; His ongoing refusal to let the media play him is one of the reasons he remains one of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/29\/bernie-on-face-the-nation\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31237","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\/31237","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=31237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}