Bernie already on message, 28 years ago.

[mhatrw]

http://time.com/4037304/bernie-sanders-constitution-1987/

A sign of that can be found in Sanders’ thoughts about the Constitution nearly three decades ago. Back in 1987, for a special issue commemorating the Constitution’s 200th birthday, TIME polled a variety of “students of democracy” on the document’s strengths and weaknesses, and how they would like to see it changed. One of those who responded was Sanders, then the socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt.

His point reminds us that the Constitution may be more prone to change than the candidate:

"The most obvious weakness of our Constitution is that the economic rights of our citizens are not adequately addressed. Freedom must mean more than the right to vote every four years for a candidate for President. Freedom must also mean the right of a citizen to decent income, decent shelter, decent health care, decent educational opportunity and decent retirement benefits. One is not free sleeping out in the streets. One is not free eating cat food in order to survive."

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, mhatrw.

[dorkzilla]

2. K&R!!!

I don't know anyone this consistent...in or out of government, myself included.

[retrowire]

5. lmao me neither. n/t

[sabrina 1]

7. Me neither and the fact that he has to keep talking about it 20 years

later considering both parties have had the power and opportunity to do something about it, is really sad.

Which is why I watch how they vote, what they do and then compare those ACTIONS to their words during campaign season.

[dorkzilla]

11. “20 years later...both parties have had the power and opportunity to do something about it"

True and sad. Actually its more than sad...its criminal. Or should be.

[rurallib]

3. sounds like another democrat - that FDR fellow

As America entered the war these "four freedoms" - the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear - symbolized America's war aims and gave hope in the following years to a war-wearied people because they knew they were fighting for freedom.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fourfreedoms

[dorkzilla]

4. Ah...now I know what I’m going to do this weekend...

Seems like a perfect time for a visit to Hyde Park. Thanks!

[secondwind]

6. ah, Bernie, a breath of fresh air, even back then......

[Rose Siding]

8. That's around when he was "seeing straight through" JFK and liberalism

-and criticizing Jesse Jackson for “working within the Democratic party”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/bernie-sanders-despised-democrats-in-1980s-said-a-jfk-speech#.vnMXyrQ8Z

[liberal_at_heart]

9. As an Independent, he can see the problems of both parties. Sometimes those within a party

tend to ignore the problems within the party. The American people know both parties have problems. All you have to do is look at approval ratings for Congress and the statistics for how many people vote in this country to see that both parties have problems.

[AlbertCat]

10. Oh look!

He was right again!

[mhatrw]

13. You say that as if it were a bad thing. n/t

[kenfrequed]

12. Yup

I prefer supporting the candidate that gets this stuff right the first time too!