Socialist and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off his presidential campaign today on the shore of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vt., before an estimated crowd of 3,000 supporters. As Byron York suggests, Sanders’ speech was heavy on progressive politics: universal pre-K, universal health care, free college tuition, expansion of Social Security benefits, an increase in the minimum wage, no war in the Middle East, and so on.
Sanders kicked off his wish list, though, with a line which sounded awfully familiar, especially coming from a presidential candidate.
Bernie Sanders: "We begin a revolution to transform our country economically, politically, socially and environmentally"
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 26, 2015
Bernie Sanders: 'Today…we begin a political revolution to transform our country, politically, economically, socially and environmentally.'
— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 26, 2015
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Bernie: "Today we begin a political revolution to transform our country… Now is not the time for thinking small." #bernie2016
— MerryPundit (@merrypundit) May 26, 2015
Self-described "Democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders rolls out campaign: "Today.. we begin a political revolution to transform our country."
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) May 26, 2015
Would he call this a fundamental transformation?
@ByronYork sounds like he plagiarized from one of Obama's speeches.
— Aww, flibbity-gibbet! (@WAGongaware) May 26, 2015
@cam_joseph @jhseher Wasn't that the 2008 Obama platform? It didn't happen already? #confused
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 26, 2015
@ByronYork More transformation? Is that a progressive code word for destruction?
— Protect children and animalsⓋ formerly Teresa (@StudentOfDrA) May 26, 2015
@ByronYork there's that "transform" word again
— Donna (@Garden_Warrior) May 26, 2015
Was this the moment when the rise of Lake Champlain began to slow and the Adirondacks began to heal?
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