''What's a ''corporate owned candidate''? ''
One that attends lavish parties on Martha's Vineyard to hit up Wall Street fat cats for money?
''A lavish Martha’s Vineyard Democratic fundraiser that Bernie Sanders attended . . . featured lobbyists for many of the industries he now rails against on the presidential campaign trail, according to a guest list obtained by MSNBC.''
Other guests were ''professional lobbyists, corporate executives, trade association heads, labor union brass and wealthy individual donors...,'' lobbyists from ''corporations such as the financial firms Blackrock and Prudential Financial, or the defense contractor Raytheon . . . DLA Piper, Patton Boggs, and Akin Gump . . . Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Wal-Mart, Chevron, ExxonMobil and . . . petrochemical and pipeline companies as well as Stanford Financial, the now defunct financial firm felled by an alleged Ponzi scheme. . . the private equity firm Blackstone Group as well as those who have represented pipeline company Kinder Morgan, the American Petroleum Institute, pharmaceutical giants such as Merck and Allergan (now involved in a controversial inversion deal), and the pharmaceutical trade association, among others.''
Damn! What's that old saying about ''glass houses''? - - http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-campaign-finance-purity-not-always-possible
A CNN report on Bernie's prolific fund-raising from Wall Street fat cats describes Sanders as ''always present''
I know; I know. You're thinking, ''Bernie was there to dress down these fat cat donors; right?''
Wrong: ''I don't recall him ever giving a speech attacking us . . . his remarks were always in the mainstream of what you hear from senators.'' - http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/sanders-democratic-fundraisers/
And there is more at http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/3/bernie-sanders-phony-revolution-sellout
"I’ve been a political activist and observer all of my adult life, and I’m hardly naïve about the methods and deals politicians employ to win elections. What I have a problem with is the sanctimonious purist who holds everyone else up to his or her own standards and who sells himself or herself as a champion of the disadvantaged or the victimized yet violates those self-imposed standards and moral code time after time. Senator Bernie Sanders may pound the podium and raise his voice to inspire a political and economic revolution across America, but he certainly lacks the courage to bring a revolution to his own political universe. Senator Sanders willingly, if not eagerly, abandons his message for political gain over and over again, the very criticism he self-righteously hurls at other politicians. When his political ambitions repeatedly conflicted with his beliefs and ethics, he chose what was politically advantageous. Bernie Sanders hides behind the guise of a revolutionary while he holds his hand out to high rollers and betrays the very people he purports to champion. His supporters may try to defend his actions, but the rest of us see you, Bernie." - JoPat Wellman, "Peoples View" - March 4, 2016 - http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/3/bernie-sanders-phony-revolution-sellout
