Presidential race 2016

[HairOfTheDog]

Bernie the Socialist is running also. But the way their single payer insurance scheme went may be detrimental.

He's a likeable character. I don't think an Independent has a shot in our political system, even if he or she weren't a socialist.

I hope that changes at some point in my lifetime, Mags. I think Ross Perot came closest to making a real bid out of it. He too was a character.

Anyway, here's Bernie...



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that if he becomes president in 2016, he will bring "a real political shake-up" that lifts the nation's poorest while stemming the proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.

In other words, he said he wants to make America look more like Scandinavia.

During an interview on ABC's "This Week," host George Stephanopoulos asked the 73-year-old Vermont senator if it's really possible for someone like him to be elected president. Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, announced his White House run last week.

"Well, so long as we know what democratic socialism is," he said. "And if we know that in countries, in Scandinavia, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, they are very democratic countries, obviously. The voter turnout is a lot higher than it is in the United States. In those countries, health care is the right of all people. And in those countries, college education, graduate school is free."