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I know it’s the thing to do to say “I wish Bernie Sanders a speedy recovery,” and I do, but I have to confess

that my one-stent heart just isn’t in it.

[And I know that many, many others spouting this standard bromide don’t mean it either.]

Bernie Sanders’ Heart: America in a Time of Rage | Roger L. Simon
As a man of a “certain age,” only a few years younger than Mr. Sanders, who is 78, there is something I must say to him, myself, and others: Your anger can kill you.

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  • steve walsh October 2, 2019, 6:07 PM

    I don’t wish anyone ill, even the ones I disagree with and don’t like very much that try to attain a position of power so they can tell me what to do. It’s probably not rational or justified, but this is the way I was raised, to wish the best, as it relates to their health, for everyone.

    Bernie owes it to himself and his family to abandon this narcissistic political thing he is doing. Go live with your family, enjoy whatever time it is you have left. It’s not long.

  • Jack October 2, 2019, 6:14 PM

    Anger and free floating rage are the backbone of socialism, nazism and marxism and it consumes all of their followers and disciples more rapidly than any other element of their world view. All of the current list of liberal candidates have it oozing from their pores and it emboldens all of their speeches, postulations, arguments and their only object in life is to spread it. They don’t want solutions, they want power and control so they can vent their wrath.

    I know it’s theoretically not right to wish for the death of any man but in the case of the left’s candidates and their supporters, I’m never saddened when tragedy hits them. Never, ever.

  • Nori October 2, 2019, 7:35 PM

    I understand what you’re saying,Steve. Anyone raised by good & decent parents is usually compassionate towards those who are suffering. It used to be a hallmark of Americans.
    After the past 10 yrs,however,I find myself looking at those of Bernie’s ilk with a more caustic eye.
    Our current healthcare system saved this man’s life. Flawed it may be,but if we had the socialist nightmare “care” system he brays about,and if he was’t one of the ruling class,his commie ass would be dead.
    He’s like all leftists,utter phonies.
    Pain,suffering,and death is a normal human condition. Decent people strive to make life better for their family,and by extension,the world around them. Western Civilization. It gave us Western
    Medical care. We can fix the flaws,but the Bernies will have none of that. Venezuela Care for the peasants,and Bernie Bros get all the gold plated stents they need.

    I wish for Senator Sanders to have a speedy,improved blood flow to his brain,so that maybe he’ll realize how blessed his life is.

  • Nori October 2, 2019, 8:53 PM

    Bernie Sanders is and always has been a communist. He’s lucky the Green Mountain Boys have’nt leaped from their graves and explained the folly of his idiocy,Vermont style.

    With his new stent,courtesy of his excellent Senatorial healthcare,(not for YOU,smelly WallMarters), he may get a fresh blood flow to his atrophied brain.
    Which means he’ll be back on the permanent campaign of neverending bullshit. Just like HRC.

  • Glenda T. Goode October 3, 2019, 5:56 AM

    It is somewhat ironic that the Senator from Vermont received two stents and he also advocates for socialized medicine: ala Obamacare.

    If it was a typical 78 year old patient, Obamacare would have given him a pill to make him comfortable because he had already lived a good life and it is better to spend the healthcare resources on the young.

    The fact is that the hypocrite from Vermont has the Cadillac of all Cadillac healthcare plans with virtually no deductible and no co-pays with no restrictions of where he can get healthcare. If he had my plan, he would have huge amounts of bills to pay and would be discharged the next day whether he was really ready to be or not. I say this as I am still paying off my medical co-pays and deductibles from a health problem 3 years ago.

    I wish no ill will towards the Senator, but, I wish he would pull his big red head out of his ass and accept that he is one of the .1% (Privileged few) and stop pretending he is a regular guy of the people.

  • ghostsniper October 3, 2019, 7:18 AM

    Well, all ya’ll can stumble all over yourselves seeing who can put on the biggest pair of pussy pants if you want, but I hope that motherfucker drops the fuck dead and takes as many of the other communist criminals as possible along with him.

    Assuming you’re right handed, as he is swinging at you, you swipe your left hand outward pushing his swinging hand to the left while at the same time coming straight in with your right open hand toward his left eye, and just before your hand encounters his eye you clench it into a fist real tight.

    See, sugarcoating their world has given these communists and wanna be’s the confidence to tread all over your ass. Continuing down your sugar coated path with get more of the same. When a tactic is failing how long does it take you to try something else? Does violence begat love? Of course not, any right raised person knows that! Violence can only bring overwhelming counter violence unless you prefer to wear the yoke. You know who wears the yoke? People wearing pussy pants. I tried some on when I was a little kid and found out that doing so brings severe sadness. I never wore them again, threw em right in the burn barrel.

  • Aggie October 3, 2019, 9:08 AM

    While I don’t necessarily agree with ghostsniper’s comment, I understand it and if events were to take this course I wouldn’t be disapproving.

    But on the other hand, Useful Idiots are handy things to have around when mischief benefits my goals, and right now I think the Democratic campaign would benefit from…..more. And while Bernie ain’t useful for much, he certainly qualifies on many levels for idiocy.

  • Rob De Witt October 3, 2019, 9:16 AM

    Anger and free floating rage are the backbone of socialism, nazism and marxism and it consumes all of their followers and disciples more rapidly than any other element of their world view.

    I’ll go a step further and opine that the genesis of that anger is simply envy, an ugly thing. There’s a reason it’s regarded as a deadly sin. I agree that I’ve never met a liberal who wasn’t at his core a Nazi, eagerly awaiting his chance to do harm as long as there were no untoward consequences to himself.

  • Rob De Witt October 3, 2019, 9:17 AM

    Anger and free floating rage are the backbone of socialism, nazism and marxism and it consumes all of their followers and disciples more rapidly than any other element of their world view.

    I’ll go a step further and opine that the genesis of that anger is simply envy, an ugly thing. There’s a reason it’s regarded as a deadly sin. I agree that I’ve never met a liberal who wasn’t at his core a Nazi, eagerly awaiting his chance to do harm as long as there were no untoward consequences to himself.

  • Anonymous October 3, 2019, 9:24 AM

    When I reached my three-score-and ten, I came to the conclusion that every day from there on out was icing on the cake and that I should enjoy it while it lasted. If Mr. S. enjoys what he’s doing and wants to do it until he drops, well… Go for it! We now all know the real issue for the surviving population is who your successor might be, because, let’s face it Bernie, this little incident should be illustrative for odds.makers everywhere as to just ow long you’ll last. Your choice, sir. I don’t wish you ill, but taking your politics into consideration with the possible outcome of a President Sanders keel in over and being replaced by–I don’t even want to consider that!–, it is difficult for me to wish you well unless and until you abandon your quixotic quest for glory. Please, for all of us: consider who might be your Sancho Panza stepping up to the plate after you’ve been seen off.

  • Richard October 3, 2019, 7:00 PM

    Jack – I’m not so sure why you’re lumping Nazism with two polar opposite ideologies (Socialism and Marxism)? National Socialism is a right-wing, anti-degeneracy and pro-traditionalism ideology. That’s a far cry from the other two ideologies that were built on the “principles” of being in favor of cultural Marxism, multiculturalism, modernism, globalism, universalism, nihilism, egalitarianism, individualism, feminism, homosexuality, capitalism, commercialism, materialism, secularism, freemasonry and many of other self-serving ideologies.

  • Ray October 7, 2019, 2:51 PM

    “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” attributed to Mark Twain