Bernie to Play Tougher

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While Nevada caucuses for a GOP nominee, the Democrats will be holding another town meeting this evening. Word is, we will see Bernie Sanders take the gloves off.

It's been 18 days since The Bern's campaign called for Hillary Clinton to release the transcripts of three speeches she made to Goldman-Sachs in exchange for $675,000.

While Hillary claims she has nothing to hide and that she simply hasn't released the transcripts because the voters aren't interested in them, the Sanders campaign will reportedly be pressing the issue harder tonight when the candidates meet the public.

Just ask my good friend Spike Lee. When I'm  in the White House, I'll do the right thing!

Hillary claims that the tens of millions of dollars she's received in campaign contributions from Wall Street--its too-big-to-fail firms responsible for the economy's 2008 collapse--have had no influence on her.

She says, she's never changed a vote over quid pro quo.

That may be true. But the influence is there, nonetheless, in a far more subtle way. It influences her total agenda.

It pillories Hillary into eschewing more-lofty goals...goals like Bernie's. Hillary tells us not to think big, not to dream, to reach only for low-hanging fruit.

I'm sorry, but it appears she's lowering our expectations because her buddies control most of the money, and she's committed not to mess with their rice bowl.

This is not the Democratic party that I signed on for. The party of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern stood for ideals, not expediency.

Remember me? I actually stood for
something. Just like Bernie, 

It's no wonder Sanders' message of hope and change resonates so strongly with younger voters. They have their whole lives ahead of them.

They don't want to be told that a political revolution is neither realistic nor possible by someone at the short end of life; especially not one with trust issues.

It's down to crunch time, and Bernie needs the young generation to step up en masse, as they did during the civil rights and Vietnam eras, and create a more egalitarian future. He'll need to motivate and mobilize them even more now.

Expect to see Bernie press Hillary hard over her cozy relationship with what he sees as the source of all economic evil.

He's also started calling Hillary out for co-opting his message after he read yesterday's post (a regular reader of this blog, Bernie is even quoting my line that, 'he thought he was watching his own commercial').

Don't pay attention to the TV pundits. This race isn't over yet. It's just beginning.