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Home Front: Politix
Joan Baez Endorses Bernie Sanders: '€˜He Has Won My Heart'
2016-04-10
[Breitbart] "Bernie has won my heart," Baez, 75, wrote. "I joyfully and wholeheartedly endorse Bernie Sanders to be the nominee for the Democratic Party in the 2016 Presidential Election."

She explained that this is the second time she has endorsed a presidential candidate; the first time, she publicly backed the "master of the spoken word," Barack Obama. Baez said that "as a daughter of Quakers I pledged my allegiance not to a flag or a nation state but to humankind, the two often having little to do with each other."

She said a great incentive for her decision to endorse Sanders was due to his support for causes she has been personally involved with for decades.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  He won her heart, because she doesn't have a fucking brain.
Posted by: Raj   2016-04-10 19:48  

#7  Airandee, it's all about the terminology. Gus Hall was upfront and told people outright that he was a communist. In those days following WWII and in the Cold War the word communist still carried a stigma. These days Bernie calls himself a "democratic socialist". People don't believe me when I try to tell them he's really a communist and even if they did they wouldn't be all that disturbed by it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-04-10 16:46  

#6  I miss the good old days when Gus Hall could not muster more than 250,000 votes nation wide. My how far we have slipped to the left.
Posted by: Airandee   2016-04-10 09:30  

#5  "He has won my heart."
And both still-functioning brain cells.
Posted by: ed in texas   2016-04-10 08:39  

#4  She is 75 years old now?

I spent ten years in the jungle when she was making records. She and I wouldn't have been closely associated. Can she still sing?

I don't sing much.
Course, I never did.
Posted by: Unaque Wittlesbach7381   2016-04-10 08:32  

#3  Since Mary Travers has transitioned to another plane and communicates with me but rarely these days, I figure my duty as Cross-Spatial counselor is to backup Joanie's endorsement with Mary's.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-04-10 07:51  

#2  A Commie supports a Commie.

Somehow I'm not surprised.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-04-10 07:50  

#1  She's still alive?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-04-10 06:31  

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