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I haven't posted much here about Bernie Sanders because…well, I haven't come across many articles about him on the 'net that I found interesting. I get the feeling that he doesn't have much chance of winning the nomination or, if by some fluke he did, the presidency. And I don't think it's true, as some say, that it's because people who think he's our best option for the presidency won't support him because they think he can't win.

But that's just a feeling on my part. Seems to me all the reporting on the Democratic race — the stuff about him, the stuff about Biden maybe getting in, the stuff about Hillary, the stuff about those other guys nobody cares about — has been pretty bad. It's like the press is trying half-heartedly to find a narrative there so they just print anything and then rush back to covering The Donald.

In any case: As you may have heard, Sanders spoke the other day at Liberty University, the college that Jerry Falwell built. I love it when politicians go before audiences that are not predisposed to cheer everything they say so here's the text of the speech Sanders delivered. I doubt he picked up any votes with it but he may have caused some people to think, "Hmm…maybe guys like him aren't as evil as I thought…"