<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); text-align: center; -webkit-hyphens: manual; max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="5" style="max-width: 100%;">Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House</font></h1><figure itemprop="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; max-width: 100%; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(155, 155, 155); line-height: 25px; font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bernie-Sanders-1200.jpg" title="Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House" itemprop="url" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;"><img itemprop="image" alt="" style="max-width: 100%; border: 1px inset rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); margin: 0.5em auto; display: block;" apple-inline="yes" id="F7E23AD5-4C59-4220-A9C1-DA83635F402B" height="459" width="690" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:96C22455-E400-4DC2-9BC0-FCB44207AA90@att.net"></a><figcaption itemprop="description" style="max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 1em; width: 849px; font-style: italic;"><span itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">Credit</span> Photograph by J. Scott Applewhite/AP</span></figcaption></figure><p style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 15px;"><b style="max-width: 100%;">WASHINGTON</b> —The Vermont Senator <span style="max-width: 100%;">Bernie Sanders</span>’s potential bid for the 2016 Presidency was declared over, on Monday, before it even began, because of a key feature of the American political system that makes a person with integrity ineligible for the White House.</p><p style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 15px;">According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency.</p><p style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 15px;">“<span style="max-width: 100%;">Bernie Sanders</span>’s failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected,” said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible.”</p><div style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 15px;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 15px;">Because of his ineligibility, Logsdon said, the Vermont Senator would be unable to fund-raise the one billion dollars required under the current system to run for President. “The best source of a billion dollars is billionaires, and Sanders has alienated them,” he said. “Clearly he didn’t think this through.”</p><p style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 15px;">Logsdon said that Sanders might persist in his quest for the White House despite his ineligibility but that such an effort would be doomed to fail. “Our political system has been refined over the years specifically to keep people like <span style="max-width: 100%;">Bernie Sanders</span> out of the White House,” he said. “The system works.”</p></body></html>