Just curious on what issues you think he's slacking on?

I've only caught the 'highlights' (I watch Canadian news, and the U.S. election cycle is very long and boring), but I haven't heard him say anything more useful than "a woman's health care should be between her and her doctor", and "we're going to try to resurrect the ERA". More power to him- I'm not American, but shouldn't the ERA have been passed in the 70s? How is he planning to mandate health care for individual states? Is he going to try and mandate that states and municipalities provide safe and available access to birth control, education, abortions? What are his plans for mandatory parental leave, comprehensive health insurance, improving the communication between municipal/state/federal agencies?

If I was American I'd probably vote for Bernie as the best of a bad lot, but I wouldn't be inspired. he seems to be very silent on international issues. Many international agencies have been defunded by the U.S. because of political/religious "ideals"? Does he have any useful ideas about the parts of the world that are in crisis right now? Any ideas at all on how to make the U.S. stop taking actions that further the goals of terrorists/defranchised people? He still seems to be spouting a U.S. line that it's up to him to decide how the rest of the world lives and conducts itself.

I would probably vote for him if I was in the U.s...best of a bad lot, n'est ce pas? We just had a decade plus of a faux Republican as a Prime Minister of Canada, and that was uncomfortable. The U.S. political system is a beast unto itself- there's only so long that you can rely on momentary polls, or a political system that seeks to divide the voters in your country.

Good luck- I hope that Bernie gets a chance to work out for you. Who you vote for doesn't actually seem to count (same here in Canada- Harper managed for quite a while to just gerrymander ridings)...if it did, Gore would have won and the whole history of the U.S. would have been different for the last few decades. Maybe Bernie will be like Obama and do some useful things when he doesn't give a flying fuck about who's going to get elected after him.

But Bernie doesn't seem to have a lot going for him from a non-U.S. point of view. Best of a bad lot, maybe, but a lot of countries expect more from their leaders.