Depends which thread you’re in, and which way the wind is blowing.
And not everyone else has yet. But yeah.
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A. Yours is subjective opinion.
B. As a justification for not criticizing a holder of political office, it is patently ridiculous.
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Where do I sign up to join the cheer squad for extrajudicial killings?
Maybe someone can help me work ‘murder by executive fiat’ into a chant…
Ahem. No. They responded to a rather old post with silly language semantics. But thank you for you interest. Sorry if you’re having a bad day!
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Show us on the bear where it hurts.
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President Obama is one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had.
This is based on his legislative, executive action, political, social and economic accomplishments–the list is staggering, especially considering the total obstruction and opposition he has faced from the Republican Party.
Check out this objective, unbiased, real, actual and amazing list of legislative, executive action, political, social and economic accomplishments by President Obama and his administration with the support and help of the democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate (which included then Independent, Bernie Sanders).
This is ‘Black History Month’, so it should be noted that–the even better news is, there is still almost 12 months to go in the presidency of Americas first president of African-European ancestry, Barack Obama.
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Are you being paid by her committee by the word here?
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Since he keeps saying he’s a “socialist,” I’m pretty sure he knows. I’m not sure why you’re mischaracterizing his fairly consistent description of his own politics here.
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Vote Clinton?
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You seem to have unfortunately missed a chunk of the conversation.
What I said originally was this: Bernie Sanders characterizes himself as a socialist, but takes pains to clarify that he isn’t a communist. When he talks about communism, he also clarifies that he isn’t talking about idealistic, Marxist communism, but about a Soviet-style welfare state “where the government controls the means of production and runs the grocery store”. Is this incorrect?
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A. Still subjective opinion (including the link, which leads to editorialized descriptions of Govt orders, bills and memorandums).
B. As a justification for not criticizing a holder of political office, it is patently ridiculous.
C. The premise of this entire thread, that criticism is equal to disrespect, is laughable, and wholly incorrect, particularly with regard to politics and political office. And Barack Obama would agree with me on that.
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That sounds like what he’s said. 
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Bernie Sanders is favored and poised to win the 1st in the nation democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire today.
This interesting, futuristic, insightful, respectful and essential dialogue between Hillary and Bernie occurred towards the end of the last democratic presidential debate in Durham, Hew Hampshire.
MODERATOR: CHUCK TODD: Would you unite the party by trying to pick Senator Sanders as your running mate?
HILLARY CLINTON: Well, I’m certainly going to unite the party, but I’m not – I’m not getting ahead of myself. I think that would be a little bit presumptuous. If I’m so fortunate as to be the nominee, the first person I will call to talk to about where we go and how we get it done will be Senator Sanders.
CHUCK TODD: Senator, would you consider the secretary?
BERNIE SANDERS: I agree with what the secretary said. We shouldn’t be getting ahead of ourselves. And as I have said many times, you know, sometimes in these campaigns, things get a little bit out of hand. I happen to respect the secretary very much, I hope it’s mutual. And on our worst days, I think it is fair to say we are 100 times better than any Republican candidate.
Very interesting exchange in my opinion.
However on a lighter side, "100 times better’–really Bernie?
“And on our worst days, I think it is fair to say we are 100 times better than any Republican candidate.”–Bernie Sanders
Better than this rhyming spoof of Sara Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump?
"Not a politician, slurping off the gravy train, Allah Allah Akbar can I get a Hallelujah, heads are spinnin, media heads are spinnin!–Sara Palin
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Speaking truth to power, there.
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Hillary Clinton did a great job of calling out Bernie Sanders for his continued disrespect of President Obama in the last democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Here is my critique of Bernie Sanders response.
BERNIE SANDERS: Madam Secretary, that is a low blow.
A low blow is Bernie Sanders seeking and calling for a primary challenger to President Obama in 2011 after President Obama had worked and campaigned to get Bernie Sanders elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. Hillary Clinton in the last debate should have read the below comments. I hope she calls on Bernie to explain them in the next debate.
"So my suggestion is, I think, you know one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him. And I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing…”
“…There are a lot of smart, honest progressive people who I think can be good presidents. I think one of the reasons that President Obama has moved as far to the right as he has, is he thinks he can go all the way; and no one will stand up to him."
Hillary Clinton pointed out that, Bernie Sanders wrote a endorsement for a book that was critical of President Obama. Bernie Sanders tried to down play the book endorsement. However Bernie endorsed a book unfairly critical of President Obama.
…On the cover, there is an endorsement from Sanders reading: “Bill Press makes the case … Read this book.” This blurb is truncated, and the full quote makes Sanders sound less hostile to Obama: “Bill Press makes the case why, long after taking the oath of office, the next president of the United States must keep rallying the people who elected him or her on behalf of progressive causes. That is the only way real change will happen. Read this book.” But between the long and short versions of the blurb, Sanders is threading a difficult needle.
Bernie Sanders stated that it was Hillary Clinton who ran against President Obama not him.
SANDERS: Well, one of us ran against Barack Obama. I was not that candidate.
Actually Hillary Clinton announced (January 20, 2007) she was running for president before Barack Obama (February 10, 2007)–who had only formed a exploratory committee when Hillary announced she was running for president. Besides Hillary was not running in a primary against an incumbent democratic president.
Bernie Sanders also praised the leadership of former president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).
And when FDR said, “Yeah, it is,” that we’re going to use all of the resources that we have to create jobs, to build homes, to feed people, to protect the farmers, we are a nation which if we come together there is nothing that we could not accomplish.
Someone should ask Bernie Sanders–where was FDR’s leadership at on segregation in the military, internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, Jim Crow segregation, Black Codes, Sharecropping Laws (de-facto slavery), anti-lynching laws, the Ku Klux Klan, appointing a Ku Klux Klan member to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Where was FDR’s leadership at on seeking and receiving political support from racist and bigoted southern democrats (many who have since morphed and become infused into today’s Republican Party). What leadership did FDR exemplify when he gave his famous speech and nomination of Al Smith for president at the 1924 Democratic Party National Convention held at Madison Square Garden from June 24th to July 9th, that was also known as the “Klanbake.’
What were the actions of America under the leadership of FDR regarding colonization, military domination, economic exploitation and genocide against Africa and other countries of color around the world in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
In the height of hypocrisy, America during World War II as part of the ‘Allied Powers’ were fighting to defeat the psychotic and barbaric Nazi’s of Germany, who were part of the ‘Axis Powers’ that were engaging in colonization, military domination, economic exploitation and genocide.
Before and during World War II many countries that were part of the the ‘Allied Powers’ were engaging in colonization, military domination, economic exploitation and genocide themselves. The big difference is—The Nazi’s were defeated while America and it’s allies, The United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Australia etc. etc. got away with it.
It was FDR who never invited Jesse Owens to the White House or congratulated him on his victories in the 1936 Olympics.
“Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram.”–Jesse Owens
Soooo, Sanders is bad because of what a junior editor did to a phrase they edited in order to sell a book. Also because of something a dead guy did when Sanders was a young child. Are they paying you for this argle-bargle? Cos I don’t think they’re getting their money’s worth.
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You mean you still bother reading this guy’s posts?
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After the AOL splash screen, they didn’t have much left over for a better online campaign.
Convinced me, anyway. I’m definitely not supporting FDR this year.
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Whether you call it a forward, blurb, comment or endorsement, Bernie Sanders allowed his words to be used in a book critical of President Obama, those words helped sell the book.
The only person in the democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who cited the leadership capabilities of FDR was Bernie Sanders.
Yesterday former president Bill Clinton compared Bernie Sanders supporters to the extreme right wing GOP lower case ‘tea party.’
More importantly and accurately–Bill Clinton mentioned political campaigns that make promises to voters that cannot be kept once elected to office.
Former president Bill Clinton compares Bernie Sanders supporters to the ‘tea party’
Although he didn’t mention Sanders by name, Bill Clinton warned against “a single-issue campaign” and “rewarding people who tell us things they know they can’t do.”
