It will be interesting during ‘Black History Month’ to see how many African-Americans who know African-American history-- and specifically the racist history of FDR, will vote for Bernie Sanders after he unfairly criticized the leadership of President Obama while praising the leadership of FDR.
But I thought FDR was a myth…
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Mr Clinton is actively hurting his wife’s campaign, and needs to stop trying to “help” her.
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Do you think that’s unintentional?
He’s repeatedly proven he’s perfectly capable of running election campaigns well, so I can only imagine he’s doing it deliberately.
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I’m not sure what to think. Bill’s always seemed like a fairly level-headed even-keel sort of guy, but his comments on this campaign have had a weirdly unhinged feel. If he isn’t trying to sabotage Hillary’s campaign on purpose, he’s doing a good job of it unintentionally.
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Former president Bill Clinton has recently been in Florida a swing state that has voted in the last two presidential elections for President Barack Obama.
Former president Bill Clinton in Florida for Hillary.
For example, Clinton said that there are two approaches to making college tuition more affordable: One is free tuition for everyone (that’s Sanders’ proposal). Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has advocated a sliding-scale approach: making tuition and books free for poor students while letting rich families cover the cost themselves.
And Clinton gave a warning about moving the Democratic Party more to the left. He said that the Tea Party moved the Republican party to the right — and then they “didn’t get anything done.”
“That’s going on now in our party,” he said.
Chelsea Clinton has recently been in Cleveland, Ohio, located in Cuyahoga County, the important county a presidential candidate must carry in order to win Ohio. President Obama also won the swing state of Ohio in the last two presidential elections.
Bill and Chelsea have been in states that President Obama has a large and still loyal following among voters especially minority voters.
Former president Bill Clinton has been pointing out the unfair and over-the-top attacks on Hillary Clinton by Bernie Sanders and his supporters (on-line) and republicans in general. It is obviously designed to enrage and drive voters to support Hillary who has been a champion of the social and economic accomplishments achieved during the administration of President Obama.
The ability of the Hillary Clinton campaign to have well known surrogates campaign in multiple states at the same time, is the advantage democrats will have in the general election with whoever the democratic nominee for president is.
In the general election, democrats will have on the campaign trail simultaneously in multiple states: the winner of the democratic presidential nomination Hillary or Bernie, whoever the VP choice is, President Obama, Vice-President Biden, Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, the loser of the democratic presidential nomination Hillary or Bernie, other democratic surrogates like Elizabeth Warren, Chelsea Clinton, Julian Castro, Deval Patrick, Martin O’Malley, Tammy Baldwin, Cory Booker etc…
Republicans in the general election cannot match this, they will have to strain to not only attempt to win swing states, but to spend resources, plus limited and valued time having its presidential candidate and VP choice defend states that have normally been safe republican states.
Democrats will be able to campaign and compete in all 50 states and territories, competing in states like Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri and Indiana–states that could be flipped from red to blue because they voted near, at or over 44% for President Obama in 2012.–2102 Presidential Election Results: Click State For Election Results.
In 2008 North Carolina, Virginia, Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico were poised to and moved from red to blue.
Gotta keep bumping the “disrespecting President Obama in 2011” topic.
Because, like, that’s still important.
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Hands up who else scrolls right past the walls of text that have previously been ascertained to contain backwards-bending efforts to paint Sanders as something other than the President everyone with a functioning brain has been waiting for.
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I can’t help reading them, hell, I can’t help reading the back of the cereal packet, but I’m enjoying how bizarrely convoluted they’re getting.
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To what I’m sure will somehow come as a surprise to at least one person in here, The White House is not at all supporting this “disrespected the president!!!” narrative Clinton is trying to sell
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So you think president Obama is above reproach? He can’t be criticized? I am rolling up a bill of rights right now and beating you over the head with it you numbskull.
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Yes, President Obama can and has been criticized.
Bernie Sanders in a “low blow” unfairly criticized President Obama in 2011 after President Obama had campaigned a helped get Bernie elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006–and it will cost Bernie with the African-American vote.
President Obama is very popular in the African-American community across America. Many African-Americans believe he has done a great job as president–and gotten little or no credit for it. Hillary Clinton and many others in the Democratic Party share the same opinion.
Hillary has been both constant and vocal about President Obama not getting enough credit for the outstanding job he has done. Hillary will benefit from championing the Democratic Party and President Obama.
Like in Nevada, Hillary will continue to receive a large percentage of the African-American vote over Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders has been no champion of the Democratic Party or President Obama.
funny how you didn’t reply to my comment showing the Obama administration refuting the 'Sanders insulted Obama" narrative you keep pushing on.
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Give up. You might as well be arguing with a 'bot.
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Bernie Sanders in what may eventually end up being a fatal campaign strategy and flawed calculation, has been out of touch and seemingly oblivious to the sentiment, respect, and admiration African-Americans have towards President Obama and the job he has done as president to date.
It is about African-American voters and their accurate and well founded belief.
Hillary Clinton is in tune with both the African-American community, the Democratic Party and President Obama, regarding the outstanding social, political and economic accomplishments achieved during the two term administration of President Obama.
Here is a video of President Obama honoring the 2015 NBA World Champion, Golden State Warriors. In this recent video from February 4, 2016, President Obama jokes about having empathy with Warriors assistant coach Luke Walton (who did an outstanding job as head coach during the absence of Warriors head coach Steve Kerr) and not getting enough credit from the NBA for a job well done.
Listen to the audience and watch the Golden State Warrior players clap when they realize the humorous but factual comparison President Obama is making.
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President Obama on not getting enough credit for a job well done.
This is precisely why so many people are voting for him: because they are sick of party line politics.
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The Democratic Party is a ethnically diverse political party. Anyone running for the Democratic Party nomination for president needs to win a majority of the non-white vote.
Bernie Sanders campaign is primarily about Bernie Sanders, with no apparent regard for the needed success of down ticket democrats. Bernie unlike Hillary has raised virtually no money for the Democratic Party or shown any consistent zeal in promoting other democrats seeking election, or democrats up for reelection.
There is a reason why Hillary Clinton has a sizable lead in super delagates and democratic congressional and governor endorsements. Hillary’s campaign is more in tune with the need to not only elect a president but win back the U.S. Senate, Governors races, elect democrats running for office as judges, as well as winning as many state, county and local races across America where democrats are competing for office.
Maybe Bernie can win the Democratic Party nomination for president without the minority vote–or maybe he will win over the minority vote.
We will find out beginning with the South Carolina Primary this coming Saturday, followed by Super Tuesday on March 1, 2016.
You have got to be kidding me. He’s the least egotistical candidate of all running. If there is anyone not running for themselves, it’s his. And compared to Clinton…? You can practically feel the “it’s my turn now!” entitlement coming off her.
The problem here is than an awful lot (~50%, it appears) of registered Democrats don’t actually like the party much. It’s just the lesser of two evils.
Don’t like Sanders running for the Democratic nomination? Lots of Democrats seem to.
Rather he’d run as a third party? Then put a system in place that allows third party candidates to compete. Until we have proper instant run-off voting and third party candidates can get on all ballots, you’re going to have to accept people that are somewhat outside of the parties running for nomination. If an outsider can push this hard, that shows how little people think of the insiders.
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And lo, unto the field will she wield the machinery of establishment politics.
–Proverbs, 22:14
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Your first statement: proposterous. So propostoreus that I am not even going to hit backspace and correct the two misspellings that you are going to have to just live with for the rest of your life.
Second statement: you are clearly forgetting that Bernie is a Progressive. Right now he’s running as a Democrat, “I’m a Democrat” he says, and his alignment is close to Democrats, but nooooot quite. Any thinking person knows this. He is a Democratic Socialist. A Progressive. Progressive say it again Progressive. I spelled that correctly each time because it’s important.
You misunderstand his motivation. He’s always been a Socialist, Progressive, Independent, etc., to set himself apart from the crowd because the crowd is not and never has been championing the rights of the poor and middle class. Democrats have been creeping further and further towards the Volvo crowd and paying lip service to the poor, middle class, and minorities. Clinton’s crime bill is a perfect example of that. Bernie has never been that guy, and never will be.
So, this critique that “he hasn’t done anything for Democrats” falls flat, because that isn’t his job. What have YOU done for HIM? Nothing. You’ve all been busy giving Wall Street and the Prison-Military-Industrial complex a blowjob, trying to give them a better one than the Republicans.
Bernie has supported Progressives through the years and those are the people he has helped and will help in the future. ALL of his work is geared towards the poor, middle class and minorities. It’s his life’s calling. Support for regular run-of-the-mill corporatist-apologist Democrats? Pfffff. They don’t deserve his support and I’d be really surprised to ever see him stump for one.
All of your arguments are from behind this screen that the Democratic establishment is somehow good and what we need. The Democratic establishment is not good and it is not what we need.
What we need is a Progressive with a long track record who will not waver or present false information. There’s only one person in the race with those qualities.
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