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Related: About this forumTheWash Post's View -->Bernie Sanders’s attack on reality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanderss-attack-on-reality/2016/02/12/e0656e04-d1b1-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html?postshare=7761455385199974&tid=ss_tw-bottom
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Bernie Sanderss attack on reality
MADAM SECRETARY, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said to Hillary Clinton at Thursday nights Democratic presidential debate, that is a low blow. But was it? Ms. Clinton had just finished pointing out that Mr. Sanders has at times strongly critiqued President Obama. While she made his criticisms out to be more personal in nature than they were, her core point was nevertheless true: Mr. Sanders is running a campaign based on a blistering and simplistic critique of the status quo under this Democratic president.
In fact, Mr. Sanderss relationship to the politics of the past decade explains a lot about the differences between him and Ms. Clinton. The most obvious distinction .............................
.............. The outside-the-Beltway, popular-coalition-building strategy on which Mr. Obama ran the closest the country has gotten recently to the political revolution Mr. Sanders wants to spark did not alter partisan political behavior.
Ms. Clinton, pointing out that Mr. Obama had to fight tooth-and-nail even for relatively centrist solutions such as the Affordable Care Act, draws the lesson that the next president must have a strong sense of practicality and realism; big rallies cannot wish away the complex politics of Congress. Mr. Sanders, by contrast, claims that Mr. Obama had insufficient revolutionary zeal. Thats why he proposed that the incumbent Democratic president be challenged by a primary opponent in 2012........................
......................Mr. Sanders replied that the guest-worker program it envisioned would have been akin to slavery and that groups such as the AFL-CIO and the League of United Latin American Citizens opposed it. Such kowtowing to interest groups and indulgence in hyperbole are not uncommon for senators, who are rarely held accountable for failing to get results. But they would make for a disastrous presidency.
Mr. Sanders regularly assures his audiences that he respects Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton. But he attacks the pragmatism they have built their legacies on, even though they had no other option. The system and by this we mean the constitutional structure of checks and balances requires policymakers to settle for incremental changes. Mr. Obama has scored several ambitious but incomplete reforms that have made peoples lives better while ideologues on both sides took potshots. A key question in the Democratic race is which candidate would duplicate the presidents work and which would settle for rock-throwing.............
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TheWash Post's View -->Bernie Sanders’s attack on reality (Original Post)
riversedge
Feb 2016
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yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)1. A simple question.
"Which candidate would duplicate the presidents work...
and which would settle for rock-throwing?"
riversedge
(70,242 posts)4. Smart folks know.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)2. Great article in OP
Hekate
(90,714 posts)3. Truth is beauty, beauty is truth. Sometimes, like the sun, painful to look at with a clear gaze. nt