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Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 03:11 PM Feb 2016

WP Strongly Supports Hillary's Assessment of Bernie's Obama Critisms

Great, well supported arguments in this WaPo Editorial Board piece titled "Bernie Sanders’s attack on reality" so read it.

But this. This, soooooo much!

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 people’s lives better while ideologues on both sides took potshots. A key question in the Democratic race is which candidate would duplicate the president’s work and which would settle for rock-throwing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanderss-attack-on-reality/2016/02/12/e0656e04-d1b1-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html


The civics-free prescription for every woe that's being sold, especially to young people, is not based in the reality of the American system of government.

It is so completely refreshing to read it in the WaPo
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edit- Riversedge posted this article while I was working on mine. Go here to read more without clicking and k&r!:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110746901

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WP Strongly Supports Hillary's Assessment of Bernie's Obama Critisms (Original Post) Rose Siding Feb 2016 OP
Nice Find, Rose! BlueMTexpat Feb 2016 #1
Reality. Thanks for posting this. livetohike Feb 2016 #2
Great Article Gothmog Feb 2016 #3
Mahalo Rose! Cha Feb 2016 #4
I think it's because "young people" are no longer exposed to Civics classes as my generation was. Tarheel_Dem Feb 2016 #5
K&R n/t kydo Feb 2016 #6
"Sanders' attack on reality" pandr32 Feb 2016 #7

Cha

(297,322 posts)
4. Mahalo Rose!
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:07 AM
Feb 2016
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 people’s lives better while ideologues on both sides took potshots. A key question in the Democratic race is which candidate would duplicate the president’s work and which would settle for rock-throwing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanderss-attack-on-reality/2016/02/12/e0656e04-d1b1-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html

Tarheel_Dem

(31,235 posts)
5. I think it's because "young people" are no longer exposed to Civics classes as my generation was.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 02:51 AM
Feb 2016

They really don't know how, or maybe not even interested, in how government actually works. It appears that more & more, both sides are getting their lessons in government from very loud & emotional radio hosts & bloggers.

The question for me is while BS is attacking Pres. Obama & Sec. Clinton for not working with Congress, why isn't he being questioned more vigorously about his own decades' long career in Congress, and what significant pieces of legislation he has authored, and worked both sides of the aisle, that landed on any president's desk. And for the record, I don't mean naming post offices.

pandr32

(11,588 posts)
7. "Sanders' attack on reality"
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:22 PM
Feb 2016

Should be a slogan, and widely distributed. Would be even more effective using his initials.

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