Bernie is the perfect candidate to further what Obama started and lead the party back to the left where it belongs.

about the President.

That's what I always thought, that many Bernie Supporters really don't like this President!

Good to know!

Thank you for that!

he's done. There were a few big disappointments to me.

#1- Keeping that Bush neoconservative Gates on as Secretary of Defense. That was a fucking jaw-dropper.

#2- Using extension of the Bush tax cuts as a trading chip with Republicans.

#3- Keeping all of the Bush-era attacks on civil liberties in place, starting with the Gitmo facility. I know he may be blocked on that, but maybe he shouldn't have promised it would be closed.

#4- Not being tougher with the Republicans in general, but I had no right to expect that he would be.

I still like him, and I argued against primarying him in 2012 when it was discussed on DailyKos.

I've always liked Obama. I worked hard to get him reelected.

What turned me totally off Hillary was her vile racist treatment of Obama in 2008.

So it could be your pat little theories don't add up to much of anything.

Good to know?

You're so welcome.

#2

... when Obama ran ads in 2008 railing against the fact that Bush cut deals with Billy Tauzin the pharmaceutical lobbyist to prevent Medicare from negotiating drug prices, then invited Billy Tauzin the pharmaceutical lobbyist into the White House to cut a deal when designing the ACA...

Were called effing retards by the President's Chief of Staff not months into the presidency. If you want to discuss the good things Pres Obama has accomplished I'm all for that. However, there was a HUGE groundswell of support behind the President in '08 and we we're rebuffed by the "very serious" types in the inner circle. Essentially the progressive grassroots folks who had built OFA were told to "Go home...we've got this". If you lived through those times you know that it's not progressives who have turned their backs on the president....

and certainly not by Obama....

That what you said has been rephrased to mean to possible worse....
perhaps you don't know this, or perhaps you don't care.

But keep up that story. That just lets me know that the other accusations about Hillary Clinton are also
not true....just innuendos, rumors, trash talk, red meat words throwing, exaggerations, etc., etc., etc...

I've learned more in the last 2 weeks being back here on DU about Bernie Sanders Supporters than I have about Bernie Sanders!

Thank you for that!

And I never said that Pres Obama called us that. Rahm certainly did and his presence in the WH certainly changed what many hoped would be a progressive victory.

Here you go...if you need a reminder...

[link:http://www.rawstory.com/2010/01/fire-obamas-chief-staff-calls-liberal-strategy-fucking-retarded/|

I merely wanted to point out that there were many ardent supporters of the President who received ridiculous push back from the power brokers in the Oval. I don't think that's an unfair assessment. I'm in no way angry at the President. I proudly served under him in Afghanistan in '11 and I would gladly do it again. My point was to shine a light on how those of the left have been dismissed by some in the administration

Senator Sanders and President Obama get along FINE, as they have for years.

They have campaigned for one another and respect each other.

They have each said so.

Their relationship is way beyond your reach in high-level decency and cordiality.

There is nothing whatsoever you can do about it.

So grouse all you want.