Bernie Sanders questions Obama's leadership
By Nolan D. McCaskill
February 11, 2016
The Vermont senator and the president have been ratcheting up their digs at each other.
Bernie Sanders questioned President Barack Obama’s leadership in a new interview, suggesting that he would be able to close a divide between Americans and government that the Obama administration has left open throughout his presidency.
It’s the latest salvo from Sanders, who has — intentionally or unintentionally — been engaging in an escalating war of words with the man who eight years ago was building his own political revolution.
“There’s a huge gap right now between Congress and the American people,” Sanders said Wednesday in an interview with MSNBC that will air Thursday evening on “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” “What presidential leadership is about [is] closing that gap.”
Sanders acknowledged that Obama has tried to bridge the divide but said he hasn’t succeeded. “But I think what we need, when I talk about a political revolution, is bringing millions and millions of people into the political process in a way that does not exist right now,” he said.
Such a political revolution would be necessary to carry out his agenda, Sanders said, which includes free college and a single-payer health care system.
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Obama also had a lot of young people at his rallies, once he got elected they moved on with their lives. Sanders still has the 60s mindset when people actually did take to the streets. I don't see it happening again any time soon. How can a serious presidential candidate propose an agenda that is so ambitious and so liberal that its only chance of getting passed is having a revolution???? How is that realistic? How is it even credible????
