Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumSanders not surprised ‘media establishment’ backing Clinton
In the wake of the Des Moines Registers endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Sunday said he is not surprised to learn that the media establishment is backing the front-runners presidential bid.
We are taking on the economic establishment, were taking on the political establishment and, with all due respect, we are taking on the media establishment, Sanders said on ABCs This Week.
I expect that Secretary Clinton will get a lot of the endorsements from mainstream media, but I have the endorsement and Im very proud to say of 2.5 million individual contributions to my campaign, he added.
Sanders also said he disagreed with the Registers reasoning that Clinton is the most qualified candidate in terms of foreign policy experience, pointing to her vote for the war in Iraq as a senator.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/266835-sanders-not-surprised-media-establishment-backing-clinton
merrily
(45,251 posts)Five to seven mega corporations have been controlling most of our news media for years, thanks to lowering of anti-monopoly standards.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)The Iraq vote can be dismissed as a going-along-with-the-times (cough Krugman cough) but her bloodthirsty middle eastern and central American actions and preferences are worse, because they show a consistent neocon character.
merrily
(45,251 posts)I haven't listened to one of his rally speeches in a while, though.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Makes my blood pressure rise too much. I already know who I am voting for .
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)The Party is fractured enough.
kennetha
(3,666 posts)Cause she worked for President Obama. She was his choice for SOS. Ultimately her policies were his policies.
Also, is Bernie saying that because she voted for the Iraq war, she isn't qualified to be commander in chief and president? If so, what does he think of Obama elevating her, after he defeated her partly because of that vote, to Secretary of State?
Not really an easy argument for Sanders to make, without picking a fight with the Obama administration.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Don't know if that nuance can be captured. She was frustrated that the President wasn't more of a war monger.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/the-obama-clinton-detente-how-long-will-it-last-109970
In Hard Choices, which she was promoting in the interview with Goldberg, Clinton devoted a chapter to the mess in Syria, a topic that was one of her key policy differences with Obama. Shortly before she left the State Department, she and then-CIA head David Petraeus advocated a plan to arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assads regime a plan Obama nixed.
In the Goldberg interview, however, she used more pointed language than in the past, describing Obamas decision against aiding the rebels as a failure. But her toughest words were about Obamas overall approach on foreign policy, which some of the presidents advisers have described as Dont do stupid sh, or Dont do stupid stuff.
Great nations need organizing principles, and Dont do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle, she said.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)not be rehired like when she was sent to the senate. she's done. hill and bill both in elected office.