And another thing about this Lewis thing

Let's take this in order.

Up to the Iowa Caucus, the Clinton campaign argued that Sanders was an impractical dreamer and that people should be realistic about what is possible in politics. Do not dream that you will EVER get Single Payer health care.

That did not work so well for her.

This week, she stands next to John Lewis, a hero of the Civil Rights movement. That is pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. Lewis embodies the EXACT OPPOSITE mindset -- as did Dr. King. Maybe Hillary has seen the error of her pessimistic ways and will now embrace the philosophy of protesting what is wrong because it is wrong -- not trying to "get things done" by "reaching out" to Bull Connor or George Wallace or Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell.

But no -- the message of that presentation spun back around to suggest (without having the courage to say out loud) that Bernie Sanders really wasn't part of the Civil Rights Movement. So I guess confronting a hostile political power structure was a good thing then, but a bad thing now.

Why isn't it good now? Why do we have to be "realistic" now and realize that our opponents have the power to stop us in Congress, so we should just lower our sights?



I have never seen a political campaign that is so committed to contradicting itself.