Oh, Dear.
[GLENN] THRUSH: When [Sanders] puts his head on a pillow at night, do you think he goes to sleep a Democrat?
CLINTON: [Laughs] Well, I can’t answer that, Glenn, because he’s a relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I’m not even sure he is one. He’s running as one. So I don’t know quite how to characterize him. I’ll leave that to him. But I know there’s a big difference between Democrats and Republicans, and I know that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking my husband, attacking President Obama, you know, calling President Obama weak and disappointing.
— Transcript of Politico’s Glenn Thrush interviewing Clinton, published today
Okay, so Clinton knows there’s a big difference between Democrats and Republicans, and she knows that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking Clinton’s husband, attacking President Obama, you know, calling President Obama weak and disappointing.
But she doesn’t know that Sanders’s attacks on her husband’s, and on Obama’s, presidencies are that their policies were not different enough from Republicans’. She thinks instead that Sanders’ criticisms of the Clinton and Obama administrations are that those administrations’ policies were and are too different from Republican policies. Sanders’s complaint, she says, is that they gave too few concessions to the Republicans, and resisted Republicans too much. Obama has been too weak to resist Democrats’ pressures to cave to Republicans more. He gave into the Democrats–who wanted less resistance to the Republicans—Clinton says Sanders thinks, and Sanders is disappointed at Obama about that; he wanted Obama to rubber stamp the Republicans’ proposals, just as all the other Democrats wanted him to do.
I’ll take her at her word that she thinks this.
Who is putting the con in democrat?
Brings up the unanswered question, What’s the difference between a Socialist and a Democrat?
Warren,
False dilemma.
Warren,
My social democrat won’t enrich the war profiteers, he will deal with the banksters and he will address ever so slightly the grievous sin that some are sucking millions off the government and environment while millions are driven down.
The democrat is hard to distinguish from a thugster.
“False dilemma.”
Well, that’s exactly the issue — that there IS no difference.
“My social democrat won’t enrich the war profiteers…. The democrat is hard to distinguish from a thugster.”
You seem to be speaking of particular individuals. I was speaking more generally — to distinguish the Socialist from the Democrat.
But, since you bring it up, Sen. Sanders has long labeled himself a Socialist. Now, he labels himself a Social Democrat. What’s the difference?
” he will deal with the banksters ”
Strangely enough, his plan to do so exists because of the legislation passed by the Democrats.
One day people will realize that all members and voters are not the same, yet have many similar thoughts and goals. And that the US has a winner take all system of elections.
But not today.