"Pragmatic"? Bernie would be most pragmatic president we've had in decades

[brentspeak]

Simply by virtue of being the first president in decades who wasn't simply yet another puppet running errands for Wall Street.

He would need no permission from a GOP-controlled Congress to refuse marching orders from some group of grifter CEOs who specialize in shipping American livelihoods overseas to Malaysia. He would need no committee-approved taxpayer expenditures to have the head of the US Chamber of Offshoring barred from entrance to the White House. He wouldn't have to plead his case to a phalanx of K-Street lobbyists to appoint scrupulous people to staff the SEC -- scrupulous people who wouldn't look the other way as Wall St. issues some new brand of toxic weapons of mass financial destruction onto the American people.

He would be the first president in over two generations who wasn't helping a tiny elite screw over and nickel and dime the rest of the nation. And he wouldn't need any cabal of robber barons to say 'ok' to be that president.

[gollygee]

1. He's definitely an idealist

Which is what I like about him, personally. And I think Obama has been very pragmatic.

Also, pragmatic doesn't mean "anti-Wall Street."

[Orsino]

2. When we realize that a few on Wall Street are getting impractical, undeserved Congressional love...

..."pragmatic" is revealed to mean anti-Wall Street. The desire for more yachts is frivolous stuff compared to the concerns of household trying to make ends meet.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Being an Independent He's had to articulate on his own with no Machine to subscribe to .

[left lowrider]

4. Voting against the IWR

- is pretty much the most pragmatic move one could make in the last few decades.

[mikehiggins]

5. More like TR than FDR. Well, except for the big game hunting