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Nanjeanne

(5,585 posts)
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 02:19 PM Feb 2016

Pie-in-the-sky Sanders more realistic than Clinton

Love this little article by Kirsten Powers (Powers served in the Clinton administration as the deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for public affairs. She left to become the vice president for international communications at America Online. After AOL's merger with Time Warner, she became a vice president at the AOL-Time Warner Foundation. Powers has worked in New York State Democratic politics for many years. She was a staff member of the New York State Democratic Committee, the press secretary for the Andrew Cuomo for Governor campaign, and communications director on the mayoral campaign of C. Virginia Fields. She also worked on the "Vote No on 3" campaign, which overwhelmingly defeated New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ballot initiative to eliminate party primaries. Powers also served briefly as press secretary for Donnie Fowler's unsuccessful bid to be Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair. She has consulted for a variety of non-profit organizations, including Human Rights First and the National Council for Research on Women

The New York Times reported that Clinton’s flailing campaign is trying out a new line: that Sanders is a “one-note” candidate who is captive to an obsession with Wall Street and campaign spending. Clinton is determined to prove that Sanders is not ready for office, but that she is. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow,” Clinton asked a group of union members, “would that end racism? Would that end sexism? Would that end discrimination against the LGBT community?”

Just so we’re clear: Sanders is an unserious pie-in-the-sky candidate because he wants to rein in campaign spending and institute a health care system that is commonplace in Europe. Clinton, on the other hand, will eradicate sexism and racism in America. Who’s the dreamer here? After all, Clinton can’t even keep her own campaign surrogates — Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright — from taking sexist swipes at young female Bernie supporters.


It's short - read the whole thing here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/16/kirsten-powers-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-primary-2016-column/80407150/#
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Pie-in-the-sky Sanders more realistic than Clinton (Original Post) Nanjeanne Feb 2016 OP
Ouch! peacebird Feb 2016 #1
that's gonna Bern! tk2kewl Feb 2016 #8
Beautiful. cui bono Feb 2016 #2
Second that! She has had so many great OPs. kath Feb 2016 #5
Thank you Both and Everyone for the kind welcome. Nanjeanne Feb 2016 #7
Yowzers! That's gonna leave a mark! kath Feb 2016 #3
K/R UglyGreed Feb 2016 #4
Does she recommend that we all eat Banana Cream pie to break up the big banks? Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #6

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
1. Ouch!
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 02:24 PM
Feb 2016

"Where the Clinton campaign might be right is that the state could end up favoring her opponent. Bernie is a problem Hillary can’t figure out how to solve, perhaps because he’s not the problem. She is."

kath

(10,565 posts)
5. Second that! She has had so many great OPs.
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 02:41 PM
Feb 2016

And I love the RFK avatar, even though it makes me sad to see his photo. What an incredible loss, that he was murdered, and so young.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
6. Does she recommend that we all eat Banana Cream pie to break up the big banks?
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 02:41 PM
Feb 2016

Or, elect a president who will tell the banksters to "stop it"?

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