2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPie-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
Just so were 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. Whos the dreamer here? After all, Clinton cant 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/#

peacebird
(14,195 posts)"Where the Clinton campaign might be right is that the state could end up favoring her opponent. Bernie is a problem Hillary cant figure out how to solve, perhaps because hes not the problem. She is."
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Thanks for this and all your other posts! You are a great asset to DU.
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kath
(10,565 posts)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.
Nanjeanne
(5,585 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)beat me to it
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Or, elect a president who will tell the banksters to "stop it"?