Obama Insiders Say Clinton, Not Sanders, Is His Natural Heir
Source: Bloomberg by Sahil Kapur
When President Barack Obama was asked by Politico this week whether Bernie Sanders' populist campaign reminded him of his own 2008 run, the president quickly rejected the notion. “No,” Obama responded. “I don't think that's true.”
While Obama didn't elaborate, former top aides weren't reticent to say they view Hillary Clinton—not the insurgent Vermont senator whose rhetoric has drawn comparisons to Obama—as the natural heir to the president.
“Then-Senator Obama ran for President to tackle longstanding challenges that our country had debated for decades but was unable to resolve. A ‘politics as the art of the possible’ candidate,” Ben LaBolt, a national spokesman for Obama's 2012 campaign, said in an e-mail. “Senator Sanders has been in Congress for decades but hasn't tackled any major longstanding challenges—he's been too busy shouting his point of view across the aisle with few results.”
Jon Favreau, who worked on the Obama 2008 campaign before becoming a speechwriter for the president, said Sanders' campaign “resembles Howard Dean's a lot more than it resembles Barack Obama's.” In key respects, he said, “Hillary is much closer to Obama than Bernie is.”
Obama “campaigned as an idealist in terms of the goals he articulated but a pragmatist when it came to the policies needed to reach those goals. And he had very, very detailed policies that were grounded in pragmatism,” said Favreau, who nevertheless praised Sanders as genuine. “Obama has always believed it's more important to take action that actually makes a difference now and improves people's lives instead of settling for the satisfying purity of moral indignation.”
Read the rest at: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-26/obama-insiders-clinton-not-sanders-is-his-natural-heir
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Mahalo yallerdawg!
P.S. I saw @ the link that Liberty U endorses trump.. lol
My GAWD.
by our love!"
I guess that's not Republican Christianity. 
Not the other way around...
Thank you, Cha, for staying with Hillary unrelentingly!!! 
You keep us coming back! 
I think like all of us.. we love our Country/Planet and after those 8 years of bush2 we don't ever want to go through that again.
Mahalo!
“Senator Sanders has been in Congress for decades but hasn't tackled any major longstanding challenges—he's been too busy shouting his point of view across the aisle with few results.”
#Truth
Decades. This bears repeating over & over & over again.
That explains why any Democrat or any Democratic constituency that supports Hillary is "the establishment" and must be silenced and de-legitimized.
There are a whole lotta people who want "Anyone But" and the vast majority of them are not Democrats!
Some reclusive, unknown, "party of one" member of Congress who becomes a DINO, with no record of success to speak of, is just plain "Anyone But"! 
no particular loyalty to the Democratic party. Ralph Nader could probably have run again, and they'd be just as happy. Being anti-establishment is so cool, no matter which side of the political coin you flip.
BS' notoriety, such as it is, is a creation of folks like Hartmann, Schultz & Malloy. My theory is that they'd be just as happy with a Republican in the White House, much better for ratings. And the folks BS needs to show up for him in the caucuses and primaries are the same folks who will go missing in the midterms. I mean, WTF is the point of electing a POTUS that you'll abandon the moment it becomes inconvenient.
Like the President Obama said, BS is 'the shiny new object', and that's bad for our democracy.
