What Does Sanders Really Believe About Clinton?

[SecularMotion]

When Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton debate, the senator from Vermont usually refers to the former secretary of state as his "friend" — not in the Congressional-speech sense of someone that he actually despises, but in what is presumably his deeply authentic, Brooklyn-born candor.

He speaks frequently of his "great respect" for Clinton, and he has said more than once that "on her worst day" she would be a far better president than any of the potential Republican candidates "on their best day."

Even more often, however, Sanders suggests that Clinton has sold out to the financial industry for campaign contributions, or for donations to her super PAC, or perhaps for those big speaking fees she has pocketed since leaving the State Department.

Certainly, he has fostered that impression among his supporters, who excoriate Clinton in the most uninhibited and sometimes obscene terms on social media.

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/joe_conason_what_does_sanders_really_believe_about_clinton

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. Nothing?

[MuseRider]

2. Sorry.

I don't think we need Bernie to make our minds up for us. He can say what he will but I doubt those of us who know her record and despise the sort of politician she is needs anyone to tell us what to think about HRC.

[el_bryanto]

3. I suspect that its different when you work with a person, as Sanders has with Clinton vs when you

are outside the system. The Author of this piece does seem to want to imply that Sanders supporters are more indicitive of what he really means than Sanders himself, but I don't think that necessarily follows. It's easy enough for me to say that Clinton is a DLC centrist who is unlikely to tackle economic reform in any meaningful way, or to say she supports a foreign policy that in many ways has spread misery throughout the world. I don't know her; I'm unlikely to meet her.

But Sanders has met her, and it's likely that either way this election goes they will probably continue to have interactions.

Bryant

[Bluenorthwest]

4. So daft. Want to review shit said by Clinton supporters about Obama in 08? Just on DU?

We certainly can. Some of those people who denigrated Obama as unelectable and inexperienced, as a phony and a fake, a liar and a sham are now saying the same things about Bernie. Others who support Hillary now are saying about Bernie the same things they said about Hillary then. Yeah. Then they said she was racist and greedy, corrupt and bitter but now they say those things about Bernie. I don't find any of those persons or stances to have even a hint of credibility. Not even a whiff of honesty.

[FreakinDJ]

6. Attack of the PUMAs

Yep I went there

[uponit7771]

5. The same thing he believes about Obama, he's said Obama was weak and rightward and needed to

... be primaried... except this time its him doing the primaring of Hillary

[frustrated_lefty]

7. What Sanders believes about Clinton is largely irrelevant.

What matters is what the voters believe about Clinton, and her honesty/trustworthiness scores in the polls give a pretty clear indication of what the majority of voters think.