Bernie Sanders: 'This may be Biden's Vietnam'

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152. I've been rereading Obama's "A Promised Land" and he quotes the poem:

"Public support for the Recovery Act had grown over the weeks it had taken to pass the bill. But soon enough, the noise would have an impact, reversing that trend. Meanwhile, a decent portion of my own Democratic base ... seemed less content with everything we'd managed to get into the Recovery Act than mad about the much smaller number of things we'd had to give up. Liberal commentators insisted that if I had shown more spine in resisting the Gand of Four's demands, the stimulus would have been bigger. (This despite the fact that it was twice as big as what many of those commentators had been calling for just a few weeks earlier.) Women's groups were unhappy about the contraception provisions that had been removed. Transportation groups complained that the increase in mass transit dollars wasn't all they had sought. Environmentalists seemed to be spending more time objecting to the small fraction of funding that went to clean coal projects than celebrating the Recovery Act's massive investment in renewable energy.

"Between Republican attacks and Democratic complaints, I was reminded of the Yeats poem: 'The Second Coming.' My supporters lacked all conviction, while my opponents were full of passionate intensity."