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Sanders Unsure If Hillary Clinton Is 'Forceful Advocate For Working Families' [View all]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questioned whether a hypothetical Hillary Clinton presidential bid would be a boon for working families in an interview published Wednesday.
Sanders cautioned that Clinton has not announced any intention to run for president, but told Salon that "based on the kind of centrist positions that we have seen her take in the past … it remains to be seen whether she will be a forceful advocate for working families."
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Sanders told Salon he doesn't "wake up every morning with a huge desire to be president of the United States." But if he ran, he said, he could put the spotlight on issues that he feels don't get enough attention, including wealth disparity and cuts to entitlement programs.
"We have a middle class that is disappearing, and somebody has got to be speaking strongly to defend our middle class," he said.
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Sanders cautioned that Clinton has not announced any intention to run for president, but told Salon that "based on the kind of centrist positions that we have seen her take in the past … it remains to be seen whether she will be a forceful advocate for working families."
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Sanders told Salon he doesn't "wake up every morning with a huge desire to be president of the United States." But if he ran, he said, he could put the spotlight on issues that he feels don't get enough attention, including wealth disparity and cuts to entitlement programs.
"We have a middle class that is disappearing, and somebody has got to be speaking strongly to defend our middle class," he said.
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Sanders Unsure If Hillary Clinton Is 'Forceful Advocate For Working Families' [View all]
Capt. Obvious
Nov 2013
OP
If the "working family" has a hedge fund manager and owns stock in Walmart, she'd be an advocate. nt
NYC_SKP
Nov 2013
#2
We must get a progressive to challenge her. And we cant wait until 2015 like all the
rhett o rick
Nov 2013
#3
If a progressive won, they could at best be Dr. No without a progressive majority in Congress
yurbud
Nov 2013
#118
imagine Hillary in Kerry's position with Iran. Her with that 'obliterate' mind set...
Whisp
Nov 2013
#113
You are correct. That's why we need to urge him to run as a Democrat in the
totodeinhere
Nov 2013
#10
They have way more power than does the President on single issues and we need both desperately
libdem4life
Nov 2013
#62
Now, that isn't fair. I'm sure Democrats care air the whole top 10%, maybe even the top 20.
TheKentuckian
Nov 2013
#119
Yes. Let's trash Hillary and the sold-out, anti-middle-class economic philosophy she represents.
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#30
On the contrary, she's the most electable candidate the Democrats have at this time.
Beacool
Nov 2013
#48
Wait, so Hillary Clinton is unelectable but Bernie Sanders...is? Have I stepped into bizarro world?
Metric System
Nov 2013
#66
Bernie's message is far more appealing than a lot of corporate Democrats realize.
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#73
You're being wayyy too kind. Hillary only looks out for herself and her corporate buddies, not the common folks.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2013
#89
Seriously, the LAST thing we need is Hillary and her tired old Rethug-lite policies. Elizabeth or Bernie for me TYVM.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2013
#87
Couldn't agree more. Hillary only has Hillary's best interests at heart, making speeches at $500,000 a pop. Gimme a fuckin' break!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2013
#90
Hillary may campaign left as a consequence, but she'll probably do that anyway.
NorthCarolina
Nov 2013
#106
Follow the money - the oldest rule of humanity. Money has corrupted the human race.
AAO
Nov 2013
#40
Yeah! Bill Clinton was so much for the little guy that he did away with Glass-Steagall.
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#34
Stop trying to use reasoning and logic. The far Left is getting ready to try to Nader
bluestate10
Nov 2013
#51
The 90s were a different era, and true or not, Hillary represents going backward to the 90s,
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#52
Are you being sarcastic? Bill Clinton for the little guy? Great job reforming welfare (now I'm being sarcastic).
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2013
#94
LOL, hell no. For her last speech, Hillary got paid $450,000 by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s Global Financial Leadership Conference.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2013
#121
I agree with your subject line. Disagree with the second. People should vote their best decision,
libdem4life
Nov 2013
#111
I hear you and, yet we can't change some things...like the Electoral College for one.
libdem4life
Nov 2013
#107
See, that's what everybody thought and are disappointed or angry about. Progressiveism is
libdem4life
Nov 2013
#110
The Clintons used to take pride in being able to raise more corporate money than Republicans.
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#70
When have the Clintons ever been forceful advocates for anyone else but their friends in high places
Democracyinkind
Nov 2013
#76
Succinctly put. The Clintons only look out for themselves and their corporate buddies. It's time to look forward and move on.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2013
#95
Duh - Hillary Progressive - No Way -- Corporate DLCer Through And Through
cantbeserious
Nov 2013
#83