Bernie Sanders is and continues to be critical of President Obama [View all]

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No, he's not rude about it. After all, he caucuses with dems, but his politics are very different from the President's and he hasn't hidden that. He frequently speaks out against the dems and administration policy. I've heard him do it on more than one occasion in town meetings here. Trying to use Bernie to burnish President Obama's liberal credentials is dishonest.

Here are some examples:


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He bemoaned the drift of the Democratic Party. “There was a time when we had a center-right party in this country and a center-left party,” he said. “Now we have a rightwing extremist party, and a centrist party. And Democrats are proposing ideas that ten years ago no Republicans would propose.”

Sanders didn’t shy away from criticizing Barack Obama

He blamed Obama for continuing “the Bush trade policies,” saying, “Free trade has been an unmitigated disaster for American workers.” He noted that 50,000 factories have closed down here in the last decade.

And he noted “without pleasure that the President of the United States was talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.” Sanders said, “FDR and Harry Truman would be rolling over in their graves

Sanders argued that such talk from the Democratic President “is not only horrible public policy, it is bad politics.” If both parties are advocating cutting these social programs, “The average person is going to say, ‘Where is the difference between the two parties?’ I don’t know who you think is going to vote for you when you say you’re going to cut Social Security and Medicare.”

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http://progressive.org/bernie_sanders.


Warren, Sanders Ready to Face Down Obama over Social Security, Medicare Cuts
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/29-5

And don't forget this:

Bernie Sanders Holds Old-School Filibuster Against Obama-GOP Tax Cut

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-holds-old-school-filibuster-against-obama-gop-tax-cut-deal/

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Senator Sanders criticized Republican economic policies of tax reductions and spending cuts, but some of his harshest criticism was pointed at President Obama for “surrendering to the Republicans.” He said debt limit deal provided the Republicans with much of their wish list because no tax revenue was included in the first round of cuts in the deficit reduction plan.

He said President Obama campaigned on preserving the current system of Social Security and that he should abide by his campaign promises. Senator Sanders said the proposal to raise the age to receive Social Security to 67 is “basically insane.”

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http://www.c-span.org/Events/Sen-Bernie-Sanders-I-VT/10737423492-1/

Bernie's "support" of President Obama is pro forma and rather tepid.