TIME Newsmaker Interview: Bernie Sanders Says He’d Make a Better President Than Hillary Clinton

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160. America's biggest problems are domestic. Obama is strong when it comes to foreign policy.

But recent presidents have involved themselves too much in foreign policy and ignored the terrible injustices here at home.

We just cannot continue with such class divisions, so much disparity in incomes between the richest and the poorest, between the Kochs and the homeless whose numbers seem to grow steadily year after year.

Only if we have justice at home, economic opportunity and a working safety net for all, only if we reduce the percentage of Americans who are incarcerated and deal with serious social conflicts, can we be really effective in our foreign policy. Obama understands what needs to be done in other countries, but, with the exception of the ACA (which still has a lot of problems), he has not been successful in changing the political culture at home. He has courted the rich, the Wall Street crooks, but not the working people.

And that is a shame, because Obama has the best personality of any president we have had since JFK. People love Obama as they loved JFK.

The areas in which Obama has excelled are working for equal rights for GLBT, attempting to make peace in troubled areas of the world and the ACA.

One criticism I have of Obama and Congress is what has been done to senior citizens. They threatened to reduce our Social Security. In fact, they have done it indirectly. The co-pays for Medicare have increased, especially for hospital stays. That is how the Obama administration and the Congress have put their hands in the pockets of seniors who rely for their income on Social Security. It's a shame when a democratic president backs policies that hurt the poorest amongst us.