Sanders: Obama lost touch with grass-roots movement

[BlueCaliDem]

155. Although I was surprised that a Black man would become president in my lifetime, I shouldn't have

been. Our society has a fast-growing minority demographic - one I wasn't paying attention to, as most people in this country hadn't been paying attention to - and President Obama is a master-campaigner (and turns out to be an incredible president as well). Those two combined made his presidency possible. I don't see the same dynamics for Senator Sanders or Senator Warren. Neither have the charisma to win the White House, and with that deficit, they're easy targets for lying but well-funded attack ads by the GOP's money-masters.

I am anything but a defeatist, nor do I have a defeatist attitude. I'm a realist and a Democrat who wants to keep the White House in our column with my eye on SCOTUS and three potential seats that will become vacant in the next decade. I don't want a Republican president filling those seats. It's like standing principled and upright in front of a 300 lb, six foot six bully; standing up for what's right...only to get your arse handed to you before you black out. What do you gain by that?

At any rate, if staunch Liberals don't want to compromise on their principles and their view of how this country should be, I suggest they get off their behinds and hit the pavement to promote stronger liberal candidates. By the way? I could've used their help back in 2012 when we had a choice between a moderate Dem like Dianne Feinstein and a true liberal like Mike Strimling. In the end, he got LESS votes than nutty Orly Taitz. Did I pout and throw a tantrum that he lost in the primaries? No. I held my nose and voted for Feinstein because I've got enough brains to realize that even the most horrible Democrat in Congress is still better than the best Republican in Congress, imo.