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Hillary Clinton
Showing Original Post only (View all)Obama Insiders Say Clinton, Not Sanders, Is His Natural Heir [View all]
Source: Bloomberg by Sahil Kapur
When President Barack Obama was asked by Politico this week whether Bernie Sanders' populist campaign reminded him of his own 2008 run, the president quickly rejected the notion. No, Obama responded. I don't think that's true.
While Obama didn't elaborate, former top aides weren't reticent to say they view Hillary Clintonnot the insurgent Vermont senator whose rhetoric has drawn comparisons to Obamaas the natural heir to the president.
Then-Senator Obama ran for President to tackle longstanding challenges that our country had debated for decades but was unable to resolve. A politics as the art of the possible candidate, Ben LaBolt, a national spokesman for Obama's 2012 campaign, said in an e-mail. Senator Sanders has been in Congress for decades but hasn't tackled any major longstanding challengeshe's been too busy shouting his point of view across the aisle with few results.
Jon Favreau, who worked on the Obama 2008 campaign before becoming a speechwriter for the president, said Sanders' campaign resembles Howard Dean's a lot more than it resembles Barack Obama's. In key respects, he said, Hillary is much closer to Obama than Bernie is.
Obama campaigned as an idealist in terms of the goals he articulated but a pragmatist when it came to the policies needed to reach those goals. And he had very, very detailed policies that were grounded in pragmatism, said Favreau, who nevertheless praised Sanders as genuine. Obama has always believed it's more important to take action that actually makes a difference now and improves people's lives instead of settling for the satisfying purity of moral indignation.
Read the rest at: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-26/obama-insiders-clinton-not-sanders-is-his-natural-heir
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It's exactly what we need.. Hillary will build on the President's excellent legacy and create
Cha
Jan 2016
#11
"we DON'T NEED a 2016 version of Obama...." I'm certain 98% of Democrats disagree with you.
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2016
#21
I've been saying this very thing since the start, and it's why I've never "felt the Bern".
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2016
#24
BS is the hero of the leftosphere. He's got the leftwing talking heads on lockdown, and they have...
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2016
#29