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fleabiscuit

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18. If I may…
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:11 PM
Mar 2016

Humbly suggest an article. This is NOT a hatchet job and provides a view I believe we should all ponder.
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Sorry, Dreamers: It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Bernie Sanders

An elegy for a man too decent for the job.
BY T.A. FRANK

“…How was Sanders parochial? Simply put, he cared a lot about our increasingly rigged economy—and it is a doozy—but only that. Presidents must show much interest in other things, especially global affairs, which they handle nonstop. That’s a major component of Clinton’s pitch for herself: that she can manage a dangerous world. She represents a “muscular” foreign policy, which is a nice way of saying she’s happy to pull out the guns. Now, that’s not necessarily the best or safest stance. Many Democrats would prefer a less interventionist foreign policy. But Sanders was a limp champion of such an alternative. He stressed that he had voted "No" to authorizing force in Iraq, but he never offered much of a worldview to explain the decision, which meant that it was hard to tell what framework he might bring to future decisions. Clinton’s vulnerability stayed mostly unexploited…”

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/time-to-say-goodbye-to-bernie-sanders

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