Shame on all of you working for the Clinton campaign who are using the issue of race

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45. me too. in a weird sync, i was reminded of the Two Americas speech today

in the car listening to John Fugelsang's Insight show on Sirius...he had David Sirota on who mentioned it by way of discussing his new piece in IBT --> http://www.ibtimes.com/bernie-sanders-vs-hillary-clinton-democratic-party-split-over-barack-obamas-record-2301102

Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton: Democratic Party Split Over Barack Obama’s Record And Liberalism

It was obvious from the start to political analysts that the Republican primaries would be a struggle between moderates and conservatives for control of the GOP. But heading into the 2016 election, few would have predicted that the Democratic primary campaign — if there was even going to be one — would be a civil war over the party's ideological future. Instead, continuity was the expectation, as a personally popular two-term president was set to hand the baton to his own former secretary of state — who herself was seen as a popular figure among Democratic voters, and one with an unmatchable network and ample reserves of money.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the convention in Philadelphia. With income inequality rising, with Wall Street going largely unpunished in the aftermath of the financial crisis, and with populist voices like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren stirring the long-held dreams of a restive liberal base, 2016 has split the party’s electorate in half, if the exit and entrance polls from New Hampshire and Iowa are to be believed.

In the Granite State, the previously little-known and oft-ignored Sanders crushed the once-presumptive frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Exit polls showed only about 40 percent of voters in the president's own Democratic Party said they want the next president to continue Barack Obama's policies — even fewer than the 55 percent of Democrats who said the same in Iowa.

Just as notable, New Hampshire Democratic voters revealed a party that appears to have become more left-leaning than ever. According to the New York Times , a full “two-thirds of voters in the Democratic primary said that they are liberal, up from 56 percent who said the same in 2008, the last time there was a contested Democratic primary.” Clinton tried to appeal to more centrist Democrats by, for instance, dismissing Sanders’ push for a single-payer Medicare-for-all health care system, but two-thirds of the increasingly liberal Democratic electorate told exit pollsters that they support such a system.

Sanders’ laser-like focus on populist economics and confrontational anti-Wall Street themes resonated with Democratic voters who said the top two issues they were concerned about were inequality and the state of the economy — a shift by a party that during Bill Clinton's administration often elected more corporate-friendly candidates who downplayed inequality and promoted a so-called “third way” of cooperation with the financial sector.


more at link --> http://www.ibtimes.com/bernie-sanders-vs-hillary-clinton-democratic-party-split-over-barack-obamas-record-2301102