Posted on 11/15/2015 3:37:15 PM PST by Hojczyk
Bernie Sanders speaks passionately about inequality, campaign finance and other serious issues that Americans should care about. Martin O’Malley has a record of progressive accomplishment as governor of Maryland. But can you imagine either in the Oval Office?
Little in Friday’s second Democratic debate suggested that either man’s candidacy is more than a mirage.
Despite Sanders’s rhetorical fire, he once again failed to demonstrate the range or the realism the presidency requires. He began the night with a couple obligatory lines on the Paris attacks, but he pivoted back to his one-note message about economic inequality and billionaires so quickly it was jarring.
Then, challenged to explain how he would make good on his rhetoric, Sanders repeated his lines about leading a “political revolution†in which Americans will press his agenda forward against the wishes of the billionaires. “What we need is leadership in this country which revitalizes American democracy and makes people understand that if they stand up and fight back and take on the billionaire class, we can bring about the change that we need,†he said.
This is not a serious answer to a question about political reality, in large part because the billionaire class is not the only reason Congress wouldn’t ever approve his program. Sanders’s is a version of the same pitch we hear every four years from one presidential primary candidate or another: If we rise up, Americans will realize that they really agree with us, political incentives will reverse and we will have to compromise less. That sort of thinking has done wonders for Republican Party lately.
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I have a harder time imagining Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend’s wife in the White House.
No but I could definitely imagine Bernie in the nut house.
He could win real easy….Free Stuff…..Free College,Forgive student loans, Raise Minimum wage to 20 dollars….free health care…
Stupid idiots.
incredible.
Bernie’s ancestors who came to America must have thought it was an ok place. He’s not living in a motor home or in the projects, so he likes a nice life.
IT drives me crazy when people come here, do well, and then try to press communism on everyone else.
for three but not for me.
After the American electorate choose Barry, I can imagine anyone in the White House. Sanders, a homeless bum who doesn’t know his name, the rent is to d@mn high guy, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Miley Cyrus,...
What about imagining Hillary in the White House? Even Bill Clinton would rather see a 22 y/o intern in the Oval Office than see Hillary there.
I could not believe that Zero managed to slither into the Oval Orifice. I did hedge my bets before the first election anyway.
Not here.
No but I could see Bernie in White Castle placing an order to go.
Yes, after Obama, I could imagine just about anyone or anything.
Hillary wants a jump start to the nomination, which she is getting, so that she can begin her general election campaign while we have a field full of drag alongs who won’t get out.
TRUMP-SESSIONS 2016
Yes, I can. Think of Vichy France.
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