Can anyone really imagine Bernie Sanders in the White House?

The Washington Post ^ | November 15,2015 | By Stephen Stromberg

[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.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

Lol, nothing but net. Good one!

[Bubba_Leroy]

I couldn’t imagine Obama in the White House either.

I guess I just don’t have enough imagination for horror.

[Night Hides Not]

I thought that was Larry David standing in for Bern last night.

[chajin]

I think he would excel as an orchestra conductor.

No, he's too strung out and doesn't like hanging with the brass.

[stanne]

More easily than I can imagine a pro terrorist, but there you have it

[ealgeone]

Hard to beat Santa.

[NormsRevenge]

If the Mrs. baked cookies,, maybe it would be an improvement. ;-}

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Weekend at Bernie’s!

This guy just looks like he smells like mothballs.

Just a placeholder util Hil gets in.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The only way he gets elected is if The Cheap Labor Express is successful getting their amnesty candidate

[Lurkinanloomin]

TRUMP-SESSIONS 2016

I like that ticket!

[Ann Archy]

The Communist part of him yes.....the Jewish Nasty part of him NO WAY, JOSE!!

[familyop]

Heh. Imagine Hillary in the White House and the paradigm of disrespect and national general slowdown that would begin against seniors.

[TBP]

Yes, as the butler.

[RitaOK]

<><<< I like that ticket! >>><

I am happy you do! No political baggage with Sessions. No two year strategy to run. No crap. No rhetoric. Just the head down, the research done and the facts out— with humble giant, Sessions.

[righttackle44]

Can anyone really imagine Bernie Sanders in the White House?

Yes, I can. There are many rest rooms in the White House. With a lot of training and through the use of illustrated charts, I think he could probably learn to clean many of them. (Though I think we'd have to watch children around him. That's just my opinion.)

[CPT Clay]

Couldn’t imagine Obozo in the Casa Blanca 8 years ago either.

[JustaCowgirl]

No but I could definitely imagine Bernie in the nut house.

For sure. The most extreme wing of the nut house, too.