Posted on 08/23/2020 12:42:24 PM PDT by Hojczyk
“If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’s goals, they’re not that different, from a forty-thousand-foot level,” Obama said. “They both want to make sure everybody has health care. They want to make sure everybody can get a job that pays a living wage. They want to make sure every child gets a good education.”
Obama discussed his former vice president’s campaign during an interview with The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos at the former president’s home in Martha’s Vineyard this Summer.
Obama’s comments challenge the Biden campaign’s efforts to combat the argument from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that Biden is just as much as a leftist socialist as Sanders.
Obama acknowledged that the current climate of the Democrat party had swung left as part of a calculated appeal to their political coalitions.
“What I think the moment has done is to change some of those calculations, not because necessarily Joe’s changed, but because circumstances have changed,” he said.
Obama notably did not encourage Biden to run for president in 2016 and was even skeptical of him running in 2020, according to several reports.
The more left-wing of the Democrat party continues struggling with Biden’s attempt to reach out to moderates.
Supporters of Sanders criticized the Democrat National Convention for hosting Republicans like John Kasich (R-OH) and other aging establishment moderates to speak rather than rising stars in the more leftist wing of the party.
After the primary, Obama worked to unify the party, acknowledging in his endorsement of Biden in April that the Democrat campaign would be different.
“To meet the moment, the Democratic Party will have to be bold,” he said, adding that his 2008 campaign would look different if it was run today.
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Accidently told the truth. Happens now and then.
Obama has been undercutting Biden for years, including getting him to step aside for the loser HilLIARy beast in 2016. There’s something strange
the Bernie bros must be planning to stay home.
I suppose the alternative explanation is that the Democrat party regulars are in on the con and just want to keep the truth from The Sheeple.
The National Socialist Democrat Workers party led by Joe and the Hoe want to turn us into a Utopia like Venezuela.
I agree. Makes me think they’re planning to run Moochelle in 2024 after all despite all the talk she doesn’t want to do it.
I thought they were boy-knee’s plans.
Obama is wrong. There is a significant difference between Sanders and Biden.
President Sanders would send dissenters straight to the gulag. President Biden would just tax and regulate the dissenters into obscurity.
But then again, President Biden would “retire” before his first year is up. Would President Harris go the full-Bernie route? Maybe.
Thank you Barack, for the Own Goal.
Bernie will be the judge of that, Has-Been.
$15/hr?, Chump change.
Why can’t everyone make the same annual Buck$ as Hussein?
““If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’s goals, they’re not that different, from a forty-thousand-foot level,” Obama said. “They both want to make sure everybody has health care. They want to make sure everybody can get a job that pays a living wage. They want to make sure every child gets a good education.””
So does Trump .. except Trump offers solutions that actually work.
Yyyyeahhhh, we know that. A real Sherlock Holmes, this guy.
That might be their plan. Indeed. Tho I believe she’s be a disaster as a candidate
Just a different shade of fundamental transformation to communism.
Poor Bath House Barry. His campaigning for Kankles in 2016 didn’t help, and it’s not going to help Plugs Biden either.
In about 80 days Depends/Kneepads are going to get their @sses kicked, and it will be a SECOND nationwide rejection of Bath House Barry’s so-called “legacy.”
not strange
clintons have more dnc power than biden does
“They both want to make sure everybody has health care. They want to make sure everybody can get a job that pays a living wage. They want to make sure every child gets a good education.”
Who does not want these broad goals? Many don’t want them mandated, or controlled by the Feds, but no one in their right mind does not agree with these goals. The truth is, the Democrats do NOT want these things. They say they want them, but they do not.
How does one guarantee that every child gets a good to excellent education?
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