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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison: [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Keith's campaign and the Sanders movement are not about saying that everything Obama did was evil.
It's that we need to both recapture the original sense of possibility we all felt on Election Night, 2008, BEFORE the Obama movement was told to go away by the party insiders and before transformation was replaced by transactions and by the willingness to concede control of the debate to the right.
To me, the Sanders phenomenon is about reviving what was lost, what should never have been lost...it's about honoring the intent of the Obama movement and the Obama coalition.
It's not rejection to say we need something new.
We all want to rebuild, but we can only rebuild by embracing change.
It's about a fusion of the best of the old and the best of the new.
BTW...if you're quoting a piece blaming Comey and the Russians for the 2016 result, you pretty much have to admit Bernie and his supporters weren't to blame.