2011 video of Sanders calling for President Obama to face a primary challenger

[bigdarryl]

[EdwardBernays]

1. Good

Loyalty is for family friends and gangs... If someone better for America had run then good.

This whole notion that people should be loyal to politicians or parties against their own self-interest is suicidal.

[bigdarryl]

2. President Obama has 90% approval rating among African Americans you might think it's good

But those 90% AA who see this might not think so.

[basselope]

4. They are not mindless drones

They can APPROVE of him and also understand the many ways Obama let the progressive movement down during his first term.

[EdwardBernays]

13. There's nothing to lose

If you're the best politician in a democracy a run a good campaign you have a very good chance of being reelected.

Obama is a mixed bag for many many people and Bernie is more progressive... I'm not surprised thst progressives would want someone more progressive than Obama..

Trying to play the race card to scare POC away from Bernie is pretty low. Even for Clinton supporters.

[guillaumeb]

3. Here is a link to HRC defending her 675,000 fees for speaking to Goldman Sachs

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/02/04/nh-democratic-town-hall-hillary-clinton-goldman-sachs-15.cnn


One clip represents a political view based on positions, mine represents a classic case of quid pro quo.

[mikehiggins]

5. OH MY GOD!! Sanders thinks Americans have the right to primary someone who is taking

steps they don't agree with. Why, that means the American people should have the right to decide their own fate and that of their nation. That means nobody is a sacred cow that has to be worshipped blindly because.

I am shocked, I tell you, shocked. What would Tom Jefferson think?

[debunction.junction]

6. Thank you for posting this video.

When the right would tout Obama's low approval ratings as if he was too liberal, it was that many of us disapproved because Obama abandoned the voters who got him there and was not liberal enough.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. There are a LOT of people who stayed home in 2012 because Obama wasn't as liberal as they thought.

[azurnoir]

7. This was at a time when it looked like Obama might cut SS

and in fact that becomes obvious in the first minute of the video

[Hoyt]

10. Looked like it to his critics maybe, not anyone who trusted him. He was also going to support

the pipe line, and was supposedly against net neutrality. His critics -- mostly Sanders supporters -- were not right about those.

[azurnoir]

16. Sanders wasn't running for POTUS in 2011

[AtomicKitten]

11. Obama offered up cuts to Social Security in negotiations with the Republicans.

This coming from a Democrat ... CUTS TO F#CKING SOCIAL SECURITY! Bernie suggested that a primary challenge may move Obama back to the left where he could keep the promise he made during the primary to protect Social Security. It takes a real tool and slave to the establishment to be fine with putting our social safety net on the table to be bargained away. We'd also be in danger of same if Hillary ever made it to the White House. They say one thing while campaigning and then govern like a moderate Republican. No thanks.

[azurnoir]

17. that is exactly the case what we're seeing is an attempt at memory hole politics

[Hoyt]

19. No cut occurred. In fact, seniors got a boost in drug coverage from Obamacare legislation.

[Duval]

20. Exactly! Thanks for pointing that out.

[LS_Editor]

8. And your point?

[betsuni]

9. Thank you.

Tired of people insisting Sanders didn't say this. And "I think one of the reasons that Obama has moved as far to the right as he has is he thinks he can go all the way" -- what the hell does that mean? Obama's a secret Republican? I don't know if I can trust anyone with such poor judgement that he considers Obama a right-winger. How ridiculous.

[RBInMaine]

15. I know. This makes Sanders look like a MEGA TeaLeftist. VERY disappointed he would say such SHIT!

[RBInMaine]

14. If this shows up in ads, Bernie is SCREWED with African American voters, and MANY Dems in general.

STUPID STUPID STUPID SHIT TO SAY !!!!

[azurnoir]

18. Be sure to keep your fingers crossed and pray the real context doesn't come out

the boats they are swift eh?