Fighting for the Black Vote.....
How easy is it to win the Black Vote?
Perhaps it's as easy as comparing yourself over and over to Pres. Obama, in shadowing the hurdles Obama faced running for the Presidential nomination as a Black man.
In other-words, Hillary Clinton can be called on her Wall Street ties, her establishment links, one not to be trusted, that Republicans hate her and will come out just to vote against her so she can't win, and discussion made about her Husbands infidelities as they relate to her are pretty much par for the course. But discussing Bernie Sanders and his ideas and his chances at the general election are off limits and they cannot be analyzed or criticized, as he will then compare himself to Obama, a Black man? Is he intimating that the critiques about his campaign are racial? That he is actually Black and so these are racial insinuations?
I don't particularly think that is how a White man wins the Black vote....but maybe it is just as easy as that! Add in a Pic of you at a March that isn't really you, and presto chango, that Black vote is yours for the taking?
Sanders says the flak he’s getting from Clinton reminds him of what Obama got in 2008.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/23/sanders-says-the-flak-hes-getting-from-clinton-reminds-him-of-what-obama-got-in-2008/
Remember that? Eight years ago, Obama was being attacked for everything. He was unrealistic. His ideas were pie-in-the sky. He did not have the experience that was needed. You know what? People of Iowa saw through those attacks then, and they’re going to see through those attacks again.”
Here's what I will say about running as President while Black-
First, let us agree that being born of a particular race is not something that one controls.
Let's also establish that in order for Obama to win as the first Black presidential nominee, he had to be "perfect" in terms of what and who he represented. Obama, in order to pass muster with the White electorate, had to be young, tall, handsome, hip, charming, and Christian! He also offered skilled oratory, a fascinating life story, a beautiful young family to show while having gotten the best of education; Columbia and Harvard Law and as Pres. of the Harvard Law Review. Even beyond that, he offered himself as a moderate Democrat who came from a large mid-west state with roots in another state (Hawaii), who had been elected to the senate for a short while.
After all of those qualifications were met, Obama than ran a campaign that had never been seen before on a Hope and change platform of restoring the Nation to a semblance of what it had been prior to Bush taking office with some improvements added! His platform was ending the wars while reestablishing our image around the world via diplomacy, bringing back our economy from the brink, providing affordable health care insurance to more Americans (as affordability was diminishing at an alarming rate). An overwhelming majority were war weary and financially fearful after America had suffered 8 years under Bush, who was at the height of his unpopularity throughout the 2008 election.
It is only my opinion that Sanders is not like Obama, as he doesn't have many of the personal attributes and qualities that Obama offered, but also because the circumstances and the particulars of each man and times are quite different. 2016 is not 2008! Obama ran in 2008, after Bush had screwed everything up. Obama was precisely able to win specifically because an overwhelming portion of the American electorate wanted change from Bush and that GOP disasters! Sanders isn't running in that environment!
Further, if Obama looked and sounded like Bernie Sanders, and shared some of Bernie Sanders other attributes and offered a similar platform, I don't know if Pres. Obama would have been elected in 2008. But of course, that's only my speculation!
The only similarities from my standpoint is that Sanders has, like Obama did in his election, captured the hearts and minds of the disgruntled Liberals (and honestly, most of them didn't appreciate Pres. Obama at all from day one...even if they voted for him) , the young idealists who believe anything is possible (since they know that electing a Black President was an impossible that did happen), the folks who aren't looking past the pro arguments that the Bernie Supporters have discussed because they like the platform so, and those who not only believe in what Bernie is offering but also quite dislike Hillary Clinton, and what they believe she represents. Beyond that, the two men are like Night and Day!
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have come from HIM???!! 
Add in a Pic of you at a March that isn't really you, and presto chango
Wait, what??? When/where did this happen?
And you're right, the two men and even their campaigns could absolutely not be more different. In 2008, black folks waited for white folks to come to our candidate. This year is the complete opposite and many white liberals are waiting for minority voters to come to their candidate. It's not looking as though that's going to happen.
Good to see you.
Good post...as always 
