Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumOh-Oh! Obama to have private chat with Bernie Sanders on Wednesday
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-to-have-private-chat-with-bernie-sanders-on-wednesday-2016-01-26?siteid=YAHOOBNo formal agenda for meeting, no endorsement expected
President Barack Obama plans to hold a private meeting at the White House on Wednesday with Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is surging in the early state polls in the Democratic president contest. Sanders and the president will have a private Oval Office meeting, according to White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
The President and Sen. Sanders first discussed this meeting last December when Sen. Sanders attended the Congressional Holiday Ball. The two will meet privately in the Oval Office and there will be no formal agenda, Earnest said.
The meeting comes after Obama heaped praise on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and dismissed comparisons between Sanders rise in the early state polls and Obamas groundbreaking 2008 campaign against Clinton.
She can govern and she can start here, day one, more experienced than any non-vice-president has ever been who aspires to this office, he said about Clinton in an interview with Politico released Monday.
I think Bernie came in with the luxury of being a complete longshot and just letting loose, said Obama. I think Hillary came in with the both privilege and burden of being perceived as the front-runner. And, as a consequence, you know, where they stood at the beginning probably helps to explain why the language sometimes is different.
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just don't drink the polonium-laced tea, Bernie!
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)And he wants Bernie to invite Obama to visit the WH a year from now.
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Just good politics.
I'd be willing to bet Michele is a Bernie voter. And to Michele, Barack be humble?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)I am not worried. Maybe the President wants to know why Sanders opposes his FDA appointment?
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)Very unlikely.
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)If I was Bernie, I'd opt for a phone call and remind Obama that he certainly realizes how crucial stump speeches and meet and greets are at this point in a campaign. If the president insists that Bernie meet with him at the WH, I'd be very suspicious of his motives.
roody
(10,849 posts)He has been here so much and we have it covered.
roody
(10,849 posts)I just got an email. He will be here Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun!
SandersDem
(592 posts)that he walks out of the White House with secret Service protection!
Bad Bad JuJu
(22 posts)OK, I exaggerate. But I can't help but worry. Too, too many times. Lost dreams. Lost hopes.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)He can spend some time away with the President.
Not to worry!