2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: On what issue is Hillary better than Bernie? [View all]Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)These are clearly policy differences.
Here is the quote you are referring to:
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/
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SANDERS: Brian, believe me, I wish I had the answer to your question. Let me just suggest this. I think there are millions of Americans who are deeply disappointed in the president; who believe that, with regard to Social Security and a number of other issues, he said one thing as a candidate and is doing something very much else as a president; who cannot believe how weak he has been, for whatever reason, in negotiating with Republicans and theres deep disappointment. So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. [
] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.
Is that really what you consider being anti-Obama?