re: #298 blueraven

Bernie is endorsing the book by Bill Press with the title: “Buyer’s Remorse: How Obama let Progressives Down.”

Bernie suggested a primary challenge for Obama for 2012.

He has been pretty critical of Obama. That is just a fact.

So the fuck what? People have been bitching about Obama not being progressive enough for seven years. He was never a progressive - he has always been a moderate. Hell, the guy’s black. Did anyone think he’d be able to push a progressive agenda on top of that?

As for the book, I think what Sanders is saying is on point - the next president has to push the progressive platform more than Obama did. Or we’ll be pushed back further to the right.

At the end of the day, Sanders is one of Obama’s greatest allies in the Senate - so what if he criticized him a few times. Obama can take it. He understands politics.