Huffington Post: Obama Speech Sure Sounds Like A Tacit Endorsement Of Clinton
President Barack Obama on Wednesday gave a rousing speech on America's political culture, decrying the influence of big money, encouraging compromise and warning people against believing in absolutes from either party.
"Trying to find common ground [with Republicans] doesn't make me less of a Democrat or less of a progressive," Obama told an audience in Springfield, Illinois. "It means I'm trying to get stuff done."
The speech was delivered the day after two ideologues, billionaire Donald Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I), won the New Hampshire primaries by harnessing voter anger at the perceived "establishment" in politics. But Obama's words on Wednesday sounded like a tacit endorsement of his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, is mounting an insurgent campaign against the more experienced Clinton, promising voters he will deliver universal health care and free college tuition. Clinton, meanwhile, has argued that Sanders' playbook of attacking Wall Street banks and wealthy individuals is unrealistic. Clinton and Sanders have sparred in Democratic debates over who is the true "progressive," with Clinton arguing that progressivism is about results, and Sanders arguing that it's about principle.
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