2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFDR was and Obama is not qualified to be president using Sander's reasoning
Hillary isn't qualified because she gets so much money from Wall Street? Well, FDR got 25% of his funding from Wall Street, Obama got twice as much as McCain from Wall Street and broke records in terms of Wall Street funding, and every presidential candidate has gotten enormous amounts through SuperPacs and before them through direct donations.
So, using Sanders argument, FDR, Obama, and Hillary are not qualified to be president. That's awfully arrogant of him.
Sources:
Article talks about Wall Street donations received by FDR, Obama, and others:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/08/why_its_ok_to_accept_wall_street_campaign_cash_129584.html
Article quotes Sanders as saying Hillary is not qualified to be president because she takes money from special interests and Wall Street:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/sanders-clinton-not-qualified-to-be-president-221666
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)No one is in Hillary's league when it comes from Wallowing in special interest cash.....Obama didn't get rich from special interest money.
Dawgs
(14,755 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)azmom
(5,208 posts)in politics. It's corruptive and should be unacceptable.