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Andrew Sullivan: "I'm With Her Now"
"I’m with her now. As passionately as I ever was with Obama. For his legacy is at stake as well."BEN COHEN JUL 27, 2016
After live blogging the Democratic Convention's second day of events, long time Clinton critic Andrew Sullivan responded to readers who thought his coverage was overly negative with a fairly stunning statement:
Some readers think I’ve been too negative, even cynical, tonight. Believe me, I am utterly uncynical about this election. I’m worried sick. We need to put behind us any lingering beefs, any grudges, any memories from the past – and you know how I feel about the Clintons’ past – in order to save liberal democracy. The only thing between him and us is her. So – against all my previous emphatic denials – I’m with her now. As passionately as I ever was with Obama. For his legacy is at stake as well.
For anyone familiar with Sullivan's work over the years, this is a very big deal. The once conservative Sullivan spent literally decades obsessively going after the Clintons and bought into virtually every conspiracy about them on the market. As previous Banter writer Mark Ames argued, Sullivan's right wing screeching in the 90's was largely responsible for wrecking President Clinton's universal health care legislation.
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http://thedailybanter.com/2016/07/andrew-sullivan-im-with-her-now/
