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Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumAljazeera Op-Ed: Sanders is the primary challenger Democrats need
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/4/sanders-is-the-primary-challenger-democrats-need.html-snip-
Hillary Clintons campaign knows voters want an economic populist candidate. During her recent trips to Iowa and New Hampshire (in a van nicknamed Scooby) her rhetoric has focused on how little millionaires and hedge fund managers pay in taxes and how the deck is stacked in favor of the wealthy.
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine, who has covered his fair share of presidential politics, called it fake populism, and hes right: Clinton is campaigning on the same focus-group-tested promises to repeal unjust tax loopholes that she and Barack Obama ran on in 2008. Those loopholes are still there and will likely remain if Clintons Wall Street donors get her into the White House.
There is one candidate, though, who has always championed populist causes and is a hit with supporters who are hip to the difference between a politician stumping for votes and a true advocate for working people. That candidate is Bernie Sanders.
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Aljazeera Op-Ed: Sanders is the primary challenger Democrats need (Original Post)
LiberalElite
May 2015
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign knows voters want an economic populist candidate.
left-of-center2012
May 2015
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. K&R.....
and thanks for cross posting.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)2. Hillary Clinton’s campaign knows voters want an economic populist candidate.
But when I look at Hillary I don't see a populist.
Bernie eats, breaths and sleeps populism.
By the way, I like Al Jazeera
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)3. “fake populism,”
Clinton is campaigning on the same focus-group-tested promises to repeal unjust tax loopholes that she and Barack Obama ran on in 2008. Those loopholes are still there and will likely remain if Clintons Wall Street donors get her into the White House.
So a vote for Clinton is a vote for Wall Street ...that ripped off Americans and drove the country into the ground in 2008? OMG