Anybody who thinks just because Bernie Sanders is ok with Joe Biden as the Democratic Presidential nominee ALL of his followers would bet behind Joe Biden are fooling themselves ….
Kamala Harris jumped on the Medicare -for- All bandwagon early in the campaign for the nomination, but it WAS a lefty move….She’ll make the Democratic progressive’s feel fine…
They’d like Elizabeth Warren, but she’s not black….
Over the last week and half Susan Rice has become the clear favourite in media stories and THAT scares progressives…
Rice has NOT been a political animal during her time in the Obama admin….
But?
She HAS worked with Biden and Obama for the 8 years and she is NOT anything progressives are happy with…
Her specialty was foreign policy and she was NOT someone who progressive are comfortable with …
No matter who he picks?
And it seems like things are down to Harris and Rice right now, with Rice having a slight edge due to her working time with Biden….Rice isn’t the one progressives are unhappy with…Biden’s admin WILL have tons of Obama and Hillary Clinton people coming aboard to join the ones already in place…
Bernie sanders LOST…But his supports still want THEIR people in place….
THAT is NOT gonna happen…
(Republicans are ALREADY trying to attach Biden to very same Sanders people that ARE trying to get their agenda to be Biden’s without much success)
Joe Biden is gonna flack from some Democrats…
The Democratic internal civil war has NOT ended…
That has not quieted the resistance to Biden’s policies and personnel inside his party, coming from activists who say they will work to get him elected but are still working to influence the type of president he’ll be. A coalition of Bernie Sanders delegates has made a series of futile but messy protests against Biden’s health-care agenda and the party’s donation rules. And as former national security adviser Susan E. Rice is touted as a potential vice president for Biden, hundreds of delegates out of nearly 4,000 are begging him not to, urging him to sideline “hawks” inside the party and warning that he will lose votes if he doesn’t.
“Susan E. Rice would be a travesty if she were chosen to be his VP candidate, or for any position in his Cabinet,” said Marcy Winograd, a California delegate for Sanders who has distributed a letter urging Biden to ditch Rice and six other veterans of previous Democratic administrations. “She pushed for every war, against Iraq, Libya, Yemen. She has left a trail of carnage in her wake. Elevating her would be a death wish for the Democratic Party.”
Biden’s move to the left, which has drawn attacks from Republicans and fitful praise from liberals, has occurred largely on his own terms. Sanders, who won 46 percent of the party’s pledged delegates in the 2016 primaries, commands just over 25 percent of them now, and he has repeatedly praised Biden for the liberal policies he has adopted while declining comment on the policies he hasn’t.
That has left a Biden-skeptical resistance fending for itself. The Bernie Delegates Network, an email group that grew out of complaints about Hillary Clinton’s 2016 nomination, has circulated two letters that criticize Biden. The first, reported last month by Politico, pledged delegates “to vote against any 2020 Platform that does not include a universal, single-payer, Medicare-For-All, platform plank.” That vote would fail, as votes to add Medicare-for-all in the smaller platform committee failed, while giving Sanders delegates something to rally around.
The second, which was obtained by The Post last week and partially detailed by HuffPost yesterday, named eight individuals “who have demonstrated poor judgment on national security issues” — seven high-profile veterans of the Clinton or Obama administrations, as well as Amit Jani, the campaign’s Asian American Pacific Islander outreach director. The others are former deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken; former National Security Council staffer Nicholas Burns; former CIA deputy director Avril Haines; former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power; former State Department aide Jake Sullivan; former undersecretary of defense Michelle Flournoy; and Susan E. Rice, the only member of the group being looked at for the vice presidency…
image…Obama first cabinet/Wiki
Yay, James! Glad to see you’re back, was wondering where you had gone.
I’m here ….
I’m unclear as to what your point is.
However, your conclusory statement that Sanders supporters are not going to get “their people in place” is not correct.
Oh for sure they are not going to get all they want, but they are going to get some.
The “Lefties” as you call them are an integral part of the Democratic Party.Biden is not going to abandon them ,as your definitive statement seems to imply.
Some of their people will receive major appointments.You,who “claim “ to possess great political understanding should realize that.The fact that you dislike them is of no consequence.
Ok Jack lets do our thing on this….
Some Sanders supporters are AGAINST the very being of Joe Biden…..
Just EVERYTHING from Healthcare to Foreign Affairs they differ from Biden…
Biden has and will continue to bring ole Clinton and Obama people to run his operation because he HAS worked with them and they will be able to resurrect some sort of pre-Trump normalcy in government ….
It’s just Rice the piece points to…
It’s a continuation of their efforts to install the very left orientated policies the Republicans are trying to label them with…
Biden best back most of this in primaries…
That said?
Joe Biden IS to the left of Obama and even more of Bill Clinton…
Or course some in the Sanders crowd couldn’t give a rats ass…
It’s ok….
Biden will give them 1/3 of a loaf …
And yup!
Biden IS. gonna pick who he wants just the DNC packing the convention process with who THEY want…
And we ‘re back to same thing as 4 years ago…
WTF are these people gonna vote for?
Are we gonna still get the stupid if won’t vote or the even dumber i’ll vote for Trump?’
BTW?
a good amount of Sanders supporters ARE working to help Biden get elected with the belief that at least Biden IS accessible and is leaning in their direction..
So much hate for “the left”, or should we call them “marxist anarchists”? Same message, different messenger.
There’s no “thing.”
You just conceded my point.
First you said that the Left wouldn’t get their “people in place.”
Then you say
“Biden will give them a third of a loaf.”
My simple point was that ,as integral part of the Democratic Party ,they would get some positions.
They will.You admit it ,after initially saying they wouldn’t.
End of uh “thing” with you contradicting yourself…
As usual.
On Biden VP pick….
Eugene Robinson couldn’t say it better….
‘…I think Harris might be the better candidate, because of her campaign experience and her prosecutorial chops; I think Rice might be the better vice president, because of her White House years as national security adviser and her close friendship with Biden…’
Both of these women will be offered a cabinet job if they don’t get the VP spot….