Anyone who likes and respect President Obama, believes he's done a good job with the economy,

[Nye Bevan]

agrees with the vast majority of his policies and basically wants someone who is going to more or less continue them, should be supporting Hillary in the primaries. Agree?

[Live and Learn]

1. And anyone that thinks we can and must do even better should vote for Bernie! nt

[Cheese Sandwich]

2. Those are different things

Like and respect is one thing.

Continue his policies is something different.

[Scootaloo]

3. Only if you think what we have is the absolute best that can ever be done

Me, I think that Obama's achievements can be built on, improved, expanded. That's how progress works, last I heard. That's one reason I support Sanders - he's a better option for getting progress on top of what's already built.

[Kip Humphrey]

4. Hilary's no Obama.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Admittedly she is more ambivalent about free trade agreements and the TPP than President Obama is.

And being a strong supporter of free trade, I see that as a negative. However, I think she is the candidate who will be the closest to continuing Obama's current policies.

[JRLeft]

17. Yay, more free trade, deregulation, and a lot more mega death in the middle east.

[Baobab]

23. It takes a child to raze a village

(thats a stupid joke)

[Kall]

30. Yeah, sure she is.

[Marr]

5. I'm a Sanders supporter and I agree with that, yes.

Hillary's policies and priorities are pretty much the same as Obama's.

[noretreatnosurrender]

7. Oh Goodie

Another one of those threads where if you disagree in any way they accuse you of being anti-Obama or even worse racist. Are some of the Clinton supporters so desperate to win that they have to post threads every day to try to divide people? I feel so sorry for them that they have such little faith in their candidate that they feel the need to do this over and over and over.

[Nye Bevan]

10. Nothing wrong with opposing some of Obama's policies.

I personally oppose his support of the death penalty, so in that respect I am proudly "anti-Obama". And I know that many DUers (not me) dislike the fact that he has signed several free trade agreements during his presidency. And I find it a little confusing that you are injecting the word "racist" into this; does opposing Obama's policy on the death penalty make me a racist?

[Baobab]

14. Are you a juridicial person?

A functional constituency?

[noretreatnosurrender]

20. Not for you

It only seems to apply to Sanders supporters. By the way nice touch trying to turn it around on me but it's par for the course on these type of threads. I've seen it done so many times already which is why I posted what I did. You have a nice night.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. More or less of the same. Yes, support Hillary for that.

[Baobab]

9. Sorry, I disagree. The Aminjistrations secret trade deals are worse than

any other policy I've ever seen. They attempt to gut democracy and make it into a shell that has no real power to change important things like health care, banking, education and services, by attempting to give corporations from around the world a level playing field to globally pillage the country. Vote for HRC if you dont want an more new Deals, want to pay top dollar for drugs, want to stop single payer health care by lying about it, and want privatization of public education, not just here, but in lots of other countries, like India. (the most recent casualty of 'progressive liberalisation') Vote for HRC if you want to see US jobs bid out to the lowest qualified bidding corporation from anywhere in the WTO or RGFS, who will get to pay their highly skilled workers minimum wage.

[ebayfool]

12. Bubba bashes Obama's 'pretty picture' economy, says millions left behind ...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-clinton-millions-and-millions-and-millions-and-millions-left-out-of-obama-recovery/article/2585134

Do you agree with Bill?

snip/

Former President Bill Clinton rapped President Obama's "pretty picture" of economic recovery, claiming in a campaign stop for his wife Monday that millions of Americans have been left behind.

He referred to Obama's State of the Union address and his claims of economic prosperity as a "pretty picture" most haven't experienced.

"Millions and millions and millions and millions of people look at that pretty picture of America he painted and they cannot find themselves in it to save their lives," he said in Raleigh, N.C.

"Hillary is running for president to put every single American in the picture President Obama painted," he added.

[Baobab]

18. Read this story - Start with "A Cautionary Tale" on Page 8

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/nafta.pdf

It will introduce you to a bunch of important terrifying 21st century concepts in just one concise, informative page.

[ebayfool]

21. Woah! TY for the link, it's very good.

I'm gonna try to help get it more eyes.

[CdnExtraNational]

35. It's all spelled out right there...

The whole agenda.

How did the Bush policies become Democratic policies?

[vintx]

43. This OP is a massive fail.

[Bread and Circus]

13. No. I meet those criteria but I do not agree.

[Prism]

15. President Clinton just called President Obama's economy an illusion

So, your viewpoint is kind of interesting in light of that.

[davidpdx]

16. I think President Obama has done a great job given the crap he has had to put up with

There are a few instances where I disagree with him mainly TPP. That doesn't mean I agree with HC's stances.

[Motown_Johnny]

19. Absolutely Not.

I trust Obama. Always have.

Hillary..... Not even a little bit!

[Nye Bevan]

38. Do you support Obama's policies on free trade agreements? (nt)

[Motown_Johnny]

46. Nope. I once voted for Dick Gephardt because he was against NAFTA

and my views on trade have not changed.

[ucrdem]

22. That is a very tactful way of putting it.

[silvershadow]

24. No. I meet those criteria and do not agree. nt

[litlbilly]

25. No, he has done nothing about the core problems. He did some good things but still mostly

centrist crap. Nothing for the middle class or poor. Its time to move on from the conservadem crap and fix this shit.

[litlbilly]

27. and also, i phone banked for Obama in 08 and 12

[H2O Man]

26. No.

[gwheezie]

28. I think Obama saved our economy

Inspite of the GOP and some bluedog dems. I'm grateful he was president after the Bush disaster.

[loyalsister]

29. That's a really difficult to make in some areas

Here, we have 3% unemployment. Sounds good until you hear that we also have a 20% poverty level. People who are living the nightmare of working more than one job and still unable to afford the heallth insurance they are required to buy do not see the kind of economic improvement or the benefits of the ACA in their daily life. Worse, they have no hope that things will be better for their kids.

There is more progress to be made and for the sake of the people who have not benefitted but keep hearing how great things are, I think we need someone who is willing to be bold and say that there is a better, more inclusive way to do things.

[CentralMass]

31. 46.4 million living in poverty, up about ~9 million over the last 8 yeras.

National debt of $19 trillion it was $9.8 trillion 8 years ago. Record high corporate profits while wages as a share of the GDP haven't been this low since 1929.

He kept a slightly modified version of Dubya''s fiscal policies.

So no I am no fan of his fiscal policies. .

[840high]

33. Neither am I.

[ibegurpard]

32. charter schools

Taxpayer giveaways to health insurance companies instead of actual healthcare, strengthening of the surveillance state, corporate trade policy that undermines the working class...what's not to love?

[Kalidurga]

34. Nope

I think Hillary will destroy Obama's legacy.

[PaulaFarrell]

36. no - i like and respect him

But I disagree with many of his ppolicies (if not most) and think it's too little too late ad regards climate change.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

37. I don't see Sanders as a threat to any Obama policy except the TPP. I don't see any virtue

in any of Hillary's corporate dealings.

[Recursion]

39. No, I have to disagree there

Sanders will also continue those policies.

[Nye Bevan]

40. Will he sign as many free trade agreements as President Obama has?

Because I support Obama's stance on free trade.

[Recursion]

42. I think so, yeah: he's an FDR democrat

and he knows trade is our lifeblood.

[Bluenorthwest]

41. Big problem with that is that Obama ran against Hillary, she is not an extension of him, she is the

key opponent to him, they spent a year in detailed description of the vast differences between them. Was that all a big fake? Both candidates feigning rivalry when in reality they were in full accord? That does not make me prone to like either of them....
This problem with your thinking is very much highlighted by the fact that on DU most of Hillary's current supporters were invective spitting Hillary opponents in 08, they saw no good in her and had no problem saying so in very strong and fully certain terms.

[VulgarPoet]

44. If-then fallacy; affirming the consequent.

[IdaBriggs]

45. No. Obama stopped the implosion. Now the repair needs to be done.

As demonstrated by her policies from 1992 on, she doesn't understand the importance of the working classes and their financial health to the economy.

[democrattotheend]

47. Nope, not me

I think Obama has done a great job as president but I don't think Hillary is as progressive as he is on some issues, and I would prefer someone who is even a little bit more progressive than President Obama. I also prefer Sanders because I find him more trustworthy than Hillary, and this was one of the factors that led me to support Obama over Hillary in 2008. I think Obama has made some significant progressive accomplishments as president, but I would like the next president to be someone who seeks to expand on the progress he has made rather than simply continuing his policies.

I think it is fair to say that anyone who wants to continue President Obama's policies should be committed to supporting whichever of our two candidates becomes the nominee. I think we can all agree that a President Trump or President Cruz would not do a good job of continuing the vast majority of President Obama's policies.