Greg Sargent: How worried is Hillary about Bernie?

[portlander23]

Morning Plum: How worried is Hillary about Bernie? Worried. But not too worried.

What is now clear from Sanders’ candidacy is that there is a very real and durable constituency inside the Democratic Party behind this diagnosis and the need for extremely ambitious policies to address it.

And yet, according to the Journal report, the new Clinton proposals will not embrace some of the key goals of the Sanders/Elizabeth Warren agenda, such as breaking up the big banks or reinstating a Glass Steagall wall between commercial and investment banking. Nor is Clinton likely to embrace a $15 minimum wage or $1 trillion in new infrastructure spending.

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Clinton: Cooperation, not speeches, is needed to regulate Wall Street

[Thinkingabout]

1. The better question is how worried is Bernie about Hillary?

Is there any concern Hillary's national poll numbers?

[Fumesucker]

2. I don't get the impression Bernie has spent half his life maneuvering to be the first Jewish POTUS

[Thinkingabout]

3. Who has the impression Bernie has spent half his life maneubering to be the first Jewish POTUS?

[Fumesucker]

5. There is another candidate who will also be a first

[bigtree]

4. naw

...he's been content operating for decades as a D.C. political figure.

[Fumesucker]

6. You say that like it's a bad thing

[bigtree]

7. 30-plus years as a D.C. politician?

...what's not to like?

[Fumesucker]

8. I'm on record as wishing Bernie had continued with *zero* political endorsements

Bernie has a remarkably consistent moral compass and he knows the system inside out, I suspect he knows where a great many bodies are buried in the metaphorical sense.

[bigtree]

14. 'bodies buried'

...just might be good for leverage in negotiations with Congress.

Still, Sen. Sanders has appeared aloof from, and loosely engaged with his peers in the legislature. I think he'll need to adopt a more amenable persona and approach in his presidency than he assumed behind his maverick voting record. He can generate all of the public support for his initiatives he can muster (as he's said he intends in his 'revolution'), and still fail to move legislation to put them into effect.

[Fumesucker]

15. As someone on a technical forum I read says: "One test is worth a thousand opinions"

[bigtree]

16. Sanders is, in many ways, a novelty

...in a culture of opportunistic, political compromises -- definitely an untried commodity.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. Hmmm... One of the most successful politicians there is. Must be good at this job. Can't beat

that kind of experience.

[bigtree]

11. 'one of the most successful politicians there is'

...not as successful as one would like in actually changing the culture or product of his institution.

I'm not as impressed as you might be with his legislative record. Good advocacy for many important progressive causes and initiatives, to be sure, but not very experienced or successful at coalition-building as many others who've served. I'm more comfortable praising his principled stances, than his ability moving the legislature to support his initiatives.

[Babel_17]

9. It's the movement she should be concerned about

They're just saying "No" to candidates carrying water for those who loot our economy and they won't be dissuaded from that, nor from their other positions.

If Senator Sanders were taken from us then, imo, the movement would get behind O'Malley or Warren.

[Live and Learn]

12. So, Hillary is Feeling The Bern! nt

[kenfrequed]

13. She should be worried

Most of us do not trust a candidate that cashes the checks of the insurance, banking, communications, and pharmacology corporations and hedge fund managers on Tuesday to be willing or able to regulate them on Thursday.