'What has she done that we're bragging about? How has she led?':Susan Sarandon backs Bernie for prez

[n2doc]

Actress and progressive activist Susan Sarandon lent her star power to Bernie Sanders at an Iowa rally this evening, passing over Hillary Clinton a second time for the nation's top job.

A decider for Sarandon, who has known Sanders for more than two decades, was Clinton's 2002 vote for the Iraq War as a New York senator, a military conflict that Sanders did not support.

'That's where Hillary Clinton lost me,' she told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview, 'because there was plenty of information that even I had that said there was a real problem with the logic involved.'

Clinton went on to be secretary of state and has more experience in the foreign policy realm than Sanders, who has has focused his legislative career on fighting for economic justice.

'But what is experience without judgement,' Sarandon said tonight after a Sanders rally in northern Iowa. 'She's had a job but what has she done that we're bragging about. How has she led?'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3420286/Susan-Sarandon-backs-Bernie-president-instead-Hillary-vote-Iraq-War.html

[merrily]

1. You ask which bills or amendments she wrote as a Senator that were signed into law that were not

purely ceremonial, and it's crickets. Or a dumb attack on Bernie. You ask what she did as Secretary of State, and it's either speeches or Obama was with her anyway, or it's not good. Or a dumb attack on Bernie.

As someone from Kos put it, a list of job titles do not accomplishments make, or something to that effect.

[bowens43]

2. everything that hill has done has had one purpose,

getting her closer to the power she so greatly desires and feels that she deserves.......

[Feeling the Bern]

3. Good. Progressive see through her and the tide looks to be turning a bit

Feel the Bern!

[LiberalElite]

4. but but but - "Progressive" Mayor

DiBlasio of NYC is going to spend 3 days in Iowa campaigning for her!!!!!! As a NYC resident I say, "SO WHAT Bill - I guess your endorsement in October needs a little help."

[Kalidurga]

5. I heard that she recently went to a bowling alley.

It's probably the closest she has ever been to normal people in the last decade.

[Divernan]

10. By "she" you are referring to HRC, not Sarandon, right?

I really like that Sarandon is out campaigning in a plaid flannel shirt, with out layers of makeup or designer jewelry/outfits.

[Kalidurga]

12. Yes

Hillary addressed a crowd of 300 or so at a bowling alley.

[PotatoChip]

6. Exactly.

I have over 2 decades of cigarette smoking experience, but it's really nothing to brag about.

The only good thing to be said is that I did myself, and everyone around me a favor by quitting.

[Android3.14]

7. Ouch.

[PotatoChip]

9. ...

[Divernan]

8. Bernie's had effective career w/out owing his soul to financial/corp. institutions.

Sarandon said her endorsement was an affront to the 'machine' which is 'run by Wall Street, by big pharm, by Monsanto and that it was an ode to a man she believes is 'consistent...principled' and 'incredibly brave.'

'I want a candidate who has the courage to stand and do the right thing when it was not popular,' she said ahead of his speech. In her exclusive with DailyMail.com Sarandon expounded on that point and said that Sanders is 'untainted.' 'If you want to know how people are gonna react and where they really stand, you have to look at who's giving them their money.'

In her praise of Sanders, Sarandon said, 'The fact that he has managed to consistently be on the right side of every issue the correct side of every issue that reflects my concerns, and he has done it without being connected to Wall Street, big pharm, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs.'

'I don't know of anyone who has managed to have a career that's been so effective without owing their soul to one of the major financial and corporate institutions,' she said of the 25-year veteran of Congress. Reflecting on the 2016 election she said, 'I think this is the last chance we're going to get to see somebody that can have that kind of change.'

[jalan48]

11. Poor judgment seems to be a recurring theme with Hillary.