Daily Kos: One of the most important differences between Sanders and Clinton summarized in one image

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/12/1420609/-One-of-the-most-important-differences-between-Sanders-and-Clinton-summarized-in-one-image



Hillary Clinton in Columbus, OH:

Hillary Clinton confessed Thursday to something liberals have long suspected: being a moderate Democrat.
"You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center," Clinton told the audience at a Women for Hillary event in Ohio. "I plead guilty."

The line is new for Clinton, who spent a large portion of her early campaign casting herself as a liberal fighter who has been progressive for her entire life. To many on the left, those lines never really rang true.

"I take a backseat to no one," Clinton told a New Hampshire audience in July, "When you look at my record in standing up and fighting for progressive values."

FULL story at link.

[Enthusiast]

1. Kicked and recommended! Thanks, OS!

[Divernan]

2. I have whiplash trying to keep up with HRC's ever-changing political persona/policies.

[thereismore]

3. There you have it. nt

[cantbeserious]

4. No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

eom

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. such fortitude and consistency! You are the best!

and I agree with you completely!

[smiley]

6. I 2nd that!

[840high]

13. I just love you.

[merrily]

7. Not very long ago, many supporters of Hillary were insisting that she was just as liberal as Bernie,

maybe more so. Some of them made an exception for the pesky war stuff; some did not even do that. Now, Hillary herself is admitting she is not liberal.

However, upon admitting she is a centrist, she then immediately equates being centrist with getting things done--like LBJ, not MLK. That is ironic. In the House and the Senate, as an Indie, Sanders was able to see passed into law bills and amendments he had written. AFAIK, Hillary was not. (And given the kind of legislation she wrote--like unconstitutional flag desecration bills--maybe it's just as well.)

A bi-partisan deal Sanders negotiated with McCain has become a case study at Brookings Institute in how to get things done. Mayor Bernie Sanders was also able to do wonders with the City of Burlington. US Senator Obama was able to see legislation he wrote become law, too, as was State Senator Obama.

So, I am wondering by what measure Hillary campaigns against Obama and Sanders as, of the three of them, being the only one who can get things done.

We just keep saying/hearing the same memes over and over. Whether they ever actually get backed up with specifics is another story entirely.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. Center-right...

[MisterP]

9. but also a true Democrat, not like FDR!

[L0oniX]

12. A Kim Davis Dem?

[Fuddnik]

16. That'll leave a mark!

[turbinetree]

10. That Strike sign in Bernie's hand say's it all right there.............................

he will walk the line and walk the walk, and he will talk the talk, there is no middle ground when it comes to workers ( Middle class, working poor just to name a few)-------------none



I've had enough of the third way DLC mantra---------------



Honk--------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[840high]

14. He has his walking shoes!

[reformist2]

11. The fact they made these divergent declarations on the very same day, makes it even more powerful.

[Paka]

19. Good Catch.

That really brings it home.

[AzDar]

15. Bernie!!

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[passiveporcupine]

17. She has to start telling the truth

or it will start catching up with her in the debates...few that there will be...and that will not be a pretty sight.

Now maybe some of her supporters will start following her lead and admit they aren't afraid of Bernie because he might lose the general...they are afraid of him because he might win and they are moderates and don't want to see that happen.

She might be getting ready to start using that scary S word against Bernie's policies. Her supporters are way ahead of her there.

[noiretextatique]

23. +1000...just admit you are a mushy moderate

instead of pretending to be "progressive," as clinton claimed in july. is a progressive moderate anyway?

[ion_theory]

18. K & effin R n/t

[SoapBox]

20. Yup!

She's an aisle crosser!

[PoliticAverse]

21. Youtube video excerpt of her comment...

[noiretextatique]

22. "America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers."

"The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."

- Jim Hightower