Bernie Sanders: Obama Has Been A Disappointment, But He Can Still Save His Presidency

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By David Ferguson
Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:44 EDT

On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Ed Show,” host Ed Schultz welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) for a discussion about the Republicans’ ideological inconsistency on whether or not U.S. intervention is warranted in Syria.

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If Pres. Barack Obama doesn’t want to spend the rest of his term as a lame duck, Sanders said, he is going to have to address the obstructionism of the Republicans in Congress.

“A lot of people are disappointed in the president in terms of this war effort, in terms of the NSA business,” he warned. “This president has got to say, and be honest about it, and say, look, our country today faces enormous crises. We are moving in the wrong direction. We used to be number one in terms of college graduates. Today we are number 16. And the reason that we are not moving forward is that we have right-wing extremists who are now controlling the House of Representatives, and this country is never going to go forward unless we end said right-wing rule in the House.”

The president, Sanders insisted, has “got to draw the line in the sand. Not on Syria, but on the class warfare that is going on in America. If he does that, he will wake up people who have given up in the political process.”

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