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What was the Bern thinking about? He needs to answer for this and at some point I suspect he will. The first African American president and this dude wanted to undermine him and cut his knees out from under him, ala Pat Buchanan/Bush 41 and Kennedy/Carter?
Sanders will not be a candidate. The Vermont independent, who caucuses with Senate Democrats, is running for re-election in 2012.
But Sanders, who has been sharply critical of Obama’s compromises with the Republican right on economic and fiscal policy, continues to talk up the idea of a primary challenge as a vehicle to pressure the president from the left. He is not alone. Ralph Nader is actively encouraging a primary race. And one-third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents tell pollsters that they favor a primary challenge to the president, while just 59 percent oppose such a run.
Bernie and Nader. What a pair!!!
Critics of a primary challenge fear that it would not snatch the nomination from Obama but would weaken him in fall competition with a Republican such as Texas Governor Rick Perry or former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
But Sanders says: “Here’s the point: If you’re asking me, do I think, at the end of the day, that Barack Obama is going to be the Democratic candidate for president in 2012? I do. But do I believe that it is a good idea for our democracy and for the Democratic Party—I speak, by the way, as an independent—that people start asking the president some hard questions about why he said one thing during his previous campaign, and is doing another thing today on Social Security, on Medicare. I think it is important that that discussion take place.”
If he is so concerned about the party, why won't he join us. Will he?