On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> A friend who's working for Sanders tells me they don't want to go too > negative on HRC. > We can sit here all day and make a list of all the terrible things that Sanders has supported or endorsed in the past and present. The list no doubt would be a long one, and would include all the sordid collaborations he has engaged in with corporate Democrats in his political career. It would also include his pro-Israel positions. I'd add to that his cluelessness on systematic racism, but some may disagree about that. The point of such an exercise would be what exactly? Sanders definitely holds his punches on Clinton in a way that she does not seem to reciprocate. Why does he do that? Who knows? It probably has something to do with the state of the Republican race. This is not about Sanders. He is a symbol for something bigger than himself. Not everyone can be such a symbol: you need a person who seems fundamentally decent and does not reek of personal ambition and corruption the way Hillary Clinton does. Sanders is good enough to meet that standard. Obsessing over his personal weaknesses is a distraction. -raghu.
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