First, announce who you support in the Democratic race for the presidency.
Second, tell us what you admire about the other candidate.
I will go first.
I support Senator Bernie Sanders.
I greatly admired the way Secretary Clinton responded to the Black Lives Matter confrontation where she was unrehearsed, frank, and I liked her for that. Her reply reminded me of FDR who said, “I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it.”
It’s your turn.
Please share widely!
I’m glad Sanders is bringing his set of issues to the table and in fact many online quizzes suggest I should be supporting him based on level of issue agreement. His biggest and best contribution to the race is moving the overton window leftward.
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I like that Bernie is honest, incorruptible, and tells it like it is. I like that he is reaching communities the Democrats have largely written off and building a new, exciting and diverse coalition. I love that he attracts young people and is making income inequality the centerpiece of the national agenda. I also think his time as Mayor is helpful since so many of our future issues will be centered around smart urban policies and he was a real visionary ahead of his time on that. Ahead of his time opposing endless war in the Middle East too.
I admire that Hillary has a great and largely unheralded plan to transition Appalachia to a post-coal green and smart economy. I also like that she is committed to women’s and children’s issues and really can speak the language of family values for a progressive policy end. And I like that she seems like the steadiest hand we got in this field on foreign policy issues.
I have enormous admiration for Secretary Clinton’s experience, intelligence, and grit. She has accomplished a great deal against truly formidable odds. I have no doubt that she could walk into the White House and hit the ground running and be a strong bulwark against the worst of the GOP excesses. And as one supporter pointed out recently, she might be very effective in creating opportunities for other women to follow. I will be all in for her if she’s the nominee. This primary is about choosing between two very strong candidates.
I supported her in the primary against Barack Obama.
I think she knows how to get things done. She knows how to fight and what it’s like to get her butt kicked by the VRWC. She’s tough. She’s also a Democrat. A real Democrat. “Progressive” or not. I subscribe to her theory of politics and change.
I don’t usually fall in love with candidates. An exception was Elizabeth Warren. Hilary doesn’t give me a warm, fuzzy feeling, and I don’t care. I care about what she can get accomplished.
With that said, I have an extraordinary amount of respect for Bernie Sanders. He’s rebuilding the Left of the Democratic Party. Occupy put income inequality and the 1% on the map. Warren was elected on her criticism of our broken system. Bernie is reaching more people and spreading important ideas. If he receives the nomination, I will gladly and strongly support him. If he loses, I hope he continues building the movement he’s started and pushes for a say in the running of the Democratic Party and the Presidential Administration.
First, in solidarity, I’m not going to vote for anything other than a Democrat. Whether it’s Clinton or Sanders matters not a lot at this point as I think they’d both be acceptable, but i don’t really admire either one all that much.
I do want to admire Clinton more than I want to admire Sanders. But I think Clinton has spent too long playing ‘not to lose’ which isn’t the same thing as playing to win… and all her positioning and generalities mask a true liberalism that suffers from constantly being subjugated to positioning: bobbing, weaving, flanking and the occasional (or more than occasional) tactical retreat, blunts forward movement I’ve long felt this way about her husband also. At some point you have to, as Nelson purportedly once said: “Never mind maneuvers. Go straight at them!”