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NOW THAT LATER
NOW THE PATH TO REV IS CLEANER & CLEAREST THAN BEFORE
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Published time: 13 Jul, 2016
On Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders gave up his presidential
campaign and endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “She must
become our next president,” Sanders declared – a direct contradiction with what
he has spent the past six months saying.
“There is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into
November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that,” Sanders
announced to a cheering audience in New Hampshire – the first state the senator
won in the primary process. Since that fateful February day, Sanders has spent
a lot of time and energy convincing voters that Clinton had no place in the
Oval Office.
The following are just a few examples.
1 – “Are you qualified to be President of the
United States when you’re raising millions of dollars from Wall Street whose
greed, recklessness and illegal behavior helped to destroy our economy?” –
Philadelphia rally, April 2016.
However, Sanders may be singing a different tune when he is
back in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention. His change of
heart Tuesday included telling the audience: “I have come here to make
it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she
must become our next president.”
2 – “I proudly stood with the workers. Secretary Clinton
stood with the big money interests” – Youngstown, Ohio March 14
Sanders has frequently attacked Clinton’s use of Super PACs
and potential interest from elite banks. While the former secretary of state
has been endorsed by many unions, such as the International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees, Sanders’ speech swapped that rhetoric for something
a little more flattering.
In his endorsement speech, he said: “Hillary Clinton
understands that we must fix an economy in America that is rigged and that sends
almost all new wealth and income to the top one percent.”
3 – “Do I have a problem, when a sitting
Secretary of State and a Foundation ran by her husband collects many millions
of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorship… um
yeah, do I have a problem with that? Yeah I do.”
Sanders passionately attacked the Clinton Foundation in
June, calling its reception of money from foreign governments such as Saudi
Arabia a “conflict of interest.” However, on Tuesday he told
the audience that Clinton “knows that it is absurd that middle-class
Americans are paying an effective tax rate higher than hedge fund millionaires,
and that there are corporations in this country making billions in profit while
they pay no federal income taxes in a given year because of loopholes their
lobbyists created.”
4 – “She was very reluctant to come out in
opposition. She is running for president. She concluded it was a good idea to
oppose the TPP, and she did.”
Clinton’s slow opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) raised the ire of both Sanders and his supporters. Perhaps through
intense negotiations to make Clinton’s campaign more progressive, he is now
willing to focus more on Clinton’s interior economy, saying, “She wants
to create millions of new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure – our
roads, bridges, water systems and wastewater plants.”
5 – “Well, I don't think Hillary Clinton can lead
a political revolution”
Commenting on Clinton’s potential to carry the torch for the
political revolution he claimed he was spearheading, Sanders lacked faith in her
ability to make the changes he deemed necessary back in June, when he was on
CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
However, perhaps through negotiating the terms of his
endorsement, Clinton’s platform sounds more and more like Sanders’ when he
talks about it. Describing new platforms such as lowering student debt and
making free education attainable without accruing massive amounts of debt,
along with expanding the use of generic medicine and expanding community health
centers all sound like shades of Sanders.
VIDEO: JILL STEIN on the back down of Sanders: https://twitter.com/RT_America/status/752953269677355012
6 – “When you support and continue to support
fracking, despite the crisis that we have in terms of clean water… the American
people do not believe that that is the kind of president that we need to make
the changes in America to protect the working families of this country.”
Back in an April debate, many voters were frustrated when
Clinton gave a lengthy, difficult explanation about her stance on fracking.
Sanders, a longtime opponent of hydraulic fracturing.
However, since the CNN Democratic Debate, Sanders and
Clinton may have both shifted their positions on the matter that was once clear
cut for the senator from Vermont.
According to Sanders, “Hillary Clinton is listening
to the scientists who tell us that if we do not act boldly in the very near
future there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the
oceans, more rising sea levels.”
7 – “When this campaign began, I said that we got
to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton
said let's raise it to $12 ... To suddenly announce now that you're for
$15, I don't think is quite accurate.”
At the same CNN debate in Brooklyn, Sanders hammered on
Clinton’s inconsistent stance on raising the minimum wage. While her opinion
has shifted from debate to debate, it seems that Sanders’ has as well.
“She believes that we should raise the minimum wage to a
living wage,” Sanders said, without specifying what the minimum wage
would be increased to under her more progressive campaign.
8– “Almost all of
the polls that… have come out suggest that I am a much stronger candidate
against the Republicans than is Hillary Clinton.”
Sanders might be eating crow for this one. His entire
endorsement speech often focused on the party’s need to defeat presumptive GOP
nominee Donald Trump. Throughout the speech, Sanders contrasted the new and
improved Clinton strategy that includes more of Sanders’ talking points with
those from Trump.
Sanders went as far as to place the importance of the
election on keeping Trump away from the Supreme Court, saying, “If you
don’t believe this election is important, take a moment to think about the
Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump will nominate, and what that means to
civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country.”
9 – “[Super predators] was a racist term and
everybody knew it was a racist term.”
Clinton’s involvement with the criminal justice reform of
the 1990s that contributed to the mass incarceration has frequently been a
contentious point in this election. In 1996, she went on to warn the public
about the existence of “super predators,” or children with "no
conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first
we have to bring them to heel.”
However, both Clinton and Sanders have a track record of
working with the civil rights movements, and now Sanders may not be so quick to
put Clinton and racist in the same sentence.
“Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of
our greatest strengths,” he said Tuesday.
10 – “Let’s talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall
Street got deregulated.”
“Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall
Street … spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions?
Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence.”
Sanders has been an outspoken critic of Clinton’s potential
financial conflicts of interest – particularly from the big banks he sought to
break up. While there was no mention of breaking up the banks in his
endorsement speech, Sanders spoke of Clinton’s commitments to the middle and
working class instead, saying, “While Hillary Clinton supports making
our tax code fairer, Donald Trump wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars
in tax breaks to the very wealthiest people in this country.”
While many of Sanders’ more passionate supporters have
expressed their frustration with the endorsement of his former opponent, he
argued that the election is about more than just the person sitting in the Oval
Office.
“It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a
number of issues. That’s what this campaign has been about. That’s what
democracy is about. But I am happy to tell you that at the Democratic Platform
Committee which ended Sunday night in Orlando, there was a significant coming
together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most
progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.”
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