Sanders: "Clinton is embracing Obama to pander to black voters"

[Adam Griffin]

Uh, the thread title needs to be changed: that wasn't the quote. I actually got excited when I saw it, because I thought he actually did say it.

This isn't going to hurt Sanders in any tangible way. Black people, perhaps more so than most constituencies, know and recognize pandering for what it is. The question is whether it actually bothers them in the case of Clinton. The specific pandering - in the mainstream media at least - hasn't been challenged thus far. If this gains traction, we'll see if that age-old quality of honesty means anything. A SC political operative recently made the poignant comment about the four things black people want from politicians: "They want someone who loves God, won't lie to them, will protect America and will fight against racism".

As far as "a lot of people agreeing with Obama's policies" goes, it's mostly by default. People are OK with where we are right now, but if you think that there are more left-of-center people who don't want to keep pressing leftward on a variety of issues at the core of the Democratic Party than there are who do, then you're a raving lunatic. People knee-jerk to defend Obama because of the BS he has faced over the past eight years; not because he is a harbinger of progressive values and has taken us exactly as far left as we want to go without overstepping. Clinton - with blacks in particular - has been taking advantage of that concept.