These days it is all about the labels……terms like apologist, bleeding heart, RINO or TeaBagger…..it is to the point of lunacy…..and this election of 2016 is no better……
We have GOPers attacking each other with insults like liars, crazy, etc…..but it has hit a new low with the Clinton/Sanders campaigns……and this time it is one of the lamest of terms……progressive.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders opened up a new line of attack in the Democratic presidential primary on Wednesday, putting Hillary Clinton on the defensive over her liberal credentials just days after she eked a slim victory in the Iowa caucuses.
“Some of my best friends are moderates, but you can’t be a progressive and a moderate at the same time,” Sanders said at a town hall in New Hampshire, which included questions from voters.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke immediately after Sanders at the town hall hosted by CNN and the New Hampshire Democratic Party at the Derry Opera House in Derry, New Hampshire.
Sanders rattled off a list of issues where Clinton isn’t in sync with the liberal wing of the party, including trade, Wall Street regulation, climate change, campaign finance and the 2002 authorization of the war in Iraq.
“I do not know any progressive who has a super PAC and takes $15 million from Wall Street,” Sanders said. “That’s just not progressive.”
Clinton moved quickly to defend her record, saying that under Sanders’ criteria President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and even the deceased Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, a champion of liberal causes, would not be considered progressive.
“I know where I stand,” said Clinton. “But I don’t think it helps for the senator to be making those kinds of comparisons because clearly we all share the same hopes and aspirations for our country.”
(AlJazeera.com)
Maybe I suggest that these candidates stop wasting time and get to the issues……to begin with….NO one cares about the title.
Americans are hungry…..Americans are struggling…..Americans are homeless….and the best you people can do is debate which of you is a “better” progressive…..please we are better than this.
Let the Repubs insult each other for political gain…..speak to the problems and offer solutions….Move On!
I thought Aljazerra was going off the air.
In the US the publication is still up and running….
Re: labels…. The greater portion of humanity believes the label IS the object described; this complicates the issue when everything out of a candidate’s mouth is untrue, for it obscures the labeling process for most…. thus removing any chance they may have had to see anything true at all.
In short, this whole election farce is a perfect example of the immoral playing fast and loose with the ignorant, and, as is usual for this culture, everybody is losing…. all because 98% of the human race refuses to use what little imagination they have to look for truth, accepting anything they hear as whatever label they choose to apply to it…. all of which is so far removed from actual reality as to be ludicrous.
Hmph…. the farce continues….
gigoid, the dubious
Oh, Jeb’s just waiting for the Trump to be finished, which he will….I believe he has fallen for his own hype, and has become the ridiculous image he portrays, which has nothing to do with anything that will do anything for anyone but Trump. The real money folks won’t ever let him walk into the WH…..
gigoid
Looks like the Donald has fallen onto his sharp wit…..Rubio is on the rise according to the media…he could be the savior of the GOP….the media really barks out the crap, huh? chuq