Bobby Jindal Gives Bernie Sanders Some Credit

We’ve said it before: Sen. “So I want to wait and see what he and Secretary Kerry decide”, Clinton said in response to the Keystone question. He understands that personally attacking Hillary Clinton would take the focus off of the issues that matter. “Her excuse was she didn’t want to step on President Obama while he was still in office”, he said.

It is the presidential campaign equivalent of Nancy Pelosi’s famous (or infamous) comment in 2010 that “we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it”.

While the Republicans are doing everything in their power to avoid discussing issues, Democrats are having an issue-driven debate among their candidates that is already sharpening up their vision of what the post-Obama Democratic agenda will look like.

Indeed, Sanders does regularly frame issues of race and inequality as economic matters, arguing that the key to combating racial disparities is by raising wages and increasing opportunities.

Voters filled the large banquet hall yesterday at Southern New Hampshire University to support Vermont Sen. “This is President Obama’s decision and I’m not going to second-guess him“. The campaign declined to comment for this story, but pointed CNN to Sanders’ speech at the National Urban League annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last week.

“Hillary is definitely slipping a little bit right now, and it’s not clear whether Sanders will be able to win that vacuum”, he said. “It’s not scary. We’re not these insane, hippie, liberal, totally-off-the-wall people“.

“Sanders has a long way to go with African-American voters”, said Bakari Sellers, a CNN contributor and former member of the South Carolina House.

“Since I’ve started the Bernie Sanders group, I’ve been amazed at how many people have come out of nowhere”, Scott said. Bernie Sanders was endorsed by Friends of the Earth, a progressive political action committee fighting climate change, during a campaign stop in New Hampshire today. It’s about you, it’s about your kids, it’s about your parents.

Sources familiar with Clinton’s schedule said she is expected to arrive in McAllen sometime Friday and meet with Democratic legislators from across the state for a meeting whose goal could not be immediately determined. “They’re just not honest enough to call themselves socialists”.

“I am very honored to receive the endorsement of one of the great environmental organizations not only in America but in the world, ” he said in a statement. And by a 50 percent margin, they say government should do more rather than less to solve problems, a stance more closely matching the Democratic position.