ClydeR
11-19-2015, 11:20 AM
Sanders plans to explain today why he thinks socialism is good. The experts quoted in the article all seem to agree that it is a good plan. Am I the only one who thinks it is a dumb idea? This move tells me that Sanders believes he cannot win the nomination and hopes to use his remaining notoriety to plant ideas that will influence the future.
Sanders's team has long sought a way to clarify the independent Vermont senator's views as a democratic socialist, which is often conflated with socialism.
The speech will be the "definitive explanation" on Sanders's identity as a democratic socialist, an aide told The Hill.
It is fair, the aide added, to compare the speech to then-Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race in 2008, in which he confronted both that issue and the controversial remarks of his former reverend.
Thursday's speech "is going to be another major moment in his campaign," the aide said of Sanders.
While the speech has been in the works for some time, Sanders has added a foreign policy element in light of the terror attacks in Paris last week. He plans to focus on both a strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and to keep the world safer in the longer term.
More... (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/260556-sanders-plans-speech-explaining-socialism)
Sanders's team has long sought a way to clarify the independent Vermont senator's views as a democratic socialist, which is often conflated with socialism.
The speech will be the "definitive explanation" on Sanders's identity as a democratic socialist, an aide told The Hill.
It is fair, the aide added, to compare the speech to then-Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race in 2008, in which he confronted both that issue and the controversial remarks of his former reverend.
Thursday's speech "is going to be another major moment in his campaign," the aide said of Sanders.
While the speech has been in the works for some time, Sanders has added a foreign policy element in light of the terror attacks in Paris last week. He plans to focus on both a strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and to keep the world safer in the longer term.
More... (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/260556-sanders-plans-speech-explaining-socialism)