29. "She's basically using OBama as a shield." In response to In response to 26 Fri Feb-12-16 12:02 AM by denny
When Bernie makes an anti-establishment argument (ie campaign financing)....Hillary responds by saying 'well Obama got money from large corporations too'. She'll be able to say that til the cows come home because Obama himself had an establishment-like presidency.
So that puts Bernie in a tough spot. Ideally....he should be able to say 'And it was wrong when Obama did it too!'. Unfortunately, there's too much un-examined, knee-jerk Obama love to do that without risking votes. In this climate....you'll suffer if you say ANYTHING critical of Obama. The problem is.....Bernie's whole campaign is based on advocating for things that Obama didn't support. So the only thing he can really do is try to bring the focus back on the issue itself instead of what Obama supported/practised. That means Hillary scores points with the minority vote without Sanders being able to respond.
It's starting to make more sense to me why the black vote is a problem for Bernie.