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ucrdem

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1. President Obama has been mercilessly bashed for his FP from day 1.
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 04:33 PM
Dec 2015

The problem with claiming that Bernie is better than Hillary is that he isn't. He's as much a captive of the weapons industry as any other pol. He has the luxury of making a symbolic protest vote now and then but when you get down to brass tacks he's voting for defense budgets right on schedule.

Hillary has the advantage of having had to take the rap for militaristic decisions. She's also worked closely with PBO and I'm betting she'll adopt less interventionist policies once she's in office. Bernie on the other hand is perfectly happy announcing that ISIS must be destroyed which basically means the works without much thought for consequences. No thanks.

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