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STEPHEN LENDMAN
They’re both right, maybe the first honest assessment expressed by any duopoly aspirant since campaigning began last year. Trump ad hominem attacks on other Republican candidates throughout the campaign are in a category of their own – along with similar retorts directed at him. “And I will leave it to voters to decide who of us can do the job that the country needs, who can do all aspects of the job, both on the economic domestic issues and on national security and foreign policy.” Raising these issues amounts to calling Sanders unfit for the nation’s top job without saying it in so many words directly.
Sanders minced no words, saying “I don’t believe that she is qualified if she is – through her Super PAC – taking in tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds…I don’t think that you are qualified if you get 15 million dollars from Wall Street through your Super PAC. I don’t think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq.”
“I don’t think you are qualified if you’ve supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs.” Sanders ignored his own deplorable record, voting with Democrats 98% of the time, supporting the rape of Yugoslavia, all US post-9/11 wars except 2003 Bush aggression on Iraq – then opposed impeaching him and Obama for war crimes.
No matter who succeeds Obama, government of, by and for its privileged few exclusively will continue, concerns of ordinary people ignored.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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