BERNIE SANDERS’ POSITIONS
“ . . . [Senator Bernie] Sanders told CBS
that he thought [Hillary] Clinton's campaign was getting ‘very, very nervous.’
" ‘I'm
not nervous at all," Clinton said on Wednesday [October 2015], on the ‘Today’ show, but, she added, ‘it's time to draw some contrasts." On Tuesday, Chelsea Clinton,
campaigning
for her mother in New Hampshire, took a question from a teacher at Miss Porter's School (Jacqueline Bouvier's alma mater), whose pro-Clinton students were in need of a talking point to counter their Bern-feeling contemporaries. "Senator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare,
dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare," Chelsea said. That could ‘strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance.’ Politifact rated the assertion ‘mostly false.’ Sanders has proposed a single-payer system that would automatically cover everyone. He calls it ‘Medicare for all,’ which may be wildly impractical, but it is not the same as Medicare dismantled.
for her mother in New Hampshire, took a question from a teacher at Miss Porter's School (Jacqueline Bouvier's alma mater), whose pro-Clinton students were in need of a talking point to counter their Bern-feeling contemporaries. "Senator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare,
dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare," Chelsea said. That could ‘strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance.’ Politifact rated the assertion ‘mostly false.’ Sanders has proposed a single-payer system that would automatically cover everyone. He calls it ‘Medicare for all,’ which may be wildly impractical, but it is not the same as Medicare dismantled.
“Hillary Clinton also
tried to portray Sanders as a ‘pretty reliable vote for the gun lobby,’ even though the N.R.A. gave him a grade of D-minus. Her charge is based
largely on Sanders's
2005 vote for a measure that made it harder to sue gun manufacturers and dealers; he has said
that the liability small dealers faced was too broad.
Last week, Vice- President Joe Biden
told CNN that Sanders's position on guns was
now in line with President Obama's. Biden, being Biden, went on to note that he
considered Clinton to be something of an arriviste in the fight against income
inequality, adding fondly that ‘no one questions Bernie’s authenticity on those
issues.’ ”
Amy Davidson, “Radical
Measures,” New Yorker, Talk of the Town, January 25, 2016, pp: 19-20.
