He kinda sorta walked back his comments on PP yesterday.
"Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign and other progressive groups that have endorsed Hillary Clinton are not part of the political establishment, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday, walking back comments he made earlier this week on MSNBC."
“That’s not what I meant,” Sanders told NBC News in an interview during his campaign swing through the first-in-the-nation primary state. “We’re a week out in the election, and the Clinton people will try to spin these things.”
Pressed on whether he views the groups as “establishment,” Sanders said: “No. They aren’t. They’re standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.”
Sanders said he was specifically talking about the leadership of those groups and their endorsement decisions."
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-walks-back-planned-parenthood-clinton-establishment-comments
So he sorta walked it back but not really, he's really saying he's sorry Hillary Clinton took him out of context. Yet PP and Emily's List both criticized his marginalization of the work PP does, not just Hillary.
And claiming that PP only supported Hillary because it ignored its members further marginalizes them. He's basically saying their voice doesn't count as it's somehow bought.
I see Rachel Maddow keeps saying that he has a 100 percent rating with NARAL. But that's the trouble with his answers.
You get the idea that certain ideas animate Bernie-money in politics, financial reform. Other ideas he sort of recognizes but they are less important to him. Gun control he ironically says we should stop shouting about. He says this after every latest mass shooting.
So you can shout about campaign finance reform but gun control we should be quiet about. Meanwhile we've lost 100 times more Americans to domestic gun violence than in the Iraq War.
"Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign and other progressive groups that have endorsed Hillary Clinton are not part of the political establishment, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday, walking back comments he made earlier this week on MSNBC."
“That’s not what I meant,” Sanders told NBC News in an interview during his campaign swing through the first-in-the-nation primary state. “We’re a week out in the election, and the Clinton people will try to spin these things.”
Pressed on whether he views the groups as “establishment,” Sanders said: “No. They aren’t. They’re standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.”
Sanders said he was specifically talking about the leadership of those groups and their endorsement decisions."
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-walks-back-planned-parenthood-clinton-establishment-comments
So he sorta walked it back but not really, he's really saying he's sorry Hillary Clinton took him out of context. Yet PP and Emily's List both criticized his marginalization of the work PP does, not just Hillary.
And claiming that PP only supported Hillary because it ignored its members further marginalizes them. He's basically saying their voice doesn't count as it's somehow bought.
I see Rachel Maddow keeps saying that he has a 100 percent rating with NARAL. But that's the trouble with his answers.
You get the idea that certain ideas animate Bernie-money in politics, financial reform. Other ideas he sort of recognizes but they are less important to him. Gun control he ironically says we should stop shouting about. He says this after every latest mass shooting.
So you can shout about campaign finance reform but gun control we should be quiet about. Meanwhile we've lost 100 times more Americans to domestic gun violence than in the Iraq War.
On women's issues-on a woman's right to choose, on women's health-he is just very quiet. He checks the prochoice box that all Democratic candidates must do but there is no sign that it animates him in any way.
"Whenever Sanders is criticized on an identity issue like race or gender, he and his supporters are quick to defend him by pointing to his record. He's always voted the "right way," he marched with Martin Luther King, etc."
"But arguments like that ring hollow to some progressives. Witness the Black Lives Matter movement, which has pushed Sanders to speak out more about racial justice. For these activists, it wasn't enough for Sanders to have the right voting record or policy positions. He had to talk about racial justice, a lot, with a comprehensive analysis of why police violence happens and how to fix it. He had to show that he would actively prioritize these issues and work to fix them, not just passively support them if they happened to come up."
"Sanders has changed his tune on racial justice significantly since those protests, but he still stumbles occasionally. Ta-Nehisi Coates took Sanders to task for dismissing reparations as politically infeasible when none of his economic justice proposals could make it through the current Congress either. And in an awkward moment during the last Democratic debate, Sanders seemed to mentally separate blacks and Latinos from the "general population"
"The pushback against Sanders from some reproductive justice activists is similar to the pushback from Black Lives Matter and other racial justice activists. In the current political climate, with its unprecedented wave of anti-abortion lawmaking, advocates say that fighting for reproductive rights is about more than having the right policy positions or voting the right way."
"Sanders has a strong voting record on race and gender justice issues, and he's shown a willingness to listen to criticism and adapt. He also has a point about how the Democratic "establishment" has favored Clinton from the beginning. But gaffes like these reveal that he thinks identity issues are unimportant when compared with class struggle, and indeed that they get in the way of it. That could be a problem if he wants to keep expanding his nonwhite-male voter base."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-rea-problem-with-bernies-planned.html
"But arguments like that ring hollow to some progressives. Witness the Black Lives Matter movement, which has pushed Sanders to speak out more about racial justice. For these activists, it wasn't enough for Sanders to have the right voting record or policy positions. He had to talk about racial justice, a lot, with a comprehensive analysis of why police violence happens and how to fix it. He had to show that he would actively prioritize these issues and work to fix them, not just passively support them if they happened to come up."
"Sanders has changed his tune on racial justice significantly since those protests, but he still stumbles occasionally. Ta-Nehisi Coates took Sanders to task for dismissing reparations as politically infeasible when none of his economic justice proposals could make it through the current Congress either. And in an awkward moment during the last Democratic debate, Sanders seemed to mentally separate blacks and Latinos from the "general population"
"The pushback against Sanders from some reproductive justice activists is similar to the pushback from Black Lives Matter and other racial justice activists. In the current political climate, with its unprecedented wave of anti-abortion lawmaking, advocates say that fighting for reproductive rights is about more than having the right policy positions or voting the right way."
"Sanders has a strong voting record on race and gender justice issues, and he's shown a willingness to listen to criticism and adapt. He also has a point about how the Democratic "establishment" has favored Clinton from the beginning. But gaffes like these reveal that he thinks identity issues are unimportant when compared with class struggle, and indeed that they get in the way of it. That could be a problem if he wants to keep expanding his nonwhite-male voter base."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-rea-problem-with-bernies-planned.html
In view of that is PP's vote a surprise?
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