Bernie met with the President today for an hour. Here’s what he said afterward:
Emerging from the White House after meeting with Obama for more than an hour, Sanders said he wasn't bothered by a recent interview in which Obama appeared to be tilting toward his former secretary of state.
"I think he and the vice president have tried to be fair and even-handed in the process, and I expect they will continue to do that," Sanders said.
His Oval Office session focused on domestic and foreign policy issues, Sanders said, explaining that Obama updated him on progress against the ISIS terrorist group and ongoing diplomacy with Iran.
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"There's no secret that we have, as is the case in a Democratic society, we have differences of opinion," Sanders said. "I was on the floor of the Senate disagreeing with him over taxes. We disagree over (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal). By and large, over the last seven years on major issue after major issue, I have stood by his side to where he has taken on unprecedented Republican obstructionism, has tried to do the right thing for the American people."
Bernie agrees with the President when he thinks the President is right and disagrees when he thinks he is wrong. Just like Hillary:
AUGUST 10, 2014
Hillary Clinton criticized President Obama's foreign policy approach, asserting that he should have taken action in Syria.
"The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled," she said in an interview with The Atlantic published on Sunday.
Clinton criticized Obama for being too cautious when it comes to intervening abroad.
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg asked Clinton about the Obama administration's foreign affairs motto, "Don't do stupid shit."
“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle," Clinton responded.
Obama was right about the invasion of Iraq. He said “don’t do stupid stuff” about the AUMF and invasion. Hillary voted for the AUMF that allowed Bush to invade. That was stupid stuff. Bernie led opposition to the AUMF in the House.
Or this from last October
In a decisive split from the Obama administration, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton asserted her support for carving out a no-fly zone in Syria, a day after Russia launched airstrikes to support the Syrian regime.
"I personally would be advocating now for a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air, to try to provide some way to take stock of what's happening, to try to stem the flow of refugees," Clinton said in an interview with Boston's WHDH-TV Thursday.
The Obama administration has sidestepped calls for a no-fly zone — airspace one side designates as forbidden to another side, potentially with the threat that unauthorized aircraft will be shot down — in Syria, citing concerns about how it would be enforced. Creating a no-fly zone would also draw the US much more overtly into the conflict.
It is not a question of disagreeing with President Obama on some issue; it’s where you disagree.