Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a radio interview that he's thinking about trying to encourage somebody to run against President Obama in a primary election, claiming the president has drifted toward Republican positions because "no one will stand up to him."

Republicans hardly feel that Obama is on their side. House Speaker John Boehner, after splitting off from White House-led debt talks, said Sunday that they are almost "from two different planets."

But Sanders, an Independent, said Friday that the president is not living up to his campaign commitments on issues like Social Security -- reflecting a concern among some Democrats that Obama is willing to negotiate away changes to entitlements to appease Republicans.

Sanders said his "suggestion" is that Obama face a Democratic challenger in 2012.

"I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing," Sanders said on radio host Thom Hartmann's show.

Sanders, while left of most elected Democrats, is an independent and could not step up to the plate to challenge Obama unless he registered as a Democrat.

He showed no interest in doing so, but said he is "giving thought" to encouraging someone else to run.

"There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents," he said. "This is an issue ... we are beginning to talk about a little bit."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/24/obama-should-face-primary-opponent-vermont-sen-sanders-says/#ixzz1T5uhY34m

God damn, this guy is an idiot. The only chance Democrats have is if Obama is on the ticket(geanted it's a slim to no chance, but it's better). Not to mention he's going to alienate himself more from his Democratic Allies and his caucus.

Also Obama and his supporters and Democrats could do the same thing to him. They could get a prominant Democrat to run against Sanders in his next election and Sanders would lose big time. He already doesn't stand a chance in the next election and not he wants to piss off the supporters he does have at this point.

I do have to give him credit, he has balls to stand up to the "Messiah", King Obama.

That doesn't surprise me at all.

We'll have to see where the spending cuts are made, and whether or not the cuts are cuts to what is paid, or cuts to how the programs are run.

There is no way in hell that the American public will elect a republican this time around.

I'd vote for Bernie Sanders.

It surprises me, actually nothing the "Looney Left" does anymore surprises me.

Anyways, thats why Republican's won the majority in Congress, came within a couple seats of the Majority of the Senate and took over most of the state elections including in very Liberal States? Democrats are doomed next time around. Hell, they even lost a seat they have held since 1944

You'd vote for an admitted Socialist?

I am a socialist, and by the looks of your words here, you have no idea what that is.

socialist... just another fancy name for a lefty...they want the same things but word it differently...

What would it take for that claim to be true?

Sure I do......... Hitler, Stalin kim Jong Il..............

But Sanders publically admits he is a Socialist and supports communism!

Totalitarianism and socialism are not the same thing. Socialism does not require a dictator.

THey are ALL Socialists. The Nazi Party was even called National Socialist German Workers' Party! C'mon................

On your view, what makes someone a socialist?

Where did he makes this statement that he supports communism? What is the source?

BTW, I've read many are encouraging Sanders to run.

Obamа for president

I'm waiting on the OP to explain what it is that he thinks makes a socialist a socialist.



You'll find people parroting terms that they do not even understand.

"Socialism!!!" "Oh, no not that... that is... that is... that is... that is something we ought not be, even though I have no idea what it is."

Public school systems...
Police departments...
Fire departments...
Public water access...
Roads...
Bridges...
America's infrastructure...
Neighborhood watch programs...
Gated communities...
Private schools...
Non-profits...
Building trade unions...
Unemployment benefits...
Education Grants...
Social Security...
Medicare...
Medicaid...
Government Employee medical benefits...

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These things, and many more - including much of the ideology that joined to form this 'more perfect union', are all informed by socialist principles.

like i said, same thing as lefty principles...eberything has to have a label...

The label means d1ck.

It is what is informing the labels, it is what the label represents, it is what that which is being represented does.

The point is that one ought know what they're talking about.