For the iraq war, if you were in favor of the death penalty, if you bobbled on things like the keystone pipeline, if you said singlepayer health care cannot happen, you are too far to the right of the Democratic Party to be the partys standardbearer. Given those policy positions, why should liberal democrats support you and not senator sanders . Ms. Clinton because i am a progressive who gets things done. The root of the word progressive is progress. But i have heard senator sanders comments. It has really caused me to wonder, who is left in the progressive wing of the party . Under his definition, president obama is not progressive because he took donations from wall street. Vice President Biden is not progressive because he supported keystone. Senator shaheen is not progressive because she put she supports the trade tax. Even the late great senator Paul Wellstone would not fit this definition because he voted for doma. We have differences. Honestly, i think we should be talking about
Up next former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee appeared on booknotes in 1975 to workaround his journalism career. Mr. Bradlee died this past week at the age of 93. This program is about an hour. Cspan ben bradlee, one of the last things you tell us in your book is that you gave an anonymous gift to harvard and nothings happened. Guest well, i didnt want to have any publicity about it while i was still editor of the post. I thought that would be inappropriate. And so i yeah, i tried to thank the two influences in my life; one was kennedy and one was phil graham and the Washington Post. So i thought giving something to the Kennedy School, endowing a chair, would be appropriate, and i did and theyve been looking ever since. Cspan why has it taken so long . Guest i dont know. Cspan when you. Guest theyll find somebody. Cspan when you give an endowment to a school like the Kennedy School at harvard, how does it work . Guest well, you have first thing, you have absolutely no say
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New Hampshire has a political slogan called, “the Pledge.” It’s not the Pledge of Allegiance or some other kind of pledge to God, country or high ideals. It’s a political pledge to William Loeb’s hatred of broad-based taxes which he defined as a state income or sales tax.
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