Bernie vs Hillary

Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Imagination

What is doable and what is morally correct are not always the same things, says Ta-Nehisi Coates, the new liberal Black Pope.

News reports say Hillary did better at last night's debate than Bernie.

And today Coates attacks Hillary.

As for the Dunning view of Reconstruction that he attributes to her and attacks, it is much like the theory that blames the rise of Hitler and WW2 on the Versailles Treaty.

Reconstruction was a failed effort to do the right thing, and the Versailles Treaty was a failed effort to prevent Germany going another round.

Much of the undone work of the Reconstruction was completed during the civil rights era in the middle and late 20th Century, and the undone work of Versailles was completed by Stalin at the end of WW2, who forced a forty year partition of Germany and more or less permanently occupied the eastern slice, right up to the fall of the Soviet Union in the late 20th Century.

Here's an interesting assessment of the attacks on Bern at Salon by Corey Robin, including the note that the original yes we can man, Barack Obama, has repeatedly expressed opposition to reparations.

Corey Robin is white and pro-Bernie, and Barack Obama repeatedly expressed opposition to gay marriage until he flipped.

Is Hillary subtly reminding people Bernie is Jewish?

Is she playing the Evangelical card early?

Clinton Explains How Christianity Has Guided Her Politics