You
know I lean very progressive – and yet I cannot get behind Senator Sanders, who
is being touted as the “progressive” candidate to solve our woes. I’ve been
wrestling with why. And thanks to a recent conversation with a friend, I began
to articulate some reasons, at least for myself.
Ultimately, Bernie should be everybody's favorite emeritus lit professor - great ideas, quips, anecdotes and a wonderful sense of wanting to make the world more just. And now following the most recent debates and speeches, he just seems a bit more out-of-touch with the real world: his vocabulary, reference points, even gesturing – all seem to indicate being stuck as an older white guy in our no-longer white world.
Yes
he has experience, lots of it! And I completely respect his involvement in the
civil rights movement. Yet being mayor of Burlington VT (a fun hippy dippy
place) and congressman/senator from Vermont is nothing compared to Hilary's
resume: Not only as senator, secretary of state, serving in presidential and
state administrations, etc....She was also a leading law school professor (our
former family attorney when we lived in NJ was her student), which not a lot of
people really know. And I think, like President Obama's experience as a
constitutional law prof, we need a next president who also has a deeper working
knowledge and intellectual grasp of the system and its intricacies (if we do
ever hope to address its challenges).
Hillary is an actual candidate with more extensive real world experience, and the qualifications and capacity to govern, manage and lead. She can stand as a world leader, whereas I think Bernie just has the tendency/likelihood to come off as a pie-in-the-sky doddering fool in the eyes of the other nations...
Don’t
get me started on the GOP…
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