Bernie Sanders Tags Hillary On Trade

Bernie Sanders is surging ahead in a bunch of inconsequential states, but that hasn't stopped the Ron Paul of the left from taking potshots at the presumptive frontrunner, who is trying to co-opt his populist rhetoric to sell Americans on a third Clinton term.  This weekend, Bernie called out Clinton on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that has divided Republicans (amongst themselves, cordially) and Democrats (like a mob of drunken lemurs over a rotting piece of fruit), which Clinton has refused to comment on because commeting on a trade deal would require her to take a position on something that is, currently, controversial. Ostensibly, Hillary Clinton is pro-free trade (when its convenient for Hillary Clinton), but her new marketing strategy, which places her in the position of avenging the people against the excesses of the wealthy and the few, demands she consider alternatives. According to Bernie, that just makes her a coward.

Hillary Clinton’s reluctance to comment on President Barack Obama’s Pacific trade deal is a cop-out, Democratic presidential candidate and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders charged in a “Charlie Rose” interview with Bloomberg’s Al Hunt aired Thursday on PBS. “I’ve known Hillary Clinton for 25 years and I have a lot of respect for her,” Sanders said, but emphasized the differences between the two presidential hopefuls on several issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “I frankly don’t understand how you could be a major candidate for president of the United States — Hillary Clinton, or anybody else — and not have an opinion on that issue,” he said.

First off, let's take a moment to appreciate that Bernie made this statement on Charlie Rose, the only news program on television watched exclusively by upper middle-class white liberals. Charlie Rose is kept on the air through the sheer desire for the organic cotton PBS pledge drive tote bags these limousine liberals need to cart home their farmers m...