Who’s Bernie Attacking?

Recently Rev. Martin Luther King III commented on “the revolution” that Bernie Sanders has called for. He said that apparently Mr. Sanders missed ”the revolution” that was the election of our first black President in 2008 and his re-election in 2012. King believes that the attacks on President Barack Obama’s presidency by San­ders—directly and indirectly—are unfounded.

It’s clear that some of the attacks on Hillary Clinton by Bernie Sanders are also attacks on President Obama, and they include their accepting campaign money from big donors, support for the Affordable Care Act (Sanders demands universal health care similar to Canada’s), want­ing victims of gun violence to be able to sue gun manufacturers, and U.S. involvement to defeat ISIS. One can’t avoid reading Sanders’s criticisms of the current state of affairs as saying President Obama’s presidency has been a failure and radical changes are necessary right now.