IN A TOPSY-TURVY way, Bernie Sanders has been setting the agenda in Democratic circles in recent weeks. Though it has for weeks been apparent that the Vermont senator had lost the party’s primary battle to Hillary Clinton, his determination to fight on has prevented Mrs Clinton getting stuck into her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, as she would have liked, while at the same time providing liberal commentators with an irresistible soap opera—an exhibition of gritty commitment or delusion, depending where they stand. It has also prevented Barack Obama putting his weight behind Mrs Clinton—but on June 9th, in a sign of Mr Sanders’s rapidly fading relevance, the president did so.
In a three-minute-long video published on Mrs Clinton’s Facebook page, Mr Obama praised the “judgment…toughness… commitment to our values” of his former secretary of state and sometime bitter rival. “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” he said. “I’m with her, I am fired up, and I cannot wait to get out there to campaign for Hillary.” He will do so on June 9th, it emerged,...Continue reading
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