Sanders Explains Obama's Biggest Mistake And What Clinton Is Doing Wrong

BuzzFeed - Sanders is happy to be your liberal attack dog. Alex Wong / Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Obama turned his back on the millions who rallied to support him when he assumed office, cutting off the only means he had to effect the sweeping changes he promised on the campaign trail in 2008 and leaving him at the mercy of Republicans in Congress. That's the diagnosis from Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate who held court as the left-wing attack dog in the presidential race for about an hour Thursday surrounded by reporters at one of Washington's fanciest hotels. Sanders proclaimed himself the man with the "most progressive views of any candidate" in the race — "philosophically, I am a Democratic Socialist," he said at one point — and proceeded to prove the point, detailing broad support for western European economic and education policy, attacking Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for declining to pub