I understand the love for Sanders & his policies. But politics is about compromise and coalitions. It does not matter if you are right (Sanders was the only Senator to vote for/against x, y, & z) if you exist in a vacuum. We are talking about government institutions--change will be small and incremental.

Obama started out his presidency calling for "an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics." He will finish it facing unprecedented obstruction on the part of the Republican members of Congress.

I have mad respect for Sanders and am glad he pushed the Democratic platform to the left, but I am grateful that our nominee is a badass bitch that can go toe-to-toe with the Republicans and get shit done.

(Why am I still seeing people on Facebook saying Bernie has a shot at the presidency?)

Also, also, also, here's more on Obama's strategy:

Obama’s strategists wrote that all campaign communications, even the slogan—“Change We Can Believe In”—had to emphasize distinctions with Clinton on character rather than on policy. The slogan “was intended to frame the argument along the character fault line, and this is where we can and must win this fight,” the memo said. “Clinton can’t be trusted or believed when it comes to change,” because “she’s driven by political calculation not conviction, regularly backing away and shifting positions. . . . She embodies trench warfare vs. Republicans, and is consumed with beating them rather than unifying the country and building consensus to get things done. She prides herself on working the system, not changing it.” The “current goal,” the memo continued, was to define Obama as “the only authentic ‘remedy’ to what ails Washington and stands in the way of progress.”