From the NY Times "Obama Pivots Left ‘The world is different.’
From the article:
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There was a lot of breathless commentary in recent months about why Barack Obama hadn’t yet endorsed Joe Biden. Most of it was silly.
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Obama stayed true to this pattern by waiting to endorse Biden until his last rival — Sanders — had quit the race and Sanders himself endorsed Biden. Is there any takeaway from the endorsement, then? Yes: Obama went out of his way to signal that he agrees with the party’s shift toward a more progressive agenda. “I could not be prouder of the incredible progress that we made together during my presidency,” he said. “But if I were running today, I wouldn’t run the same race or have the same platform as I did in 2008. The world is different.” //END==================