That quote comes from the co-founder of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters. He tells Rolling Stone that he supports Bernie Sanders because "He's the only person in the race that I see with any credibility. He seems to speak the truth, far as one can tell at this point. He seems prepared to stand up against big money and the banks and stand up for the predicaments of minorities, the middle class and the working class in this country."
The Rock Icon is not exactly working class anymore but it's good to hear when someone successful doesn't forget where he/she came from.
The British citizen cannot vote in the U.S. election, but he says that if he could, he'd "cast [his] lot" with Sanders. He says that Hillary Clinton is a "far better alternative than any of the Republican candidates by a long, long way," but he still has severe reservations about her. "Hillary worries me," he says. "I have an awful worry that she might become the first woman president to drop a fucking nuclear bomb on somebody. There is something scarily hawkish about her, and she has that politician look down of, 'You are never going to get a word of truth out of me.'"
Don't take Roger Waters word on this. There is lots of evidence of Hillary's 'hawkishness'.
Hillary has been campaigning for president forever and in this 2014 piece from
The Hill her aides discuss how she would be much more aggressive than President Obama in dealing with Syria and ISIS.
Allies to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are casting a stark distinction between a decisive, assertive Clinton and a pragmatic, deliberative President Obama on foreign policy.
As Obama seeks to make the case for military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in a prime-time address on Wednesday, Clinton supporters are saying that she would have approached the battle with ISIS in a completely different way if she were commander in chief.
“You never want to be a Monday morning quarterback on these issues because who knows how things would ultimately turn out, but Obama has been passive on these issues,” one former aide to Clinton said. “She would have taken a more aggressive approach.”
Another former Clinton aide took it a step further: “It’s the very notion of decisiveness,” the former aide said. “She’s not gnashing her teeth the way we’re seeing time and time again with Obama.
Here is Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks talking about Hillary's response to ISIS:
Hillary has come out in support of a no-fly zone in Syria. Her position puts her in opposition with President Obama and with her presidential opponent Bernie Sanders
In a news conference Friday, Obama said Clinton "is not half-baked in terms of her approach to these problems." But he said that "there's a difference between running for president and being president. And the decisions that are being made and the discussions that I'm having with the Joint Chiefs become much more specific and require, I think, a different kind of judgment."
Obama said that "if and when she's president, then she'll make those judgments," adding that "these are tough calls."
Roger Waters and I have the same worries and concerns about Hillary.