El Senador Bernie Sanders, socialista de Vermont, no quiere saber nada de candidaturas presidenciales. Su nombre sonó a principios de mes para disputarle la nominación demócrata a Obama. Incluso se creó una web con una petición pública para que considerase la posibilidad de concurrir como disidente a las primarias demócratas.
'Ain't gonna do it'
(...) One of the Senate's liberal leaders said that, despite receiving pleas to challenge President Obama in 2012, he won't take the bait.
When asked last week about launching a potential campaign against the president, self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he "ain't gonna do it."
"You will be the first to know: ain't gonna do it," he said during an interview on Vermont's WCAX-TV.
Speculation mounted that Sanders could run against Obama — it's unclear on what party label — after he spent over eight hours this month railing against the president's tax-cut deal on the Senate floor in a speech that came to be known as the "filibernie." (...)
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