From driftglass:
Mild In The Streets
I understand that in the middle of a hotly contested campaign, it is impossible to tell anyone anything. At this point, campaign staffs are not worried about bruised feelings or stepping on toes: they are grinding it out an inches at at time and rooting through their tool kit looking for the biggest hammer available to get them to the finish line.
However, a brazen flip-flop on this scale does what a campaign should never do: drags attention away from what should be any campaign’s focus — the candidate’s strengths and ideas — and instead hangs a big, bright lantern on campaign’s internal weaknesses and contradictions.
Here is Sanders’ campaign national co-chair, Nina Turner, being appalled that candidates are using Barack Obama as a crutch: