Tom Hayden supporting Hillary

He makes the lesser-of-two-evils argument.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/02/norman-solomon-vs-tom-hayden-sanders-vs-clinton

In the article Norman Solomon makes a point about the VP decision:

…but most crucially, I think, first are the next seven days. A lot of what is going to be possible at the convention will hinge on what kind of momentum the Bernie campaign has going into it. And whether Bernie can carry California on June 7th is tremendously important.

And that’s where, again, I’m going to differ with Tom in that while he claimed to be descriptive of the math and the politics in this campaign, it’s actually a prescriptive position that he’s taking. He’s gotten behind Hillary Clinton even before the New York primary, and what we’ve got to do I think is carry California with as big as possible a margin for Bernie Sanders, so that the extremely hawkish politics of Hillary Clinton and her demonstrated affinity for Wall Street, for instance, her indifference to issues of poverty and universal health care in reality in terms of policies, and so many other things — that we can challenge that, not only in terms of platform, but, lest we forget, there’s this position called vice president of the United States, and it’s an open question about whether if Hillary Clinton is the nominee she’s going to select somebody from the traditional corporate wing of the Democratic Party hierarchy or whether we can push her, for whatever reasons she might come to fathom, to have a more progressive person on the ticket.

Q: So the vice presidential pick, the party platform which gets determined at the Democratic National Convention — these are two things the Sanders campaign can influence without actually winning the nomination. What else?… see link
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