Democrat Bernie Sanders at Obama

- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday had a meeting with his party president Barack Obama. The 74-year-old senator Sanders said afterwards that the president is neutral in the struggle with Sanders performs particularly Hillary Clinton to be the candidate for the presidency of the Democratic Party.

Sanders praised Obama as the man who led the United States over the past seven years, out of a deep economic crisis.

Monday there is in the state of Iowa for a first election for the candidacy. The party to a conference from 25 to 28 July in Philadelphia who for the upcoming election candidate president and vice president is the candidate.

Sanders from the northeastern Vermont is considered a left-wing Democrat who wants to change too fast, while ex-Secretary of State Clinton cautious seem to want to go to work. They would have preferred Obama, according to some media. Clinton lost the 2007 election to Obama and in June that year had to abandon its attempts to become the presidential candidate of the Democrats.