Sanctions you can sanction

This is why Obama is at the top of the Democratic heap.

He has the taste to suggest that crippling sanctions against Iran are suffered only by its elites:

The regime is more isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions

Lesser Dems lack the subtlety that Lee Atwater famously counseled to his team. They ham-handedly admit their goal is to wreak vicious harm upon ordinary Iranians:

Listening to congressional supporters of sanctions, you’d think the sole reason is a sadistic urge to harm innocent Iranians. As one of the top supporters of sanctions, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), said, “Critics [of the sanctions] argued that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that.” Or take Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY): “The goal … is to inflict crippling, unendurable economic pain over there. Iran’s banking sector — especially its central bank — needs to become the financial equivalent of Chernobyl: radioactive, dangerous and most of all, empty.”