"Bernie Sanders list of “foreign policy consultants” is full of people who have never spoken to him"
The ruffle comes even as Sanders now says that his long-promised foreign policy address won’t happen before primary voting begins after all, as his campaign is hoping it can win the first state or two while the candidate ignores foreign policy altogether. But the list of foreign policy experts he’s consulted with, which appears to have been largely made up out of thin air, is more troubling. One person on the list says she vaguely recalls perhaps speaking with him six months ago. Another was asked how he got on the list and his answer was “I don’t know.”
Not only is the Sanders campaign being dishonest by falsely claiming that these experts all advised him on foreign policy, the campaign is being naive by not expecting anyone in the media to contact those on the list for verification. But that’s precisely what Politico did, and the results aren’t pretty. This comes in the same week in which everyone from the AARP to the League of Conservation Voters to the Nevada Culinary Union has accused Sanders of dishonest campaign tactics.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/bernie-sanders-list-of-foreign-policy-consultants-is-full-of-people-who-have-never-spoken-to-him/23706/
This relates to the already posted Politico article. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-deficit-218431 The problem is that too many have opted not to read the story and are missing a key point highlighted above. I have never before heard of any candidate who has done something like this. I find it chilling.
Bernie voted against the Iraq War, MUCH to his credit. I applaud him for that. But foreign policy is a crucial component of the presidency. Anything can and does happen while a president is in office. A president needs ongoing and active familiarity, and he needs to take foreign policy very seriously.
This issue is too important for me to indulge responses by people uninterested in knowing the facts of the situation.
It is up to each and every citizen to decide if they choose to hold their elected leaders accountable. A responsible person should at least pause to find out more about the situation. This is not a game. This is the future of our country. Read the Politico article in its entirely.
I am busy canvassing today and will not be able to respond further.
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Buttongate, logogate and mailergate! Chilling indeed!
This from a supporter of one of the most dishonest campaigners ever.
Really?
I had no idea.
I do agree with you about the dirt, though. This is good old fashioned Rovian ratfucking at its best. Here's what I think about the new 'allegations.'
And I'll just ignore your straw man since I never said any of those things.
Well, *that's* reassuring! Right up there with Murrow, Cronkite, Thomas...
I wonder if the op is still "chilled" by the faux "news"?
Thanks for doing the research, that's going to have me chuckling all evening.
How about race car driver? Soap opera star is already taken. 
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Christy Bishop Cricow appears to be an interior designer.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-bishop-cricow-927b4528
Hard-hitting journalists, one and all!
rumsfeld, powell, rice and wolfowitcz troubles them not at all.
gods these are interesting times we live in
Kewl story bro.
Tell us another!
The bloggers got it wrong.
Again.
claims it does.
We're done. Just like Hillary may be in Iowa.
There is no other explanation except pettiness. It's that obvious.
we're going to score blows by calling people liars, but that only made you look foolish and you had no choice but to acknowledge POLITICO.
as Hillary. And that's a problem because the permanent war economy mobilizes around inexperience and naiveté to launch its horrors, going back to Eisenhower and before that to the Rome of Cicero and Caesar and probably long before that.
p.s. I took one look at that ginormous list and had to laugh. Thanks for the backgrounder. And to those unhappy about the articles, we don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
