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Bernie Sanders says it's 'unfair' to say everything Fidel Castro did was bad
condemns his 'authoritarian nature'Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sat down with CNN's Anderson Cooper for a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night, and he agreed "it is a bit shocking" he's the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. When Cooper asked if Democratic voters are "really wanting a revolution," Sanders suggested they "go easy on the word rev 'political revolution.'" Cooper noted that's the word Sanders uses, and Sanders said he doesn't want "people, you know, to overstate that." His Medicare-for-all plan, he said, is "not socialized medicine. This is keeping the same system intact, but getting rid of the private insurance companies."
Cooper played clips of Sanders saying positive things about the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the 1980s. "We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad," Sanders told Cooper. "When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?" Cooper noted that Castro also jailed dissidents and worse, and Sanders said "we condemn that. Unlike Donald Trump" with North Korea's despotic ruler. "I do not think that Kim Jong Un is a good friend," he said. "I don't trade love letters with a murdering dictator. Vladimir Putin, not a great friend of mine."
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Sanders wasn't very specific on how he planned to pay for Medicare-for-all and his other big initiatives, and he didn't explain how he would get his plans through Congress. But he did acknowledge that his policy proposals were influenced "a lot" by his family or origin and childhood in Brooklyn. Still, " I don't like to, you know, talk about personal stuff that much," he said. Cooper asked if his "personal stuff" wasn't important to who he is, and Sanders said it may be but he's "kind of private" and "not particularly anxious to tell the world about everything personal in my life."
https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-unfair-everything-124100244.html
Adolph Hitler helped with the Volkswagen Beetle (the people's car) and the autobahn. Guess everything he did wasn't bad.
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Bernie Sanders says it's 'unfair' to say everything Fidel Castro did was bad (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Feb 2020
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apcalc
(4,465 posts)1. Guess he forgot the first rule of holes...
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)2. K&R, Also Sanders defense of Castro are wrong on its face Castro's literacy program was all bad
... and was done for the sake of indoctrination
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
apcalc
(4,465 posts)3. I have read that... students learned and memorized anti American slogans
Stuff like that
If I were to vote in a presidential
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Callado119
(171 posts)4. He might as well have just said there are good people on both sides...
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)5. It's true that there are bright spots in most government administrations
We got the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act in 1986. Nixon gave us the EPA.
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Goodheart
(5,339 posts)6. Why even go there?
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden