The latest attempt to smear Bernie Sanders is stating that he "praised" Fidel Castro

[melman]

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[Garrett78]

1. Don't you see, it's okay when anyone not named Bernie Sanders says [fill in the blank].

[DownriverDem]

2. Won't matter

Anything connected with Cuba or Bernie's past will hurt him. Bernie has not even been vetted. He has a ton of baggage. trump and the repubs are just biding their time and will unleash it all before the Dem Convention. Just wait.

[George II]

3. Using one's own words is a "smear" now? How about this then:

"President Kennedy was elected while I was at the University of Chicago, that was 1960. I remember being physically nauseated by his speech and that doesn't happen very often. He debated Nixon on Cuba. And their hatred for the Cuban Revolution, both of them was so strong. Kennedy was young and appealing and ostensibly liberal, but I think at that point, seeing through Kennedy, and what liberalism was, was probably a significant step for me to understand that conventional politics or liberalism was not what was relevant."

Remember, he said this about how he felt in 1960, barely a year after Castro seized power and while he was in the midst of rounding up, jailing, and executing journalists and conducting mass executions of his "dissidents". It was also when Castro's Cuba was a satellite of the Soviet Union.

He said this long before any of the things he speaks of today were even conceived or implemented. He was physically nauseated by Kennedy and said he could "see through Kennedy"!

That's far different from what Obama said about Castro/Cuba as the President of the United States. I'm sure Obama was never "physically nauseated" by John Kennedy or anything Americans said about the Castro regime while they were conducting mass executions.

[Rumanji]

4. great video

Shaun is great.

[SidDithers]

5. Whatabout Obama....

Is Obama running?

Sid

[TCJ70]

6. Some people just feel the need to light their own hair on fire if Bernie does anything...

...and it’s getting really old. He didn’t say anything false/wrong...but that doesn’t matter. That he said anything at all is too much for some.

[mopinko]

7. um. i think we are talking about 2 different cubas here.

how many years apart? little disingenuous there.

[IluvPitties]

8. Obama was trying to improve US-Cuba relationships.

Bernie has been praising garbage like the Castros, the Sandinistas and thd USSR since the 1980s. Big difference there.

[FloridaBlues]

9. This is just the tip of the iceberg for vetting of Sanders

See how he handles what is coming his way.