Strive - Bernie Sanders

[Donkees]

Feb 26, 2020

When candidates say we can’t guarantee health care for all, make college affordable for all, combat climate change, or create a world at peace, remember that America is best when we strive to do big things, even when it’s hard.

[AverageJoe]

1. Beautiful!

I miss the America that had this drive and confidence. I miss the challenges and thrills of the race to the moon. I miss the America that really believed we could achieve great things together. JFK believed in this America and so does Bernie Sanders.

[NurseJackie]

2. John F. Kennedy never smeared and denigrated the Democratic party...

John F. Kennedy never smeared and denigrated the Democratic party... he was an honorable man with integrity. A true and loyal Democrat.

[NurseJackie]

3. Bernie Sanders once said that he was "physically nauseated" by a speech made by Kennedy

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilanbenmeir/bernie-sanders-despised-democrats-in-1980s-said-a-jfk-speech

Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders once said that he was "physically nauseated" by a speech made by President John F. Kennedy when Sanders was a young man, because Kennedy's "hatred for the Cuban Revolution [...] was so strong."

"Kennedy was young and appealing and ostensibly liberal," Sanders reminisced in a 1987 interview with The Gadfly, a student newspaper at the University of Vermont. "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."

[George II]

7. The actual news clip:

[sheshe2]

4. Sanders is no JFK.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.

[Gothmog]

6. So sanders has apologized for his prior comments about JFK?

Link to tweet

[NurseJackie]

8. This is NOT a good look for Bernie. Does it mean he SUPPORTED the Cuban revolution and Castro?

[David__77]

9. I like it.

And Harkins to an era of rising aspirations, prior to the shift to deregulation and “shareholder value.”

I also believe that certain readers of this message board might not like it, given that Sanders also was critical of Kennedy. Silliness- one can be critical of someone and also see their strengths. FDR interned Japanese Americans and also led very important reforms.