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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders nails it again... [View all]Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)21. Well, that's a blog and there's no context as to why ...
... so, I did a quick google and found this from his website:
F-35s "A little irony here" is how Stewart Ledbetter described Republican John MacGovern opposing and Sen. Sanders supporting F-35s at the Vermont Air National Guard. The host of "Vermont This Week" on Vermont Public Television remarked on "the irony of a conservative, Dartmouth, blue blood, pro-Pentagon Senate candidate opposing the F-35 when everybody else - Bernie Sanders, the guy who hates defense spending ... unless it relates to the Vermont National Guard - the irony was a little ..." "Hilarious," interjected Paul Heintz of Seven Days. Mark Johnson of WDEV said Sanders' stand on the F-35s is consistent with is opposition years ago to efforts by demonstrators to shut down a GE plant in Burlington. "He was very strong against that peace community and very much stood with the union workers."
(emphasis added)
Now, I am a little bothered by this, but pales in comparison to what the previous poster was alleging. And with some context, it doesn't appear to be of the magnitude or the maliciousness with which the previous poster implied.
Edit to add link: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=f498cca8-0a05-4926-b55c-ed45118e86a9
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Yes, of course, but the problem is, the votes for that would need to come from...
Amonester
Jun 2013
#44