Sanders Despised Democrats In 1980s, Said A JFK Speech Once Made Him Sick [View all]

[Rose Siding]

Every time I see BS supporters try to appropriate JFK's legacy I wonder if they know Bernie at all.

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.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/bernie-sanders-despised-democrats-in-1980s-said-a-jfk-speech#.ybz1DVn79

Saw through JFK. Saw through liberalism. So disturbed by JFK that he wanted to vomit. How many more ways could he have expressed it?

This is how President Kennedy defined liberalism:

September 14, 1960

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/jfk-nyliberal/

The pretentious young Bernie saw through it all. That guy was throwing our heroes under the bus before most of his supporters were born. And now they want to share John Fitzgerald Kennedy's mantle with the Bernster? I don't think so.