2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Some HRC supporters are as fact aversive [View all]pandr32
(11,579 posts)...and laid out her very serious concerns at the time. Funny that is never mentioned, or that the "evidence" had been falsified in the first place, or that Sanders' "nay" vote was symbolic, and then he turned right around and voted to fully fund the "murderous invasion" which he and his supporters neglect to mention now.
Political rhetoric at its best from a seasoned career politician.
Sanders voted for the legislation that deregulated derivatives and credit-default swaps in 2000 that contributed to the crash of the economy (and to grant Enron and other BIG OIL companies exemption from any regulatory trading oversight), and he has voted to fully fund every single war measure. He is really pretty darn conservative and in-step with some pretty nasty players.