Bernie Praised Fidel Castro's Education System. So Did Obama.

[George II]

1. But Sanders did so while Castro was still rounding up and jailing journalists and dissidents....

...and conducting mass executions. He also did so as a Mayor of a tiny city in Vermont. Sanders also made those comments at a time that Cuba was a satellite of the Soviet Union.

Obama did so as the President of the United States. Presidents are expected to maintain a certain level of civility and demeanor when referring to leaders of other countries with which we're not at war. He didn't do so at a time that mass executions were taking place. And Cuba was no longer under the thumb of the Soviet Union.

Absolutely no comparison between the two considering the circumstances of each set of comments and their relative positions at the time.

This isn't a "yeahbut" situation.