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In reply to the discussion: Can you spot the differences between these two emails? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)As far as I recall, he vilified behavior by certain "millionaires and billionaires." He never said that people with money are bad people.
It was always implied that he was clarifying that the wealthy people were the ones passing the unfair tax cuts or whatever. Of course he didn't mean ALL wealthy people.
As for his voters, it doesn't matter that they are white Vermonters. He is a good Senator, in the opinion of the voters of Vermont. Not cool to diss voters because they are in a small state or because of their race.
I didn't read anything about Sanders criticizing Joe Kennedy. But Sanders is grumpy, negative, disagreeable, and criticizes everyone but himself. So that wouldn't surprise me. (Sanders has a personal thing against the whole Kennedy family, I think.) Sanders giving his own competing speech with Kennedy's was proof positive, to me, that he wasn't a Democrat at heart and didn't have the Democratic Party in consideration.
Look, I don't like him. And I KNEW when he ran for President last time, that at least half of the reason was to get more known nationally and to make money. It wasn't to get elected President. (This is the reason most of the current candidates are running, too.) Everyone wants money, even if they rail against the wealthy, when they are not wealthy (yet).
To me, him making some money is irrelevant and not contrary to what I've heard him say about the behavior of the top wealthy class. I wish he'd go away and stop making trouble, but the money thing poses no problem for me. Sanders collected a salary for decades. He likes money. We ALL like money and want more of it.
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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