So Bernie supports the Stealth bomber, is an admirer of Fidel Castro, and protected the Minutemen?
Can you imagine if Hillary had these kinds of stands, how the white "left" would rip her apart. Not saying that Bernie is bad, just let's put things in perspective -- he's more progressive than Hillary but he's a career politician who, like Hillary, has made some poor choices in his career.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/bernie-sanders-loves-this-1-trillion-war-machine.html
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Sen. Bernie Sanders has railed against big defense corporations at rallies, but he has a more complex history with the military-industrial complex. Most notably, he’s supported a $1.2 trillion stealth fighter that’s considered by many to be one of the bigger boondoggles in Pentagon history.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3281335/Bernie-Sanders-praised-Fidel-Castro-1985-interview-educated-kids-gave-kids-health-care-totally-transformed-society.html
A 31-year-old videotaped interview has been drudged up in which a young Bernie Sanders heaps praise on Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Sanders, mayor of Burlington, Vermont at the time and now the state's independent senator seeking the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, made the remarks in an interview on a local public access channel, the CCTV Center for Media & Democracy in Burlington.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/in-2006-bernie-sanders-voted-in-support-of-an-immigration-co#.ucZBEB47W
A few months before Democrats swept the 2006 elections, an outcry raged in the fringier corners of the immigration debate. Treasonous American officials were tipping off the Mexican government about the whereabouts of Minutemen patrols, the argument went, making it impossible for the private army bent on preventing undocumented immigrants from crossing the border to do their jobs.
The outcry made it to Congress, where Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, a Republican, introduced an amendment clearly directed at the Minutemen story. The amendment barred the Department of Homeland Security from providing “a foreign government information relating to the activities of an organized volunteer civilian action group, operating in the State of California, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona.”
Kingston’s amendment overwhelmingly passed the Republican-controlled Congress, including the votes of 76 Democrats, most of them from the party’s then-strong Blue Dog conservative wing. Another person voted for the measure, too: Rep. Bernie Sanders, an independent in the midst of the campaign that would send him the U.S. Senate.
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