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Bernie Sanders declines to retract positive statements on Fidel Castro
The Week ^ | March 10, 2016 | The Week

Posted on 03/10/2016 3:52:01 AM PST by Fasceto

Near the end of Wednesday's CNN/Univision Democratic debate, Jorge Ramos gave Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders his "Welcome to Miami" question, asking if the candidates supported President Obama's detente with Cuba and considered Raul Castro a president or a dictator. Clinton said that she backs opening relations with Cuba, viewing it as a way to bring democracy to the island nation. She called Raul and Fidel Castro "authoritarian and dictatorial."

Maria Elena Salinas tweaked the question for Sanders, noting that in the 1980s he had offered praise for Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega (who is once again leader of Nicaragua) and playing a video of him saying positive things about Fidel Castro, then Cuba's leader. She asked if Sanders wanted to take back his positive assessments of Castro, an especially unpopular figure in South Florida, and Ortega. Sanders talked about decades of U.S. policy in Latin America, including support for many coups.

When pressed by Salinas, he said that "it would be wrong not to state" that the Castros have done good things with medicine and education.

(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; News/Current Events; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2016election; berniesanders; castro; cuba; election2016; news; sanders; vermont

1 posted on 03/10/2016 3:52:01 AM PST by Fasceto
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To: Fasceto

This is what we dont need


2 posted on 03/10/2016 3:53:12 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Fasceto

Great sound bite to use during the general. Pretty much locks up Florida for Trump, if done correctly.


3 posted on 03/10/2016 3:54:35 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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To: ronnie raygun

They will say worse things about TRUMP than they can bring themselves to do about a guy who took power by killing hundreds of innocent people and denying freedoms for the past 56 years to an entire country.


4 posted on 03/10/2016 3:57:51 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: Fasceto

“the Castros have done good things with medicine and education.”

The liberal myth continues


5 posted on 03/10/2016 4:01:01 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Fasceto

Wages in Cuba run between $12 to $25 a month.

The rulers of Cuba have billions of dollars.

This tells us everything, literally everything we need to know about Socialism.


6 posted on 03/10/2016 4:07:04 AM PST by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: agere_contra

A culture of corruption that rises to the top ranks of The Party.


7 posted on 03/10/2016 4:09:11 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Fasceto

At least Bernie is an honest Communist, rather than a closet Communist like Obamessah and the Hildabeast.


8 posted on 03/10/2016 4:11:35 AM PST by Jmouse007 (Heavenly Father, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen)
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To: Fasceto

Bernie Sanders is part of the 1960s Marxist cadre that loved and worked with the Soviet Union and promoted and worked with Cuba’s Fidel Castro to turn the U.S. into a Communist country. Under their discipline, Barack Obama, their agitating and infiltrating have just about succeeded. These creeps have been visiting Cuba for many years and serving as Castro’s propagandists. Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama are coming from the same place.


9 posted on 03/10/2016 4:13:56 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Fasceto

Did he also make the trains run on time Bernie?


10 posted on 03/10/2016 4:21:28 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Fasceto

One commie to another


11 posted on 03/10/2016 4:26:35 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Fasceto
Democrats never met a commie dictator that didn't love and admire.
12 posted on 03/10/2016 4:38:53 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Fasceto

Its a mistake to call Bernie a socialist as if he is different from your run-of-the-mill Democrat. Ask any Dem to explain the difference between a Democrat and a socialist, and they can’t, because there isn’t.

In any case, no Democrat will ever be able to explain why socialism is a bad thing. Because for them it isn’t, it is who they are.

Socialism always brings oligarchy; they just always assume they’ll be part of the oligarchy.

Scratch a socialist, and you’ll find a monarchist. At heart every socialist pines for a king to set things right. When the government owns everything and runs everything, everything will be fair. They are just waiting for the right man to come along to make it so. Chavez, Castro, Obama, whatever, whoever.


13 posted on 03/10/2016 4:43:17 AM PST by marron
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To: Fasceto

Because sanders is also a marxist willing to violate the rights of the citizens to acheive leftist goals.


14 posted on 03/10/2016 5:09:32 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Communist Cuba tells Obama exactly what he will get from his historic visit to Havana: Nothing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407355/posts


15 posted on 03/10/2016 5:25:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Fasceto

16 posted on 03/10/2016 5:42:04 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

17 posted on 03/10/2016 5:42:58 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

He sure looks like one of those charming dudes from the 60’s... with a corduroy jacket, LOL.


18 posted on 03/10/2016 5:55:29 AM PST by OKSooner (Eh?)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Pretty much locks up Florida for Trump, if done correctly.

You're right on that... it'll lock up Florida...

19 posted on 03/10/2016 8:15:13 AM PST by GOPJ (Republican elites have turned into " race-baiting bigots" - feeding on PC mob evils.)
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