Posted on 06/11/2015 2:54:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
Sanders, elected as an independent, caucuses with Senate Democrats and calls himself a “Democratic socialist.” And now that he’s running for the White House, he’d like to keep busting categories and take back a key phrase from Republicans and redefine it for the 2016 election: “family values.”
At a breakfast with reporters in Washington Thursday, Sanders previewed what he said will be a major theme of his campaign.
“I will be talking about family values, but not the family values that my Republican colleagues talk about, which for them means that a woman cannot have the right to control her own body or that gay people should not have the right to get married or that women should not have access to contraception. That is what their concept of family values are about. That’s not my concept,” Sanders said at the breakfast, sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor Breakfast in downtown D.C.
“My concept of what family values is about is that the United States should not be the only major country on earth that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave when a woman has a baby. So that right now we’re seeing a situation where a woman is having a baby and a week later is forced to go back to work because she doesn’t have the income to stay at home and bond with her child,” Sanders said.
He then outlined three family-oriented policies that would be at the center of his “Family Values Plan”: making sure that all American have 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, paid sick leave and 10 days a year of paid vacation time.
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Sorry Barnie. Communists don’t have family values.
Yes, I wonder what he thinks of that scene in “The Killing Fields” in which a kid is asked in one of the Khmer Rouge schools to erase the connections between the family members.
Hey Bernie.
Rape Fantasy Essays are not good “family values”.
Douche wad.
“...number 2 contender for the DNC crown. Let that sink in for a second.”
Horrifying, isn’t it?? This is what they consider “an American”. A slobbering, communist nutcase that is totally devoid of anything American. And then there is Hitlery. A criminal Marxist. Great candidates for our President....
Sanders and the Democrats do promote family values, Kardashian Family Values, that is.
A socialist is a caring, kind, compassionate, generous, charitable person who will gladly give you the shirt...off of someone elses back.
Sanders is really out of touch with the average American.
Well Bernie, then first you will have to stop supporting depravity and death.
Except Jenner is a Republican who Lindsey Graham welcomes to the party.
So Bernie acknowledges the Democrat-Stalinist Party has no family values.
Hmmm... Wouldn't that mean that the Demorats would have to acquire some values of their own to begin with?
Either Addams Family, or Manson Family values. In the same paragraph Bernie lauds “choice” (abortion) and demands maternity leave. What the ....?
National Socialists like this pig Sanders always have fun spending other people’s money
The donks have a weak bench. Their problem was masked by Obama’s two victories, but you can’t survive two historic midterm landslide defeats and not expect to bleed talent. If we get the right candidate on our side in 2016 it could be a landslide.
Don’t underestimate the general stupidity of the American public.
We need to ‘take back’ socialism. My definition is an unhindered market economy.... So there Bernie - stick that in your pipe...
I look forward to this actually.
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