Sanders served up a pile of BS at Liberty University

americanthinker.com ^ | 9/15/2015 | Thomas Lifson

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George Washington fought and won the Revolutionary War, shocked his European skeptics when he relinquished power afterward, presided over the composition of the Constitution, was elected POTUS by acclamation, and set the precedents for subsequent presidents including not serving more than two terms,and did not violate either the laws or traditions of his country or his religion by owning slaves.

It sounds terrible that he owned slaves, but there were no published defenses of slavery because the institution of slavery was universal in space and time, up to Washington's lifetime. That was true of paganism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, you name it - and it was even true of Christianity. Shocking as it sounds, Christianity did not turn against the institution of slavery until then. And the Civil War was the result of the fact that southern Christians were the last ones to “get the word.” And they had a tiger by the tail, and knew it.

All very well for Bernie Sanders to critique the fact that Washington was not ahead of his time on every significant issue. But all Bernie Sanders has done is serve in the House and Senate under the Constitution made by Washington, not break the laws against owning slaves which were established by the government established under Washington’s Constitution after Washington’s lifetime. That gives Bernie Sanders no warrant to claim moral, or any other, superiority over George Washington.

But arrogance is a defining characteristic of socialists such as he.