Bernie Sanders defends Fidel Castro's
socialist Cuba: 'Unfair to simply say
everything is bad'
Fox News,
by
Vandana Rambaran
Original Article
Posted By: JunkYardDog,
2/23/2020 11:17:25 PM
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the frontrunner for the Democrats' presidential nomination, doubled down on his support for some of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's policies, saying in an interview that aired Sunday, "it's unfair to simply say everything is bad."
Speaking to CBS News' "60 Minutes," Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, pointed to social welfare programs introduced under Castro's regime that he described as redeeming, despite the communist dictator's often repressive human-rights violations against Cubans.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JL80863 2/23/2020 11:20:54 PM (No. 327891)
I would find the opinion of an ordinary Cuban citizen to be far more believable.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
padiva 2/23/2020 11:24:09 PM (No. 327893)
SURE! That's why so many people crowded on to makeshift boats to escape Cuba.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ruhn 2/23/2020 11:29:14 PM (No. 327895)
Bernie can write Florida off now.
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I think we should start a GoFundMe account to give Bernie an all expense trip to Cooba in November.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Grounded 2/23/2020 11:38:18 PM (No. 327898)
Next Bernie will be telling us that Pol Pot was an agricultural reformer and that because of his policies the Cambodian people were well fed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 2/24/2020 12:55:37 AM (No. 327925)
Yeah, except for the prison camps, food rationing, substandard medical care, and lack of basic human rights, I guess Cuba wasn't all that bad.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 12:56:09 AM (No. 327927)
That's it, Bernie, keep defending those Commie hellholes! You go, buddy! Never back down!
He'll get slaughtered in November.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/24/2020 1:42:41 AM (No. 327936)
At least they have free health care and affordable housing and low gas taxes. So it can’t be THAT bad.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NotaBene 2/24/2020 2:37:18 AM (No. 327943)
Youths have been taught that Communism, Sodomites, trans genesis, not paying student loans, Medicare for all, post birth abortion, and Green new deal are just fine. So they go for the 78-year old White Jew Communist over the 78-year old White Jew Billionare.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
pensom2 2/24/2020 2:40:42 AM (No. 327944)
That argument won't buy many votes in must-win Florida.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Catherine 2/24/2020 2:59:12 AM (No. 327945)
Does he know about the tens of thousands who have risked their lives and the lives of the family in rickety boats to cross 90 miles of water to America? They take the babies with them and if the boat sinks, they all die, and many have sunk. I have no idea why he is doing so well but honestly, he'll be easiest to beat, I think.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BillW. 2/24/2020 3:04:37 AM (No. 327946)
Sorry, but Comrade Bernie hates America and appeals to the worst sort of Americans. I'll let everyone else fill in the blanks. Of course, none of the other Dem so-called "candidates" do any better. --Vets for Trump 2020
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 2/24/2020 4:06:21 AM (No. 327955)
Cuba Libre!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jj1319 2/24/2020 4:20:26 AM (No. 327956)
I've been there. Believe me, it's bad.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 2/24/2020 5:36:32 AM (No. 327970)
Oh, and don't forget to mention how good everything is in Venezuela....what a flaming idiot....and he is rising to the top of the list??? You all know what floats in the toilet bowl...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 1:45:08 PM (No. 328467)
I lived in Key West in the early 60s, and when we drove to the commissary, we drove past the storage area where the Coast Guard and USN put the boats that they had brought in with Cuban refugees, braving the 90 miles of open ocean crossing in literal rowboats. I remember my mother telling me, "There, see that one, the red and white one, they brought it in two days ago with 23 people in it." And I saw a battered, ancient rowboat that looked like it would be safe in a lake with a max of 5 or 6 people in it, not open ocean with 23 people for 90 miles.
Yeah, people just love Cuba.
And then there was the Russian helo that defected, and I got to take a tour inside. There was a machine gun position in the belly where their job was to machine gun the people in the escaping rowboats. After a few of those missions, the Cuban students shot the Russian instructor and flew to Key West. There were still blood and brains on the inside of the plexiglass bubble and a bullet hole, plus several bloody bullet holes in the pilot's seat. The Cuban students couldn't stand any more machine gunning innocent people from the air.
Keep it up, Bernie. You have no concept of the horrors of Castro's Cuba. And it was almost ALL bad.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 2:45:38 PM (No. 328546)
http://www.liquisearch.com/list_of_cold_war_pilot_defections/cuba
See the second bullet item, March 20, '64. They dumped his body overboard, and my father took me on a tour of the helo. Very memorable for an early teen.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
or gate 2/24/2020 5:00:30 PM (No. 328656)
Poor Cuba.
Have they ever figured out how to get all that tooth paste in the little hole in the toothpaste container?
They ran off all their smart business people years ago.
Clue: A pick and shovel will not help get them toothpaste.
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I wonder how Crazy Bernie polls in the Cuban exile community in South Florida.
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Oh, Bernie, you BUM, of course Fidel would want a literate population-how else would they be able to read all the State propaganda? In fact, what else is there to read in Cuba BUT state propaganda? Bernie you're a BUM with delusions of grandeur, just like Castro.