Fresh off of an overwhelming victory in Nevada, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) offered up fodder for critics — many in Florida — Sunday as he maintained that some good came from Fidel Castro’s leadership during the Cuban Revolution.
[Sanders] We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba
Just repeating it so the usual suspects can blithely ignore it (again).
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I find his comments completely repulsive.
Bernie ought to think twice before making any remark that someone else could equate with something Trump would say. Let Trump be the only friend of dictators in this election.
Is it really repulsive to say that Castro was better for the Cuban people than Fulgencio Batista?
This is an example of Sanders needlessly making political life more difficult for him and liberals in general. He doesn’t need to praise the good things bad people have done, they can be left entirely unsaid (there are plenty of good things that good people do for him to comment on in that regard), but he’s been doing it for 40 years, it’s politically sloppy and now he, his team and his supporters will send endless hours and twitter tantrums twisting themselves to defend statements that don’t need defending all the while whining about the criticism from Democrats who likely agree with him but aren’t stupid enough to say it out loud.
And Bernie people wonder why the rest of us think he’s going to have a difficult time combating the onslaught of misinformation and disinformation through November.
But at least the trains run on time…
Die Autobahnen are wonderful highways.
There are ways to phrase ideas like this, and ways not to phrase ideas like this. Sanders needs to learn how to do it in ways that don’t get him in trouble. It’s not difficult.
“The Castro regime did improve education and health care in Cuba, but at an unacceptably high price in terms of the complete loss of personal freedoms.”
ETA: “I’m sure that a democratically-elected government that respected the civil liberties of the Cuban people would be equally capable of providing good education and health care.”
Pointing out a positive attribute in another country doesn’t mean one endorses their regime. Say praising the Autobahn doesn’t make one a Nazi.
Colin Powell was once asked at a congressional hearing about Cuba’s health system and praised it.
What should also be pointed out is not only does Cuba rank better in some indices than its neighbors in the Caribbean but even parts of Florida.
After all Trump defended the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre which is obviously far worse.
Amazing that Obama somehow managed to become President after “praising Castro”.
SOME heat?
He should take the fire of a thousand Miami suns for that mess. Sheesh…
@teenlaqueefa, and that’s with just about 2% of all delegates. I’m still not impressed that we have a candidate yet. I’ll like seeing the numbers after Super Tuesday (including those results), so in two weeks or so we should have a clearer idea of what we’re doing.
I do not.
It will be insinuated that he is excusing the dictatorial behavior of a dictatorial regime – but he is explicitly doing no such thing.
And if we really want to discuss the torture of political prisoners and so on, we should talk about it no matter who the perpetrator.
Some people apply their scruples only to foreign governments, never to ours. In our case, they discuss only our good deeds, never the atrocities. But what about the murder of women and children around the world? Did Castro rack up a higher score than we did? And was torture more humane in Guantanamo than in the rest of Cuba?
So here’s the question: Given that we have murdered and tortured people around the world, should our critics deny the good things we have done?
Well, yeah, when he self-inflicts that mis- and dis-information, it’s even worse. Wait until the tapes of his previous discussions get MSM attention through the GOP wurlitzer.
Nice both siderism there.
Gibberish.
Or you’d have answered the question:
Now we know of two things that Sanders and Biden share. Both are too old for the office, and both have a stunning ability to commit unforced errors. Maybe a Sanders/Biden ticket?
I guess some ends justify the means for you. All I can do is to quote of @mike_in_houston :
Feel free to substitute literacy or free healthcare for train schedule here.
Obama had credibility without Sanders baggage. Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union – praising the Moscow railway station for its beauty & cheap ticket prices, without noting once:
how many
Not what I said.
And you must have missed the key question. Here it is again:
Struggle with it if you would.