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Bernie Sanders to Liberty U.: America Was Founded on ‘Racist Principles’
Mediaite ^ | 9/14/15 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 09/14/2015 5:28:11 PM PDT by Libloather

**SNIP**

“And I would also say that as a nation– the truth is, that a nation which in many ways was created, and I’m sorry to have to say this, from way back on racist principles, that’s a fact– we have come a long way as a nation,” he added.

“My guess is that probably not everybody here is an admirer or voted for Barack Obama,” Sanders said. “But the point is, in 2008 this country took a huge step forward in voting for a candidate based on his ideas and not the color of his skin.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: america; liberty; libertyu; lunatic; oldfeffincommie; racist; sanders
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To: tet68

+5


21 posted on 09/14/2015 5:52:49 PM PDT by tinyowl (peguin in transition)
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To: Libloather
So, Bernie, the fact that you haven’t ever owned slaves makes you superior to George Washington means that you can’t be arrested for breaking the law. The fact that you know that everyone is the same makes you smarter and wiser than the founders of the country means that you know things that aren’t so. The founders of the country were born into a culture in which their parents legally owned slaves, and - tho well educated - did not know of any culture in history anywhere in which slavery was not an accepted institution.

The founders moved the culture toward the abolition of slavery, but slavery in the South became more profitable at the very time that Christianity was becoming hostile to that institution. The result was the Civil War, which ended slavery in the US in plenty of time for your grandparents to raise your parents to feel superior to the founders, merely for the fact that they did not have the opportunity to do what the founders of the country did.

Bernie, you don’t get to beg the question - what have you done that makes you a hero compared to George Washington?


22 posted on 09/14/2015 5:54:43 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: God luvs America

Didn’t seem like it when he was discussing ‘reproductive rights’. Heard a lot of cheers.


23 posted on 09/14/2015 5:55:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: tet68

“But the point is, in 2008 this country took a huge step backward in voting for a candidate based on the color of his skin and not his ideas.”

Exactly!


24 posted on 09/14/2015 5:56:50 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: italyconservative

My neice and her hubby are graduates Master’s degrees from there. They are ALL about ‘social justice’, now. Makes my sister and I sick. Total hipsters. The uni seems to have been infiltrated.


25 posted on 09/14/2015 5:59:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Libloather

26 posted on 09/14/2015 5:59:53 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Jim 0216
Sanders is a Socialist, lair, and tyrant.

He's a loyal servant of satan (also known as allah).

27 posted on 09/14/2015 6:09:03 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: nascarnation

nascarnation - you moron.

As a sycophant, I tend to follow others, and as an idiot, I tend to follow morons. See tagline.


28 posted on 09/14/2015 6:09:51 PM PDT by tinyowl (penguin in transition and C. Edmond Wright called me an idiot and a Trump sycophant)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
My neice and her hubby are graduates Master’s degrees from there. They are ALL about ‘social justice’, now. Makes my sister and I sick. Total hipsters. The uni seems to have been infiltrated.

Liberty University is now a total marxist wasteland. It's become just the same as Harvard.

29 posted on 09/14/2015 6:10:36 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Libloather

Can someone please list those principles?


30 posted on 09/14/2015 6:13:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: Libloather

Bill Errs still.


31 posted on 09/14/2015 6:13:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: re_nortex

Good God.


32 posted on 09/14/2015 6:25:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Paladin2

Durn Bernadine.


33 posted on 09/14/2015 6:38:15 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Libloather

“America Was Founded on ‘Racist Principles’”

Funny, I didn’t hear this snippet on NPR on the car radio this evening. It was all about seeking ‘common ground.’


34 posted on 09/14/2015 6:44:30 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Libloather

Benjamin Franklin: “Slavery is …an atrocious debasement of human nature.”

James Madison: “We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.”

John Adams: “Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States…. I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in …abhorrence.”


Yup. Racist white men. /s


35 posted on 09/14/2015 7:05:17 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("...for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." -1 John 4:4)
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To: God luvs America
See for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ZB8Lg1tcA

36 posted on 09/14/2015 8:28:00 PM PDT by celmak (Long live the Non-Demorat Christian Conservative South !!!)
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To: Libloather

that was the Confederate States of America and the Democrat Party, Sanders.


37 posted on 09/14/2015 8:28:53 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Libloather

Will someone tell why if Obamas mother was a white woman is he considered black?


38 posted on 09/14/2015 8:30:08 PM PDT by jmacusa
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That is sad! I fear many of the so-called biblical schools are heading that direction.


39 posted on 09/14/2015 8:32:05 PM PDT by italyconservative (John 3:30 - May He increase!)
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To: Jim 0216
The Constitution doesn’t demand slavery, it simply allowed slavery to accommodate the South to bring in the South

http://www.ushistory.org - Slavery in the North

"Slavery was legal in all of the 13 Colonies and, at times, some areas of the North had higher rates of slaveholding than the South: A comparison of 1703 tax records shows that 3% of taxpayers in Boston were slaveholders, 7% of those in Philadelphia, and 42% of those in New York City. As this last figure indicates, slaveholding was more than an upper class phenomenon. Enslaved Africans were so cheap and plentiful in New York City that even working-class people could, and did, choose to own them. It also speaks volumes about the depressed price of manual labor, white or black, and of the difficulty of free labor to compete with slave labor. The constitution of the Vermont Territory (1777) prohibited slavery, but rather than freeing the enslaved, it required slaveholders to remove them from the territory. The history of abolitionism should not be romanticized; while the majority of individuals acted out of moral rectitude, others acted out of self-interest."

40 posted on 09/14/2015 9:25:17 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
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