Posted on 02/15/2020 4:57:34 PM PST by karpov
...
[C]onsider the baggage that Sanders drags into the campaign.
Go back over 40 years, to the start of Iran’s long conflict with the United States. On April 1, 1979, the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran was proclaimed. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had returned to Iran from exile to assume command of the revolt, became Supreme Leader in December of that year. His rise was accelerated by the seizure on Nov. 4 of 52 American diplomats and citizens, and citizens of other countries, at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The hostage crisis became the means by which the Ayatollah crushed political opponents in Iran. Dealing with the hostage taking became the overwhelming political crisis for President Jimmy Carter. It lasted 444 days.
Virtually all Americans—Democrats, Republicans and independents—united in support of the hostages and the international call for their freedom. One prominent political figure on the 2020 stage, then almost completely unknown, stood apart by joining a Marxist-Leninist party that not only pledged support for the Iranian theocracy, but also justified the hostage taking by insisting the hostages were all likely CIA agents. Who was that person? It was Bernie Sanders.
Sanders would like the public to believe, as an AP story put it, that “democratic socialism [is] the economic philosophy that has guided his political career.” But that has not always been the case. In 1977, he left the tiny left-wing Liberty Union Party of Vermont that he’d co-founded, and in 1980 instead aligned himself with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the self-proclaimed Trotskyist revolutionary party, became its presidential elector in Vermont, and campaigned for its candidates and platform that defended the Iranian hostage seizure.
In fact, the SWP’s position on Iran is part of what distinguishes it from democratic socialist groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Wish they would hold these stories until after he is the nominee.
All crossover chaos votes should go for Bernie.
Then Bernie and Buttigieg can go as a team... Butt-Burn
I disagree. We live in a polarized country where any Democrat has a chance of winning the general, so I want a Democratic nominee other than Sanders or Warren.
You don't get it do of you?
The Daily Beast is a hard core Trump hating Dem site. They, together with the rest of the mainstream media are determined to kill Bernie's campaign now before Super Tuesday. They think Trump will clobber Bernie if he is the nominee. And they are probably right
Btt
In 1980, Bernie Sanders defended the Iranians who took over the embassy
https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-iran-took-americans-hostage-bernie-backed-irans-defenders
BERNIE’S HISTORY WITH IRAN
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/bernies-history-with-iran.php
Has Bernie ever been right about anything in his entire career?
No, Comrade.
this story came out about a month ago
“We live in a polarized country where any Democrat has a chance of winning the general”
Worth repeating.
It definitely would be CW II if Bernie won.
Boy the DNC is going all out when they a get a rat like the Daily Beast to run hit piece on Bernie. I have no doubt it’s true but that really isn’t the point
Pretty much. It's all about beating President Trump in November, by hook or by crook. Usually the latter.
Sander’s past beliefs are irrelevant because our educational system has raised a generation of stupid sh*ts who go along with or against anything if a “trigger” is pulled,enticement offered, and a emotions are pushed.
With OBastard, we already elected a president twice who hated this country. Hey! Let’s do it again!
Brainwashing our children should be illegal, but no, we sanction it.
And when you bring up his communist associations these days people will act like it’s a Fox. Wes invention.
Bernie gotta burn.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.