Posted on 02/15/2020 4:57:34 PM PST by karpov
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[C]onsider the baggage that Sanders drags into the campaign.
Go back over 40 years, to the start of Irans 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 AmericansDemocrats, Republicans and independentsunited 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 hed 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 SWPs position on Iran is part of what distinguishes it from democratic socialist groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
The Liberty Union Party was part of a coalition called the People’s Party which was itself an offshoot of a SWP spinoff.
I agree, Also the Biden /China, Bloomberg/China. Just sit back and let the 'rats play out, then hit them hard.
If we hit them now, come late summer it will be 'Aw that's old news"
He’d probably put his wife as Treasury Sec.
She drove a college to bankruptcy.
Here’s the poop..
IGGED: FBI Clears Bernie Sanders’ Wife of Bank Fraud ...
https://truepundit.com/rigged-fbi-clears-bernie-sanders-wife-of-bank-fraud
Nov 14, 2018 · Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders, was in trouble with the FBI for bankrupting a college and also securing a $10 million real estate deal in the process. Bernie blamed this investigation on President Trump, but this was done under Barack Obama. Jane allegedly defrauded the bank with false claims of assets to secure a loan.
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