I’ve no idea how the figures stack up for either the EU or Sanders’s proposals, but the key point here is a fair contribution for a fair share of whatever service(s) we’re talking about: achieving buy-in by creating a service the middle classes - even the rich - use as much as the working class and underclass. Both sides of the equation are equally important.
Seriously, adaher?
It was a working vacation- the twelve-person delegation left the day after he and his wife got married. The city they visited? It was the sister city of the town he was mayor of at the time. He was working the entire time they were there. Hardly romantic, hardly a vacation.
As a wealthy secular Jew, I can say yes too.
He also went to Daniel Ortega’s inauguration, as I recall.
He can’t hide what he is.
And Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam, but that don’t make her no Commie.
Is there any Republican who supported the arms for hostages deal other than Reagan?
That’s a reasonable defense. Which is the purpose of this thread.
My own view of Sanders is that he’s a leftist activist who hasn’t given quite enough thought to what that means. He’s got his own views, and they are unique, so even his self labelling isn’t quite fair to himself.
The 1950s called. They want The Red Scare back.
Seriously, there is no way that ANY Republican can criticize ANY Democrat on foreign policy. There was Bush’s two disastrous, costly, and totally futile wars in the Middle East, Reagan invading Grenada and selling arms to Iran, Bush’s “axis of evil”, Trump’s Muslim ban, we could be here all day talking about Republican foreign policy missteps.
That’s a good comeback too, but it doesn’t get you out of the moral dimension. Republicans can be criticized for too much moralization in foreign policy and not enough realism. Sanders also embraces a moralistic foreign policy, except he thinks our historic adversaries were right.
It’s a far cry from Obama’s foreign policy, which if anything has been coldly realist.
Yeah he’s only been a lefty politician for 40 years. I doubt he has really got a handle on his own political views.
They are unique to him, so he doesn’t really have a handle on who his fellow travellers actually are. I’d say he owes more to Lafollette than Scandinavia.
Are you planning to provide anything that even looks like a cite for your claim that “Sanders…thinks our historic adversaries were right”?
You know he’s won and lost a lot of elections, right? I am sure he is quite aware of his fellow travelers.
He had kind words for Castro:
Are all the hit ads going to feature 30+ year old events?
So he is a socialist as he says. Thank you.
You know we don’t even need to exaggerate with the hammer and sickle. Just play video of him calling himself a socialist, observing that Soviet health care is cheaper, and that Castro’s people don’t rebel because he gave them education and health care.
I’d note that Clinton allies, as in 2008,. are doing a lot of testing of these messages for us on a smaller scale.
When you’re as old as he is, 30 years isn’t youthful naivete. This is not John Kerry throwing his medals.
Caveats: A) I think this was a response to my request for a cite. B) I didn’t watch the video, but I assume the quotes were the relevant parts.
This is one of those “Mussolini made the trains run on time” types of things. Willingness to admit Castro did some things well in Cuba is hardly the same as thinking our historic adversaries were right. IE, “Right about some things” < “Right.”
I didn’t bring up youthful naivete. Most normal people evolve over that course of time. If all the hit ads feature videos of a 35 year old Sanders, people will notice how far back his haters are reaching. Most people favour opening up to Cuba, showing hit ads about Castro isn’t going to help in the general much.