Bernie Sanders

I agree and disagree with Bernie Sanders

Tony Thompson, 1 Comment
Bernie Sanders has a few words about the media criticism of Dr. Ben Carson-specifically the inconsistencies in various stories he has shared over the years:

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he didn’t think reporting on what Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated years ago was fair game.

NBC “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd asked Sanders what he thought about “the Ben Carson stuff.”

“Because you have seen some people leak out stuff you wrote 30 and 40 years ago,” Todd continued. “Is this fair game?”

“No,” Sanders replied. “And look, I listened to the interviews with Dr. Carson. And it’s interesting. But you know what, Chuck? The American people want to know why the middle class of this country is disappearing.”

“I think it might be a better idea, I know it’s a crazy idea, but maybe we focus on the issues impacting the American people and what candidates are saying rather than just spending so much time exploring their lives of 30 or 40 years ago,” Sanders continued. “And I think the reason that so many people are turned off to the political process has a lot to do with the fact that we’re not talking about the real issues impacting real people.”

He’s basically saying there are more important things to discuss than whether or not Carson’s story of his rags-to-riches, bootstrapping, come-to-Jesus [bullshit] story is accurate or truthful. What are his actual plans to run this country? How would he tackle the economy? What are his views on foreign policy? How is he going to tackle income inequality? These are questions that need asking. Questions that resonate with many people quite a bit more than “did he or didn’t he tell the truth about his past in his biography”.
I both agree and disagree with Sanders. More the former than the latter though.

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