Bernie Sanders Calls Senate Obstruction a ‘RACIST Effort To Delegitimize’ Obama

[Segami]

Democratic White House hopeful Bernie Sanders knocked Donald Trump on Tuesday over his outspoken support for false claims that President Obama was not born in the United States. Sanders said the so-called birther movement is partly motivated by racism — but stopped short of saying that’s what drove the bombastic mogul to be its champion. Sanders’ comments came in a CNN town hall event at which he was asked about Senate Republican promises to block any Obama nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat long held by the late Antonin Scalia.

“What you are seeing today in this Supreme Court situation is nothing more than the continuous and unprecedented obstructionism that President Obama has gone through” at the hands of Republicans, the Vermont senator said.

“This is on top of the birther issue, which we heard from Donald Trump and others, a racist effort to try to delegitimize the president of the United States,” Sanders continued.

Sanders said his father came from Poland but, “Guess what? Nobody has asked for my birth certificate. Maybe it’s the color of my skin, I don’t know.” CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked the senator whether Trump was motivated by racism.

Sanders demurred.

“You know, I’m not a psychoanalyst — and boy, would a psychoanalyst have an interesting time with Donald Trump,” he said, to laughter from the crowd. “I’m not going to speak to Trump, but do I think that at least in some parts of that Republican base there is race involved in that? Absolutely. Absolutely.”

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/sanders-calls-senate-obstruction-a-racist-effort-024556291.html

[JudyM]

1. This certainly needed to be said. Nt

[FreakinDJ]

2. Sanders doesn't believe in not saying the obvious

[Orange Butterfly]

6. FreakinDJ... I love the dancing figure...

Where did you get it?

[monicaangela]

3. The truth is beautiful when spoken

All that believe the decisions of the republican congress have nothing to do with race should take the shackles off their mind and the blinders off their eyes.

[Orange Butterfly]

7. AMAZING! TY

[Orange Butterfly]

4. TY! for speaking the truth!

Post this everywhere!

Thanks for the clip!

[thereismore]

5. Count on Sanders to say it as he sees it. Huge kick!

[nashville_brook]

8. k and r

[TIME TO PANIC]

9. K & R!

[AlbertCat]

10. in some parts of that Republican base

Like the ones that are still breathing....

[Arazi]

11. Kicked and Recced eom

[bunnies]

12. Only Bernie supporters agree with this?

Weird.

[Segami]

15. Starting to look that way.

Maybe they're all having a late, big breakfast which will now spillover into lunch.

[Kittycat]

24. Poll testing? Waiting for meme orders?

I mean really, wtf? Where are the rest of the democrats to support this?

[senz]

19. They want it to sink b/c it shows the falsity of some favorite lying memes

namely that Bernie is racist and anti-Obama.

[bunnies]

20. I just find that really, really sad.

Bernie calls Republicans out on being the disgusting racists they are... and *crickets*. If Hillary had said it they'd be throwing flowers at her feet. Except that she would never say such a thing. She wouldnt want to hurt her potential to 'get things done' with them.

[Enthusiast]

13. Kicked and recommended! Most of the Republican obstructionism has been motivated by racism.

[WillyT]

14. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[libtodeath]

16. Once again he is right.

[senz]

17. It always has been, and Bernie sees right through it.

Because Bernie has fought racism his entire life.

(As I imperfectly pointed out here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511324268 )

[Basement Beat]

18. Sounds about right to me...

[valerief]

21. I love that he said that! Fuckin' racist Congress. It's not just Trump.

EarlG has a list of racist actions by Congress on the front page.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017332818

[dsc]

22. so is this pandering to blacks

or is it only pandering when Hillary does it?

[randr]

23. Not only are Republicans attempting to delegitimize our President

They are delegitimizing an election in which the majority of American's made a choice. By dissing Obama they are slapping the majority of us in the face and attempting to take our rights from us.
If only we had a way to report this to the public at large!

[Trust Buster]

25. The Republicans refusal to hold hearings has nothing to do with race IMO.

They simply shudder at the possibility of a 5-4 Left leaning Court. They know that, due to the rapidly changing demographics in this country, they will not be able to ram their Fascist agenda down our throats by way of the Legislative Branch. The Judicial Branch is the sole limb that their future hopes stands upon. It has nothing to do with race. Had Hillary won in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, the Republicans would be doing the exact same thing IMO.

[babylonsister]

28. I think you're wrong.

Their obstructionism where this President is concerned from the start had/has everything to do with the color of his skin. We've never seen anything like it with a white president.

[spooky3]

26. He's totally right.

[Uncle Joe]

27. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[babylonsister]

29. Recommended! Thank you, Bernie, for

pointing out what is obvious to so many of us.