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In reply to the discussion: Newsweek: "Bernie Sanders on Immigrants: Silly, Tribal and Economically Illiterate" [View all]Joe941
(2,848 posts)71. Just a hit piece on Bernie because...
He is probably going to run and is currently the most popular senator.
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Newsweek: "Bernie Sanders on Immigrants: Silly, Tribal and Economically Illiterate" [View all]
TomCADem
Jan 2019
OP
Open borders is a right wing canard. No sentient person supports it. It would wreak havoc.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2019
#1
But Bernie supported the EB-5 program at the Jay Peak ski resort in Vermont.
TexasTowelie
Jan 2019
#127
That will be good. It's unclear to me if he's actually ready for such scrutiny.
NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#65
I'm sure his current wife, Jane, will be glad to be out of the spotlight too.
NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#69
She also doesn't want any more light on her tenure as President of a College that went bankrupt.
redstatebluegirl
Jan 2019
#83
That is a rather sticky and embarrassing situation. So there's that, and her bookkeeping skills..
NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#96
There are lots of questionable votes in his voting record that can't be explained away
emulatorloo
Jan 2019
#104
You have a problem with a conservative praising Bernie Sanders? Aren't you one of the people...
George II
Jan 2019
#73
Do you have a coherent defense of why Senator Sanders helped kill immigration reform in 2007?
emulatorloo
Jan 2019
#108
There will be many of his votes that will be called out in the course of a campaign....
George II
Jan 2019
#112
It appears duers now subscribe to the Jack Welch school of labor policy.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2019
#16
A related article the explains Sanders position back the with a little more detail
CentralMass
Jan 2019
#7
Maybe I've gone blind Can you highlight the words Silly, Tribal and Economically Illiterate
Autumn
Jan 2019
#8
I noticed Libertarian bullshit and you pushing RW words that were never said by Bernie to
Autumn
Jan 2019
#17
I'll be waiting till the end of time for you to prove what you and a libertarian hack are trying to
Autumn
Jan 2019
#24
Okay, here is a video of Bernie Sanders with Lou Dobbs Complaining About Amnesty
TomCADem
Jan 2019
#35
Aren't you more concerned that Sanders is talking to, and agreeing with, Lou Dobbs?
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2019
#52
I don't care that he's on Fox News. That's squat to me, I don't watch those clip and I have Fox
Autumn
Jan 2019
#74
But posting any quote from someone that was reported on FOX and Friend or other RW source
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#75
So, you refuse to listen to what Sanders said because of where he said it.
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2019
#77
I know what Sanders stand on immigrants is. I don't have to listen to an interview on Fox
Autumn
Jan 2019
#80
Except that's not what he said before. But, if you won't listen to his own words, oh well. /nt
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2019
#84
Sure, but you have to listen to what they said, and evaluate their sincerity based on their
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2019
#87
those words aren't attributed to Sanders; rather it's the (libertarian) author's assessment of him
fishwax
Jan 2019
#92
the difference is in where their expressed concerns about working class americans leads policy-wise
fishwax
Jan 2019
#55
I think he's always been pretty mainstream democratic when it comes to immigration
fishwax
Jan 2019
#60
Sanders is a child of immigrants too - and he supported his town and the county it is in being
karynnj
Jan 2019
#81
Why are you posting articles advocating for the abolition of the minimum wage?
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2019
#20
It doesn't matter if it's a legit source Hassin.It's anti-Bernie and that's all that counts.
Power 2 the People
Jan 2019
#126
I mean, he was responding to a question that was very literally about open borders
fishwax
Jan 2019
#47
Disturbing, but not surprising. Sanders timing for his "change or heart" about immigration was just
lunamagica
Jan 2019
#61
Actions mean something - Chittenden County (including Burlington) became a refugee resettlement
karynnj
Jan 2019
#79
the headline is actually describing Bernie Sanders, not purporting to quote him
fishwax
Jan 2019
#91
Fact of life: Senator Sanders will be vetting this time out. Best to prepare a coherent defense
emulatorloo
Jan 2019
#110
best prepare better smears than this shitshow of a piece. I mean, props where its due though...that
JCanete
Jan 2019
#114