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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,410 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 03:49 PM Feb 2020

Whoopi Goes Off on Bernie's Castro Remarks: 'There's Nothing Groovy About a Dictatorship!' [View all]

The women of The View continued to rail against Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Tuesday, this time taking issue with the democratic socialist senator doubling down on his praise of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s literacy program.

“There is nothing groovy about a dictatorship,” host Whoopi Goldberg exclaimed at one point.

Sanders has come under fire, including by many Democrats, for telling 60 Minutes that it was “unfair” to say “everything is bad” with Castro’s regime. Noting that he was opposed to the “authoritarian nature” of Castro’s government, Sanders did commend the communist leader for launching a “massive literacy program.”

“Is that a bad thing?” Sanders wondered aloud. “Even though Fidel Castro did it?”

https://news.yahoo.com/whoopi-goes-off-bernie-castro-172204463.html

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Truth-isms about relationships - macro to micro. Bernie is correct Hestia Feb 2020 #1
Nazi Germany was not all bad. denem Feb 2020 #19
Did someone tell her Obama said the same thing? Cuthbert Allgood Feb 2020 #2
When? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #4
NO.. because he DIDN'T Cha Feb 2020 #10
Actually, no he didn't. ehrnst Feb 2020 #23
Cue the "what about Obama?" talking point. nt LexVegas Feb 2020 #3
It's a pretty solid point. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 2020 #7
It Didn't Happen.. so there's NO "point" Cha Feb 2020 #11
Nope. Obama was talking about something very different ehrnst Feb 2020 #24
Yeah, as you can see.. Only "President Obama was talking about post 2014 strides" Cha Feb 2020 #13
6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America NoDakLinda Feb 2020 #5
How about sticking to the topic at hand? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #6
No.. President Obama is Not gping to save BS.. Cha Feb 2020 #14
ummm lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #26
Oh Whoopi melman Feb 2020 #8
Bernie seems to be an expert at turning Dems into hypocrites Quixote1818 Feb 2020 #9
ha ha KayF Feb 2020 #20
Sorry, I don't respect Whoopi's opinion, never have Beringia Feb 2020 #12
I don't respect david sirota's Cha Feb 2020 #15
The whole controversy is laughable budkin Feb 2020 #16
Poor Bernie. betsuni Feb 2020 #17
she should have gone off on Obama KayF Feb 2020 #18
No he didn't. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #21
No, President Obama did not say the same thing as BS about Cuba. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #22
No.. President Obama Did NOT "say the same" Cha Feb 2020 #25
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