Liberals Bernie Sanders And Al Franken Stand With Obama In Support Of Iran Nuclear Deal

[Cali_Democrat]

Senators Bernie Sanders and Al Franken are standing with President Obama by praising the progress towards a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program.

In a statement, Sen. Sanders (I-VT) said, “While much more work remains to be done this framework is an important step forward. It is imperative that Iran not get a nuclear weapon. It also is imperative that we do everything we can to reach a diplomatic solution and avoid never-ending war in the Middle East. I look forward to examining the details of this agreement and making sure that it is effective ‎and strong.”

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) called on Congress to give the negotiators more time to finish the agreement, “Americans want to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and they would prefer to do it through diplomacy rather than military action. This breakthrough agreement is an important step toward that goal. I believe that Congress now should give our negotiators time and space to work out the details of a strong, verifiable comprehensive agreement.”

Democrats and liberals get it. Republicans are trying to sabotage any Iran nuclear agreement because they want a new war in the Middle East.

Read more:

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/02/bernie-sanders-al-franken-speak-support-iran-nuclear-agreement.html

[Cha]

1. Ye-ah! Mahalo Cali.. the 47 are all sadz.

Thank you Senators Franken and Sanders!

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Mahalo, Cha!

They are indeed having a sad....

[Cha]

4. :(

[djean111]

2. Why is it news that liberals are supporting the deal? Have liberals now been lumped in with the GOP

or something like that?

"Democrats and liberals get it." So - liberals are now being framed as different than Democrats. Fucking good to know, really!

[RiverLover]

5. +1000000

Strange times.

[Demit]

6. It's news to you that there are conservative Democrats?

[Dawgs]

7. The party has moved to the right so now we get posts like this so they can feel better about it.

It's sad.

[foo_bar]

11. in fairness, Bernie doesn't have the capital D in parentheses

So an intersecting Venn diagram seems appropriate. But yeah, the fact that they're trotting out the liberal caucus to defend these sorts of no-brainers like "let's try diplomacy before we unilaterally obliterate a nation and destabilize the region/world (and empower the likes of ISIS) over perceived WMDs!" doesn't augur well.

[Fred Sanders]

12. They are both Jewish-liberals, that is why the attention...so the headline of the article shoud be changed?

[jwirr]

15. Exactly. Love them both. I have wondered where Al stood. He is my senator.

[MBS]

8. Excellent, but where are the rest of the Democrats?

I want to see them all up there, standing tall and proud. Which they should be.
I am so proud of Kerry and Obama. just BRAVO.

[blackspade]

9. Where are the rest of the Democratic Party?

Waiting.......

[Vinca]

10. The GOP will doom this deal . . . sorry to say.

In the real world, Iran does need a bit of nuclear capability for medical and energy purposes. For the party that doesn't believe in science, they assume a bomb can be created by an x-ray machine. A dirty bomb, maybe, but every country on the planet has that capability. The bottom line, for the GOP, is that this is Obama's deal and it must not be successful no matter what the cost.

[Fred Sanders]

13. No, they will not. They can not legally, and since the public is well behind this..you are happily wrong.

And it is not "Obama's deal" no matter how long they hold their breath and say it.

[Vinca]

14. I hope you're right and I'm wrong, but I'm not optimistic at how this will play out.