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Bernie Sanders Says Republicans Are Racist for Opposing Obama's Supreme Court Nominee
justinspoliticalcorner:
At a town hall held by CNN in South Carolina on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders tied Republicans' refusal to hold hearings for any Supreme Court nominees selected by President Barack Obama to the the birther movement, suggesting that both are part of a larger racist effort to delegitimize the president.
When asked by a member of the audience about the Supreme Court predicament, Sanders was eager to describe Republicans as motivated by the desire to sabotage the presidents agenda, and not-so-subtly implied that it shared something with the skepticism that many Republicans have harbored about Obamas citizenship in the past.
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, and this and this is on top of this birther issue, which we heard from Donald Trump and others, a racist effort to try to delegitimize the president of the United States, Sanders said. Can you imagine that? To say hes not really the president, he wasnt born in the United States, which is nonsense.
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Its a funny thing, on that issue. My dad came from Poland, Im running for president guess what? Nobody has asked for my birth certificate, Sanders said. Maybe its the color of my skin. I dont know.
http://mic.com/articles/136072/bernie-sanders-says-republicans-are-racist-for-opposing-obama-s-supreme-court-nominee#.xCzgfqA9V
http://justinspoliticalcorner.tumblr.com/post/139892645522/bernie-sanders-says-republicans-are-racist-for#.Vs2y2ZMrKi4
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Bernie Sanders: 'Nobody has asked for my birth certificate' (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2016
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MuttLikeMe
(279 posts)1. He's absolutely right.
Nm
Laughing Mirror
(4,185 posts)2. "Maybe it's the color of my skin"
I would have to say yes it is, a resounding yes, no "maybe" about it.
I like how he points to his own skin color to demonstrate, in no uncertain terms, that there can be only one answer to the how and the why of this double standard, one for white skin, one for non-white. But he leaves it up to listener to find that answer, and it is not hard to do, with his striking example.
jillan
(39,451 posts)3. That was excellent