Sanders: I Will Not Buy Into ‘Their’ Plan To Ignore America’s Problems To Talk About ISIS

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KEENE, New Hampshire — Bernie Sanders vowed once again not to change his campaign focus Saturday after a week that saw the political conversation shift to ISIS after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, weeks after the attack in Paris.

“As a nation and as a people, we have got to understand that our country faces a myriad of very serious problems… if you turn on the TV, what they now say is, ‘Well we’ve got one problem, it’s ISIS,” Sanders said, launching into a sarcastic impression of the “they” on television this week.

“‘We don’t have to worry about old people not having enough to eat. We don’t have to worry about having more people in jail than any other country. We don’t have to worry about the disappearing middle class. We don’t have to worry about economic and wealth inequality…we don’t have to worry about institutional racism, or a broken criminal justice. We don’t have to worry about that. All we should focus on now, 24/7, is ISIS,’” Sanders said.

“Here’s what I say,” he went on, “I say that ISIS must be destroyed and I say that we have got to build a coalition which destroys ISIS. But I say that we are a great enough country and a smart enough country that we can destroy ISIS at the same time as rebuild a disappearing middle class. We can do both.”

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/sanders-i-will-not-buy-into-their-plan-to-ignore-americas-pr#.qdrvjogxa

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1. Keeping his eye on the ball. Good. n/t

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2. K&R....

[Menshunables]

3. Bernie is a wise guy. In the best way.

[artislife]

4. I don't buy into the media's deflection plan

I have barely read anything on San Bernardino. The only fact that this mass killing is lasting longer in the news cycle v all the other mass killings is because of the muslim connection. Really, we don't care except to feed the monster that says it is "Them" that are the problem.


Craziness is in the air here. We need to get at the root of it.

[TIME TO PANIC]

5. Bernie is right. All this ISIS hysteria is a distraction.

Sure it's important, but it's not as big of a threat as domestic terrorism such as right-wing extremist or even the police in certain communities. This is a distraction promoted by the corporate media because they fear a populist uprising is beginning to take root.

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6. Far more elderly and homeless will die this winter than all terrorist attacks in the US

This year. How many die each year due to lack of heating or adequate shelter? How many die due to lack of access to health care, especially in red states? They aren't 'media worthy, I guess.

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7. True.

Politicians who support policies that put profit above everything, including human life are our biggest threat.

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8. Simple way to stop Daesh

Stop arming them and stop financing them.

[Fawke Em]

9. Including one of the candidates in the Democratic primary

In 2011, the State Department cleared an enormous arms deal: Led by Boeing, a consortium of American defense contractors would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns over the kingdom's troublesome human rights record. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, Saudi Arabia had contributed $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, and just two months before the jet deal was finalized, Boeing donated $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to an International Business Times investigation released Tuesday.

The Saudi transaction is just one example of nations and companies that had donated to the Clinton Foundation seeing an increase in arms deals while Hillary Clinton oversaw the State Department. IBT found that between October 2010 and September 2012, State approved $165 billion in commercial arms sales to 20 nations that had donated to the foundation, plus another $151 billion worth of Pentagon-brokered arms deals to 16 of those countries—a 143 percent increase over the same time frame under the Bush Administration. The sales boosted the military power of authoritarian regimes such as Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, which, like Saudi Arabia, had been criticized by the department for human rights abuses.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals

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10. I'm not sure how much evolution has occurred on that policy

revolting record, that one possesses.

[Scuba]

11. /\_/\_This right here_/\_/\

[Enthusiast]

12. Kicked and recommended!

Bernie, right again. Imagine that.