Were American public education not such a dumpster fire, the following would signal the end of the Communist's presidential run and his complete banishment from American public life.
American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when the senator came to visit him behind bars.
Sanders visited Cuba as part of a congressional delegation in 2014, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and Jon Tester.
During the one-hour meeting, Sanders told the prisoner that he didn't understand why others criticized Cuba, Gross said in an interview with NPR.
"He said, quote: 'I don't know what's so wrong with this country,' " Gross recalled.
He said he had a pleasant conversation with Heitkamp and Tester, while Sanders remained mostly quiet for the duration of their one-hour meeting.
"Senator Sanders didn't really engage much in the conversation," Gross said.
But near the end, the Vermont senator offered a comment to the detained American, saying he didn't see what was so wrong with the country.
"I just think, you know, it was a stupid thing for him to do," Gross told NPR. "First, how could he not have seen the incredible deterioration of what was once the grandeur of the pre-Castro era. And two, how could be so insensitive to make that remark to a political hostage — me!"
Look at the upside. Thanks to Castro, every single person in Cuba can read the "No Food Today" signs in the shops. That's got to count for something.
American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when the senator came to visit him behind bars.
Sanders visited Cuba as part of a congressional delegation in 2014, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and Jon Tester.
During the one-hour meeting, Sanders told the prisoner that he didn't understand why others criticized Cuba, Gross said in an interview with NPR.
"He said, quote: 'I don't know what's so wrong with this country,' " Gross recalled.
He said he had a pleasant conversation with Heitkamp and Tester, while Sanders remained mostly quiet for the duration of their one-hour meeting.
"Senator Sanders didn't really engage much in the conversation," Gross said.
But near the end, the Vermont senator offered a comment to the detained American, saying he didn't see what was so wrong with the country.
"I just think, you know, it was a stupid thing for him to do," Gross told NPR. "First, how could he not have seen the incredible deterioration of what was once the grandeur of the pre-Castro era. And two, how could be so insensitive to make that remark to a political hostage — me!"
Look at the upside. Thanks to Castro, every single person in Cuba can read the "No Food Today" signs in the shops. That's got to count for something.
2 comments:
Read five issues of The Nation or Mother Jones. It won't surprise you that someone in their natural constituency behaved like a hopeless clod. That's who they are.
This was in 2014, not in Bernie's long-ago youth. He's never changed, and he never will.
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