...a comprehensive search of Sanders’s congressional records, speeches, newspaper articles, books, and the weight of opposition research against him, offers a rather different picture to that painted by his political opponents. The condemnation of his apparent praise of the Venezuelan regime, it turns out, is based on unfounded claims, unexamined sources, conclusion-jumping, intellectual laziness, and some pretty shoddy journalism.But what about that one quote from Bernie that says the American dream is more apt to be realized in Venezuela?
The words attributed to Sanders are traceable to a single online source: an article posted on his official website on 5 August, 2011 in the ‘Newsroom’ section and categorized as a ‘Must Read.’ It is entitled “Close the Gaps: Disparities That Threaten America,” and, as the link below the headline indicates, it originally appeared in the 4 August edition of Valley News, a New England regional newspaper.The Sanders people merely reposted the article on their website. So it appears that these are not authentic Bernie Sander's words,
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You could say that since the Bernie people posted it on his official website, then Bernie must have at least agreed with the quote.
I would say while Bernie endorsed the article, that doesn't mean he endorsed every piece of rhetoric in it.
