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DOCTORS FIGHTING TO SAVE BERNIE SANDERS LIFE
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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4326804" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>From The Washington Post last year. [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER] wishes he'd been there:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bernie-sanderss-1988-10-day-honeymoon-in-the-soviet-union/2019/05/02/db543e18-6a9c-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html#comments-wrapper" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bernie-sanderss-1988-10-day-honeymoon-in-the-soviet-union/2019/05/02/db543e18-6a9c-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html#comments-wrapper</a></p><p></p><p>"<span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Inside Bernie Sanders’s 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union</strong></span>"</p><p></p><p>"Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988.</p><p></p><p>The just-married socialist mayor from Vermont was on what he called “a very strange honeymoon,” an official 10-day visit to the communist country, and he was enthralled with the hospitality and the lessons that could be brought home.</p><p></p><p>“Let’s take the strengths of both systems,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCoR6UYs1k&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">said</a> upon completing the trip. “Let’s learn from each other.”</p><p></p><p>The Soviet sojourn has long been an extraordinary, if little understood, chapter in Sanders lore. He has for years used it to help explain his views about foreign policy, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/bernie-sanders-imagines-a-progressive-new-approach-to-foreign-policy" target="_blank">citing it</a> as recently as last month."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4326804, member: 48469"] From The Washington Post last year. [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER] wishes he'd been there: [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bernie-sanderss-1988-10-day-honeymoon-in-the-soviet-union/2019/05/02/db543e18-6a9c-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html#comments-wrapper[/URL] "[SIZE=6][B]Inside Bernie Sanders’s 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union[/B][/SIZE]" "Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988. The just-married socialist mayor from Vermont was on what he called “a very strange honeymoon,” an official 10-day visit to the communist country, and he was enthralled with the hospitality and the lessons that could be brought home. “Let’s take the strengths of both systems,” he [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCoR6UYs1k&feature=youtu.be']said[/URL] upon completing the trip. “Let’s learn from each other.” The Soviet sojourn has long been an extraordinary, if little understood, chapter in Sanders lore. He has for years used it to help explain his views about foreign policy, [URL='https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/bernie-sanders-imagines-a-progressive-new-approach-to-foreign-policy']citing it[/URL] as recently as last month." [/QUOTE]
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