Bernie Sanders Rips Ben Carson for Muslim Comments: ‘This Is the Year 2015’

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tore into Republican Ben Carson for saying during a Meet the Press interview that he would never consider voting for a Muslim president.

“This is the year 2015,” Sanders told NBC News. “For a long, long time in the history of America, there were people saying, ‘You know, we don’t want a Catholic to be President of the United States.’ And then John F. Kennedy became president in 1960,”

“And then people saying, ‘Oh, we don’t want a black guy, an African-American to be president of the United States,’ and then finally Barack Obama became president of the United States,” he continued.

“Look, you judge candidates for president not on their religion, not on the color of their skin, but on their ideas on what they stand for,” Sanders said. “That’s what democracy is supposed to be about. So I was very disappointed in Dr. Carson’s statement and I disagree with him.”

Sanders of course has a very good reason to dislike the notion of not voting for someone because of their religion. 7% of Americans say they would never support a Jewish president, and Democrats are less likely than Republicans to say they’d support a Jewish nominee

Watch, via NBC News.

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