PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday decried Dr. Ben Carson’s suggestion on “Meet The Press” that a Muslim should not be president of the United States.
“This is the year 2015,” Sanders told NBC News while talking with reporters after celebrating a campaign field office opening in Portsmouth.
“For a long, long time in the history of America, there were people who would say, ‘you know, we don’t want a Catholic to be president of the United States.’ And then John F. Kennedy became president in 1960,” Sanders said. “And then people said, ‘oh, we don’t want a black guy, African American to be president of the United States,’ and then finally Barack Obama became president of the United States.”
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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. That’s what democracy is supposed to be about. So I was very disappointed in Dr. Carson’s statement and I disagree with him.”








