Obviously, the Sanders counter jerk is in full force. There are legitimate criticisms to be made of Sanders. I'm an avid supporter of his, and one of the mods on one of his subs. So full disclosure there.

Well, as the replyer of the GMO comments, I'm a big supporter of his. I only commented in response to some of the other replies. In case you don't know, reddit is a pro-GMO circle jerk. I am not at all anti-GMO. I was just writing my comment as a disagreement with some of the comments below Bernie's answer.

Regarding the NASA answer, I'm not sure you're understanding correctly. Budgets are commonly loaded with pork and tons of other topics. Let's say someone voted for this past years budget. Within it, the budget prohibited DC from regulating marijuana. This was, a relatively small part of a budget that's worth billions. Which is bad, but you can't fail a whole budget based on that, (regardless the budget had other bad stuff, so I would have voted against it, that's not my point here). Would it be accurate to say that someone "opposes legalization of marijuana", simply because their only other choice was the holding up of a large budget and government shutdown? I don't think so.

He didn't say "he did it for the children". It was just an example along with health care of some of the choices he had to make.

If Sanders voted against a bill whose sole or large purpose was to limit NASA funds, you'd have a point.

You're not criticizing the correct answers. Although I think the AMA was good, I wish he had given a few better answers. I think Bernie's been a little bit too timid on the marijuana issue, and he showed it in the AMA. He also went a bit off topic on the alternate vote question.

But I think you're ignoring essential context for the comments above.