Bill Clinton made me throw up a little in my mouth with his comment

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Clinton says,

I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out into the street to murder other African American children. Maybe you thought they were good citizens—she didn’t.”

Let's think about that. Who brought crack into the cities in the first damn place. Here is a hint bubba! They weren't people in the ghetto, but assholes in Washington funding their freedom fighters!

Secondly, your draconian anti drug laws and imported drugs made damn sure that a generation of young male African Americans either were locked up or dead.

Somebody better put a damn muzzle on him.

[CountAllVotes]

1. Somebody better put a damn muzzle on him.

Yep, and the sooner the better for fugs sake!

[FlatBaroque]

2. I have no interest in muzzling the Big Dig

Hillary is a lousy candidate but he will make sure she loses badly. More power to him.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. "hopped up on crack"?

1960 called and they want their lingo back. Last time I heard "hopped up" it was Jack Webb lecturing a kid about the danger of being "hopped up on goof balls".

And later, the baby sitter put the baby in the oven, and stared at the sun until she burned out her eyes.

[chillfactor]

4. not me...

I am sick and tired of these people interrupting rallies..no matter whose rallies are being interrupted.

[scscholar]

5. Exactly. The BLM people should be able to gather w/o being interrupted

Too many people want to take their voice.

[awake]

7. "These people" have a name

They are called "Black Lives Mater protesters" and as has been said many times before if a candidate can not stand the heat then they need to get out of the kitchen.

[BernieforPres2016]

6. Bill signed a measure to maintain the 100:1 sentencing disparity for crack vs powder cocaine

It was a racist policy because crack cocaine was much more prevalent among blacks while whites were more likely to use powder cocaine. But Bill signed a law to maintain that disparity against the recommendation of the federal Sentencing Committee. Bill said "I don't want to let anybody who is peddling drugs to get the idea that the cost of doing business is going down." That was in 1996, when Dick Morris was advising him on how to move to the right as he was trying to get reelected in 1996 after the 1994 mid term election debacle that gave both houses of Congress to the Republicans for the first time in 40 years.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-10-31/news/1995304052_1_crack-cocaine-powder-cocaine-cocaine-crimes

<Blacks account for more than 80 percent of those convicted of crack crimes; whites account for less than 5 percent. By contrast, whites are involved in 32 percent of powder-cocaine convictions; blacks, 27 percent, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

But blacks tend to receive longer sentences for crack cocaine crimes than whites do for powder-cocaine crimes; federal law for years has provided much heavier sentences for crimes that involve crack cocaine, and Mr. Clinton's signature yesterday maintained that difference.

The punishment difference of 100 to 1 works this way: Crimes involving 1 gram of crack get mandatory sentences equal to crimes involving 100 grams of powder.

Civil rights leaders have protested that this approach results in a serious racial disparity in cocaine prosecutions. That disparity was one of the grievances cited by inmates in a recent series of federal prison uprisings.

Last spring, after a study of the sentencing differences and their effect on blacks, the federal Sentencing Commission decided to make sentencing equal for crack and powder cocaine crimes. Congress passed a bill to block the commission's plan from going into effect tomorrow, and Mr. Clinton's signature made the bill a law.>

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8. Bingo was his name-o!

I have no idea why this is not being yelled at from the highest building!

Instead we get a former President trying to act like he wasn't part of the problem.

[Cheese Sandwich]

9. Bill was out of line on this.

For sure.

[Lucinda]

10. So you would not have attempted to solve the problems?

Good to know.

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11. Solve the problem?

Which one? Him accusing AA members getting kids hooked on crack? Or his draconian laws that he enacted?

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

12. All of his policies did the exact opposite of solving the problems...

They just were band-aids for the symptoms of the problems. If anything the band-aids just exacerbated the problems.