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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems [View all]beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)75. And yet a HC supporter said Clintons owned blacks, women and other minorities:
All Your Base Are Belong to Clinton
3. Blacks. As Toni Morrison said, Bill Clinton was the first Black president--until Obama was the first Black president. Hillary is married to one of these man, and she was Secretary of State for the other. In addition, she is Obama's anointed successor, and in 2008 she very graciously buried the hatchet at the Convention and campaigned for her primary opponent in a way that other Democratic nomination losers (see Ted Kennedy 1980) did not. Can Sanders peel away Clinton's Black support? Maybe. But people who live in fear of being shot by the police for no reason at all take politics pretty seriously. They are not likely to give up a "sure thing" in order to take a chance with something new.
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On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems [View all]
wyldwolf
Sep 2015
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This is a ploy by Hillary thugs to take the ever growing Steam K-Street is powerless to slow up .
orpupilofnature57
Sep 2015
#2
The implication that all AA problems and institutional racism will disappear with more income
Fred Sanders
Sep 2015
#3
I am leaving some kind of vapour trail you are following? Good. I like all readers to see my posts.
Fred Sanders
Sep 2015
#43
True. And I do tend to change the rules of questioning rather arbitrarily. My bad. My internet.
Fred Sanders
Sep 2015
#82
Bernie never said that at all. What Bernie and many of us, and I believe Obama himself probably
Live and Learn
Sep 2015
#147
Yez. HRC did some serious damage to her relationship with the AA community
underthematrix
Sep 2015
#145
Bernie nor his supporters could care less it's not a suck up contest , His History speaks for itself
orpupilofnature57
Sep 2015
#35
Either what I tried to convey was lost, Or Defending Your Candidate against unfounded Harassment is,
orpupilofnature57
Sep 2015
#74
"Of course, it’s not fair to blame Sanders for the vitriol of trolls." - But let's do it anyway?
Scootaloo
Sep 2015
#23
I want some neckbeard in a fedora from twitter to call me a stale egg mcmuffin. Fucking DARE them!
Scootaloo
Sep 2015
#41
You missed the latest: Why did Bernie dump Vermont's nuclear waste on poor Latinos?:
beam me up scottie
Sep 2015
#50
It really is stupid, history tells us over and over again how easily people are manipulated...
AuntPatsy
Sep 2015
#59
they have to keep the conversation as far away from issues and records as possible
MisterP
Sep 2015
#90
And yet a HC supporter said Clintons owned blacks, women and other minorities:
beam me up scottie
Sep 2015
#75
Not sure how many of the AA group is expected to be receptive to considering Bernie when they are
Thinkingabout
Sep 2015
#98
The conservatives that have infiltrated the Dem Party will stop at nothing to beat back the threat
Broward
Sep 2015
#127
If by "infiltrated" you mean "welcomed with open arms (and bank accounts)" I agree...
Fumesucker
Sep 2015
#129
Why the fuck would anyone question Bernie Sanders' record on civil rights?
cherokeeprogressive
Sep 2015
#131