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BlueCaliDem

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2. Sanders has flip-flopped on gun safety and immigration now that he's running for president
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:26 PM
Dec 2015

and needs the African American and Hispanic/Latino vote. And you don't think that's self-serving and "ever shifting"?? Come ON.

He's just getting away with it because corporate M$M is in the tank for the GOP and they've kept a hands-off approach with him while focusing all negative reporting on Hillary Clinton.

It's no secret that the GOP would rather run against Sanders than Clinton. But should Sanders win the primaries, you can BET that the GOP will bring his NRA friendly but immigration-unfriendly past to the forefront with lots of help from U.S. ma$$ media. The result will be that he'll be hated in the African American and Hispanic/Latinos community that they might not vote for him, and Republicans will reap the rewards.

Don't get me wrong...I'm happy he's finally come around in support of immigration and gun safety reform, especially since he's voted against these issues in the past when he hadn't decided to run for president.

In summary, and not to be too off-topic, if Sanders supporters are going to knock Hillary Clinton for being "self-serving" and "ever shifting", then they should apply those same pejoratives to Sanders as well. But they can see it in a different light: consider that every single presidential candidate is "self-serving" in order to get votes, and that "ever-shifting" isn't a sign of weakness, but rather a sign of strength by a leader who actually listens to the wants and needs of his/her constituents and who makes changes where necessary that's beneficial to those constituents.

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