Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn to endorse Hillary Clinton
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Source: Politico
Rep. Jim Clyburn plans to endorse former Secretary Hillary Clinton for president on Friday at Allen University, according to three sources familiar with his thinking.
The endorsement — which has been in the works for a few days — is an expected but still important one for the Democratic front-runner, especially ahead of the South Carolina primary, which Clinton is hoping will give her a commanding victory over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Clyburn, the assistant democratic leader of congressional Democrats and an influential African-American political leader, had previously said that he was weighing whether to throw his endorsement toward either Clinton or Sanders. News of his pending endorsement was first reported by BuzzFeed News.
Clyburn's backing, while not completely surprising, is still significant for Clinton as Sanders closes the gap in state and national polls.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/south-carolina-primary-2016-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/jim-clyburn-hillary-clinton-endorsement-219464
This is a pretty big endorsement.
Congrats to Hillary.
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Metric System
(6,048 posts)
dragonfly301
(399 posts)2am nasty call from Bill Clinton...
Gothmog
(179,830 posts)This is a major endorsement
berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)While I respect Mr. Clyburn .. he is a member of the Establishment..
kstewart33
(6,552 posts)Stallion
(6,642 posts)they are Democrats-what are you?
berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)scottie55
(1,400 posts)People who are tired of working harder and harder for less and less.
Too bad half MY party is working to keep our completely corrupt pay to play system in place.
Was wondering if Clyburn would be any different.
Nope.
The Gravy Train rolls on.
Same old, same old.
Stallion, the sleeping giant has awoken.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)And we'll get handed crap with the explanation of how it's really GOOD for us. The TPP will be "fixed" for our benefit. Health Insurance will be tweaked so that we'll all come to feel good about giving investors a profit and Pharma it's due. Heck - those that STILL don't have insurance might well be able to buy in or at least pay a lesser fine for not!
There'll be great relief for those struggling with college debts in that they'll owe only a fraction of what they do now - they may even be able to rent their own place so mom 'n dad can finally enjoy and empty nest. Of course, ALL of these great advances are contingent upon there being a friendly and co-operative congress that just loves the CIC and is eager to play along.
Clyburn thinks she would be better than Bernie. He has the right to do that you know. 
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)First, it's not half, it's EVERY current Democratic Party Senator (you know the people who've worked with Bernie for decades) who's given an endorsement has given it to Hillary. All but 2x of the Democratic Party Representatives who have given an endorsement have given it to Hillary.
So, running with your assumption being correct, and not really a case of the experienced politicians as a whole feeling that Clinton is the right choice.. Let's say they are all corrupt. They are all in it just for the money.. For just a second, let's go with it.
Don't you think Bernie would know this?? After decades of working with them?
This really only leaves 2 options to conclude:
1. Bernie is tremendously ignorant of how Congress and the government works, OR
2. All of those campaign promises he's making.. He's making them knowing they are lies, because if the Congress REALLY is that corrupt, everything he's promising is false and intentional very ordinary, very typical campaign year lies.
scottie55
(1,400 posts)No we can't!
No we can't......
trillion
(1,859 posts)He's damaged himself as bad as the Black Caucus has now. That is now that we know who is in their super pac.... lobbyists for a student loan giant, lobbyists for the company that makes oxycontin, lobbyists for Wallmart, several different lobbyists for the tobacco industry, etc. etc.
The Black Caucus sold out for the money. I wonder what's in it for this guy? With her record, he really should know better.
3 months ago Hillary announced she would stop taking money from the Private Prison industrial complex - which she did under intense scrutiny.
I'm trying to link the video...
Here's one link, but the video is soo much more informative... still trying to link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-private-prisons_us_562a3e3ee4b0ec0a389418ec
She had been talking a lot of money from a lot of prison companies. I didn't realize GEO group is prisons. I saw them still in her Super Pac list on Dec 31st - which represented the last quarter.
https://theintercept.com/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/
trillion
(1,859 posts)brooklynite
(96,882 posts)Did I leave something off the list?
berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)brooklynite
(96,882 posts)Those are the only apparent reasons Sanders people will accept for someone who supports Clinton.
lbrtbell
(2,389 posts)It's not like HRC is against the TPP or Henry Kissinger. She pretends to change her views and/or goes full bore negative when her poll numbers decline. Her minions lie about Bernie's healthcare plan and civil rights record (even though she was a Goldwater girl when Bernie was fighting for civil rights). And that's what I can think of, off the top of my head.
Her negatives are through the roof with independents. She's widely viewed as untrustworthy. At this point, the only assets she has are 1) people know her name, 2) she's a woman, and 3) her husband assails people with 2am phone calls if they don't do her bidding. One major reason I fear her winning the primary is that we'll end up with President Trump. HRC is extraordinarily unlikable--and I say that as someone who's wanted a woman president since the 1970's.
Frankly, the real mystery is why anyone on DU supports her at all.
NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)You left out bought-and-paid-for, weak-willed, of questionable character, lacking integrity, a sell-out, a water carrier for the 1%, a lover of the status quo, a corporatist, a warmonger, an elitist, an enemy of The People, and the ever-popular victim of threats from the Clinton Payback Machine.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)In other news, water is still wet.
Meanwhile, Bernie keeps getting the endorsement of the American people through his fund raising and his campaign stops.
It is a revolution of sorts, if you look at the tactics of the government v. the rebels: Hillary controls the cities, Bernie controls the countryside.
Peregrine Took
(7,583 posts)Let me sit down and catch my breath.
Kingofalldems
(40,276 posts)I support Hillary and am a working person, not an elite.
And how the hell is Jim Clyburn an 'elite'?
I wish I could post what I want to tell you now.
hoosierlib
(710 posts)That made him next in line to become Speaker of the House if Pelosi would have retired or died...
That makes him pretty elite...
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)still_one
(98,883 posts)He was the first African American to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Congress since 1897.
He was elected president of his NAACP youth chapter when he was just 12 years old.
In college he was actively involved in the Civil Rights movement, and became a student leader, and was part of civil rights marches and demonstrations, which in 1961 led to his arrest.
After college he worked as public-school teacher and employment counselor, and later as a director of youth programs.
After being he elected to Congress, he was elected Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
After more than two decades in Congress, Jim Clyburn, was a leader on causes from civil rights, environmental issues to championing the opening of more community health centers and supporting measures to increase financial aid for higher education.
It is too bad we don't have more "elitists" like Representative Clyburn
sheshe2
(97,622 posts)
Kingofalldems
(40,276 posts)mgmaggiemg
(869 posts)
debunction.junction
(127 posts)I mean no disrespect but, the part where it says, "The endorsement--which has been in the works for a few days" stinks to high heaven. It implies there were a lot of negotiations going on. What was promised in return. Did his endorsement go to the highest bidder? If Clyburn believed in his heart that Hillary was the right person to lead this country, there would be no need for any negotiations.
Even the appearance of impropriety used to mean something, not any more.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Right down the line. Just like all the other establishment doings. Hafta wonder what Goldman Sachs "negotiated" for.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)At this point, establishment democrats. black or white, coming out for Clinton is expected and discounted by Sanders supporters. The times they are a changin' and it will soon shake the establishment's windows and rattle its walls regardless of what color its members are.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)then that would be a big endorsement
hoosierlib
(710 posts)As I have stated several times, endorsements of Hillary Clinton by the political establishment (yes being a Democratic Congressman since 1993 makes you establishment) has NO affect on voters as it only reinforces her establishment status.
The only endorsement that means anything to the average voter would be those that deviate from the establishment (i.e. anyone endorsing Bernie).
Hillary can rack up 1,000 endorsements from various politicians, labor unions, newspaper editorial boards, etc. and it worked change a thing.
So please Hillarians, keep posting and patting yourselves on the back for all of the wonderful endorsements...
They don't mean shit this election cycle as the average GE voter wants change and wrapping yourself in the endorsements of the political establishment is only going to further drag you down...
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)
FarPoint
(14,764 posts)He turned the tide for Obama in 2008.
navarth
(5,927 posts)White folks are divided on this, and Black folks too. It's democracy.
I have no problem with Rep. Clyburn doing that, any more than I do with Spike Lee supporting Bernie.
Although I don't think Spike is expecting anything in return, other than a president with integrity and honesty.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the most powerful African-American in Congress, recalls a 2am phone call he received from Bill Clinton after Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2008 South Carolina primary.
Clyburn stayed neutral in the primary, however Bill Clinton didn't think so.
"If you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one," Clinton said according to Clyburn.
"He was very upset," Clyburn recalled. "His wife had just suffered a major defeat in the South Carolina primary, and I had not been involved in it, but Bill Clinton thought otherwise."
"We met by accident several weeks later… we've seen each other several times since. In fact, I had a lovely breakfast with Hillary two to three years after that. I think everything's okay," Clyburn told ABC News' Jeff Zeleny in an interview aired on Yahoo!
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Since every time somebody announces his/her endorsement for Hillary, Sanders fans claim it's because she offered them the VP slot. Is having 100 Vice Presidents legal?
Of course I am sure that if he had endorsed Bernie instead of Hillary, the same posters who are so upset at him here, would be saying how "GREAT" he is and what a fine upstanding, honest person he is.
As someone else stated, its not a big deal if some endorses one of them. I will back either of them if they win the nomination, and in the mean time I won't be throwing anyone who endorses one of them under the bus.
MrWendel
(1,881 posts)Mr. Clyburn, you are going from Hero to sellout is a hot second. Just ask John Lewis. At least he has company now.
LuvLoogie
(8,815 posts)As if long-cultivated relationships are morally inferior to the spontaneous combustion of The Twitter Revolution.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Better to know who is cool with keeping the status quo.
LuvLoogie
(8,815 posts)
Dawson Leery
(19,568 posts)A social media "revolution" 
is nothing compared to life long relationships.
scottie55
(1,400 posts)That ended with one iceberg.
I think endorsements hurt Hillary.
George II
(67,782 posts)Another superdelegate, too!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)
jalan48
(14,914 posts)
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)Not latest breaking news. Please consider reposting in GDP.