Media disparages Bernie Sanders' pro-gay rights record

"who was there for us when everyone hated us," as compared with, "Hillary Clinton is the better candidate for me because she actively fought against my rights as an LGBT person."

Mike Figueredo is brilliant in decrypting the half-truths and lies told about Sanders' record on LGBT rights to make Clinton's stinking product smell like a rose. Thanks for posting this, vintx.

A classic textbook example. I can think of no other explanation than that for the constant blindness to reality.

so the best policy is to surrender out of fear and help throw shade on Sanders' record!

City marriage declaration designating marriage between a man and a woman?

I'll see if I can find it.

Update https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FLYbegXp9JNENTR0pVelk3bHM/view

He was trying to stop a bad bill -- DOMA -- with a constitutional argument, to give legislators a way to oppose it that would keep them off the hook on the issue.

Something that some people think he's no good at, despite his record. (Thanks to those 'artful smears')

That's why he voted against DOMA.

Here is a quote from 2006:



He didn't want the feds overturning states that passed same sex marriage legislation.

Also note it says "husband and wife" not a "man and a woman"....That may sound like a technicality -- but it is NOT a statement against gay marriage

No, I do not have a link for this, but was told this by several Burlingtonians. That proclamation, which he did not write, was not controversial in 1982. Unlike, DOMA, which Sanders was among the few to vote against.

This strikes me similar to HRC raising the House vote on the commodities future modernization vote that only FOUR Congressmen, led by Ron Paul voted against to argue he was not really pro regulation.

I really do not get why her team is trying to attack the core of who Bernie Sanders is. Including attacking his real civil rights record, his real inclusiveness and his real record of holding Wall Street accountable. This when an underlying message is that he is too extreme in the other direction.

At this point, she is very likely to win, that she and her campaign is pushing meme aimed to destroy Sanders is something that appalls me. Obama did not do this in the far closer 2008 race and there was no hint of this in 2004 or 2000.

Why do you make up falsehoods?

Your candidate on the other hand:

"It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s and because of both president and Mrs. Reagan — in particular Mrs. Reagan — we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it, and that too is something I really appreciate with her very effective low-key advocacy. It penetrated the public conscience and people began to say, hey, we have to do something about this too."

I love the wise crack about other people's memories she opens with....self serving, ironic and offensive.

.... those memes are no longer politically expedient for that segment of our conservadems.

Organized echoes, any way.

Most of us voted for Obama in 2008 knowing that he opposed marriage equality at that time. Basing your choice of candidate upon the precise time they evolved seems a little silly.