Poor Harvard Hillary Supporter

[NJCher]

Letter to the Editor, NY Times.

To his credit, he doesn't mention Bernie by name (indirectly, via Shaun King), but:

Re “Daring to Back Clinton” (Metropolitan section, April 17), about the isolation felt by Columbia students who support Hillary Clinton:

At the age of 12, I canvassed for Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. At the age of 18, I organized several Black Lives Matter protests. And at the age of 20, my peers consider me conservative.

Over this time, my political beliefs have remained unchanged. I still support entitlements, loathe mass incarceration, advocate for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and believe in the government’s power to improve lives and create sweeping change. This ideology makes me a Democrat in the vein of Barack Obama, Jed Bartlet (“West Wing”) and even Mrs. Clinton. But on my college campus, I might as well be Pat Buchanan.

At Harvard, admitting that #ImWithHer is nearly tantamount to boasting “Make America Great Again.” If you haven’t shared a post from the writer and activist Shaun King, you are not a true liberal here.

More at link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/opinion/an-outlier-at-harvard-im-a-hillary-supporter.html?mabReward=CTM&moduleDetail=recommendations-1&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article


One is the loneliest number.


Cher

[merrily]

1. color me skeptical about how "unconservative" this person is.

"I still support entitlements"

That's a tell.

[Scuba]

3. You noticed that too, eh?

[merrily]

4. Yep. Until Obama gave his interview to WAPO in January 2009, I cannot think of a

Democratic politician who used that term for social safety nets, or promised to cut them--at least, not in public.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011504114.html

Clinton did, of course, "end welfare as we know it," but I don't recall if he used the term "entitlement."

[CobaltBlue]

2. Diet Republicans

When a Democrat sounds like a Diet Republican … they embrace the language of the Republican Party (as the subject of that article does), it reveals they are DLC/Third Way types.

That article, and from a source I do not trust, is an effort to get 17–/18–29 voters to go from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. “Daring to Back Clinton”

Oh the horror! How courageous to back the establishment candidate and status quo.

[ladyVet]

6. Aw, poor baby. It's so hard to be on the wrong side, isn't it? nt

[n2doc]

7. Somebody's angling for a job in a future Chelsea administration n/t

[MisterP]

8. Sady Doyle again? this is like those "affirmative action bake sales" for the other party

I still support entitlements, loathe mass incarceration, advocate for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and believe in the government’s power to improve lives and create sweeping change

so why in the Nine Hells are they supporting Clinton? she's FOR all these even if you think that really, really believing hard enough without any cash in hand will make her flip

[NJCher]

9. Part of a planned PR effort

It would be interesting to see if other letters appear like this--in the Boston Globe, LA Times, etc. Betcha' some campaign aid was told to find a college students at various campuses and have them write a letter to the editor.

Clue One: college students barely know what a letter to the editor is. They don't read newspapers unless they're forced to in class.

This is my opinion as a college teacher.

They'll Tweet. They'll post on Facebook. But letter to the editor....urm, that had to come from someone older.

Just an FYI, the letter to the editor used to be one of the most read sections of the newspapers, therefore, PR flacks would always include this in their media plan.



Cher