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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dems, stop lying to yourselves about Hillary: Sure, she “gets s*** done” — atrocious s***, that is [View all]Omaha Steve
(99,624 posts)42. Hillary Clinton is not entitled to black votes
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/hillary-clinton-is-not-entitled-to-black-votes.html
Snip: Black voters want what all voters want access to education, health care and decent jobs. At the same time, the Black Lives Matter movement has revealed that certain issues, such as guaranteeing basic physical safety and reforming the criminal justice system, are higher priorities for black voters than for other groups.
Sanders is a gruff, didactic 74-year-old white man who has lived in Vermont, a state that is only 1 percent black, for over 45 years. Hes never going to win on style. But the more people become familiar with him and his policy positions, the more popular he has and will become. Witness Sanders recent passionate endorsement from rapper Killer Mike in front of a raucous multiracial crowd in Atlanta, which immediately went viral. On the issues that matter most to black voters, Sanders has a much stronger record than Clinton.
Sanders, who has publicly opposed the death penalty throughout his congressional tenure, said a month ago, It is time for the United States of America to join almost every other Western industrialized country on Earth in saying no to the death penalty.
By contrast, Hillary Clinton said of the death penalty, which is disproportionately applied to black people, I do not favor abolishing it ... because I do think there are certain egregious cases that still deserve the consideration of the death penalty, but Id like to see those be very limited and rare, as opposed to what weve seen in most states. In other words, we know that thousands of black men who may or may not have committed any crime have been and will be executed, but we should try to do it less often.
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Dems, stop lying to yourselves about Hillary: Sure, she “gets s*** done” — atrocious s***, that is [View all]
cali
Feb 2016
OP
That Clinton crime bill also included an assault weapons ban and the Violence Against Women act.
thesquanderer
Feb 2016
#55
I know that a certain Senator votes YES on funding those millitary supplies every time.
bravenak
Feb 2016
#26
Waas a "Yes" vote on the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, too ...
1StrongBlackMan
Feb 2016
#11
That was lumped into an omnibus spending bill at the last minute after last minute modifications.
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#39
I guess it depends on whether he was more for the the spending bill than he was
1StrongBlackMan
Feb 2016
#43
I was referring to the CfMA. I don't know enough about the crime bill to comment.
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#65
I do not hold Bill Clinton blameless for, either, the CFMA nor the Crime Bill ...
1StrongBlackMan
Feb 2016
#74
Understood. That's a fine position. I am unsure of how to approach the issue.
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#76
It was not the crime bill that was rolled into the omnibus spending bill, it was the CFMA.
thesquanderer
Feb 2016
#66
How Sanders came to support Bill Clinton's Commodity Futures Modernization Act
thesquanderer
Feb 2016
#48
So now you're back to advocating Sanders vote against the Violence Against Women Act.
jeff47
Feb 2016
#88