Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Leaders who support Hillary Slam Bernie Sanders on race issues [View all]Vattel
(9,289 posts)34. Same old distortions
Funniest criticism:
Rutherford faulted Sanders for voting in favor of a 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which has been blamed for helping to usher in an era of mass incarceration. Former president Bill Clinton, who signed the bill into law, has expressed regret for the consequences of the legislation.
To quote Luminous Animal:
The record clearly shows he (Bernie) thought it was a shitty bill and would result in more human being thrown in jail. The record clearly shows that he voted for it because it contained the Violence Against Women Act.
Hillary was all about 'super-predators' and more prisons and more police. Bernie was all about giving human beings resources to get a leg up a fighting chance good schools, good housing, a robust social safety net. Not prison.
But to the Hillary camp, history does not matter.
Hillary was all about 'super-predators' and more prisons and more police. Bernie was all about giving human beings resources to get a leg up a fighting chance good schools, good housing, a robust social safety net. Not prison.
But to the Hillary camp, history does not matter.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
277 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Black Leaders who support Hillary Slam Bernie Sanders on race issues [View all]
bravenak
Feb 2016
OP
Funny how the only "issue" in the article was voting for a bill that Clinton signed into law.
arcane1
Feb 2016
#1
No doubt the constituency cares about many issues, one of which is welfare. I care about it too.
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#184
President Obama By His "Governance"NOT His Rhetoric Is A CORPORATIST President!
CorporatistNation
Feb 2016
#220
You are entitled to your opinion and other voters who like President Obama are free to disagree
Gothmog
Feb 2016
#222
You are entitle to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts
Gothmog
Feb 2016
#242
It's been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Consider me flattered.
Electric Monk
Feb 2016
#244
I am me. I am not Sanders. And I don't like our current "pay to play" political system.
mhatrw
Feb 2016
#240
Oh, so he's slammed for not supporting Barry Goldwater, such a GREAT supporter of civil rights?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#39
1968: Bernie invokes his white privilege to move to a state where he's unlikely to encounter black
Empowerer
Feb 2016
#72
So, 20 years after moving to lily-white Vermont, Sanders endorse Jesse Jackson
Empowerer
Feb 2016
#111
You can support someone for re-election and still be in favor of them not being unopposed
jfern
Feb 2016
#146
ObamaCare is already part BernieCare, he got community health clinics to cover another 10 million
jfern
Feb 2016
#151
Um no. The way you guys give Bernie credit for anything good from obamacare and act like bernie
bravenak
Feb 2016
#155
It's kind of crazy how many people ignore all the anti black things the Clintons have done
jfern
Feb 2016
#147
Bernie is the first candidate I've ever heard of that is being asked for a 40 yr civil rights resume
virtualobserver
Feb 2016
#153
Where was Sanders in 1956, what was he doing that year, the Civil Rights Movement began
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#84
Yes, expectations of both candidates should be the same at the same age.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#122
Damn straight! Unless there is a reason that SHE deserves more criticism than HIM
bravenak
Feb 2016
#125
Where was Hillary? Campaigning for Goldwater and later as a Republican in college...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#231
So she wasn't capable of thinking rationally in high school or as a freshman in college?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#235
Google, like google to determine the ages of Sanders and Hillary in 1962?
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#117
In the 50's Hillary was 3-13 years old, this is what some people needs to understand.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#143
Not all union members agrees with the decisions made, in particular the CWA decision.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#87
Since this story first came out and was SPUN- we have come to learn that the Black Caucus
Ferd Berfel
Feb 2016
#270
Like the hedge fund PAC which is running ads against Hillary, who'd thunk?
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#273
Do ANY of These So Called Black Leaders Realize That Bernie Was ARRESTED For Standing Up Against...
CorporatistNation
Feb 2016
#218
They slam the ONLY candidate that has been areested FIGHTING for Civil Rights
Ferd Berfel
Feb 2016
#6
We get arrested for walking down the street why should his five minute police contact sway us?
bravenak
Feb 2016
#13
Sanders has done nothing for African Americans except for the things he's done.
Renew Deal
Feb 2016
#8
I guess he really wants to tear down prisons that your friends love so much having so many in?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#42
I know, you can't even address my actual questions let alone answer them. It's ok. nt.
polly7
Feb 2016
#68
Guess you really didn't care about anyone 'dissing' Obama. Should have said that
polly7
Feb 2016
#75
Apparently, he has - I've never heard him "yelling out the stupidity" of calling our President a
Empowerer
Feb 2016
#78
You're right, he would have done that, as well as denounce the claim itself because
polly7
Feb 2016
#261
So why does HE have a black spokesperson who he *hired* and Hillary hasn't *hired* one?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#61
He looks to be face to face in this picture. Why do you feel the need to lie about him?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#101
As first lady she was one of the most photographed people in this country...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#121
Why should we be in ecstasies over it just because some other people want us to be?
bravenak
Feb 2016
#188
So, stop avoiding this. Why do you support someone who campaigned for Goldwater...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#194
Explain, or otherwise, you're just criticizing Bernie mercilessly without basis!
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#215
I'm sorry but that pictured showed him walking and Lewis was walking next to him...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#214
Michelle Alexander: Here's Why Black People Should Think Twice Before Voting For Hillary Clinton
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#10
People generally have very little control over what other people do, at the end of the day
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#49
No way. You mean that people who rely on the Establishment to get paid thanks to the...
Shandris
Feb 2016
#15
we're told that Vermont the state that Sanders is representing as a Senator as a Congressman
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#16
Tell that stuf to Keith Ellison and Ta-Nehisi Coates both of whom are supporting Sanders
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#99
I'm sure you understand us much better than the people we ourselves choose to lead
bravenak
Feb 2016
#35
Yiu think that answer will shut this whole thing down because YOU and LA are fine with it?
bravenak
Feb 2016
#37
If you are running to be the nominee of the party, then you should care about the party
Gothmog
Feb 2016
#236
What evidence do you have that he doesn't care about the party or down ballot candidates?
frylock
Feb 2016
#237
The fact that we were already there and it was about us and our leaders who suffered the racism
bravenak
Feb 2016
#179
Detail - she'll continue the Obama legacy, that's friend enough for a lot of blacks
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#257
"There’s no credibility to the things that are being said at the twilight of his political career."
riversedge
Feb 2016
#259
"He only really started talking about issues concerning African Americans in the last 40 days,"
workinclasszero
Feb 2016
#271