2016 Postmortem

DemocratSinceBirth

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31. Please cite the African Americans

Reply to Cleita (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:02 PM

Feb 2016

Black southerners seem to think Hillary will be their savior.

Please cite the African Americans who think Hillary Clinton is their savior?

Thank you in advance.

The trouble with Hillary is that she has a very thin resume and very little of it to do with civil rights.

How does a person who:

-was a National Honor Society member
-was a National Merit scholar
-graduated from Wellesley
- achieved a JD from Yale Law School
-was a two term senator from a large and heterogeneous state
-was a Secretary Of state

have a thin resume?

Instead of taking a job with a white shoes law firm fresh out of law school , she went down to South Carolina to work to separate juvenile offenders from adult offenders. Then she went down to Alabama to surreptitiously investigate private segregated academies that were designed to thwart desegregation orders. She then worked for the Children's Defense Fund and Legal Aid. As First Lady she was the inspiration for the Children's Health Insurance Program which provides health care to 8,000,000 working class and poor kids. In the Senate she supported a bill to end racial profiling...

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I am so tired of Hillary supporters trying to stir up racial strife virtualobserver Feb 2016 #1

It's sick and twisted. It's endemic inside her campaign. I cannot vote for this shit. GoneFishin Feb 2016 #10

I hate the smell of "Brock" in the morning...I refuse to step in it. virtualobserver Feb 2016 #17

It's the only way UglyGreed Feb 2016 #21

Pisses me off also. desmiller Feb 2016 #22

I'll stand with black voters in SC before I'll defend any politician bigtree Feb 2016 #27

an�tip�a�thy- a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion.-- virtualobserver Feb 2016 #38

He thinks he will win NY? Delusional. As far as his comments, livetohike Feb 2016 #2

Taking two separate conversations to create a false narrative is pretty low. GOP tactic low. think Feb 2016 #3

GOP low is going to another state to trash people who didn't vote for you bigtree Feb 2016 #6

Keep posting your slime ball attacks. Conflating two separate conversation to fit your narrative is think Feb 2016 #26

then please block me bigtree Feb 2016 #29

No. You're posting garbage and you will get called out on it. think Feb 2016 #34

I think it has as much credence as Albright's statement. PeaceNikki Feb 2016 #20

UGH Iliyah Feb 2016 #4

Sure blame the victim. Seems to me it's the other way around. Black southerners don't want Bernie. Cleita Feb 2016 #5

holding up politicians as 'victims' bigtree Feb 2016 #11

I never called anyone ignorant. Cleita Feb 2016 #23

Could be that AA voters just know her record MaggieD Feb 2016 #12

I think of it and so should you. Cleita Feb 2016 #15

No offense but.... MaggieD Feb 2016 #36

It could be...but it isn't. Lizzie Poppet Feb 2016 #42

Please cite the African Americans DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2016 #31

Sanders all but said that the voters of SC weren't smart enough to vote for him. Remember..... George II Feb 2016 #41

LOL-No he won't do better outside the south MaggieD Feb 2016 #7

RACE BAITING POST MrMickeysMom Feb 2016 #8

but race baiting isn't calling Hillary 'bad for blacks' bigtree Feb 2016 #37

WTF is wrong with some people on this board? HerbChestnut Feb 2016 #9

+1. JonLeibowitz Feb 2016 #16

why is Sanders? bigtree Feb 2016 #40

An unfortunate statement mcar Feb 2016 #13

Your title is slanderous lostnfound Feb 2016 #14

You mean libellous? PeaceNikki Feb 2016 #43

That is so dishonest it reeks. djean111 Feb 2016 #18

. JonLeibowitz Feb 2016 #19

Such reckless statements by supporters turn me off to their candidate Bad Thoughts Feb 2016 #24

Is this shit really necessary? whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #25

You are one divisive person nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #28

No need to answer: This is a rhetorical question. RufusTFirefly Feb 2016 #30

Are Clinton voters the new republicans? Gregorian Feb 2016 #32

This post is a perfect example Z_California Feb 2016 #33

As if more melanin somehow excuses voting conservative? Lizzie Poppet Feb 2016 #35

Excellent. Way to build that GE coalition. Karmadillo Feb 2016 #39