Bernie brings DNC to its feet in BRILLIANT 25 minute speech!

[R B Garr]

226. .."Clinton helped save a mentally handicapped blck man from the electirc chair."

As a young lawyer, Clinton helped save a mentally handicapped black man from the electric chair. This is not a fact she has promoted in her years as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator or amid her quest to become the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016.

Her role lies buried in an appeal to save Henry Giles, a convicted murderer, back in 1976, when Clinton headed the legal aid clinic at the University of Arkansas. A brief filed by the Cummins Prison Project, a law school effort to defend prisoners at one of Arkansas’s most notorious prisons, played an important role in winning leniency for Giles because of his mental impairment, court documents show

But times are changing, and politicians from both parties are calling for a reexamination of a criminal justice system rife with racial disparities, including the question of which inmates live and die. With Baltimore rioting and nationwide protests around a police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., presidential candidates are likely to be pulled into the debate. The Supreme Court on Wednesday hears yet another challenge to the death penalty’s constitutionality, this one centered on a drug used by some states in lethal injections.

Interviews released this week for a book project by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, in which Clinton and other presidential contenders share their views on criminal justice solutions, show just how different the politics of these issues are today. “Marking a clear political shift on crime and punishment in America, these sentiments are a far cry from politicians racing to be the most punitive in the 1980s and 1990s,” the introduction reads.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-forgotten-death-penalty-shift-117441#ixzz3kBc1f9py

When you take everything out of context and then even twist that around to fit your non sequitur agendas, Johnny and Jane America will know they are being scammed by Bernie supporters, which has already been happening on social media.

It's easy to be a progressive in a quiet, tranquil little state like Vermont. People will wonder why he left New York to live in a rural setting when he could have been handling real time issues in the midst of movers and shakers like Hillary chose to do. She didn't shy away from the issues to give nice speeches in a small town.