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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]SunSeeker
(57,613 posts)18. Hillary went to see MLK speak in 1962, long before Bernie did.
After hearing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in 1962, Hillary began to develop strong opinions about civil rights, social justice, and the Vietnam War. By 1968, she was exploring the political landscape and working for politicians of both parties. She supported Eugene McCarthy's (D-Minn) presidential campaign, served as a summer intern for the House Republican Conference (attending the Republican National Convention as a volunteer to draft Nelson Rockefeller), and witnessed the protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Before the end of that year, she decided to leave the Republican Party -- or as she later put it, "it left her."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/clinton-hillary/
But hey, at least your graphic was corrected to say he "marched to" instead of "march with" MLK, since Bernie is the first to admit he did not march with MLK. He just went to hear him speak in DC in August of 1963, standing "way in the back" as Bernie puts it.
Hillary was introduced to politics by her Republican father. She never voted for Goldwater, she was too young to vote at that time. But you want to focus on a few years when she was a teenager and too young to vote, because it suits your anti-Hillary propaganda. When she became an adult, she chose otherwise. So let's talk about the candidates when they were actually voting adults, shall we?
Funny how you don't ask what our candidates were doing in the 1970s, when both were voting adults.
By 1972, Hillary was out in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, registering poor Latinos to vote, working with the 1972 presidential campaign of Democrat George McGovern:
Even for a candidate who has been on the national stage for decades, Clintons history with Latino voters goes back a surprisingly long way.
In 1972, when a young Hillary and Bill Clinton were working the ill-fated George McGovern campaign, she worked closely with well-respected union leader, Franklin Garcia, who took her under his wing as she helped register Latino voters in south Texas and along the Rio Grande Valley.
In 1972, when a young Hillary and Bill Clinton were working the ill-fated George McGovern campaign, she worked closely with well-respected union leader, Franklin Garcia, who took her under his wing as she helped register Latino voters in south Texas and along the Rio Grande Valley.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/hillary-clinton-has-deep-history-with-latinos-and-theres-not#.hbDQ92JD9
What was 31-year-old Bernie doing in 1972? Penning a "stupid" (his campaign's words, http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/28/sanders-vermont-essay/28119669/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=) essay entitled "Man - and Woman" for an alternative Vermont paper. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/young-bernie-sanders-liberty-union-vermont
Hillary has been fighting for civil rights her entire adult life. Bernie appears to have drifted aimlessly until he was about 40 and became a politician.
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A very young "Republican", in fact she was a 16 and had just become 17 a few
Thinkingabout
Dec 2015
#33
Gee, so HILLARY was on the right side of history in 1964, supporting the Civil Rights Act....
MADem
Dec 2015
#11
Sanders also left the country. Hillary was a kid. Funny how you try to pretend they are of the
MADem
Dec 2015
#8
Yes, and every year after that, when Bernie voted to FUND that war--let's look, shall we?
MADem
Dec 2015
#28
You and Elizabeth Warren. She was a registered Republican in 1996~! She got over it, finally. nt
MADem
Dec 2015
#13
Who's "attacking" MY SENATOR? Sounds like YOU are. Are you saying she lied, or what?
MADem
Dec 2015
#38
No those hawkish republican leanings come from her support for the Iraq war and voting along side
liberalnarb
Dec 2015
#40
Like Bernie's support for the Iraq war, EVERY. Single. YEAR. after he pompously voted "No."
MADem
Dec 2015
#43
Oh, yes he did. If he didn't support that war, he wouldn't have voted to FUND it every year.
MADem
Dec 2015
#47
Go to Thomas.gov and check for yourself. You'll see--he voted to fund that war every year. nt
MADem
Dec 2015
#55
He organized a group of people who supported MLK's message and together they marched to the site of
liberalnarb
Dec 2015
#27
No, an ignorant comment is suggesting Hillary is a racist, like your OP did. nt
SunSeeker
Dec 2015
#35
Show me proof that they "marched" from Chicago. I demand it. I INSIST you provide it.
MADem
Dec 2015
#46
How OLD are you? Don't you realize that the vast majority of the people on the mall that day did
MADem
Dec 2015
#54