Bernie Sanders

peacebird

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28. This is a tad earlier

Wed Jul 22, 2015, 08:11 PM

Jul 2015

The daughter of a Republican father and a Democratic mother, in 1960 13-year-old Hillary Rodham canvassed for Richard Nixon on Chicago's South Side. She also worked as a "Goldwater girl" in the 1964 presidential election — cowgirl outfit and all — and was elected president of the Wellesley Young Republicans as a freshman the following year. "I'm a heart liberal, but a mind conservative," she wrote to a high school friend during college. By graduation, the young leader had decided to follow her heart, stepping down from her GOP post because of her views on civil rights and the Vietnam War and throwing her support behind Eugene McCarthy for President. In 1972, she campaigned for unsuccessful presidential hopeful George McGovern — with the help of her new boyfriend, Bill Clinton.

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A Question Hillary is Going to be Asked since her Campaign raised it in the First Place: [View all] sabrina 1 Jul 2015 OP

Recommend. nt Zorra Jul 2015 #1

:) BlueStateLib Jul 2015 #2

This is a tad earlier peacebird Jul 2015 #28

I'm sorry. I don't think it is helpful to bash Hillary from the Bernie group. OffWithTheirHeads Jul 2015 #3

Correcting the record or framing is not bashing. eom JEB Jul 2015 #4

And if you don't correct the framing it will stand as the truth. zeemike Jul 2015 #9

I do not think that addressing an ISSUE that I believe is very important, that is being addressed sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #5

You don't need to move it. Just a difference of perception. OffWithTheirHeads Jul 2015 #6

No you had a point which I didn't see at first, just glad to see that the sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #19

No problem. You say tomato, I say tomahto OffWithTheirHeads Jul 2015 #24

Lol, made me think of Dan Quale who in a way was unfairly treated for adding that 'e' imo. sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #25

Actually, I was thinking the same thing when I posted. OffWithTheirHeads Jul 2015 #29

No need.... daleanime Jul 2015 #18

This is the reason Bernie is running as a Dem. and not an Independent. YOHABLO Jul 2015 #8

Hillary Clinton was in high school... pandr32 Jul 2015 #26

Truth, aspirant Jul 2015 #7

Getting Bernie "elected" in the Primary is not the same as getting him elected President.... Moonwalk Jul 2015 #15

Could you go to the Hillary forum and tell them this? Personally I talk only about issues sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #20

Does the word PUMA come to mind? aspirant Jul 2015 #30

pumas artislife Jul 2015 #31

Are we back to two wrongs make a right? Moonwalk Jul 2015 #33

That sounds like a perfect post for GDP, the HRC group or elsewhere Autumn Jul 2015 #32

This is actually a media problem. The media does not highlight the candidates' JDPriestly Jul 2015 #10

It' being threatened by the TPP. sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #21

In 1965 Jeb Bartlet Jul 2015 #11

19 is not a kid. I was at 840high Jul 2015 #14

So...everyone during the same year has to have been fighting the same good fight (if they were old enough).. Moonwalk Jul 2015 #34

She was a Goldwater girl. eom DirtyHippyBastard Jul 2015 #17

I know 17 year olds and even younger who were out protesting for Ferguson, and with OWS sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #22

No, I was a kid of 3 years. tazkcmo Jul 2015 #23

Clintonistas are starting to run out of fine whines. marble falls Jul 2015 #12

k/r 840high Jul 2015 #13

Let's see, fifty years ago, Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl Jack Rabbit Jul 2015 #16

Mrs. Secretary Clinton was... RoccoR5955 Jul 2015 #27