2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum13-Year-Old Obama-Denouncing YouTube Star Endorses Bernie Sanders
Right wing YouTube sensation CJ Pearson has made a political about-face and endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for president.
Last month, Pearson shocked his YouTube followers with an announcement that he was abandoning conservatism because of the GOPs ineptitude on issues of social justice. Pearson had previously labeled the Black Lives Matter movement as domestic terrorists.
Said Pearson,
I was tired of being a champion of a party that turned a blind eye to racial discrimination. Tired of being a champion of any cause that denies equal rights to every American.
The former conservative wonder kid became an internet phenom because of videos in which he denounced President Obama and others on the political left. The 13-year-old was on record as having endorsed Ted Cruz for President before he backed Sanders political horse.
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/12/13-year-old-obama-denouncing-youtube-star-endorses-bernie-sanders/
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Actually, he's probably a little young to even be thinking about it, but kudos to him anyway.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Good for them all! (Will this young fellow be subjected to the same ridicule and dismissal as Hillary's "selfie girls" were?)
Cha
(298,313 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Cha
(298,313 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Yes she did
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)ROFL. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH
Omaha Steve
(99,966 posts)I missed this. K&R!
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AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Sounds like a young Hillary, doesn't he?
firebrand80
(2,760 posts)Stallion
(6,476 posts)he needs to slow down or he will be exhausted by 20
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